Mini-Links to Web Sites Are Multiplying
If you have spent any time on the Internet in the last few months, chances are you have clicked on a shortened link Web address. — URL shorteners, which abbreviate unwieldy Web addresses into bite-s...
Deadline passes as Globe threatens to shut down paper
A midnight deadline passed with no official announcement on the fate of the Boston Globe as do-or-die negotiations continued into this morning. — The Boston Globe told union members late last night ...
Scalia: Free Speech Trumps Privacy Online
Some lawmakers are talking about enacting new online privacy laws, but at least one U.S. Supreme Court Judge has indicated that such laws might not be constitutional. — Earlier this year, conservati...
F.T.C. Looks Into Ties Between Apple and Google Boards
SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties among the boards of two of technology's most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amounts to a violation...
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday
The last time Amazon held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now the company has scheduled another one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in...
iPhone Outsold By BlackBerry Curve In U.S. Last Quarter
Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was not the most-purchased consumer smartphone in the first quarter, according to research firm NPD Group. That title goes to RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry Curve 8300 series, which wa...
NAVIGON stops PND business in North America
After a few days of rumors about NAVIGON withdrawal from the North American market, NAVIGON's CEO Egon Minar spoke this morning to GPS Business News: “Due to the difficult economic environment and the...
Asustek to launch 11.6-inch Eee PC later this month
Asustek Computer plans to launch an 11.6-inch Eee PC later this month, but will still consider 10-inch the mainstream specification for 2009, account for 50% of total shipments, while 11.6-inch models...
Palm Pre Training to officially start on May 6th for Sprint Employees
We broke the news on Sprint Employees getting Palm Pre training starting in April, turns out that they were just picking store advocates. Now time for some new Pre-training details! According to Coa...
Trent Reznor rips Apple, rates smartphone OSes
Why should you care about what Trent Reznor has to say about Apple or smartphones in general? Well, for one thing, the front-man for Nine Inch Nails is a digital music visionary who's gone it alone a...
Microsoft Mum on Vista Plans After Windows 7 Launch
How long does Microsoft plan to keep selling copies of its Windows Vista operating system after the upcoming launch of Windows 7? The company isn't saying. — With previous versions of Windows, Micr...
The two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft
If you clicked into this article thinking it would be a Microsoft bashapalooza or a vapid prediction about the downfall of the Seattle software giant then you're going to be disappointed. — Microsof...
Facebook Co-Founder Settles in at General Catalyst: Out to Learn and Help Young Entrepreneurs
Robert Buderi wrote: — This article is a prototype for a new, still-unnamed weekly column featuring conversations with local innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Sprint Nextel Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
Driven by success of Boost Monthly Unlimited and wholesale, achieved the best sequential improvement in total gross additions, and loss of 182,000 total net subscribers represents a sequential improve...
SpringSource acquires Hyperic, with eye to take on IBM, Microsoft
SpringSource announced Monday its acquisition of Hyperic, a move that signals a new phase of commercial open-source competition. — Until recently, open-source vendors like SpringSource seemed conten...
DirecTV to Merge With Liberty Entertainment
DirecTV Group Inc. will merge with majority shareholder Liberty Entertainment once that unit is spun off from parent company Liberty Media Corp. as the John Malone-controlled vehicle looks to simplify...
RIM rolls out latest BlackBerry Enterprise Server
RIM on Monday said its latest enterprise server was available and detailed a strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard. — As expected, RIM rolled out its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0. The latest ...
YouTube: Placement Police
Web video company looks for a chunk of integration ad revenue — In recent months, YouTube has set off some jangled nerves among several of its more popular content producers. The company issued wri...
Globe says it won't file closing notice
Boston Globe management said today that it won't file a plant closing notice required to shutter the newspaper after reaching cost saving agreements with six of seven unions involved in negotiations f...
Nokia E71x with AT&T in stores across the U.S. today
Text it, don't say it - survey reveals growing trend in messaging — White Plains, NY, USA - Nokia announced that the slimmest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, will be available in AT&T reta...
Two More Places We'd Like To See Twitter
Now that we're hooked on Twitter, we keep running across places in life where instant access to the messaging/microblogging service makes sense. No doubt Twitter's bizdev phones are ringing off the h...
The End Of The IPO Drought Is Coming
I've said it a few times on this blog recently as offhand comments, but I feel compelled to say it a bit more loudly. I think we will see the end of the IPO drought for venture backed companies withi...