Search for “me” on Google
It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren't al...
Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
Company Exceeds Midpoint of Operating Cash Flow Outlook Range — Maintains Strong Balance Sheet with $3.7 Billion in Cash and Marketable Debt Securities — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! I...
Sun's Schwartz Tries to Reassure His Troops in Email
Many current and former employees of Sun Microsystems are lamenting Oracle's deal to buy the computer maker. But Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, told employees Monday in an internal email t...
TWC to Customers: You Don't Want Tiers, You Don't Get Super-fast Broadband
Well, I hope all of you who complained about Time Warner Cable's plans for metered broadband are happy. Shortly after the cable company pulled its metered broadband trials, it's also rethinking its d...
First Google Android Netbooks spotted
Certainly this can't be it. The first Google Android netbook should certainly be more monumental than this $100 device from SkyTone. Guanzhou, China-based Skytone is famous for making Skype headsets...
CNN Shows Its Thin Skin
In the latest example of a big media company complaining about a YouTube clip, CNN has demanded that the video-sharing site remove a video that incorporates some footage from the network. — The prob...
Craigslist rival uses Twitter to expose dangers of CL's red-light district
Craigslist may be the leader in online classified ads but lately, the popular site has seen a run of negative publicity for its red-light district - accused of being a breeding ground for under-age pr...
Windows Live To Add More Social Network Partners (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm And More)
Microsoft's social networking strategy around Windows Live gets a little more meat on the bone today. In November they announced a new strategy that brings in activity streams, FriendFeed/Plaxo style...
MySQL 5.4 gets bigger anyway, encroaching on new parent Oracle's turf
When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced his acquisition of Sun Microsystems yesterday morning, he didn't mention MySQL at all — his company's principal competitor in the small systems database space.
Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched!
A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now publicly available to all Analy...
Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy”
Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on talks about search and advertising partnership possibilities in what one person close to the situation described as “hot and heavy.” — But exac...
Living with the limits of Windows 7 Starter Edition
If you've read anything about Windows 7 Starter Edition, your first reaction was probably the same as mine: Is Microsoft nuts? This ultra-cheap edition is intended for use on netbooks, but its bigges...
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Google has released a new open source browser plugin that provides APIs for displaying rich 3D graphics in Web content. Google hopes that the plugin will help to advance a collaborative effort to cre...
Oprah Effect on Twitter
Oprah Winfrey, the icon that can turn any book or product into a best seller, posted her first Tweet on Friday on her show. There's been much debate among loyal Twitter users about whether this spell...
Gates: Cyberattacks a constant threat
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the United States is “under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day” and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of c...
Amazon Video on Demand HD on Roku Video Player hands-on
Roku hooked us up with an early preview of Amazon Video on Demand in HD for its Video Player, and while we didn't have much time to poke around, but what we saw was mostly impressive. Video took a li...
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
At the same time Sony Pictures prepared to post some of its TV shows and films onto YouTube, the studio's material quietly began disappearing from Joost. — Earlier this month, Joost CEO Mike Volpi, ...
Comcast Cable TV is Coming to Laptops This Year
Comcast's Fancast.com will host paid cable content free of charge for existing Comcast subscribers, beginning later this year, Comcast Exec says. — Recommends — Comcast will soon make its cable TV...
The Rise of An Underground Facebook Profile Market
Over the past few days there has been increasing buzz about a market for Facebook public profiles. I've even received a few emails on the topic, one individual who was asking me about reasonable rate...
News Corp. Exploring MySpace CEO Options
MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe has been with the company since its August 2003 launch, seeing it through a 2005 $580 million sale to News Corp. and growing revenue to something approaching a billion dollar...
Bluetooth 3.0 + HS gets official, adds speed with 802.11
The rumors were true, and today's the day that the Bluetooth SIG gets official with the latest, greatest version of Bluetooth. Bluetooth 3. + HS, as it'll be called, promises to be markedly faster th...
Verizon's User Review feature is now live
Last month we told you that Verizon was testing a User Review feature on their Testman site, and starting today it has gone live on the main Verizon site. First you have to log into your My Verizon a...
Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The Fair Syndication Consortium Thinks So.
As newspapers and other publishers watch their revenues diminish, one common refrain among them is that maybe they should somehow go after Google or Yahoo for aiding and abetting the destruction …
Web IM In Hotmail
Web IM is coming to Hotmail. It became available to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and starting today it will roll out to Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Neth...
Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah, right
Those who download illegal copies of music over P2P networks are the biggest consumers of legal music options, according to a new study by the BI Norwegian School of Management. Researchers examined ...
Google rolls out search changes
Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news. — A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other match...
Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project
WASHINGTON — Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former govern...
The New York Times Company Reports 2009 First-Quarter Results
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The New York Times Company announced today a first-quarter 2009 operating loss of $61.6 million compared with operating profit of $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2008.
Yahoo's Bartz Picks Balogh to Tear Down ‘Wall of Shame’ of Failed Products
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz said last month that she created a “wall of shame” for products she isn't happy with. She's counting on her top technology executive to fix them.
UK code of practice for the self-regulation of new forms of content on mobiles
Introduction — This Code of Practice has been developed by Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone and 3 (referred to collectively in this Code as ' the mobile operators') for use in the UK ma...
Interview With Digg's Kevin Rose: The State of The Union
Last week I sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to get the Digg “State of the Union.” The company, now more than four years old, has continued to grow incredibly since launching in late 2004 and re...
The legal copy in Apple's ‘Legal Copy’ ad
PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — We all know someone who claims they can't tell the difference between HD and standard-definition video. Well, if being able to count the number of stitches on a ba...
Sharp's Mebius PC-NJ70A packs LCD trackpad for the whiz-bang crowd
And you thought Apple's button-less “glass trackpad” was hot stuff. Sharp has just let loose details on its thoroughly Japanese Mebius PC-NJ70A, which sadly packs an exceptionally boring list of inte...
The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos
In an article in today's New York Times, I wrote about the controversy over the now-abandoned plan by Time Warner Cable to impose additional fees on customers who upload and download more than a set q...
Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads
Young people especially receptive. — Want to get Internet users to visit your Website or follow your brand? — The best way to accomplish those tasks, according to ARAnet, based on polling by Opini...
Facebook Considers Building An Ad Network
As its been speculated, but never confirmed, Facebook is considering building an ad network on the back of Facebook Connect — but not for at least another six months, an advertising industry source wh...
Microsoft gains familiar ally in IE antitrust battle in Europe
ACT trade group joins case as third party, says there is ‘something surreal’ about EC's charges — IDG News Service) Microsoft Corp. gained a familiar ally in its latest antitrust battle with the Eur...
Omniture adds viral video analytics, targets startup rivals
Web analytics heavyweight Omniture is taking on a few video analytics startups today, by introducing a new service for tracking data about online videos across the web. The public company already off...
Investor plays matchmaker in Sun sale to Oracle
* Southeastern talked to potential buyers on Sun's behalf — * Talks with Oracle began after IBM talks collapsed — * Negotiations led by Sun's Schwartz, Oracle's Catz — * Southeastern stands to l...
LOLapps Emerges from Stealth Mode to Take Over Facebook Apps
LOLapps is officially launching today, after having been in stealth mode for well over six months now. The company is actually a developer firm that's behind many apps you're probably familiar with, ...
Korean Officials Angered By Google's Decision To Bypass Law
Google's decision to bypass a new South Korean law by shutting off comments and video uploads on its YouTube Korea site appears to have seriously irked the Korean government. Korean paper Hankyoreh r...
Amazon Wants To Bully Amazee Into Changing Its Name
Online retail juggernaut Amazon isn't too pleased with the name Swiss startup Amazee picked for its social collaboration service, and is now trying to persuade the young company to change it to someth...
MSN website hacked
Visitors to the msn.co.nz website are being re-directed to a site that includes a photograph of Microsoft boss Bill Gates with pie on his face. — The site usually carries news stories. — However h...