Tracking flu trends
Like many Googlers, we're fascinated by trends in online search queries. Whether you're interested in U.S. elections, today's hot trends, or each year's Zeitgeist, patterns in Google search queries c...
Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat
I'm a big user of Gmail chat. Being able to switch from email to chat as needed, all within the same app, is really great for productivity. But people can only type so fast, and even with our new em...
Vacation Rental Site Raises $250 Million
HomeAway, the largest online vacation rental marketplace, announced Tuesday that it has raised $250 million in venture capital, an extraordinarily large amount of money for an Internet company. The n...
Obama's Twitter goes silent
@barackobama: Please update your Twitter. Since last Tuesday's historic election, Barack Obama's Twitter account hasn't sent any messages. Some Internet President-Elect! He didn't even use Twitter ...
Apple may turn to carbon fiber for lighter MacBook Air
Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world's thinnest notebook earlier this year with the introduction of the MacBook Air, but is rumored to be unsatisfied with the system's weight, which i...
Five Rules For Winning Facebook's Developer Competition
Facebook will announce the five winners of its latest FbFund competition for application developers on December 8. Each of the five will win a $225,000 grant. The Facebook investors who fund the com...
AT&T iPhone Tethering Plan Specifics, No Unlimited Plan?
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega has recently announced the arrival of an official iPhone tethering plan. While we already knew the plan was in development prior to his announcement, little informa...
Facebook Now Worth About $4 Billion, Revenue Light
Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a source says (unconfirmed). And Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is indeed trying to raise money in Dubai, the s...
Changes at Six Apart
Earlier today, I published the following message on our internal company blog. For those members of our community who wanted to know about the changes at Six Apart today, I've reposted it here public...
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-069 - Critical
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves several vulne...
“Idols” TV producer Fremantle seals YouTube deal
LONDON (Reuters) - FremantleMedia, producer of the “Idols” reality-TV show format and soap opera “Neighbours,” has agreed a deal to produce programs to be shown exclusively on YouTube and to split rev...
Best Buy's Gift Card is a Tiny Audio Speaker
Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year's holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Ta...
iPhone 2.2 Release Just 10 Days Away
According to the consistently reliable iPhone Hellas, the iPhone OS 2.2 update will appear even sooner than we all expected. Barring any sudden plan changes, the iPhone Hellas people are saying the u...
Pixelmator Team Releases Pixelmator 1.3 Tempo
Version 1.3 Tempo Features Major Performance Improvements, Click-and-Drag Tools, Improved Adjustment Tools, Smart Palette Hide Feature, and More. — The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.3,...
AVG virus scanner removes critical Windows file
An update for the AVG virus scanner released yesterday contained an incorrect virus signature, which led it to think user32.dll contained the Trojan Horses PSW.Banker4.APSA or Generic9TBN. AVG then r...
iTunes Store finally gets a bargain bin for movies
The glory days of grabbing that $5 DVD at the road trip pit-stop or Target checkout counter have finally made their digital transition to the iTunes Store. — With a new section unfortunately called ...
Van Natta Takes Playlist CEO Job, With New Investment By Pittman
Former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta will take the CEO job at a music discovery site called Playlist, a move that had been speculated last week, after he did not end up taking another position as head ...
Trippin' With Trip: One Man's View Of Carnage To Come
Every month, Trip Chowdhry, the one-man band who covers all things tech under the moniker Global Equities Research, writes a piece he calls Silicon Scoop on current trends and gossip from the Valley. ...
DeepDyve: Indexing the Deep Web
DeepDyve is a new search engine that is aimed at students, academics, and knowledge workers. DeepDyve's mission is to index the ‘deep web’ that is hidden behind pay walls and subscription fees. We f...
Free PDF Report. Ultra Mobile Computing Buyers Guide.
To all the websites, companies and visitors that I've learned so much from in the last few years, here's something back. The 5-part, 11,000 word, 28-page Ultra Mobile Computing Buyers Guide as a sing...
Never get Rick-Rolled again!
The most annoying thing about online video is that you don't always get what you want. Too often, you're led astray by misleading thumbnails and mischievous Rick-Rollers. — To help with this proble...
Who Did Nortel Cut?
It was no surprise that Nortel, reporting a $3.41 billion loss, said it would keep slashing jobs, this time on the order of 1,300. More unusual are some of the names on the list: four executives who ...
Earnings: Sirius XM Loss Balloons On $4.8 Billion Impairment Charge; Revs Grow 16 Percent
The newly merged Sirius XM satellite radio company took a big swallow of bitter medicine in Q3, reporting a loss of $4.88 billion ($1.93 per share) versus last year's loss of $119.6 million …
iPhone Exploit Undermines App Store Security, Lets Devs Update And Run Arbitrary Code
We have stumbled across a severe flaw in iPhone security that allows third party developers to update and execute arbitrary code from their applications at will, totally circumventing Apple's App Stor...
Tasks, not search, at DEMOfall08
Philipp Lenssen points to a video of a DEMOfall08 panel on “Where the Web is Going” that included Peter Norvig from Google and Prabhakar Raghavan from Yahoo. — What is notable in the talk is that (s...
Amazon to Sell OLPC's XO Laptop Starting Nov. 17
One Laptop Per Child confirmed it will start selling the XO laptop through Amazon.com on Monday. — The XO laptop will be sold through Amazon in the same way as the G1G1 program, where a consumer don...
