Update on Gmail
The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over. Users should find that they're able to access their email now without any further problems. — Before you c...
Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3
Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, our benchmarks confirm Apple's Safari 4 browser, released in beta today, is the fastest browser on the planet.
Windows Mobile 7 coming next year, says Ballmer
Microsoft has had an conference call earlier today, and Steve Ballmer spoke about Windows Mobile as one of its 7 big businesses. — According to Ballmer, Microsoft has been ramping up expenditure in ...
STATEMENT ON SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE COST-SAVING INITIATIVES
Hearst Corporation announced today that its San Francisco Chronicle newspaper is undertaking critical cost-saving measures including a significant reduction in the number of its unionized and nonunion...
Google Warns Users About ViddyHo
After Google Talk users were targeted by scammers attempting to steal their login information, Google warned them to use caution when asked for personal information online. … “This is a phishing attem...
Google Announces Pricing for App Engine: Allows Developers to Scale Beyond Free Quotas
Google today finally announced its pricing plans for its App Engine service. Google's App Engine allows developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure and, until today, was only ...
Browsers powered by user choice
Last month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms competit...
Bartz's Big Move
Yahoo!'s new CEO is expected to shake up management. Will she also let Jerry go? — BURLINGAME, Calif.—As Carol Bartz ponders her proposed changes to the Yahoo! org chart, there's one big box that s...
Premium-priced MacBook Pros top sales at Apple retail stores
Despite repeated calls from industry watchers for Apple to cut prices on its computer line, a new study reveals that sales of the company's premium-priced MacBook Pros are topping all other Macs at th...
Microsoft Security Advisory (968272)
Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code ex...
iPhone App Prices Tanking
Apple (AAPL) is famous for keeping its gadget pricing steady. But the iPhone app store is a much different market: App developers have cut prices significantly in the last few months. And the market...
Hulu's hurdles
Internet video sharing site tries to serve fans and networks alike. It isn't easy. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — It took Hulu.com less than a year to become the go-to destination for television-watching o...
Americans' Online Search Behavior Points to Significant Increase in Personal Financial Turmoil
Searches Using Term ‘Unemployment’ in December Triples versus Year Ago — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of changes …
Lehman Brothers Spins Off Venture Capital Arm
On Silicon Valley's Sand Hill Road, an old venture capital firm has a new name. Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, the venture arm of the bankrupt investment bank, announced Tuesday that it has spun o...
Virgin announces new site, Facebook Connect for planes
MIAMI—Virgin used Alex Hunter's presentation at the Future of Web Apps to announce its new Virgin.com website, due to enter closed beta in the next six weeks. The new site will include a lot of socia...
Rumor: China Unicom, Apple Finally Reach Agreement On iPhone's Entry Into China
China Unicom has reportedly reached an agreement with Apple on iPhone's entry into China and the 3G iPhone may appear in the Chinese market in May 2009. — Foreign media are quoting representatives f...
40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than ... say what?
I've been meaning to write about this Slashdot poll, but other work kept getting in the way. As you'll see from the survey results, however, not everyone can claim that excuse ... at least not with a...
TechFest swoons over light and touch advances
Microsoft's TechFest seems to feature an inordinate number of Brits - based not only in the company's Cambridge research centre, but also in Redmond, Asia and beyond. — The fruits of UK researchers ...
DoubleTwist Beta for Mac Offers Easy Media Browsing and Sharing
Startup company doubleTwist has launched a public beta of their new universal media application for the Mac today. Their vision for the product is “a single, streamlined interface that connects to an...
Search still on Microsoft's research radar
Developed by Microsoft Research, Viveri is designed to be a sandbox where Microsoft can try out new search ideas. — (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET Networks) — REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has a lot of ideas ...
Apple Announces Safari 4—The World's Fastest & Most Innovative Browser
The World's Fastest & Most Innovative Browser — New Nitro Engine Runs JavaScript More Than Four Times Faster — Apple® today announced the public beta of Safari® 4, the world's fastest and most inno...
Where were you during the great Gmail outage of February 2009?
If you live in the United States, chances are, you were asleep. But for those in other parts of the world, and those of us who are nocturnal, Google's email service, Gmail, was down for several hours...
