Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
SAN FRANCISCO — Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company's search s...
Wal-Mart's Black Friday deals: High tech
Ad showing retailer's planned discounts focuses on consumer electronics like a Samsung 50-inch plasma HDTV, Magnavox Blu-ray player and Xbox 360. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart is highlighting...
Introducing the Microsoft Store US
We previously launched Microso ft Store internationally in the UK, Germany and Korea. I'm now happy to announce that we have officially launched Microsoft Store for the U.S! — With this launch, ou...
Man who lost job at Santa Clara startup killed 3, including CEO and another top executive, police say
A recently laid-off tech employee Friday opened fire inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, police said, killing three people, including the CEO and another top executive …
Sun Microsystems Aligns Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA - News) today announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model …
Yahoo Layoffs Set for December 10 (And, No, Jerry Yang Is Not Leaving Too)
While they're not as significant as the potential 6,000 layoffs at Sun Microsystems (JAVA) announced earlier today, several sources at Yahoo said that the previously announced layoffs at the Internet ...
The world's most super-designed data center - fit for a James Bond villain
This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villai...
$100 laptop to be sold in Europe
Europeans will soon be able to buy their own XO laptop. — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November. —...
GirlInYourShirt: $75 Buys Your Startup Marketing For A Day
I imagine more than a few startups will take Jenaé up on her offer to wear your startup shirt and talk about your company for a day. It's $75, and she posts videos on her site, YouTube, Seesmic and V...
Engineering: Suddenly Sexy for College Grads
As the financial crisis deepens, science and math grads who once flocked to investment banking are now considering jobs in engineering — Early in his college career, Tyler Bosmeny assumed that after...
Google Finally Starts Firing Slackers?
“It used to be nearly impossible to get fired for general underperformance” at Google, a reader tells us. But times have changed. Read > — What The Heck Happened To The Site? — Henry Blodget | ...
Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge
French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth ap...
Businesses warming up to the iPhone
Businesses are gradually getting used to the idea of using iPhones in the enterprise, but Apple has a long way to go. — (Credit: Apple) — Home - News - Apple — Apple — November 14, 2008 4:00 AM...
Entrepreneurs Ask VCs for Cash Back
This week's $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway Inc. was the largest web-related venture capital investment since the bubble days at the turn of the millennium. But...
Study Finds Google Docs Struggles to Gain Foothold in Productivity Suite Market Dominated by Microsoft
BERKELEY, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—From May to November 2008, ClickStream Technologies' standing panel of adult U.S. internet users showed that use of free productivity applications …
The Coming Wireless Revolution
Gadgets that operate over television frequencies promise to transform the wireless landscape. — If you believe some radio researchers and engineers, within the next couple of years, high-bandwidth, ...
The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship
Facebook's ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year.
AMD: Netbooks? No thanks
In case you missed it, Advanced Micro Devices is passing on Netbooks. At least as Intel and its partners have defined the category. — In fact, a lot of the media outlets missed this point completel...
Lawmaker Plans Bill on Web Neutrality
A renewed battle over network neutrality could be on the horizon, as a senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers from blocking Web content. — WASHIN...
Universal Music Group: We're Still Selling Tunes, Amazingly
Universal Music Group, the world's biggest music company, insists the music business isn't dying. Yesterday, it released numbers to help bolster its case. — UMG saw sales drop 6.2 percent in the la...
Is the VC Model Broken? Far From it
Update: Adeo Ressi, the serial entrepreneur behind the venture-capital rating site TheFunded, has been getting a lot of attention for a presentation he gave at Harvard Business School in which he argu...
Invest Like It's 1998: Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low, Down 30 Percent From First Yahoo Offer
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) stock hit its lowest point in 10 years on Thursday— $18.74—when the tech sector took hits from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), before coming back to close at $21.25.
Non-contact Charging System Simultaneously Charges Multiple Mobile Devices
Mojo Mobility Inc, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm, developed a technology to simultaneously charge multiple mobile devices using a piece of sheet and started seeking collaboration with device man...
Smartphones drive demand for Web browsing
Mobile Web usage is on the rise as more fully featured browsers come to market on smartphones. — Smartphones, which are designed to handle more sophisticated applications, are growing in popularity....
A scientific formula for popularity on Digg, YouTube
Bernardo Huberman, Hewlett-Packard's director of the HP Social Computing lab, and fellow researcher Gabor Szabo have published a highly detailed report (PDF) on “predicting the popularity of online co...
Nokia sees cellphone market falling in 2009, shares drop
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cellphone maker Nokia Oyj said the world's mobile phone market would be weaker than it expected in the fourth quarter due to the economic slowdown and was set to fall further ...