GDrive
by Brian Ussery — “Online file backup and storage... GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents... GDrive allows you to access your files from anyw...
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle
Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over...
Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta (with proof of concept code)
This is dedicated to every ignorant “tech journalist” who cried wolf about UAC in Windows Vista. A change to User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 (beta) to make it “less annoying” …
OpenTable Files For IPO, And Reveals Its Finances
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation site that was founded in 1998, is hoping to raise as much as $40 million in an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC (embedded below). The prospectus of...
Zuckerberg: Facebook's “intense” year
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, in a tie? Oh my. — If you know Mark you know he's a pretty casual dresser. Usually seen in T-shirt, jeans, and sandals. — But not here at the World Economic Foru...
Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline
There was a meltdown at bookmark sharing website Ma.gnolia Friday morning. The service lost both its primary store of user data, as well as its backup. The site has been taken offline while the team...
Dell to Make Google and Microsoft Phones - Really?
Just when you thought there are enough not-so-good looking and overrated phones out there, Dell is said to announce two iPhone and Blackberry competitors sometime next month. Code named MePhone (hope...
Turning the Ads Off
By Marisa Taylor — Ever wonder what your Web-surfing experience would be like if online advertising simply disappeared? So did Jack Herrick, founder of wikiHow, a user-contributed how-to site. The...
The Economy According To Mint
Aaron Patzer is the CEO and founder of Mint.com, a personal finance site that helps 900,000 consumers keep track of their spending. Mint's data is a snapshot of the consumer economy. In the guest po...
Microhoo: What might have been
A year ago Sunday, on February 1, 2008, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told the world his company wanted to buy Yahoo. — Despite months of discussions, the deal never materialized, distress...
Warning: Dependence on Facebook, Twitter Could Be Hazardous to Your Business
You've probably heard how much the micro-blogging service Twitter can help your business, or that being on social networking site Facebook can boost your company's profile. But what you might not hav...
The Loneliness of the Early Adopter
I'm an Early Adopter. I like to be among the first to try out new products and services. If you were looking for me on the Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle—the bell-shaped curve that's a favorit...
Rs 500 laptop display on Feb 3
Text: — NEW DELHI: A $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati on February 3 when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication...
Venture Rogues
How one Silicon Valley VC tried to get away with millions. — LOS ANGELES - William “Boots” Del Biaggio III was a wealthy and successful venture capitalist on the cusp of achieving his lifelong aspir...
ABC Says Web Viewers Will Tolerate Twice the Ads
How Long Before an Online TiVo? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The web is about to get a little more like TV — minus the ad-skipping. ABC.com has started to peddle research that shows online viewers will...
Even Wall Street Won't Pay for Content: Financial Times Sues Blackstone for Web “Fraud”
Earlier today I suggested that we were headed toward a two-tier information economy where wealthy people pay for good stuff and everyone else gets free crappy stuff. But I may have miscalculated-mayb...
Amazon's Sales Surge
Snapping the brutal retail slump, Amazon.com Inc. said profit rose 9% and sales surged 18% in the fourth quarter as the Internet giant used its pricing muscle to lure shoppers. — Chief Executive Jef...
Facebook Gifts: No More Missed Birthdays!
Don't you hate being late for friends' birthdays? Well, as of today (in a limited rollout fashion) facebook is helping to put an end to “belated” birthdays on Facebook. Now, on your friend's profile...
Steve Jobs a music visionary? Judge for yourself
After reading Steve Jobs' 2003 interview with Rolling Stone, it's easy to see why one label boss called him the smartest man in music. — (Credit: Rolling Stone) — Home - News - Apple — Apple — ...
Twittering away standards or tweeting the future of journalism?
I've been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, using the microblogging platform Twitter to discuss the mundane (describing crepuscular darkness of the Swiss Alps at 5 a.m.) or the interesting (live...
LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning
Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. — Gorton, whose LimeWire...
Once Again, You Don't Get To Use DMCA Takedowns To Remove Any Content You Don't Like
from the it-has-to-be-copyright-infringement- of-your-content dept — Michael Geist has the latest example of what appears to be a company abusing the DMCA takedown process to try to quiet the speech...
Senate Wants to Stimulate Verizon
Four words buried in a provision to help subsidize high-speed Internet service contained the latest Senate's version of the economic stimulus legislation could mean hundreds of millions of dollars a y...
Behind the OLPC layoffs: G1G1 failure and reduced sponsorship
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the organization's recent layoffs were necessitated by poor results from the latest Give 1 Get 1 drive and by a steep decline in donations from corpo...
Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable
It seems that the DRM on Gears of War came with a built-in shut off date: the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now that the game fails to work unless you adjust ...
A News Corp. Bull Throws in the Towel; Wall Street Journal Layoffs Coming?
Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield loves to tear into media companies-just ask the managers at Time Warner (TWX) or Warner Music Group (WMG). But he's been a longtime advocate for News Corp. (NWS)...
11 Business Plans For Twitter
Start the slideshow — Deadline for entry into our Create Twitter's Revenue Model contest is up and we thought we'd share some of the best entries. We haven't decided on a winner yet, so check them ...
palm pre @ CES '09 (Part 2)
Part 2 of mobiledivide's palm prÄ" interview series from CES '09 is with Peter Skillman. Peter is the VP of Design at Palm, Inc. and naturally our conversation revolved around the design choices he a...
Patent app reveals Microsoft's smart smartphone cradle
Microsoft has asked for a patent to protect its idea for a smartphone docking cradle that would turn your handheld into a mini-laptop. — Microsoft's smartphone cradle — The “Smart Interface System...
The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook
As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There...