Did Accel Just Raise Money For A Facebook Bailout?
VC firm Accel Partners just closed two funds worth more than $1 billion. — $525 million will go toward a London-based fund for European startups. — The rest — about $480 million — will create the ...
AT&T now offers iPhone 3G home activation, for real this time
All you potential iPhone 3G buyers who loathe the thought of having to go into an AT&T store to activate your newly purchased phone can rejoice today as AT&T has finally enabled home activation for th...
Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images)
A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of...
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living. — One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “p...
iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
Finally, someone has conceived a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn't require any software installation and it's legal: … In fact, it doesn...
Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Expectations
Tumblr is exactly the kind of start-up that's supposed to be gasping for air in today's dismal economy: A trendy but niche Web service with a prominent founder and exactly zero revenue.
YouTube is not so wild anymore
Tanya Derveaux's cleavage may not be suitable for minors. (image via iPower) — On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new to...
“Report a Concern” at Google Maps
Since a recent Google Maps Street View update, Google shows the wording “Report a concern” at the footer of their panorama photos (in older versions, a text for this elsewhere was reading “Report inap...
Sony collected, shared kids' info; FTC sues
In Robert Bly's “The Sibling Society,” the poet compares modern society to “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Jack is running from the giant and the giant's wife hides him in a cupboard. As parents giving ou...
Microsoft hires an open-source identity expert
Microsoft, long the bastion of proprietary thought, is increasingly adding open-source DNA to the fold. And it's adding to its roster of open-source veterans: Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Iden...
Google anticipates a bright and shiny future for Chrome
When Google first began to expand beyond search, the company pioneered a new release management strategy that—to put it diplomatically—challenges the conventional definition of “beta.” Although some ...
Netbook SSD usage to fall under 10% in 2009
Has the solid-state drive had its day - at least as a key component of Small, Cheap Computers? That's what one Asian market watcher reckons. — This week, DRAMeXchange forecast that the percentage o...
Mac firmware upgrades do NOT fix the 4 GB RAM problem
The appearance of the Apple firmware upgrades released yesterday for late 2008 MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs was welcome news to me and other owners and many applied the upgrades immediately...
White House Opposes FCC Free Wireless Internet Plan
WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials are trying to put the brakes on the Federal Communications Commission's plan to encourage a free, national wireless Internet plan, which the agency could app...
Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview
The video above shows twenty two minutes of my and Loic Le Meur's half hour interview with Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer at the Le Web conference in Paris...
Reselling MP3s: The music industry's new battleground?
A new digital music service is getting lots of attention for proposing to help consumers sell their used MP3s in much the same way people once unloaded second-hand albums. — Bopaboo has generated sp...
Black And Red E71 Spotted At Nokia World 2008
I had a secret ninja scoping out Nokia World 2008 last week in Barcelona, looking for any hot E71-related news, and it turns out, I wasn't disappointed! There on the expo floor, Nokia was showing off...
RIM Acquires Chalk Media
RIM has just gobbled up a solution developer by the name of Chalk Media, who allow enterprises to push content (video, text, images and otherwise) to their workforce's BlackBerrys, as well as receive ...
Introducing Thumbtack
People have always had a need to make sense of the world around them. We want to identify, classify and clarify things. Lately that need has become even greater, since we're being bombarded with inf...
Developer for George W. Bush library Web site paid $35K to buy back domain name
kmbrooks@dallasnews.com — AUSTIN - After losing a valuable piece of online real estate to enterprising cyber-squatters, the Bush presidential library has replanted its flag into that e-territory.
Comcast 50Mbps Hits Baltimore, Atlanta, Fort Wayne - Company's ‘wideband’ DOCSIS 3.0 deployment continues...
Windows 7 build 6956 performance test
My Hardware 2.0 mailbag is brimming with Windows 7 related questions. The main question on everyone's lips is the obvious one - How does Windows 7 stack up against Vista? … This test will pitch Windo...
Our Maps Are Googley Now
Redfin just released a new version of the site. In addition to improving our short sale detection in Orange County and parts of LA and making our neighborhood pages a little more discoverable from th...
iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail
Finally, someone has conceived a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn't require any software installation and it's legal: … In fact, it doesn...
Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces
Dozens of Apple patent applications were published today revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of pate...
Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds
Twenty five year old venture capital firm Accel Partners is announcing two new funds today that add more than $1 billion to their war chest: Accel Growth Fund at $480 million and Accel London III at $...
Microsoft Security Advisory (961051)
Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation s...
Delta to Launch In-Flight Wi-Fi In The Next Few Weeks
Previously shooting for the first half of 2009, word is now that Delta's in-flight wi-fi rollout will begin before the end of 2008—i.e. very soon. — So when you're heading home for Christmas or the ...
Why the Yahoo feeding frenzy?
With camera crews staking out space outside Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters, some employees are striking back, uploading photos of the TV reporters to Flickr before the sluggish old media can get their...
The 10 best IT certifications
Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification — and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a...
BBC, ITV propose ‘open’ TV-over-net platform
Project Kangaroo alternative jump-started — Having had their plan to combine their broadband TV services kyboshed by the Competition Commmission, the BBC and ITV today said they plan to do it anyway...
The Mother of All Demos - 150 years ahead of its time
It's not the mouse. It's what you do with it — Sometime in the late sixties, as Douglas Engelbart was preparing what would one day be called The Mother of All Demos, his boss flew to Washington to ...
Cellphone Blocker Stops Swindles at ATM
Mobile phone signal-blocking at cash dispensers is the newest effort to fight fraud in Japan. — In October Japan police made a major nationwide effort to prevent citizens - especially the elderly - ...
Ericsson collaborates with Intel to bring theft protection to Mobile Broadband notebooks
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announced today that it is collaborating with Intel to ensure that Ericsson's Mobile Broadband Modules are interoperable with Intel® Anti-Theft PC Protection Technology …
How Twitter's competitors do what it doesn't
Twitter may be the leader in the micro-blogging space, but it's missing key features—features its competitors offer. Will Twitter pick up on these omissions? We know groups are coming to Twitter, bu...
Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference!
Want to know how Britain should spend that billion pounds it has earmarked for internet startups? On a vodka-fuelled conference in a sauna in London. It would sure put LeWeb into the shade. Though ...
Nortel Faces Tough Choices
As Sales Slump and Cash Dwindles, Fallen Telecom Star Seeks to Restructure and Sell Assets, but Buyers Are Scarce — Nortel Networks Corp.'s contemplation of a bankruptcy filing comes after years of ...
Will There Ever Be Another Tech IPO?
It's been a long, long time since there has been an IPO year as bad as this one. — According to Renaissance Capital, there have been just 43 U.S. IPOs this year which raised at least $50 million, do...