Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign
The feedback on Facebook's new look, which emphasizes a stream of Twitter-like status updates, is almost universally, howlingly negative. Why isn't CEO Mark Zuckerberg listening to users? Because he...
Requiem for a frog: SpiralFrog shuts down
SpiralFrog, the pioneering ad-supported music service, quietly closed down on Thursday. — A source close to the company told CNET News that SpiralFrog has ceased operations and assets have been surr...
Craigslist Top Search Term Last Week
For the first time in three years, searches for ‘craigslist’ surpassed ‘myspace,’ highlighting the increasing popularity of online classifieds during the economic downturn.U.S. searches on the term “c...
Microsoft's Greenberg: ‘PS3 Business’ Is ‘Hemorrhaging At Retail’
stumble it! — Following the release of NPD sales figures, Microsoft trumpeted its significant 53 percent year-over-year Xbox 360 sales boost — and slammed primary competitor Sony. — Speaking to Ga...
IE 8 Web Slices: Great Idea! Mediocre Execution!
Now that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 has officially launched, I wanted to take a look at the final incarnation of what may be the browser's most strikingly new feature: Web Slices, which let you a...
Firefox May Already Be Dead
This is an exciting time for Web browsers. Google Chrome is now available in alpha for Linux, and I downloaded it for Ubuntu. Despite the fact that I was running it on my rather underpowered Dell Mi...
Asus W90Vp-X1
Every so often a notebook comes along that is so impressive that it raises the bar for all comers. The Asus W90Vp-X1, available exclusively at Newegg.com, is that notebook. Not only does this deskto...
Y Combinator Demo Day Features Cool Companies and Some Hot Air
This afternoon, I attended “demo day” at Y Combinator, a four-year-old company that provides seed financing, guidance and killer contacts to entrepreneurs whose startups it doesn't merely support but ...
Questions for Pwn2Own hacker Charlie Miller
VANCOUVER, BC — At the CanSecWest security conference here, I got a chance to sit down with Charlie Miller, the researcher who broke into a fully patched MacBook machine using a Safari code execution ...
Flaw makes Twitter vulnerable to serious viral attack
Son of Samy? — Micro-blogging site Twitter suffers from a potentially devastating vulnerability that forces logged-in users to post messages of an attacker's choice simply by clicking on a link. — ...
Steve Ballmer: Mac Buyers Pay $500 for Apple Logo
Steve answered questions early yesterday posed by Business Week editor-in-chief Steven Adler. Microsoft's CEO was in New York for McGraw-Hill's 2009 Media Summit. It was there, Steve delivered his l...
Sony Ericsson warning stuns ailing mobile sector
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson sparked fresh fear of crumbling consumer demand on Friday when the world's No 4 handset maker said it would sell barely half of the phones it sold last quarter. — ...
Michigan iPod repairman charged with fraud
DETROIT—Apple Inc. appears to be the victim of a real shuffle. — Prosecutors filed fraud and money laundering charges against an independent iPod repairman who is accused of acquiring more than 9,00...
Path 101: Matching you to a new career by way of data
Right now is an especially tricky time to be looking for a job. And with more layoffs in just about every industry being announced daily, it can be terrifying to even think about. So it's an opportu...
Government Employees Banned From Using The Social Networking Tools They're Told To Use
Last year, we wrote about how it seemed like a mistake to us that the government in Montenegro had decided to block access to Facebook on government computers. While many disagreed in the comments …
Nikon D400 is here?
Stay tuned for more - the screenshot is from Nikon Germany web site - I am still confirming this rumor with my sources and verifying its authenticity (Nikon websites were down yesterday): — What we ...
Can Wall Street's Numerati land in tech?
All that math brain power that Wall Street is busy shedding: Can it plug into the algorithm economy of profiling, preferences, predictions and recommendations? — I called Darren Vengroff. He's the ...
MIX09: Windows Mobile 6.5 shows more polish
During the opening day of Microsoft's MIX09 conference yesterday, Loke Uei Tan - senior product manager for Windows Mobile gave a presentation titled “Windows Mobile 6.5 overview” where he showed off ...
Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript
After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars. — JavaScript, which lets develop...