White House Denies It Is Shunning YouTube
The blogosphere was abuzz on Monday over reports that the White House's official Web site had stopped putting YouTube videos on its pages after privacy advocates raised concerns about the practice. —...
New Mac Mini Packaging Spy Shot
Earlier today, we received a product photo of what is claimed to be the new Mac Mini. Without another source, we published it on Page 2 and called it a likely fake. — OneMoreThing.nl, however, has ...
A Sneak Peek Look at Microsoft's New Kumo: A Spidery Cloud? A Cloudy Spider?
Here below are three screenshots of Microsoft's internal test of a new search product called Kumo. — The long-expected upgrade to the Live Search product from Microsoft (MSFT) is being tested for a ...
Flickr video goes HD, tells time
A little under a year ago, Flickr began hosting video alongside its online photo service. One of its shortcomings was that it did not support high-definition video, which in the past year has become ...
Apple ready with new Time Capsules, AirPort Extremes
Apple is poised to introduce new versions of its Time Capsule wireless backup appliance and AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless routers, regulatory filings with the Federal Communications Commission reve...
The Pirate Bay Down‚ But Not Out
At the moment there is no estimate for when the site will return. The problem can't be fixed remotely we were told. However, people are on their way to the ‘secret’ location where the Pirate Bay har...
Gartner Says PC Industry Will Suffer Sharpest Unit Decline in History in 2009
Mini-Notebooks Will Cushion Market Slowdown, but Still Remain Too Few to Counter Overall Market Challenges — The PC industry will experience its sharpest unit decline in history, with PC shipments t...
Flock Ditching Firefox, Moving To Google Chrome
Flock, a social-focused browser startup that has raised nearly $30 million in venture funding, has ceased building on top of the open source Firefox browser, say multiple sources. The next version of...
Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google
During the past few weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Twitter's “real time search” could pose a threat to Google. — While I am not sure if Twitter poses a threat to Google, I t...
Palm Pre Still Not Ready for Launch, Says Sprint CEO
Palm and Sprint plan to launch it when there will be enough units available — The newly unveiled Palm Pre is one of the most expected devices that will come to the United States market this year, ye...
Video: Evan Williams explains Twitter on Charlie Rose (or tries to)
Twitter co-founder and chief executive Evan Williams appeared on Charlie Rose last week to talk about the service's steep ascent. The video has now been posted online (and embedded below).
Obama Team Finds It Hard to Adapt Its Web Savvy to Government
Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration's Effort to Foster Instant Communication — The team that ran the most technologically advanced presidential campaign in modern ...
New Variant of Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook
Figure 1. Fake Facebook message — What surprised me though, was the page that the link led to. On the face of it is a very familiar looking spoofed version of YouTube, complete with bogus comments...
Mark Hurd's moment
He's obsessed with numbers and execution. In other words, the HP CEO is the guy you want running a company in a recession. But is he a CEO for the ages? — (Fortune Magazine) — When Mark Hurd is at...
Forrester is Wrong About Paying Bloggers
Analyst firm Forrester published a report this morning telling corporations that it's a good idea to engage bloggers in “sponsored conversations,” or the exchange of goods or credit in exchange for bl...
Who's Winning The Mobile Internet Race?
America's wireless carriers — AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S), and T-Mobile (DT) — all want their customers to spend money on mobile Internet service. Who's on top? — That's not the easiest ques...
Why are Time Capsules going so cheap? Upgrade coming?
Both Amazon ($387 for 1TB) and the Apple refurb store are selling Time Capsules at steep discounts this week. Apple doesn't usually discount its current products nearly as sharply as this. So why is...
Report: iPhone takes 2/3 of mobile Web in February
The latest browser share numbers suggest that the iPhone OS still dominates mobile Web browsing, though it appears as if Apple gave up some ground in the post-holiday months to competition from Google...
Apple tops Fortune's “most admired” list — again
again — For the second time in as many years, Apple Inc. (AAPL) is No. 1 on Fortune Magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies. … In the nine key attributes used to rank the companies, App...
Eclipse Releases Riena 1.0 Rich Client Platform
The Eclipse Foundation announces the release of Eclipse Riena 1.0, a platform for developing multitier rich client applications based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and Equinox. Riena provides a...
iPods and iPhones Are Not Allowed in the Gates Household
This month's Vogue has a great interview with Mrs. Bill Gates, the lovely philanthropist Melinda Gates. The interview focuses on the Microsoft founder's better half, but there's a fun Apple rivalry m...
Twilio Closes Funding Round, Lands Major Customers For Its Telephony API
Twilio, the powerful API for phone services that allows developers to quickly integrate telephony functionality into their apps, has closed its first institutional investment round, which was led by F...
New York Times to the Web: Careful With Our Copy!
Early on in today's well-written story about Web aggregators, New York Times reporter Brian Stelter notes that “some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of th...
DEMO: SmartyCard lets kids learn stuff and earn stuff
SmartyCard has a smart way to get kids to learn via its reward-based quizzing approach. The company, which is showing off the service at DEMO today, runs a web site where kids can take quizzes to ear...
