Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
Roundtable Q&A: Sam Ramji, senior director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, and Tom Hanrahan, director of Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center, discuss the company's release of Linux device dri...
YouTube myth busting
One of our favorite shows at YouTube is MythBusters, the Discovery Channel's popular science program in which hosts Jamie and Adam bravely attempt to debunk urban legends. For those of us who thought...
Yahoo Finally Rolls Out New Home Page to the Masses-and, Drum Roll, It's Good (Plus Screen Shots)
Although it's not news that Yahoo has been readying a new version of its home page and has spent a lot of time doing so-in fact, it's gone all Handy Manny with a whole lot of test renovations …
Apple Estimated to Account for 20% of Cellphone Industry Profit
The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on research from Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff showing that Apple and Research in Motion together accounted for approximately 35% of the ce...
Charging for Access to News Sites
John Plunkett, reporting for the Guardian last week, in a story titled “Financial Times Editor Says Most News Websites Will Charge Within a Year”: … I wish them good luck with this, and I mean that si...
Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle
Updated: Barnes & Noble has outlined its answer for Amazon's Kindle: A partnership with Plastic Logic, which will launch an eReader in early 2010, and plans to open its e-book sales to multiple platfo...
BlackBerry Desktop Software: Coming Soon to a Mac Near You!
Many of you commented on my “Updating Your BlackBerry Device Software” post back in April saying “...this is great! But what about Mac?” I could not respond to those comments at the time, but I'm ha...
Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?
“I think you are going to see a repeat of Microsoft.” — Christine Varney's blunt assessment sent a buzz through the audience at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Varney, a partner at Hogan...
DRM is ****, RIAA Says
The digital music landscape is evolving continuously. Just two years ago RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol defended the use of DRM on digital music because customers would benefit from it. — “DRM...
YouTube Testing 3D Videos (YT3D)
It appears that some time over the weekend, YouTube began experimenting with 3D videos. I spotted a thread at the YouTube Help forum about this, where Googler Pete said he developed this in his 20% t...
Explore the moon in Google Earth
Posted by Anousheh Ansari, Trustee, X PRIZE Foundation, and first female private space explorer … Ever since I was a young girl, it has been a dream of mine to travel into space. In September of 2006...
Google not liable for defamation in search results, rules court
Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search results — Google is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and foru...
Apple Preparing iPod Touch With Camera, Microphone: Source
Rumors have swirled about Apple readying a new version of the iPod Touch with a camera and microphone, which, combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line on...
The Management Consultants Who Will End Condé Nast As We Know It
That was quick. Here is the grim memo that Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend just sent out announcing that it is bringing in McKinsey & Company to “develop new perspectives on optimizing our approach to ...
Facebook co-founder's Asana raises funding — from Facebook angels?
from Facebook angels? — We're hearing that the business collaboration company co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein (both formerly of Facebook) has raised funding from the same investo...
Twitter Generates $48 Million of Media Coverage in a Month
But Can It Maintain Its Sizzle? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter's been the toast of TV news programs, daytime talk shows, magazine editors and newspaper reporters. But what's all that chatter wort...
Palm: Report Sees Pre Defects Hitting Earnings
Despite being enamored with Palm's (PALM) Pre smartphone, analyst Kevin Dede with boutique investment banker and brokerage Jesup & Lamont this morning initiated coverage of Palm shares with a “Sell” r...
Apollo 11 landing on TV as it aired 40 years ago
Inspired by the ApolloPlus40 Twitter account and We Choose the Moon, both of which are tracking the Apollo 11 mission as it happened 40 years ago, I've built a page where you can watch the CBS News co...
Obama's Unwilling Cyber Czars
By focusing on the economy, the administration may have turned away its top candidates. — America's cyber czar, despite the impressive title, may not be such a coveted job after all. As early as th...
Kingston unveils 256GB thumb drive for well-heeled memory fiends
We're sure that it's only a matter of moments before a 256GB thumb drive this bulky is something of a joke — hell, it wasn't so terribly long ago that cramming 256MB into something this size was an ac...
Verizon Slashes BlackBerry Storm Price
RIM's touchscreen Storm is now more competitive with the $100 Apple iPhone 3G from AT&T. — Verizon Wireless is cutting the price of the BlackBerry Storm to $99 in order to better compete with AT&T's...
