New in Labs: Tasks
Posted by Jonathan Terleski, Michael Lancaster, and Brett Lider, Tasks team — People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from wi...
Tribune Files for Bankruptcy
Updated: The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team str...
Rumor: Apple's iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday
Apple is believed to be on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would switch a special post-holiday campaign g...
Pulitzer Prizes Broadened to Include Online-Only Publications Primarily Devoted to Original News Reporting
The Twitter Gold Mine & Beating Google to the Semantic Web
There's always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said “We ha...
Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web
Modern PCs can execute billions of instructions per second, but today's web applications can access only a small fraction of this computational power. If web developers could use all of this power, j...
New AdWords options for iPhone and G1
Today, the Google mobile ads team is announcing a new campaign-level option that allows those of you who are AdWords advertisers to show your desktop text and image ads on the iPhone, the T-Mobile G1,...
What Sequoia Capital Was Thinking
It's been two months since Sequoia Capital gathered its portfolio company CEOs, for an evening of tough talk about new economic realities. It has come to be known as the graveyard presentation, both ...
Dell Sees Double With Data Center in a Container
Ty Schmitt, principal thermal and mechanical architect for Dell's Data Center Solutions group, outside of Dell's double-stacked data center in Round Rock, Tex. (Credit: Erich Schlegel for The New York...
First look: Firefox 3.1 beta 2, now with private browsing
Mozilla has announced the official release of the second Firefox 3.1 beta. This version introduces the new private browsing mode feature and several other noteworthy changes. — The 3.1 roadmap bega...
BOSS Reaches a Milestone
We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS this past July and we just reached a significant milestone - the BOSS API is currently serving more than 10 million queries per day. 10 million in and of itself isn't pa...
Microsoft: To Unveil Zune/Danger Device At CES Keynote?
The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off January 7 with a keynote from Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, taking the spot which in past years had been filled by the now semi-retired Bill Gates. The c...
Technology stalwarts back Google rival Kosmix in fight for cyberspace
A Silicon Valley start-up that is taking on the might of Google has attracted investment from Time Warner, owner of AOL, and the man who launched one of the world's most popular mobile phones.
Cloud-Service Provider RightScale Deposits $13 Million in VC Funding
Resource Library: — RightScale's Web-based, cloud-computing management platform enables the use of its own scalable IT infrastructure on demand, while the user maintains complete control of the appl...
Contract-laden 3G Acer Aspire One hitting US at just $99?
These days most people wouldn't think of buying a new phone without getting a couple hundies off in exchange for their wireless free will. But netbooks? Internationally such deals aren't altogether ...
Broadcom squeezes 11n, Bluetooth, FM into new, cheap chip
Broadcom has released the latest of its so-called combo wireless chips, this time putting single-stream 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and FM radio reception and short-range transmission into its BCM4329...
Is Google Ready to Make (Unpleasant) History?
I vow to provide some upbeat news here sooner than later. But until then, here's another downbeat data point, from Citibank's (C) Mark Mahaney: He predicts that search advertising, which has been the...
Samsung: It's Ugly Out There
Samsung Electronics, South Korea's largest electronics company, is often considered a bellwether for the global electronics manufacturing industry. If that's the case, things aren't looking so good f...
Yahoo Counting on New Ad Tech as Woes Mount
As a year of turmoil ends in a sour economic climate, the troubled Web pioneer remains hopeful for the future of display ads. — The jots and turns throughout Yahoo's past year paint a clear enough p...
Why Apple should keep its prices high during the recession
An analyst named Ezra Gottheil from Technology Business Research said late last week that Apple needs to consider bringing the prices of its computers down to fall in line behind other PC vendors that...
Apple to Sell IPhones in Wal-Mart Stores This Month
A A A — Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will become the second mass-market retail chain to start selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone, with two store representatives saying the world's largest reta...
Yahoo Moves Ahead With Layoffs on Wednesday: The Sad Details
While there are layoffs all over now, as evidenced by the dismal jobs reports last week, the long-planned Yahoo (YHOO) layoffs will definitely be taking place Wednesday. — The layoff number was anno...
Link by Link: The Freedoms That Technologies Help Bring
AMONG international outrages, depriving citizens of personalized maps seems far down on the list. — Still, that was the condition put on the introduction of Apple's 3G iPhone in Egypt. The governme...
SugarCRM Adds Hooks to Cloud Data Services
Commercial open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM said Monday it will give customers the ability to plug in feeds from third-party data sources like the business social-net...
The Way We'll Watch
Coming soon: DVDs that let you chat with friends watching the same movie. Kiosks that burn movies while you wait. Super-crisp movies in theaters. And more. — Get ready for a lot more ways to catc...
Mobile data: Be careful what you wish for
The consensus around the industry seems to be that mobile data is starting to take off. Text messaging is still the leading data function, accounting for about 65% of total data revenue, according to...
PlayStation fiends finally get a second life
Escape the relatives this Christmas by losing yourself in Sony's long-awaited virtual world — The annual battle of the consoles that takes place every Christmas will heat up this week when Sony laun...
The Online Customer Is Spending Less
For all the significance attached to Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the online holiday shopping season on the day after Thanksgiving weekend, this year's numbers were hardly inspiring. Chase P...
Sony Ericsson's Walkman Xmini for Japan is awesome, but not for the usual reasons
In most parts of the world, the cute little device you're looking at here would pass as a perfectly acceptable Walkman. In Japan, though, it's more than just a Walkman — it's a Walkman phone, people.
Laptop searches at border might get restricted
WASHINGTON - Mohamed Shommo, an engineer for Cisco Systems Inc., travels overseas several times a year for work, so he is accustomed to opening his bags for border inspections upon returning to the U....
Atari's Centipede crawls onto the iPhone
When I was growing up, the local roller rink in my hometown had the classic arcade game Centipede. I remember it well because unlike some of my friends, I was really bad at it. And now I can be bad ...
Microsoft bullish on BizTalk Server beta
One of a kind? — Microsoft is today expected to release what promises to be the first, and possibly only, beta for its next BizTalk Server ahead of final release next year. — The company will rele...
Discman makes a comeback as cheap gadgets win the day over complex technology
Discman, a portable compact disc player that was popular the 1980s, is making a comeback, as consumers seek cheap, simple gadgets as Christmas presents. — Years after the obituary of the gadget had ...
Twenty 9th Graders from Georgia Take On Google
The Digiteen Dream Team, a group of passionate ninth graders who have been using Google's Lively as part of the Digiteen Project, are planning to protest this Wednesday against Google's decision to cl...
Computer scientists find audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack
The Carnegie-Mellon University team behind the reCAPTCHA service is continuing to expand its effort to mix basic security and useful work. CAPTCHAs are the distorted text that helps various online se...
Would You Pay Money to See Your Favorite Site Ad-Free?
Mike Vorhaus on Digital Communications — Since the early days of the web, consumers have been complaining about banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders and all sorts of advertising. We constantly hear from...
How Credit Crunch Shaved At Least $45 Million Off Jupiterimages' Sale To Getty Images
When Jupitermedia (NSDQ: JUPM) sold off its online images business to its larger rival Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) for $96 million in October, some people considered it second-time lucky for the company ...