The Cash Panic Sweeping The VC Industry
Why have VC firms and PE firms clamped down on investments so fast? Why are they shouting from the rooftops that portfolio companies had better start cutting costs immediately? — Well, for one thin...
Who killed the blogosphere?
Blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much existential gnashing-of-teeth about the state and fate of a literary form that once seemed new and fresh and now seems familiar and tired. ...
Chinese hack into White House network
Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US official told the Financial Times. — On each oc...
The Internet As A Force In Politics: “Obama Would Not Have Won Without The Internet”
New York Magazine's John Heilemann is leading a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning on “The Web and Politics.” Joining him is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome, Arianna Huffingt...
Sprint Nextel Lost 1.3 Million Customers in Quarter
Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile service, on Friday posted a quarterly loss and weaker revenue as customers fled to rival services. — Sprint reported a net loss of $326 million, or 11 cents a...
Apple iPhone Chief Claims He Didn't Violate IBM Contract
Mark Papermaster says in court papers that the two tech vendors are not direct competitors. — Apple's newly appointed chief of iPod and iPhone engineering said his move to Cupertino does not violate...
Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM
The great thing about IM is that it's instant. You know right away when someone wants to reach you. To give users the option of having that same immediacy when it comes to FriendFeed, we're now offe...
Worst. Bug. Ever.
It turns out the bug in Android I wrote about yesterday was worse than we thought. When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard ...
Microsoft ‘interested’ in open source browser: Ballmer
Browser extensions likely to attract proprietary development — Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer not rul...
Steve Ballmer Confirms Existence of Windows Mobile 6.5
The possibility of there being a Windows Mobile 6.5 fell in the “rumor” column after Motorola CEO casually mentioned it in a conference call. Now have official word from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer t...
Apple: Barclays Cuts FY Q1 iPhone Forecast; Sees Ultra-Portable Macbook, Possible Phone Price Cuts In 2009
The latest cautionary comment from the Street on the prospects for Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales for the December quarter comes from Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes …
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Arrives: Sleek but Slow
This morning the stork dropped off one of the most highly-anticipated netbooks of the year. Everyone wanted to see and touch the Inspiron Mini 12 because it's the first netbook with a 12-inch display...
Announcing LinkedIn Events
LinkedIn Groups and LinkedIn Answers cater to two of the three most important activities professionals engage in to further their career and starting today, we're launching the third and most importan...
Study: iPhones Twice As Reliable As BlackBerries
The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at...
‘Mobile Phones Will Shoot Full HD Video in 2012,’ Ericsson Says
Ericsson AB of Sweden revealed its efforts in the mobile broadband market at a press conference Nov 6, 2008. — In the area of mobile communications, innovative technologies such as “HSPA evolution,”...
Web 2.0 Summit: Al Gore on how the web can solve the climate crisis
Al Gore just finished his talk on the topic of “What Now?” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco — and yes, the content was as wide-ranging as the title implies. — Despite being an adviser and boar...
Facebook CFO in two places at once
We've always been impressed by Facebook CFO Gideon Yu's ability to snooker investors around the world. The list of people he's taken for a ride include MIcrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Hong Kong telec...
Google Subletting Office Space At NYC Googleplex (GOOG)
Want to address your rent check to Larry and Sergey — and move into one of NYC's best Internet-connected buildings? — Here's your chance: Google (GOOG) will be subleasing about 50,000 square feet of...
Online Money Transfer Service iKobo Calls It Quits
Atlanta, GA-based iKobo, a company that provides a worldwide online money transfer service, is discontuining its operations, effective immediately. In an e-mail to its users, the company writes:
Guest Post - Sizing Up the Long Tail of Search
At Hitwise our clients are always discovering new trends from the vast amount of data we offer. From those findings we frequently get asked by clients to let them post their findings to our research ...
Microsoft makes you work from the moment you step on the bus!
If you thought BlackBerry was a curse because of accessibility then wait till you get a load of this. Executives of Microsoft just lost out on the most famous excuse for being late... “Stuck in the T...
BitTorrent Sacks Half Its Staff
As an open-source technology protocol, the file-sharing system BitTorrent is going strong, representing about half the world's Internet traffic by some measures. But the San Francisco company, BitTor...
Microsoft touts 25 percent eBay Cashback rebate
Microsoft is getting more aggressive with Live Search Cashback, a program that offers price cuts for those who buy products found with the company's search engine, touting a 25 percent rebate for item...
Windows 7 to arrive by 2009 holiday season
Expect to see Windows 7 right around this time next year. — CNET reports that during a technical session at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft director Jim Howe ga...
AT&T to buy rural phone co Centennial for $944 mln
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) plans to buy rural phone company Centennial Communications Corp (CYCL.O) for $944 million in cash to expand its wireless network in Puerto Rico and other regions of...
Former Time Inc. Exec Domeniconi to Lead Microsoft U.S. Ad Sales
Will Be Responsible for Digital Media Assets From Xbox Live to Facebook Display Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To try to pull together all of its myriad digital media assets for clients, Microsoft has...