Launch Wars: Twitcam Beats CamTweet To Live Video Tweets
Ten days ago at our Real Time Stream CrunchUp, Justin.tv demonstrated a new beta product they are working on called CamTweet. It lets you launch a live video broadcast using your computer Webcam, Twe...
The iPhone's Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You?
If you own an iPhone, you've probably noticed lately that voicemails randomly show up a few days after they should have. The Visual Voicemail system is basically broken for people, and it's AT&T's fa...
The Most Engaged Brands On The Web
What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report...
Announcing the NYT API Tool
A few weeks ago, I was playing with the Facebook API and using the Facebook API Test Console. I thought to myself, “Wow, if we were smart, we'd have something like this for our APIs.” Sadly, it took...
Machine Dreams
Before I meet Marissa Mayer, the 34-year-old megamillionaire, Oscar de la Renta-obsessed, computer-programming Google executive who lives in a penthouse atop the Four Seasons, San Francisco, I of cour...
Apple, RIM Outsmart Phone Market
No wonder they are called smart phones. Not only can these fancy phones send email, get directions and play music, they can generate huge profits for their makers. — At least for iPhone's manufactu...
Armstrong: Think of AOL Like Disney, a Company ‘That Delights You’
Former Google Exec Just Spent 100 Days on Reorg Plan, Now the Challenge Is Executing It — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's been 100 days since Tim Armstrong, 38, leapt from Google to become CEO of AOL …
iPhone App Store roulette: A tale of rejection
InfoWorld - Think back to May 26, 1995. Steve Jobs was wandering in the desert, fiddling with some company called Pixar that made animated movies of dancing desk lamps, and planning his next step for...
Apps ‘to be as big as internet’
The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become “as big as the internet”, peaking at 10 million apps in 2020, a leading online store says. — However, GetJar say, the developer community wil...
Explore the moon in Google Earth
Posted by Anousheh Ansari, Trustee, X PRIZE Foundation, and first female private space explorer … Ever since I was a young girl, it has been a dream of mine to travel into space. In September of 2006...
What to expect from Apple's quarterly progress report
It's been an eventful quarter for Apple, but can it keep up its momentum? We'll find out Tuesday when Apple releases its fiscal third-quarter earnings. — Recent company news has been mixed, but cer...
Apple's Secret Weapon: Your Mom
Sales of cars and homes are foundering but Apple has found steady customers. — BURLINGAME, CALIF. — Walk into the local Apple store at 10:35 on a Friday morning and you'll notice something different...
Google Voice: Trouble Calling for Skype?
An entry into Web calling by search giant Google is likely to boost competition for eBay's Internet-calling unit and other VoIP service providers — Google's push into the Web phone-calling market is...
Across U.S., ESPN Aims to Be the Home Team
LOS ANGELES — Not content with being a sports colossus with broadcasts in 200 countries, ESPN is taking aim at hometown sports coverage, threatening one of the last strongholds of local newspapers and...
Mac Office gets service pack update
Microsoft is releasing the second service pack update to Office 2008 for Mac, the company said Monday. — The free update, which is expected to be available later on Monday from Microsoft's Web site,...
Was Moore's Law Inevitable?
In the early 1950s the same thought occurred to many people at once: things are improving so fast and so regularly, there might be a pattern to the improvements. Maybe we could plot technological pro...
App Watch: Mirror, Mirror on the iPhone, for Free
Inner Four Inc., a Tampa, Fla., company that has 150 programs in Apple's App Store, usually devotes a couple of months to create a major app. But its biggest success so far has been one that one engi...
People Are Using Google Reader “Likes,” But Some Hate It. And It's Flawed.
As we expected, the new “like” functionality in Google Reader seems like it's seeing some good usage. Certainly, given that “likes” are fully public, we're seeing much more social activity on feed it...
Hey Newspaper Guys: Google's Not Making Money From News
It's become popular for old school newspaper folks to hate on Google and other aggregators for somehow “profiting” off of their content. This is wrong on many, many levels. First, the aggregators se...
Google Book-Scanning Accord Reviewed by EU to Determine Copyright Effects
The European Union stepped up its review of Google Inc.'s book-scanning project to analyze how it might affect authors' and publishers' copyrights in the 27- nation bloc. — The European Commission i...
Now a ‘Valley guy,’ ex-Austinite still putting money into local ventures
When Austin software veteran Mike Maples Jr. moved to Silicon Valley four years ago to break into venture capital investing, he emphasized that he planned to stay connected to Austin startups.