TV Everywhere — As Long As You Pay for It
As Long As You Pay for It — Time Warner's Bewkes Plots Industry Initiative to Eradicate Free Content — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Jeff Bewkes hopes to put more TV on the internet, but he's going to mak...
DEMO: Cc:Betty makes email easier for collaboration
A new company called Cc:Betty is making it a lot easier to follow email conversations. — Ever get fed up with tracking threads in your email inbox? Google's Gmail was early to track conversation th...
Time To Scrap All Music Industry Licensing Schemes
It's impossible to be a legal innovator in online music these days. No matter what you do, you will run afoul of some kind of music licensing issue. That's because of the way that copyright law is d...
Safari loses, Firefox gains market share
Although Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) continued to bleed market share last month, Apple Inc.'s Safari was an even bigger loser during February, an Internet metrics company said Monday. — ...
Apple: What Should It Do With The Cash?
In my print column in Barron's over the weekend, I took a look at the great gobs of cash piling up on the balance sheets of large technology companies. Among other things, I asked readers to suggest ...
Live Search to get new features...oh and a new brand, too
Live Search, keeping to a Spring and Fall update schedule, is set to unveil its new name sometime this spring, and now thanks to Twitter it is more than just rumor. We've been hearing about a possibl...
Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover
The social network intends to grow during the downturn, but Facebook's imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter — Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after i...
DEMO: Always Innovating's Touch Book sounds amazing. Can it deliver?
I haven't gotten a chance to try a Touch Book yet, but I want to. Who wouldn't? The netbook made by Always Innovating and making its debut at the DEMO conference today, claims to offer 10 to 15 hour...
The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time
Today, members of the prosecution and representatives for the music and movie industries presented their closing statements to the court. Prosecutor Håkan Roswall stepped up first, followed by Peter ...
Skittles: Tweet the rainbow (or racial slurs)
In what is either a sign of Twitter's continued transition to the mainstream or of a candy company's epic laziness, Skittles.com is now simply a Twitter Search result page for the candy. — Yes, go v...
Why Windows Mobile 6.5's honeycomb menu is not just a “glorified grid”, rather, simple ingenuity
Several weeks ago, some pundits were quick to dismiss Windows Mobile 6.5's honeycomb menu as a “glorified grid”, an Engadget editorial put it - “a sign that Microsoft has gone out of its way to avoid ...
Foxmarks becomes Xmarks, does site discovery
Foxmarks, the browser bookmark utility, is getting new features and a new brand at Demo 09. — Now known as just Xmarks, the tool layers in site discovery features. The Xmarks plug-in shows you site...
GlaxoSmithKline deal highlights Microsoft's overseas launch of hosted collaboration software
100,000 staffers to use online Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft says at CeBIT — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. officially launched its Business Productivity Online Suite outside of the U.S. on Monday...
DEMO: Gwabbit launches automated email contact manager
Contact managers are ripe for a makeover. As such, Technicopia is announcing a tool called Gwabbit today at the DEMO 2009 conference that could take the tedium out of updating your email contacts. —...
How Ferrari Is Driving Its New-Generation HPC Data Center
Table of Contents: — Ferrari not only employs data centers for its corporate business, but it also has a state-of-the-art, high-performance data center dedicated to its racing division. Racing is, ...
DISH Network(R) Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Financial Results
DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH - News) today reported total revenue of $2.92 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2008, a 1 percent increase compared with $2.89 billion for the corresponding...
SAP hones sustainability push; Unveils new app (and acronym)
SAP on Monday unveiled a multi-front sustainability push including the launch of an EHS-or environment, health and safety-management application. — The company unveiled its plans at CeBit (statement...
Zuora Brings Subscription Billing To Facebook Apps
How much would you pay for a Facebook app? For most apps, most people would probably pay nothing. But for some apps, such as member-to-member online tutorial services, charging could become an optio...
Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Excerpt
When the popular New York business blog Silicon Alley Insider quoted a quarter of Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column in mid-February, the editor added a caveat at the end: “We thank Dow Jones i...
Avaak launches home video monitoring system
Avaak is launching its very attractive Vue Web cam system at the Demo 09 conference Monday. It's designed for home monitoring, like cameras from Panasonic, Logitech, and DLink. The kicker: The Vue c...
AMD divides itself in two, hoping to gang up on Intel
After a couple of years of preparation, Advanced Micro Devices is finally going to split itself in two today in the belief that competing with Intel is easier done with two heads instead of one. — S...
Alltel to release Palm Treo Pro on the 5th
A little blue bird landed on our window sill this morning to let us in on a little secret - Alltel is all set to launch the Palm Treo Pro this Thursday March 5th. After a $125 rebate, the Treo Pro wi...
How Electronic Readers Could Save Newspapers
Here's something I'd like to toss into the hat for the economic stimulus program: Let's provide a subsidy to help newspapers and other publishers transition from paper-based to electronic distribution...
Microsoft mapping course to a Jetsons-style future
Redmond, Washington: Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who cannot afford a human one. — Built by researchers at Microsoft, Laura appears as a talking head on a screen. You ...