Joost gets back on our radar with an iPhone app
Men in Black playing on Joost's new iPhone app. — If ever there was a web service that experienced a rapid fall from grace, it was online video startup, Joost. What started out as a much anticipate...
Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion). — The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft s...
What If the Recession Does Turn Into a Depression?
It's far from certain — it's even a fairly remote possibility — but the possibility of an economic depression is being discussed more and more these days. As is to be expected, the discussion tends t...
Google's Gatekeepers
In 2006, Thailand announced it was blocking access to YouTube for anyone with a Thai I.P address, and then identified 20 offensive videos for Google to remove as a condition of unblocking the site. —...
So what will happen to Sun?
The new Silicon Valley parlour game — Comment Silicon Valley has a new parlour game: what's going to happen to Sun after the cuts? Rumours suggest it will merge with EMC, that HP or IBM will take i...
You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?
HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn't need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every ...
More Ways to Hide Google SearchWiki
In a recent interview with Cedric Dupont, product manager for Google SearchWiki, we found that Google doesn't intend to provide an option to disable SearchWiki. “While users don't have the option of ...
Why I Love Twitter
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blo...
Breaking: Google News doesn't break tech news
Confession: We're tech news junkies. In order to be any good at what we do (tech blogging), we kind of have to be. A tech news junky's best friend is an RSS reader — we troll hundreds of sources and...
10,000 iPhone Apps
148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an i...
Where was Sock Puppet's bailout?
Sock Puppet was the well-known marketing mascot for the iconic dot-com bubble company Pets.com. The climax in the company's two-year boom and bust was its $1.2 million Super Bowl commercial, where So...
‘Push’ Notifications Coming in iPhone 2.2.1?
RussianiPhone.ru claims that they have seen iPhone 2.2.1 Beta 1 and that it implements Push notifications as well as over-the-air MobileMe syncing with Notes support. — As proof they've posted a scr...
The iPhone and the Ensuing Wireless Broadband Boom
I have been saying for some time that the launch of the 3G iPhone was going to jump-start the demand for wireless broadband. The subsequent release of additional web-friendly mobile phones (we like t...
Don't know what you've got till it's gone
IWantSandy is folding, as are a number of web companies. So is that restaurant you loved down the street. Users are outraged. Outraged! — When you find a service or establishment or product that ...