CBS Kills CNET Music Site It Never Launched
One way for a big media company to avoid the embarrassment of shutting down a Web site-just avoid launching it altogether. That's what CBS has done with “Juke,” a music site that CNET had started ass...
Condé Nast Web Arm CondéNet's Turn for “Across the Board” Cuts
Here's the deal: If you work at a media company that hasn't had layoffs recently, just go ahead and assume they're coming. — This afternoon's installment-CondéNet, which manages some, but not all …
On its second try, Sandbridge promises a revolution with the Holy Grail of wireless chips
Sandbridge Technologies is announcing today that it has created a chip that could represent the Holy Grail of wireless computing: a processor that can perform software-defined radio with low cost and ...
The Next Windows: 7Up or New Vista?
Running away as fast as it can from Vista , Microsoft rolled out an alpha version of Windows 7 at its recent Professional Developers Conference . But is Windows 7 going to be 7Up, the Un-Vista, or is...
Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You.
Facebook and MySpace have great mobile apps. At least, they're great if you're satisfied with a subset of the features you get on their normal websites. But they don't yet take advantage of location...
iPhone 2.2 Release Just 10 Days Away
According to the consistently reliable iPhone Hellas, the iPhone OS 2.2 update will appear even sooner than we all expected. Barring any sudden plan changes, the iPhone Hellas people are saying the u...
Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
Firm's ‘Engagement Ads’ Amplify Its Push to Curry Favor With Madison Avenue — Despite its surging Internet audience, Facebook Inc. has yet to prove it can wring steady revenue out of advertisers. N...
Parallels Desktop 4.0 gets a 50 percent speed boost over 3.0
Don't look now, but Parallels is back with the final release of Parallels Desktop 4.0 today. The release, which we heard a little bit about in September, does indeed now have full support for DirectX...
BlackBerry 9530 Storm pricing revealed on VZW staging server
Ah, now this is a bit more solid pricing information. Verizon's testman pre-launch site now lists the BlackBerry 9530 Storm for $219.99 under a 2 year contract. Not quite below the $199 threshold se...
BREAKING: Vivian Schiller Leaves NYT; Joins NPR As New CEO
This one is a shocker: Vivian Schiller, the longtime head of NYTimes.com's digital efforts, has left the company, and has joined National Public Radio as its new CEO. She succeeds Dennis Haarsager, w...
Optoma teams with Apple to launch DLP Pico projector in Japan
At long last, an official release date for Texas Instruments' DLP Pico projector. Mark it down, December 1st is the launch (delivered by December 19th) of the “world's smallest / lightest” (51 × 105 ...
Google Reader Now Translating Your Subscriptions
The Google Reader Blog announced that they now are offering translation of your subscriptions. — Google Reader now gives you the ability to subscribe to blogs and sites that do not publish content i...
DeepDyve Explores The Invisible Web
As web search engines have improved over the years, there's been less attention paid to an “inconvenient truth” about the indexes of our favorite information finding tools—namely, that search engines ...
Facebook Grows Mobile Team And Reports 15 Million Active Mobile Users
Facebook said on its blog today that it's beefing up its mobile team and making improvements to take advantage of a growing number of people who are using the social network while on the go.
Google Ad Planner: new features, available to everyone
Since we launched Google Ad Planner a few months ago, you've suggested more ways we could help improve your media planning process. First, we're excited to announce that Ad Planner is now accessible ...
Cisco Plans Major Leap in Hardware
Cisco Systems Inc., reacting to a spike in video and data traffic on the Internet, is introducing a new generation of hardware to help communications carriers cope with the flood. — The networking-e...
SanDisk jams 8GB into the itty bitty Sansa Clip
I remember when an MP3 player with 128MB of internal storage cost easily $100 and was the size of a fist. Sometimes, new product announcements make me feel old. Such is the case with today's release...
The Silicon Lining
Think long term. Long, long term. — In the short term, there will be pain in Silicon Valley. Start-ups will have to survive 2009. Layoffs will be in fashion: “You didn't do a layoff? What's wron...
Opera Mini 4.2 beta is a mini update
With so much energy and progress in the mobile browser space these past two months (see here and here), you would expect the makers of the venerable Opera Mini browser to release an update that makes ...
Guns N' Roses Uploader to Plead Guilty
The Los Angeles man arrested on accusations that he uploaded nine pre-released Guns N' Roses songs from the upcoming Chinese Democracy album has agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of copyrigh...
Hitchsters 2.0: Half-Priced Airport Limos In San Francisco, NYC
No matter how you slice it, getting to the airport is a painful and often costly endeavor. Public transportation may be the “greenest” and least expensive option, but it often involves lengthy waits,...
Net censorship plan backlash
As opposition grows against the Government's controversial plan to censor the internet, the head of one of Australia's largest ISPs has labelled the Communications Minister the worst we've had in the ...
The Jellyfish Guys Are At It Again, Raise $4.3 Million For Online Retail Service Alice.com
As serial a serial entrepreneur can get: Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire, who managed to sell three companies in the past +10 years, most recently flipping social shopping service Jellyfish to Microsof...
If and how will Obama get citizen feedback?
What is president-elect Barack Obama's new transition site, Change.gov, going to become? Right now, the site just contains basic information that the campaign has already made public. But it promise...