Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
Google's announced they're closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage.
Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store
Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone. A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates ranging ...
Nortel to file for bankruptcy protection
Facing $107-million interest on debts, former telecom giant will likely be broken up and sold to foreign rivals — Former technology titan Nortel Networks Corp. is expected to file for bankruptcy pro...
YouTube Now Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music
Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I've never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I'm afraid that they won't ...
Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history
Demon blacklist muzzles Wayback Machine — Four weeks after birthing a nationwide Wikipedia edit ban, Britain's child porn blacklist has led at least one ISP to muzzle the Internet Archive's Wayback ...
A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website
It's been well over three years since we initially announced the Python Sitemap generator in June 2005. In this time, we've seen lots of people create great third-party Sitemap generators to help web...
Windows 7 is enough to kill Linux on the desktop
First INQpressions Should damage Apple too — FOR THE PAST three years I have been a Linux fan-boy using Ubuntu most of the time and Windows XP when I needed to play games or run CS desktop lay out s...
Gaza crisis spills onto the web
A propaganda war between supporters of Israel and Palestine is being waged on the internet. — Activists have turned to defacing websites, taking over computers, and shutting down Facebook groups. —...
A Text Arrives. Oh, It's Just an ‘Idol’ Ad.
Some AT&T Wireless customers have voted an emphatic no on a promotion for “American Idol” that popped up on their phones this week. — AT&T, a sponsor of the show, said it sent text messages to a “si...
Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying ‘Marble’ User Interface?
Last year, Apple announced that they will be releasing the next major revision of Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard) in 2009. The focus of Snow Leopard has been on performance and quality of the underlying...
New Features for your Local Business Ads
Since 2006, AdWords local business ads have been connecting your business with local customers. Today, we're excited to announce some upcoming new features for local business ads, making it faster an...
Sell Google Apps through Google's reseller program
Ever wanted to be a salesperson for Google? Well, now you may get your chance through the Google Apps Reseller program, which allows companies to sell their own versions of Google Apps, the business ...
Gartner CIO advice: The good, the bad and the plain odd
It seems CIOs are being told what to do in the New Year by every analyst, industry watcher and publication (ours included). Gartner recently joined the throng with its annual recommendations - with m...
Microsoft Is Exploring Job Cuts
Microsoft Corp. is seriously exploring significant work force reductions that could be announced as early as next week, in a sign that the weak economy is prompting tough decisions even at one of the ...
Rumor: EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios Down Under
Electronics Arts has shuffled off Pandemic Studios' Brisbane office, a reliable source tells Kotaku. The Australian developer was best known for Destroy All Humans! and its rumored development of an ...
Nokia N79 Active bears Polar heart monitoring skills
ESPOO, Finland - The new Nokia N79 Active has jogged into view with a kit bag stuffed full of sports related talents. This healthy twist on Nokia's smallest Nseries sees the N79 Active launch paired ...
Blockbuster to offer video downloads
In an effort to keep pace with rival Netflix, Blockbuster announced a partnership Wednesday to offer instant access to its video library through various home and portable devices. — The movie rental...
Ousted Seagate CEO provocative to the end
In a surprise move, the disc drive maker replaces Bill Watkins with chairman Steven Luczo, the CEO whom Watkins replaced in 2004. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Over a wine-soaked dinner two years ago, Bill...
Dell Plans Its Own Smartphone, Analysts Say
The new Palm Pre may be the most-anticipated new phone since the iPhone 3G, but there's yet another new player on the way: PC maker Dell may be readying its own smartphone, to arrive as early as next ...
8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009
We are starting 2009 off in a particularly inauspicious economic climate, though as we'll see, important opportunities also exist. 2008 was a very tough year for many businesses and industries and it...
Thomson Reuters bets on Content remaining King with Calais 4.0
Global information behemoth Thomson Reuters today announces the latest version of its Calais web service, delivering on earlier promises with respect to ‘Linked Data’ and firmly staking out the compan...
Toshiba, Fujitsu May Combine Hard-Disk Drive Units, People Say
A A A — Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Toshiba Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are in the final stages of talks to combine their hard-disk drive businesses, including possibly setting up a joint venture, to cut costs...