A Camcorder Insurgent Goes HD
The fastest growing company in Silicon Valley over the past few years was not Facebook, VMWare, or all-mighty Google. According to Deloitte, the professional services firm, it was a company whose nam...
The VC model is broken
These days, the more you talk to folks about Silicon Valley's venture capital industry, the more negative the message is becoming. — And for good reason. There's no more patience. Last time, circa...
The New Yahoo! Front Page and YUI 3.0
At the beginning of this year, the Yahoo! Front Page team embarked on an ambitious project to completely remake the face of the company. The goal was to make the Front Page into the most important st...
Extremely literal boss demotes editor to columnist
In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleyw...
Microsoft Close To Blowing Another $1 Billion On Verizon Search And Mobile Deal
Let's see... Microsoft will be paying twice what Google is offering AND will be giving away Windows Mobile (a paid product) for free. Look forward to hearing the long-term economic rationale for this...
Nokia E63 joins the successful Nokia E71 to form a compelling QWERTY messaging device range
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the latest addition to its Eseries range, the Nokia E63, designed for people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well.
Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
Update, Nov. 12, 9:04 a.m ET: washingtonpost.com has just published my story on the evidence of malicious activity from McColo. More to come in follow-up blog posts today. — A U.S. based Web hostin...
iPhone Faces Off With Game Champs
Apple Inc.'s iPhone has shaken up the cellphone business. Its next target: Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. — The iPhone and its sister device the iPod touch, which feature big screens and powerful grap...
How Google knows when you're likely to get the flu
Google Trends is a fun way to compare the popularity of search terms, but the technology behind it can also be put to some important uses. Google.org, the nonprofit arm of Google, is using Trends to ...
Internet Explorer Mobile 6
•Ed EMEA we announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which is the next generation browser for Windows Mobile. Available on new Windows Mobile devices ...
Disney will buy Yahoo, Ballmer will keep job and other tech predictions
Bill Gates will be the country's first chief technology officer. Google's stock will tumble to $275 per share. And Microsoft will buy Adobe. — That was some of the crystal-ball gazing that took pl...
New Google Search results pages for iPhone
Starting today in the U.S., when you go to google.com on your iPhone and do a search, you'll see search results that are better optimized for your phone. You'll still get the full comprehensiveness a...
Nick Denton: “Publishers are sleeping their way to extinction”
Think things are bad in the media business? You ain't seen nothin' yet. That's the message Nick Denton, the owner of Gawker Media, an online publisher whose properties include this website, lays out...
Xbox 360 Console banning
I've gotten a few messages and seen some forum threads pop up on console bannings so I thought I'd post and let folks know what's up. In our our continued effort to keep gameplay safe and secure for ...
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 makes date with US: Black Friday for $799.99
At long last, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has a firm date for its launch into the topsy-turvy US market. Those who've been holding off time and again in anticipation of this WinMo 6.1 powerhouse can ...
TV Sales Suddenly Decelerate
Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece in The Times predicting that TV sales could decline this holiday season. “The anecdotal evidence is that the stores are pretty quiet. There is a whisper in the ind...
Me.dium Changes Name To OneRiot, Launches Social Search Engine
OneRiot, the company formerly known as Me.dium, has launched OneRiot.com, a social search engine that crawls and indexes the pages viewed by OneRiot toolbar users. The idea behind OneRiot is to measu...
Exclusive: Red Eagle to make multiple films and games based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books
The film studio Red Eagle Entertainment is making a big bet today as it announces it is starting a video game publishing studio, Red Eagle Games, that will make games based on the epic fantasy series ...
Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him
When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would le...
Interview: Vivian Schiller, President & CEO, National Public Radio: NPR Can Solve Hyperlocal
When we caught up with Vivian Schiller, the just-announced president and CEO of National Public Radio, she was in a surprising location: her own kitchen in Bethesda, catching a breath …
VMware wants to put a hypervisor in your handset
With the rise of smartphones, netbooks, and various devices in between, the focus of the computing world is turning to mobile devices. So, it's no surprise that VMware has decided to follow the indus...
Samsung NC10 Battery Life Almost 8 Hours with SSD
A few weeks ago, we reviewed the Samsung NC10 and were just shocked by the amount of battery life it got. We were so surprised that we ran additional tests at different brightnesses just to see how e...