GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009 RESULTS
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. — “Google had a good quarter given the depth of the recession—while revenues were down quarter over...
Voting Begins on Governing the Facebook Site
Today, we take the next step in opening our site governance to everyone who uses Facebook with our first user vote. Through an application developed by Wildfire Promotion Builder, you can now vote on...
YouTube signs Sony, preps site for studio content
Move over Hotforwords, Lonelygirl15, and all the other YouTube stars. The video site is bringing in more professionally made content and plans to make it a marquee product. — The Internet's largest...
Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher
While Ashton Kutcher and CNN are trying to be the first to hit 1 million followers on Twitter, Joseph Frieschel, an inconspicuous Australian MD, is quickly catching up. Frieschel only opened his Twit...
Meet Google's New Global Sales Boss, Nikesh Arora
President of international operations Nikesh Arora — best known for running Google Europe until April — will replace Omid Kordestani as Google's (GOOG) global sales boss, according to a note in the co...
Video Prank at Domino's Taints Brand
When two Domino's Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant's kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, mo...
They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
After a public outcry and the attention of several members of Congress, Time Warner Cable has stopped its trial of Internet data caps, but not before making “metered billing” a tough sell for all othe...
National Geographic's Infinite Photograph will mesmerize you
National Geographic has a fun new feature called the Infinite Photograph that takes over 300,000 photos collected from its archives and submitted by users, and turns them into a giant photo mosaic.
Cybercriminals create botnet using Mac computers
A piece of malicious software unwittingly shared over a peer-to-peer network in January was the key tool in what security researchers are saying was the first known attempt to create a botnet of Mac c...
Ning hits 1 million social networks
It launched just over two years ago. — Ning now has 22 million registered users, about 6.1 million of whom are considered active. Out of the million networks, about a fifth are currently active. —...
HTC Touch Pro2 priced: it will retail for about $880
You may already know that the new HTC Touch Pro2 will be available for purchase starting this summer - after all, HTC said so when it officially announced the smartphone (at the same time with the Tou...
Excel-Lookalike Twitter Client Helps You Goof Off At Work
For a full-featured Twitter client, we like TweetDeck. But if we had a real job — something other than tech journalist, where we're obliged to goof off on Twitter at the office — we'd use Spreadtweet...
Jailbreak iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3
On April 14 Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3 build 7A280f to developers. You know the drill! With each update comes a new jailbreak. Even though iPhone OS 3.0 is still in beta, developers still ...
300,000 Kindle 2s Sold To Date
Amazon's Kindle 2, which first shipped in late February, is selling at roughly double the rate of the first generation device, says a source close to Amazon. Approximately 300,000 of the Kindle 2s ha...
Want to Get Connected? Apply for fbFund '09 Incubator Program and Come to California!
Guest post by Founders Fund startup investor and geek blogger Dave McClure, who will be running the fbFund 2009 Incubator Program. — “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Nintendo and Sony “Freaking Out” Over Apple iPhone
If you go and do something like found Electronic Arts, which then goes on to be one of the dominant forces in video games worldwide, people tend to take notice of things you say. Yesterday in an inte...
Tax-free Internet shopping may be at an end
If a little-known but influential alliance of state politicians, large retailers, and tax collectors have their way, the days of tax-free Internet shopping may be nearly over. — A bill expected to b...
Yahoo's taskmaster
Carol Bartz is shrewd, strong-minded, blunt, and disciplined. (Don't even think about leaking company information!) But can this no-nonsense tech veteran come up with a plan to save Yahoo? — (Fort...
Verizon chief talks LTE iPhones, hates on rival: “I don't know what Sprint thinks it is”
In a refreshingly open, straight-shooting interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon boss Ivan Seidenberg — who has a reputation for being candid — talked about virtually every hot-button topic f...
Intel Sponsors Rocketboom
Rocketboom, one of the original episodic video series, has livened itself up recently with some new initiatives. Today creator Andrew Baron blogged that the show's ongoing series of episodes about te...
It's a Socialthing: AOL's Plan To Take On Facebook Connect With Lifestreaming and Chat
If you want to take a peek at how AOL plans to take on Facebook, you need to look beyond Bebo (the social network it bought for $850 million last year) to theBoot, a country music site hidden away off...
Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones, Depicts Front-Facing Video Camera
Apple has been conducting ongoing research into how to further improve their mobile device interfaces as evidenced by a couple of patent applications published over the past couple of weeks.
Sun Said to Be Willing to Resume IBM Talks With Assurances Deal Will Close
Sun Microsystems Inc. would be willing to resume takeover talks with International Business Machines Corp. if IBM makes a stronger commitment to close the acquisition, two people familiar with the mat...
Nokia's net profit falls 90 percent
If you were wondering how bad things have gotten for the mobile handset market, just take a look at Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones. — The company on Thursday reported a 90 percent f...
Twitter Wants Distribution Deals, Not a Buyout
Yes, Twitter is talking to big Internet companies about forming partnerships with them. No, it is not looking to sell itself. — That is the latest from Fred Wilson, the Union Square Ventures partne...
Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees?
User-generated content may have changed the Internet, but sites like YouTube are suffocating under the costs of storing it. — Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation's horse-and-bugg...
Apple's US Market Share Slips in 1Q 2009
Gartner has released a preliminary report detailing U.S. and worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter of 2009. The report pegs Apple's U.S. market share in fourth place among vendors at 7.4%, dow...
Mac vs. PC: What You Don't Get for $699
A 17-in. PC may cost a lot less than a 17-in. Mac. But you get less, too, including security, multimedia tools, and, some say, satisfaction — I'm a sucker for a well-made TV ad. — Inspired by t...
Take-Two's ‘Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars’ Bellyflops
Take-Two's (TTWO) Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is dying on the shelves. — We noted earlier this week that analysts were split on how well the game would do when the NPD Group reported US videoga...
GameStop Wants Cheaper Consoles, Predicts Hot Titles
Consumers hoping for a price cut on video game hardware have a new—and powerful—ally. — While the video game industry has proved relatively resistant to the recession so far, the CEO of GameStop [GM...
Activision Blizzard's March Quarter Net Revenues and Earnings Tracking Ahead of Prior Outlook
Due to the better-than-expected performance of its titles at retail, Activision Blizzard (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today that its March quarter net revenues and earnings per diluted share are tracking ...
Add Zoho to other sites with Zoho Gadgets
Zoho provides useful and free Web applications for productivity and business, just like Google does. But Zoho has done a particularly impressive job integrating all these applications together. Now ...
Yelp's New And Improved iPhone App Officially Hits The App Store
Yelp's version 2.0 of its iPhone app has officially hit Apple's App store. We reported on Yelp's focus on the mobile space and its importance here. — As we wrote recently, the new app gives consume...
Google's Q1 forecast looks cautiously optimistic
The economy has been chewing up tech companies left and right, but tomorrow (Thursday) will reveal the quarterly fate of one of the industry's biggest — Google. After a Wall Street-beating fourth qua...
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress l...
TwitPic Hits 1 Million Users, Brick Wall
Sharing photographs and other images on Twitter is a fairly natural and thus wildly popular extension of the micro-sharing service's main reason for being. We've earlier noticed how TwitPic seems to ...
Kiva Robots Invade the Warehouse
Fetching goods and filling orders, little helpers from Kiva Systems are revolutionizing companies' supply-chain and distribution networks — In a warehouse at the headquarters of Kiva Systems in Wobu...