Goodbye Old Friend. R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani
Updated: Rajeev Motwani, one of the savviest angel investors in Silicon Valley, a Stanford professor and most importantly a close and personal friend passed away earlier today. He was 45 and is left ...
Apple to launch cut-price version of iPhone
Apple plans to introduce a cheaper version of its popular iPhone as soon as Monday, in a move that could dramatically increase the company's share of the market for web-surfing devices, people familia...
How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)
Twitter has captured peoples' imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It's growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer community and gets us...
Danger: Mac and Linux builds available
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you ...
Tony La Russa and Twitter settle trademark infringement suit
ST. LOUIS — Tony La Russa's beef with the Tweets has been settled. — The St. Louis Cardinals manager said this afternoon that his lawsuit against the San Francisco-based social media site, Twitter.c...
Palm prepares to take on iPhone with make-or-break Pre launch
Smartphone pioneer Palm gears up for launch of Pre handset into market now dominated by Apple and the BlackBerry — The mobile phone maker Palm is gearing up for what could be the most important prod...
Candy.com Sells For A Sweet $3 Million
Just yesterday, we reported how .com domain registrations were starting to turn around again after a lackluster 2008. Today brings further proof as the domain candy.com has just sold for $3 million t...
Acer Android netbooks will still ship with Windows, reveals chairman
The Android netbooks recently announced by Acer will actually ship as dual-boot systems with both Android and Windows, according Acer chairman JT Wang. — Wang pointed out that the dual-OS strategy i...
Nintendo CEO: Wii care about your heartbeat, but not your iPhone, the recession or free games
Satoru Iwata is very excited about your heartbeat. The chief executive of Nintendo wants to capture it on his new Wii Vitality Sensor, an add-on peripheral for the Nintendo Wii …
Google and the Evolution of Search III: What's Next in Search? Much, Much Better Search
For many years, Google (GOOG), on its Explanation of Our Search Results page, claimed that “a site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousan...
Introducing Page Speed
At Google, we focus constantly on speed; we believe that making our websites load and display faster improves the user's experience and helps them become more productive. Today, we want to share with...
T-Mobile myTouch 3G box art comes out to play
It's no big secret that T-Mobile was going to get a version of the HTC Magic at some point, but this box art confirms a couple very important things for us. First, it's going to be called the myTouch...
Chinese Company Shows Windows XP Phone
A Chinese company showed what it calls the world's first mobile phone to run Windows XP at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on Friday. — The xpPhone can wake Windows from standby mode to receive ca...
Modeling The True Value Of Social Networks: 2009 Edition
A year ago we modeled out the true value of various social networks based on the idea that users in high-value online advertising markets like Japan, the UK and the U.S. were worth more (financially s...
Hackers Claim $10,000 Prize for Breaking Into StrongWebmail
Hackers love a challenge. And more than that, they love cash. — That's what Telesign found out this week. A provider of voice-based authentication software, the company challenged hackers to break...
The future of Windows Live Movie Maker
Hi, and welcome to post #1 about the first official release of Windows Live Movie Maker. This is a follow-up to previous posts (here and here) on this blog about the Movie Maker beta, and will give y...
How the web changed the economics of news - in all media
Listening to news executives talk about micropayments, Kindles, public subsidies, micropayments, collusion, blocking Google and anything else that might save their businesses, it occurs to me that the...
Google Says Enterprise Business Is ‘Profitable And Growing’
The enterprise business isn't expected to impact Google's bottom line for at least the next two years, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) enterprise president Dave Girouard told a Bank of America Technology Conf...
Oprah: Tech's Latest Trendsetter
The influential TV host got viewers to embrace such innovations as the Kindle and Twitter. What tech toy might Oprah Winfrey favor next? — Poolhouse, the Toronto-based creator of pet-related applic...