Google and Microsoft executives trade jabs
SAN FRANCISCO—"We don't control the platform. It's magical when it belongs to all of us." Those were the words of Vic Gundotra, who spent 15 years at Microsoft and is now leading Google's applicatio...
Las Vegas offers surprise hotel bargains for CES
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gadget geeks, used to booking hotel rooms way in advance for the annual Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, may be one-upped by lazier peers this January. — With just two month...
MS deems hybrid graphics unstable for Windows 7
A Thursday report warns Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system will not support hybrid dual-graphics systems currently on the market from NVIDIA and AMD. The news came after a review of Micr...
Yahoo adds social features to Yahoo Buzz
Updates expand on Yahoo Open Strategy with new comments section, activity hub — Computerworld) Yahoo Inc. this week added new social elements to the beta version of its Yahoo Buzz social news site, ...
Yahoo: Focus Switches To Search Deal With Microsoft
Jerry Yang's list of options for stopping the bleeding at Yahoo (YHOO) has continued to dwindle. Pressured by the Feds, Google (GOOG) pulled out of the search outsourcing deal. Despite speculation, ...
Game Studio Brash Entertainment's Millions Vanish
Brash Entertainment, a video game studio that concentrates on game adaptations of movies, is firing 20 workers and temporarily suspending pay for some of its developers, Variety reports. By now this ...
Amazon Web Services Not Just for Early Adopters
Amazon Web Services' platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, whose seven finalists are a diverse g...
Review: Control your HTPC with Air Mouse for iPhone
In my living room, I have an HTPC hooked up to my rear-projection television. At one point, it was a DVR box running Windows MCE, although it has since been relegated to Hulu and Netflix duty after I...
Honda's experimental walking assist device, now with extra crotch support and built-in seat
It's a choice that most people “who are capable of walking and maneuvering on their own, but who can benefit from additional leg and body support while performing tasks” face every morning.
Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits
A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers to turn annual profits of millions of dollars promoting knockoff pharmaceuticals, according to an unprecedented new study on the ...
Windows 7 knows where you are
Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson shows how Windows 7 allows programs to take advantage of location-based information, in this case the operating system's weather gadget. — (Credit: Ina Fried/...
Security expert talks Russian gangs, botnets
In February of 2005, a Miami man sued Bank of America for not adequately protecting him against a $90,000 fraudulent wire transfer to the Parex Bank in Latvia. Joe Lopez was the first online user to ...
Verizon's Touch Pro caught on video
Any festering belief that Verizon's version of the HTC Touch Pro is nothing more than a figment of our collective imagination can probably be put to bed now that we have it strutting its stuff on vide...
Twitter Planning to Open Up the Firehose “by Thanksgiving”
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed) — In an assuring statement in the Twitter API Developers Group, Alex Payne, the API lead at Twitter, shared that they have plans to have their Fir...
The future of the cloud
SAN FRANCISCO—The cloud was omnipresent at the Web 2.0 Summit as industry executives discussed the migration from the client to millions of virtualized servers as the information pipe. — “There is a...
Ballmer rules out new bid for Yahoo
SYDNEY—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday that Microsoft is “not interested” in making a new offer for internet company Yahoo, despite Yahoo's share price currently sitting at less than half what...
Samsung takes top spot in U.S. cellphone market
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) surpassed Motorola (MOT.N) in third quarter to became the largest mobile phone vendor in the United States, research firm Strategy Analytics said o...
Microsoft Tries to Steal Verizon Deal From Google
Microsoft Corp., capitalizing on Google Inc.'s regulatory snarl, is working to steal a deal with Verizon Wireless away from its rival. — Microsoft has gotten the mobile carrier's attention by offeri...
iSkoot gets $19M warchest to launch Web services platform for AT&T
ISkoot, the company that lets you make Skype Internet calls from your mobile phone, has raised $19 million in a third round of venture capital to build an ambitious mobile platform for AT&T.
iPhone tops business rankings, steals Nokia market share
Often labeled the outsider in the corporate world, Apple's iPhone has already reached the top of J.D. Power's satisfaction ranks for business smartphones — and is simultaneously the second-largest sma...
Bloggers getting bigger and messier
But not in the way you think... Blog front pages are now large pages of images and scripts rather than the pared-down text pages of old. — The average-sized front page is 934KB and 35 per cent are ...
Honda's robotics foray continues: Unveils ‘walking assist device’
A bit off topic, but pretty neat nonetheless: Honda has rolled out its second experimental walking device. The contraption is for folks that can walk, but have trouble supporting their weight.
FriendFeed puts location in a bit more context by auto-adding maps to the stream
FriendFeed quietly rolled out a pretty cool new feature tonight. Now, when you update a service that has location information included in it, such as Brightkite, a Google Map image of your location w...
Adknowledge On Acquisition Spree, Buys Lookery's Advertising Business
After announcing the acquisition of Adonomics earlier this week, online advertising company Adknowledge lets us know that they've bought Lookery's ad serving business to be integrated into its other d...