Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad
Six months ago Jerry Yang took the stage at the D Conference to talk about the state of his business. His painted a picture of a Yahoo that was spinning in circles with no clear future. — Fast forw...
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season
LOS ANGELES—In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next ...
Obama names tech execs to transition team
President-elect Barack Obama has named tech executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports. — Google.org's Sonal Shah and Julius Genchowski, a former IAC...
BlackBerry Storm Connects Customers Around The Globe
New BlackBerry Storm - Available Exclusively in the U.S. to Verizon Wireless Customers - Makes Globetrotting a Breeze — Customer Inquiries — For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go ...
John Doerr's Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday, billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr was interviewed by John Heilemann, a contributing editor at New York magazine who came in from Chicago, fres...
Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked
Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. — The attack, described as th...
Apple Activates Podcast Downloads in 2.2 Firmware
German blog Schimanke.com publishes new screenshots from the iPhone 2.2 firmware that reveal that Apple has activated iTunes and App Store features that will make their debut in the next iPhone update...
News Corp.: Business Worse Than We Thought, Ad Weakness Catching Up to MySpace
Rupert Murdoch, who has been dour about the economy since last spring, now says things are worse than he thought. Three months ago, the News Corp. (NWS) CEO was predicting operating profits to increa...
AT&T to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport
AT&T announced plans on Thursday to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport in a $275 million cash deal. — The acquisition will expand AT&T's network of free U.S. hot spots by an additional 20,000 lo...
Feature films coming to YouTube
YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company....
PayPal Founder Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Blows Up
PayPal founder Peter Thiel's Clarium was doing great though the summer, up 58% for the year. But since then? Whoops. — Clarium Capital Management LLC, the hedge-fund firm run by PayPal co-founder ...
Ballmer dismisses Google Android
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed the Android mobile operating system, saying he believed that building it was financially unsound for Google. — Speaking at Telstra's ann...
NFL Games Go Wireless
Sprint Will Kick Off a Series of Eight Football Phone-Casts — In the era of the 52-inch plasma television set, marketers at Sprint Nextel Corp. are banking on football fans to seek out a decidedly s...
Sony Ericsson takes mobile music into 2009 with the W705 Walkman™ phone and Wireless Home Audio System MBS-900
Building on an array of innovative launches in 2008, Sony Ericsson announces two new products into its mobile music range looking beyond music into 2009 to offer the most state-of-the art mobile music...
New Features for the YouTube Embeddable Video
You don't have to be on the YouTube site to watch videos. The YouTube player can be added to virtually any website, giving website creators and web surfers infinite access to the YouTube library. Wi...
Photosynth Comes To Live Maps
There's a new feature now available on Live Maps: Photosynth! The Microsoft Live Labs technology, Photosynth, which launched publicly back in August, allows you take your photos and turn them into ri...
Four Google Officials Likely to Stand Trial in Italy
Google is awaiting confirmation that four employees will face charges in Italy for failing to stop the publishing of a video of a disabled teenager being bullied. — The employees will face charges o...
Obama Victory Newspapers Going For More Than $100 On eBay
Dead-tree media has one thing going for it that the Internet never will: When historic news breaks, like Barack Obama's election, no one will take a screenshot of their RSS reader to keep as a memento...