Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. — Twitter co-f...
Repeat: AT&T may introduce $20 limited iPhone data plan
With next-generation iPhone hardware and software around the corner, a new report is adding to claims that AT&T is mulling changes to its iPhone monthly service and data plans that could reduce the co...
Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts
Last month, Facebook announced that users would soon be able to login to the site via OpenID. Today, Facebook has officially become an OpenID relying party: users can now register for Facebook using ...
Napster relaunching, again: $5 per month streaming plus five free downloads
Like subscription music services? You know, like Microsoft's Zune Pass where you pay $14.99 monthly and keep up to 10 tracks each month forever. Sure, renting music at $180 per year can be a drag fo...
Hearst: Zombie Seattle Paper Doing Better Than the Original
I'm still on record predicting the demise of seattlepi.com-the online-only zombie version of the erstwhile Seattle Post-Intelligencer. My gut is that even though the Hearst-owned site has an edit sta...
An Apology Is In Order
Dear South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, — Two days ago you accused craigslist, and me personally, of engaging in criminal acts, reiterating your previous threat to file unwarranted and ...
Nokia N97 For North America Arriving June 2nd
I told you a couple days ago the Nokia N97 NAM was coming soon, but I wasn't sure of the exact date. Well, Nokia just notified one of their major North American distributors of the estimated shipping...
Search Engine Wolfram Alpha Launches With Big Dreams And No Chance
Another next-generation search engine launches. It looks more differentiated than the much-ado-about-nothing known as Cuil, but that's not saying much. — Our prediction: Wolfram Alpha (terrible nam...
Buy an app via Windows Marketplace, share with four friends or family members
Microsoft readies challenge to rivals in mobile apps market — Computerworld - In a potentially market-changing move, Microsoft Corp. plans to let customers of its upcoming Windows Marketplace …
Twitter Proves Its Worth as a Killer App for Local Businesses
New Orleans Pizza Joint, Chicago Yogurt Chain See Results From Promos on Microblogging Service — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — All those brands trying to figure the ROI of Twitter? They might do well to f...
Eric Schmidt's Commencement Address At Carnegie Mellon (Video)
Here's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's commencement address at Carnegie Mellon's 112th commencement ceremony, held yesterday. (Via @CarnegieMellon) — Schmidt's talk to the audience, which he refers to as...
Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies
SAN FRANCISCO — Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for i...
New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch
We are working to make it even easier for you to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS. As soon as you launch some EC2 instances, you want visibility into resource util...
Acer's next-gen Aspire One Netbooks available now
We've already seen them previewed with the rest of Acer's upcoming lineup back in April, but the official release of the next generation of Aspire One Netbooks is finally here. Most notable is the in...
McAfee, Symantec eye iPhone products
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - McAfee Inc said its business improved in May from April and, like larger rival Symantec Corp, the security software maker is developing products for Apple Inc's popular iPh...
Wal-Mart Makes Electronics Push
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is revamping the electronics departments in its more than 3,500 U.S. stores this week, ramping up an aggressive battle with Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com to seize customers up for g...
Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail
Alongside the explosive growth of online video over the last six years, time spent on social networks surpassed that for e-mail for the first time in February, signaling a paradigm shift in consumer e...
DoubleVerify launches realtime ad verification system
DoubleVerify, a company that tracks the proper placement of online ads, officially launched what the company calls a “real-time” verification service today following a preliminary test period. The co...
HTC Magic vs. Samsung I7500
Here're the HTC Magic (left) and the Samsung I7500 (right) side by side. The I7500 looks slightly larger than the Magic, but that's because my hand was slightly closer to the camera. Also, the scree...
Google News Suffers Another Outage
Google News suffered another outage Monday morning, just days after a traffic routing issue took down several of the search engine giant's main properties. — “Earlier today, Google News was temporar...
San Jose Mercury News: No One Reads Us Any More, So Let's Start Charging
When I first moved to Silicon Valley, the newspaper of record was the San Jose Mercury News. Everyone read it. It did a great job covering the local startup scene, and had some fantastic columnists ...
Will OpenTable Be Just What Silicon Valley Ordered This Week?
One of the first Silicon Valley start-ups to go public in a long while-OpenTable-is expected to come to market this week, with venture firms hoping it will prove a tasty treat for Wall Street.
Walt Mossberg? We've Got an App for That!
That would be Walt Mossberg and his well-known Personal Technology and Mossberg Mailbox columns-as well as BoomTown, John Paczkowski's Digital Daily, Peter Kafka's MediaMemo, Katherine Boehret's Mossb...
Newsweek Interviewing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Live on Facebook Today
Newsweek will host a live Q&A with Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner on Facebook this afternoon. Jon Meacham will be conducting the interview from the National Press Club in Washington …
Sims 3 leaked to torrent sites weeks before retail release
While EA may be backing off the practice of using invasive DRM in its games, piracy continues. The newest casualty? Sims 3 has leaked to the torrent sites two weeks before the game's release.