Larry Page Delivers Powerful Commencement Speech At U of M [Video]
Earlier today I had the privilege to hear Google co-founder Larry Page speak at the University of Michigan. I found his commencement speech to be quite moving. He talked about how his parents first ...
Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on June 7th
Well lookie here. This one isn't 100% confirmed just yet but a ninja hit us up with what could be some pretty juicy launch details for the rumor mill's favorite handset du jour, the Palm Pre. Here w...
Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press
The iPod stemmed losses in the music industry. The Kindle gave beleaguered book publishers a reason for optimism. — Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their ...
Jacqui Smith's secret plan to carry on snooping
The home secretary has vowed to scrap a ‘big brother’ database, but a bid to spy on us all continues — SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls...
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
Credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times — Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. ...
Sprint may outsource network to Ericsson: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) is in final negotiations to outsource management of its cellular network to Telefon AB LM Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and transfer 5,000 to 7,000 U.S. employees t...
Controversial Web ‘Framing’ Makes a Comeback
When Digg introduced a new toolbar in early April that added a thin strip - known as a ‘frame’ - to the top of pages submitted to Digg, a publisher outcry forced the social media aggregator back down....
When the Cellphone Teaches Sex Education
THE special cellphone, set on vibrate, begins to whir. Throughout North Carolina, anonymous teenagers are texting questions to it about sex. — “If you take a shower before you have sex, are you les...
Technologies Like Facebook, Twitter and Cellphones Affect Dating Compatibility
He Twitters but She Texts? Sigh. These Days, High-Tech Options Can Short-Circuit a Romance. — Scarlett Johansson, left, with Drew Barrymore, whose character, Mary, gets excited when a man asks her...
The 100 Million Views Club: The Most Watched Viral Videos of All-Time?
Since Susan Boyle's recent viral video triumph (has it only been three weeks?), we've been inundated with requests for a listing of the most watched viral videos of all time. The questions come in pa...
Silicon Valley crown up for grabs
Silicon Valley's place as a centre of innovation and a major force in the global economy is waning. — So says Tom Siebel, hi-tech veteran and founder of Siebel Systems. — “I think Silicon Valley h...
The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next
Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-wat...
Windows 7's XP Mode - Virtually worth the effort
What's real and what's not? — Review The discovery that Windows 7 will use desktop virtualization so you can run Windows-XP-compatible applications caused almost as much excitement as the news the W...
BlackBerry Curve 8900 making its way to AT&T
OK everybody, just calm down. We got word from one of our ninjas that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will finally be arriving at AT&T stores some time in June. For those who were hoping for a miracle or ...
A Little Bit of Personality
Greetings! Based on the data we're seeing we know a lot of folks on MSDN/TechNet/Connect are probably busy using the RC (Release Candidate) for Windows 7. Thank you!!! And of course many folks are ...