Sony Ericsson unveils new strategy
BARCELONA - Sony Ericsson has been hit hard by the global recession, but the company says it has a new strategy focused on services and entertainment that it hopes will get it back on track. — On Su...
Microsoft Recite for Windows Mobile previewed
Microsoft Recite Technology Preview is now available for a select few Windows Mobile phones. It allows you to take short notes and later search for them, all with just your voice. — Microsoft has r...
News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference
The joint press conference was held mainly in Swedish and there was very little English. The media present had applied for invitations, and some representatives from the media had already been banned...
Mining The Thought Stream
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database t...
What Convergence? TV's Hesitant March to the Net
PALO ALTO, Calif. — You would be hard-pressed to find a screen today that does not have Internet access. It's not just the PC and the phone — online content appears in elevators, in the back of taxis...
Twitter's Analytical Business Plan
The popular messaging service plans to make money from selling analytics and other services. — BURLINGAME, Calif. - Sitting inside a conference room at Twitter, BlackBerry in hand, Kevin Thau is all...
How Google's layoffs and project cancellations are affecting it's culture of innovation
The New York Times has an article titled How Google Decides to Pull the Plug which talks about the rationale behind the rash of abandoned and cancelled projects that have come out of the Big G in rece...
Android's progress elevates Google's mobile aspirations
As Mobile World Congress begins, it is easy to forget how quickly Google has become part of the mobile story. At last year's event, Google had only just unveiled Android, its open-source mobile opera...
Tracking the iPhone's bubble of hype
Think of the jagged light blue line in the fever chart at right as the bubble of hype that keeps Apple's (AAPL) iPhone floating above of its competitors. — It's a snapshot of a Google Trends chart c...
uTorrent Adds Google Powered Torrent Search
Many visitors to the uTorrent website are relatively new to BitTorrent, and a proportion of these are clueless as to where they should start looking for .torrent files. For this group the new torrent...
Stimulus package to expand Net's reach
In Annapolis, a town of 700 in northern Sonoma County, Doug Simmonds has been on the cutting edge of Internet service - as much as he can be for the isolated community 2 1/2 hours north of San Francis...
What Microsoft Can Learn About Retail from Apple and Best Buy
Now that Microsoft has decided to open up its own retail stores, they need some help from all of us in building a great retail experience. Remember, this isn't Microsoft's first time. Microsoft used...
As The Economy Sours, LinkedIn's Popularity Grows
As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn. According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn's U.S. unique visitors shot up...