Yahoo to Lead Ad Sales in Microsoft Search Deal
Online Ad Business Braces for Shakeup as Pact Gives Bing Nearly 30% of Market to Rival Google's 65% — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo tomorrow are expected to announce the search pact ear...
New Front Page!
Today we're trying a redesigned front page for folks who are new to Twitter.com. If you're a regular around these parts, then you won't notice the new look unless you sign out of your account. Helpi...
It Was AT&T
I just posted the following correction to today's earlier piece on the Google Voice/App Store thing:
Pirate Bay Sale Dead in the Water
Last month the BitTorrent community was shaken up when GGF publicly announced that it would take over The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal outfit. They said they would harvest computing resources ...
iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims
The nation's cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wirel...
The Iterative Web App: Links Got Shorter and Smarter
On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code which allo...
Microsoft will open stores in Arizona, California
Microsoft plans to open two of its first retail locations in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mission Viejo, Calif., CNET News has learned. — The software maker confirmed on Tuesday that it has signed leases ...
Changing Stride
For the past 30 plus years, I've run the same way. Long legs = long stride, over different continents, different climates, different decades. Sometimes I've been faster, and sometimes I've been slow...
Greenpeace wars with HP
It's war on hazardous chemicals. — After rating Hewlett-Packard low on its Green Meter did little to convince the company to change its ways, Greenpeace decided Tuesday that something more needed to...
Tweet about apartment mold draws lawsuit
It was a not-so-sweet Tweet about a Chicago apartment. — So Horizon Group Management LLC filed a libel lawsuit Monday against former tenant Amanda Bonnen, claiming one of her alleged Twitter posts “...
‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’
In a SPIEGEL interview, Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of US technology and culture magazine Wired discusses the Internet's challenge to the traditional press, new business models on the Web and ...
The Case Against the Case Against Google
Is Google too powerful? The Justice Department's Christine Varney thinks so. As Fred Vogelstein reports in Wired, the attorney who represented Netscape during the federal government's long-running M...
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’
On Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS. — If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon contain...
OS X 10.5.8 Development Wrapping Up?
MacRumors has received word that Apple seeded OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Build 9L30 to developers last night, including only a single documented change related to an issue with external monitors and waking f...
AT&T to launch the Samsung Solstice A887 on August 2nd, $99.99
Surprise, AT&T-rocking budget touchscreen fans. One of our trusty ninjas just hit us with some Sammy juice and it looks like the affordable A887, formerly known as the Infinity, will be hitting store...
Yahoo Mobile site gets iPhone overhaul, syncing
Yahoo has been busy. Last week, it announced a new customizable homepage you can personalize by adding favorite Yahoo services and social networking modules. On Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled a new iPhone-...
In comes the cavalry
Psystar has always been more a Cowboy than a Hippie. Now we've changed lawyers to better reflect who we are. Camara & Sibley LLP of Houston, Texas, has officially become our primary legal counsel in...
Second Advertiser Alleges Facebook Click Fraud
For the second time this month, Facebook has been sued by an advertiser for click fraud. This latest case, filed Monday by software marketer United ECM, alleges that Facebook charged marketers for “n...
Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., are creating what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the ...
Pigs Fly As Facebook And Google Work Together On An Android App
Well, we never thought it would happen because of its intense rivalry with Google, but Facebook is almost ready to launch an official app for Android phones. Hints are already popping up here and the...
Barnes & Noble makes Wi-Fi free via AT&T
Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide offer Wi-Fi access, and the majority of them are already hotspots through AT&T. Those stores now offer free access via Wi-Fi, with a focus on expanding customer aw...
Exclusive: Former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Raising Money For New Venture
Just three months ago MySpace cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe found out he was being abruptly and rudely replaced by Owen Van Natta. So what does the guy who built the biggest site on the Internet fr...
Current Recession Offers Redemption to Tech Industry
Information and communications technology companies, whose bust dragged down the world economy in 2001-2002, are much less of a problem and much more of the solution in the current recession, a report...
AP: “We're Done” Answering Questions About Fair Use & Our Rights System
Still confused about the Associated Press's announcement last week about a new content tagging system that's supposed to provide rights information? I am — but the AP's apparently not talking to anyo...
Monster Merger: IBM Buys SPSS For Approx. $1.2 Billion In Cash Deal
IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share - a 42 percent premium to Monday's closing price of $35.09 on Nasdaq - resulting in a to...
Report: Hon Hai to build Apple tablets as soon as September
A Chinese newspaper has reported that Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will assemble tablet computers for Apple that may appear for sale as early as September. — The report, published by the Taipei, T...
Thanks for giving my pixels back, browser makers
I'd personally like to offer browser makers my gratitude for realizing that my screen isn't big enough. — I'm one of those people who wants every bit of display real estate I can get. The more I ca...
Judge rejects fair use defense as Tenenbaum P2P trial begins
There will be no fair use defense for Joel Tenenbaum at trial this week. — Everything about the Tenenbaum case has been highly unusual, and Judge Nancy Gernter's final pretrial order was no exceptio...
Microsoft Game Helps Make Search Better
A new game asks users to help refine search results. — Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Redmond, WA, have released an online game to help fine-tune search results. — Called Page Hunt, the game p...
No new netbooks from Asustek, Acer in 2H09; Acer pushes back Android netbook
Asustek Computer and Acer will not offer any new netbooks in the second half of 2009, as Intel plans to push the launch of its entry-level products including the Pine Trail-M platform to the first qua...
Blip.tv Lands A Big Distribution Deal With YouTube And Others; Redesigns Dashboard
Mike Hudack, the founder of Blip.tv, just landed a major set of deals to expand the distribution of his Web video network. The biggest deal is with YouTube, which for the first time will allow Blip.t...
China's iPhone deal: New details emerge
The headlines out of China overnight Tuesday were headsnappers. — First Shanghai Security News reported that Apple (AAPL) had reached a three-year deal with China Unicom to market the iPhone in the ...
Is the Economy Really THIS Bad?
This was a strange earnings season. — But it has been a remarkably strange economy. — But when you look at the big names in tech, including Intel, IBM, Apple, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, and t...
The New AOL LLC Details: Search Bidding War By Next Year; $90M In Restructuring Charges
Some more details gleaned from AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc's first new filing with the SEC. We reported on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Patch transaction earlier today. —For one, AOL's finally HQed in NYC, as...
Sprint to buy out Virgin Mobile USA
Sprint this morning said it would buy out Virgin Mobile's US division for an equity value of $483 million. The deal cancels out Virgin's $248 million in outstanding debts and is intended to bolster S...
What Everyone Made from the Zappos Sale
If Zappos was a forced sale, would someone please come force me a raise? — Zappos just filed its S4 with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which details the history of the merger talks with Ama...
Design ideas show Firefox 4.0 with a Chrome look
Mozilla has released mockups that show how Firefox 4.0 conceivably might look, and two words spring to my mind: Google Chrome. — Last week, Mozilla showed some mockups for the nearer-term Firefox 3....
US Movie Companies Go After The Pirate Bay - Again
Despite losing in court against the music and movie industries, The Pirate Bay continues to operate, a clearly unacceptable situation for the plaintiffs in the case. The verdict is subject to appeal ...
SiRF Unveils Next Generation GPS
SiRF, the San Jose-based embedded GPS company, has unveiled SiRFstar IV, a vast upgrade to the GPS architecture used in many portable and in-car GPS systems released over the past five years. — The ...