Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen - Sources
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones N...
27 Huge Publishers Join To Replace The Banner
27 publishers with a reach of about 109 million unique visitors per month — that's 66% of the total U.S. Internet audience — have agreed to try one of three new online ad formats sometime before July....
Guardian launches Open Platform tool to make online content available free
The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it “into the fabric of the internet”. — Open Platform launch...
Growing Notebook Market Spurs New Accessories From Microsoft
Hardware Group expands into new product category and updates top-selling Arc Mouse. — REDMOND, Wash. March 10, 2009 Notebook sales are now outpacing desktop PCs three to one,1 and to meet that growt...
Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere?
Depending on which numbers you source or believe, all reports agree that the blogosphere continues to expand globally. — As the leading blog directory and search engine, Technorati maintains a covet...
Legacy Locker: An Online Will For Your Digital Life
For many of us, the internet is quickly becoming a comprehensive digital archive of our lives, housing our photo albums, documents, correspondence, and video clips. Unfortunately, when someone passes...
24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds
Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material. — Warning 2: It's actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers. — Samsung techies linked 24 of the comp...
How many links per page?
I'm about to publish a blog post with a ton of links in it — almost two hundred of them. So before I did that, it seemed like a good time to talk about Google's recommendation to “Keep the links on a...
Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tech Hub—Says Region Focuses On Ideas, Not Startups
Says Region Focuses On Ideas, Not Startups — Robert Buderi wrote: — For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would...
Twofish Elements Helps Developers Price Virtual Goods for Fun and Profit
Happening upon virtual items for sale in the games you play is now as common as a dentist handing you a new toothbrush after each visit. It is expected that online games will hawk some form of virtua...
INTERVIEW-Activision CEO confident in tough economy
* Sees opportunity to develop stronger games for Wii console — * Confident of company and sector prospects — * Sales seen improving further if console makers cut prices — Video game publisher Ac...
Alley Insider closes the gap — today only 9 minutes behind AllThingsD
today only 9 minutes behind AllThingsD — Check it out, people. My man Dan Frommer of Alley Insider is slowly gaining on his Apple-watching nemesis at AllThingsD, John Paczkowski. This morning at 7:...
Jive Launches All-In-One Social Enterprise Software
Jive Software has launched a comprehensive Social Business Software application suite, Jive SBS 3.0, which includes the company's previous social computing applications, Clearspace and Clearspace Comm...
Going Ballistic with New Fully Rugged Laptop
Just before Valentine's Day, my colleague wrote about a recent study that Dell conducted around laptop security in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute. We asked a few questions specifically target...
Microsoft touts new CRM freebies
Microsoft is making new CRM services and add-ons for free to appeal to business users hurting from the worldwide recession, according to company officials. — Microsoft announced the new wares during...
Sprint Evaluating LTE Equipment
Sources in the telecommunications world have been telling me that Sprint is testing Long Term Evolution, or LTE, equipment, which seems a bit odd given Sprint's cheerleading for WiMAX and 51 percent s...
Palm boosts stock offering, nets $83.9 million
Palm shares rose sharply in early morning trading Tuesday, after the smartphone maker increased the size of its secondary offering and netted $83.9 million. — Palm resold 23.13 million shares, as pa...
The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster?
This is the first in a series of three posts looking at the lessons for the United States from broadband deployment in other countries. — Bits readers have a serious case of broadband envy. I've be...
@ FT Digital Media: Newspapers' Digital Biz Models: Guardian, FT, Bloomberg
How much money do newspapers make from online and how long does print have left? A session on newspaper business models at the FT Digital Media and Broadcasting conference wasted no time in finding o...
AOL Layoffs In Progress
As expected, many AOLers in Dulles started receiving “the email” yesterday afternoon. The email asks them to attend an “important meeting” this morning—at which they will be fired. — This is the wa...
Drop.io Speeds Up Its File-Sharing And Adds Chat
Private file-sharing service drop.io is jumping on the “real-time” bandwagon, speeding up its application to make it a near-instantaneous experience and adding chat. Before, drop.io was slightly asyn...
Silicon Graphics shares headed for delisting
Silicon Graphics will have its shares delisted from the Nasdaq stock market beginning Thursday morning, according to an SEC filing it made Monday. The news was delivered last week to the Sunnyvale co...