Top execs cast blame in Vista Capable ‘mess’
New e-mails unsealed in a lawsuit Friday show that a Hewlett Packard executive was outraged at a Microsoft decision to loosen the requirements necessary for a PC to be labeled ‘Vista Capable.’ — The...
Lose the BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe
WASHINGTON — Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. — Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes ...
Google Profiles Adds Photos, Inching Closer to Lifestreaming
Rolfe Schewe sent me a heads-up on Twitter tonight that Google Profiles now has added photo streaming. All you need to do is point Google toward Picasa, Flickr or any other photo sharing service that...
Twitter's Hockey Stick Moment
October was a good month for Twitter. All those election Tweets brought a 25 percent increase in U.S. visitors from the month before, to 1.45 million unique visitors, according to comScore. (Worldwi...
Obama Names FCC Transition Team
Two academics — Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach — will lead the Obama FCC transition team with the responsibility of advising the incoming administration on policy, budget and personnel matters, the ...
Obama's first address to the nation on YouTube
This is just brilliant. As we wrote about yesterday, President-elect Obama will be giving weekly video addresses alongside the radio addresses that have become routine for previous administrations. ...
T-Mobile Customer Delight Day - Free Minutes!
We just got word that T-Mobile will be holding Customer Delight Day tomorrow - that's November 15! What does this mean? Well, it means free minutes for you T-Mobile subscribers. Here's how it works...
Santa Clara triple-killing suspect arrested
(11-15) 15:27 PST SANTA CLARA — Santa Clara police today arrested the fugitive suspect in the Friday's triple homicide at a semiconductor firm here. — Police said they arrested Jing Hua Wu, a recent...
Tech Industry, Long Insulated, Feels a Slump
The technology industry, which resisted the economy's growing weakness over the last year as customers kept buying laptops and iPhones, has finally succumbed to the slowdown. — In the span of just a...
Blip.tv Raises $5.2 Million
Blip.tv, a New York-based online television network, has raised $5.2 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, according to a regulatory filing. The round was originally announced las...
Eric Schmidt and the YouTube election
Is YouTube making Google a political player? The video-sharing site, with its stratospheric bandwidth bills and questionable new ad formats, may never pay Larry and Sergey back in cash for the $1.65 ...