Rival forecast to catch YouTube
By Tim Bradshaw in London and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles — YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal as the video-sha...
Jerry Yang's Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO
BoomTown has obtained the entire memo from Jerry Yang to his employees at Yahoo about his plans to step down as Yahoo CEO. — Yang, a truly nice man-which has been a plus and a minus for him-and an I...
Adobe To Demo Flash On Mobile (But Only Windows). Still “Working” On The iPhone.
Adobe's Flash Player is on 98 percent of all desktop computers, but it is still struggling to make the jump to mobile phones. If you want Flash on a mobile device, right now you have to settle for a ...
Google Mobile App for iPhone now with Voice Search and My Location
The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you're looking for. T...
Asus launches 'world's fastest' smartphone
Asus has unveiled its latest smartphone, which, it claimed, is the “fastest business PDA phone in the world”. — Under the Asus P565's shell is an 800MHz Marvell processor that Asus said will help th...
A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea
SAN FRANCISCO — Steven J. Wallach is completing the soul of his newest machine. — Thirty years ago, Mr. Wallach was one of a small team of computer designers profiled by Tracy Kidder in his Pulitzer...
Burned Once, Intel Prepares New Chip Fortified by Constant Tests
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Rows and rows of computers in Intel's labs here relentlessly torture-tested the company's new microprocessor for months on end. — But on a recent tour of the labs, John Barton, an ...
Extinction Threatens Yellow-Pages Publishers
Industry's Web Sites Have Small Audiences, and Economic Downturn Has Eroded Ad Dollars; Hearst Unit Throws In With Google — The yellow-pages industry is running out of lifelines. — In recent years...
No More Landlines - Comm Forecast #1
By the end of President Obama's first term, there won't be any more copper landlines left in the country. One of the challenges facing the Federal Communications Commission and the new administration...
Ordering Domino's Pizza from Your TiVo: Ah, Bliss
You know how it is: you have a decent buzz going, it's the third quarter, and, honestly, it's not like your girlfriend is going to know you used one of the empty beer bottles as a urinal. But you're ...
Cellphone Makers Brace for the Shake-Up
Motorola and Sony Ericsson Look Particularly Vulnerable as Budget-Conscious Consumers Decide to Postpone Upgrades — The cellphone industry is poised for its first major shake-up since the beginning ...
Why Yahoo Still Matters for You
Despite Recent Blows, Size Keeps It a Valuable Partner for Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Its Google search deal is history, Microsoft is no longer a suitor, and a combination with Time Warner...
Amazon Launches OLPC ‘Give 1 Get 1’ Laptop Drive
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association launched its Give 1 Get 1 program for a second time, allowing people to buy one of their iconic green mini-laptops and donate one to a child in the developi...
A coming of age for YouTube
To some YouTube fans, the Web's iconic video-sharing site may appear to be losing its soul. — Two years ago, YouTube executives disdained anything but the most unobtrusive forms of advertising (no p...
Fujitsu Laboratories Develops Video
Kawasaki, Japan, November 17, 2008 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced today the development of a new video-processing technology that enables a complete wraparound view …
Google looks to users' needs
THE newly named strategic planning director of Google's Creative Lab in New York says the web giant will place greater emphasis on consumers' needs rather then simply inventing things and throwing the...
Ubuntu set to debut on netbooks
Mobile phone chip designer Arm has announced an alliance with the makers of the Ubuntu open source software. — The deal will produce a version of the operating system for small net-browsing computer...
The ties that bind
Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders what it will take to get used to living in a networked society. — One of the throwaway remarks I sometimes make at conferences is that “Google knows you're pr...
OpenOffice five times more popular than Google Docs
Confirming recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, an independent study released Friday found OpenOffice.org 's free office suite to be five times more popular among adult U.S. internet users ...
Esc Clock won't let you be tardy
I hate latecomers and those who don't value your time. This friend of mine often falls into trouble for running late, be it a luncheon date or an important business meeting. Guess he could do with y...
Grid Networks Now Streams Video to TV
The big theme at our NewTeeVee Live conference last week was the coming mash-up of online video with the traditional TV services. Today, Grid Networks, a Seattle-based startup that uses P2P technique...