The Next Chapter for Google.org
When Larry and Sergey laid out their vision for Google.org, they hoped that this “experiment in active philanthropy” would one day have an even greater impact on the world than Google itself. They co...
Browsers powered by user choice
Last month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms competit...
Apple's Upsell: The iTunes Pass
At Steve Jobs' insistence, the iTunes music store proposition to customers has always been simple: You pay us 99 cents, you get a song. But that's starting to change. — Earlier this year, the music...
The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now
In the high-tech industry, you live for the day when your product name becomes a verb. “I Googled him.” “She's been Photo- shopped.” — Amazon, however, is hoping that its product name, a verb, bec...
Nokia To Staff: Hey, Who Wants To Quit?
Nokia (NOK) this morning said that it offering employees a “voluntary resignation package” in an effort reduce its staff by 1,000 people. The company also said it “encourages” workers to take time of...
Yahoo and Microsoft: Deja Vu All Over Again
Once again, Microsoft [MSFT Loading... () ] CEO Steve Ballmer opens his mouth about the potential and/or desire for a deal with Yahoo [YHOO Loading... () ], and once again, it's good for a...
Ballmer: Office 14 not this year
During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won't be shipping in 2009. — “Office 14 will not be this year,” Ballmer told ...
Facebook risks ‘infantilising’ the mind
Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to...
The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time
Netbooks prove that we finally know what PCs are actually for. Which is to say, not all that much. — Mary Lou Jepsen didn't set out to invent the netbook and turn the computer industry upside down....
New NVIDIA-based iMacs Imminent? More Hints.
Over the past week, there have been an increasing number hints that the long-awaited iMac revisions are indeed imminent. Resellers have had low stocks of iMacs and educational Apple sales reps have b...
Reality Sinks in at Online Advertising Confab
Recession Could Lead to Business Failures, Irrational Risks — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — For five years online was advertising's growth business, but 2008 delivered a wake-up call: Online advertising is...
Steve Jobs is 54
Tuesday, Feb. 24, is Steve Jobs' birthday. — He turns 54. — To celebrate this very personal milestone, we thought we'd re-post what may be the most personal public speech this intensely private ma...
Hitachi to Acquire Personal Storage Maker Fabrik
Fabrik's business will continue intact and form the core of Hitachi GST's newly created external storage business. Hitachi GST will fully support Fabrik's G-Technology (for Macintosh) and SimpleTech ...
Intuit Defends its Threatening Letter to Mint.com
By Marisa Taylor — Does financial planning phenom Mint.com, one of the 34 tech pioneer companies invited to Davos for the World Economic Forum this year, have competitor Intuit shaking in its boots?...
InstantAction enables 3-D games in web browsers
InstantAction is announcing today the formal launch of its site that lets gamers play 3-D games in a web browser. — The site will have nine games that are available for free at the outset, with a ha...
When good browsers go bad — and they all do
and they all do — Better browsers. Better standards. Better tools. So why are Web pages still breaking? — Computerworld) Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten ye...
Making sense of Mac market share figures
Apple's slice of the market share pie continues to grow, even during this economic downturn. But the numbers from different sources tend to be all over the place. What do they all mean, and what's t...
Marvell unveils $99 wall-wart Linux PC
If you thought nettops were cheap, wait until you get a load of this: Marvell has announced the SheevaPlug, a $99 reference design based on the company's own “plug computer” concept. In short, this s...
More thoughts on Times Open
I spent last Friday admiring the views of the Hudson from the 15th floor of the NY Times building, alongside Lisa Williams. Thought it was billed as a “hack day” there wasn't much actual hacking goin...
Pirate Bay Trial Day 7: Screenshots for Evidence
Today's scheduled witnesses are Magnus Mårtensson, a lawyer for the IFPI, Anders Nilsson of Antipiratbyrån and John Stéenmark. — Prosecutor Håkan Roswall begins by saying that Tobias Andersson from ...
To 90,000 Twitter Followers in 30 Days
Last month Twitter quietly launched a new feature that generated a list of suggested users to follow. Most likely as a result of this list, the followers to many Twitter accounts increased exponentia...