Major leadership shakeup at LinkedIn: Nye leaves, Hoffman back at the helm
After a two-year stint in which he helped propel dramatic growth, LinkedIn Corp. Chief Executive Dan Nye is handing back the reins to company founder Reid Hoffman in a major leadership shakeup at one ...
Apple's blind-side hit on IDG
Apple shocked Macworld organizer IDG with its decision to have Steve Jobs skip his upcoming keynote. — (Credit: Corrine Schulze/CNET) — Home - News - Apple — Apple — December 17, 2008 4:32 PM P...
Death To The Embargo
PR firms are out of control. Today we are taking a radical step towards fighting the chaos. From this point on we will break every embargo we agree to. — Background: — Tech companies are despera...
What Gmail does better than its competitors
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time wading through e-mails, finding the best e-mail service is paramount in my life. — Realizing that, I've done my fair share of shuffling from one e-...
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 - Critical
Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability c...
The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test
After a grueling eight-city coast-to-coast test of the 3G networks run by AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, we've come up with some clear-cut test results. Think you know who has the best network? Think aga...
Adobe's Other Battle: The Economy
Adobe is battling Microsoft over the future of Internet software. But its more pressing battle might be against the economy. — The San Jose, Calif., software maker on Tuesday reported that the econ...
GTA maker is hit-and-run victim
Video game software sales are up 30 per cent this year in the US, but the rising tide is not floating all boats - most publishers appear to be holed below the waterline. — Take-Two, publisher of the...
Facebook's platform: Rebuilding the plane in midflight
Facebook's developer platform was a watershed. It gave outside companies unprecedented access to users of a major social network. But the platform, launched in May, has come under increasing scrutin...
Why Track will be back - Fred Wilson says so
For those of you new to the Web since the end of May, you can be forgiven for having no clue about why Track is the s**t. Despite months of denial, an open source clone war, a VC-backed API counter o...
iPhone gaming is maturing as more major games join the fray
With Apple pushing iPhone game development, industry veterans quitting their jobs to focus on game programming, and some developers making record profits with their iPhone apps, it's getting harder an...
Walmart iPhone on sale the 28th for a lot more than $99
At this point, it's clear that the $99 iPhone 3G rumor was just that: rumor. We have a letter that we believe to be authentic from a source within Walmart that says the iPhone will launch in the hous...
Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy
With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data Retention — Policy — Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a new global data retention policy that sets an industry-leading approach t...
Gov. David Paterson unveils dire New York State budget that includes new taxes, layoffs and cuts
ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too. — Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget gap …
4 titles, including the newest
KONAMI will make downloads of METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH, DanceDanceRevolution S Lite, SILENT HILL The Escape and Frogger for the iPhone …
StockTwits nails stockpicking on Twitter, raises round
StockTwits, a two month-old site that lets you track messages on micro-blogging service Twitter about public company stock performance, has closed a first round of venture funding. The investors, all...
Upcoming 2009 handsets from Motorola pose for BGR on their way to Verizon
Well lookie here. Motorola apparently has a few tricks up its sleeve that might just surprise us in the coming year. Well they would have any way, if our trusty ninja didn't come through with the go...
Nvidia targets Netbooks, Intel with 9400M chip
With Apple under its belt, Nvidia is taking aim at Netbooks. — On Wednesday, Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9400M graphics chipset for Netbooks and small desktop designs. And the Santa Clara, Cali...
Ipods turning up in the afterlife
US FUNERAL DIRECTORS have noticed that there is a sudden demand among Apple fanboys to buried with their favourite gadgets when they croak. — Noelle Potvin, family service counsellor for funeral ho...
New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc
More than once, I've had a conversation over email and later realized that the information contained in the messages would make a great starting point for a document. So I built an experimental featu...
Live Search GM leaving Microsoft
We've confirmed another notable leadership change in Microsoft's online business: Live Search general manager Brad Goldberg is headed for the door. But don't add his name to the short list for Yahoo ...
Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays
Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I know you're busy and all, watching online videos between 9-5 during the week. It's a pleasure that you took the time to stop by when you could be watc...
Ten things I don't like about Google Chrome
Recently I blogged about what I like about Google Chrome, and Philipp Lenssen asked a good question: “What do you *not* like about Google Chrome?” — Normally when I have suggestions or complaints ab...
Apple ordered to end exclusive iPhone deal with France's Orange
Apple must immediately cease its exclusive relationship with France Telecom's Orange and allow other local carriers to offer the iPhone to its subscribers, the French competition counsel ruled Wednesd...
Number of complaints: 1
Media: — Sector: — Leisure — Agency: — Freedman International — Ad — A TV ad, for the computer game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, showed Tiger Woods swinging a Wii handset. The background show...
Tilt-Shift Comes to the iPhone
Tilt-Shift photography (and the faking thereof) is so hot right now. In fact, it will probably date the photography of today in the same way the tobacco-graduated filter dates the pictures of the 198...
New Experimental Seesmic Site
We have been working on an important update to the Seesmic platform, and are excited to show our new Seesmic UI and get your feedback. It is experimental, still has a few glitches we're fixing as we ...