Schmidt's Apple Gig: He Worked for Free
Former Apple director Eric Schmidt took no salary or stock for his board service. What did the Google chief accept? Lots of Apple gear — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt served on Apple's board...
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and p...
Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptops
They Sit for Hours and Don't Spend Much; Getting the Bum's Rush in the Big Apple — A sign at Naidre's, a small neighborhood coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins warmly: “Dear customers, we are abso...
Sony's Party-shot dock snaps incriminating Facebook photos while you drink
As if your Facebook profile doesn't have enough hard evidence that you're completely unfit for any job you might strike up the courage to apply for, here's a thoughtful accessory for producing even mo...
Software Pricing: Are We Doing It Wrong?
One of the side effects of using the iPhone App store so much is that it's started to fundamentally alter my perception of software pricing. So many excellent iPhone applications are either free, or ...
Bing Has Succeeded... In Finding The Worst Jingle Ever
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the contest Microsoft's new search engine Bing was holding to find a catchy jingle for the product. Today, they have announced the winner. “Catchy” is one word for it...
What is Happening to Windows 7?
Blame the tricky upgrade process—and, by extension, the Registry—for the backlash against Windows 7. — Why has Windows 7 suddenly fallen off the track with negative publicity? What happened? What ...
Opera Mobile for Android in the Works
Opera Mobile 9.7 is a great alternative browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian, but so far it hasn't been available on other smart phone platforms. In an interview with PCMag.com today, Opera Softwar...
London is the capital of Twitter, says founder @ev
Twitter was featured on the BBC's Newsnight programme last night. There weren't any great revelations about the service, however the confirmation from the CEO that London remains the top Twitter-usin...
Google Brings Community To iGoogle With “Social Gadgets”
This morning Google is rolling out a program in Australia enabling developers to create “social gadgets” that permit sharing, collaboration and groups on the iGoogle homepage. The social gadgets will...
XML flaws threaten ‘enormous’ array of apps
Java, Python, and Apache - for starters — Free whitepaper - Avoiding 7 common mistakes of IT security compliance — Security researchers have uncovered critical flaws in open-source software that i...
Firefox Director Talks Firefox 3.6, Tasks, and Competing with Chrome
We were eager to know what's happening with Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser's director, was glad to tell us. Here's what he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome,...
WiMax Versus WiMax In Texas Towns
The battle is likely a harbinger of the wireless future in which different high speed wireless technologies will compete against each other on a wide scale. — Mobile WiMax is still in its deployment...
Windows 7 RTM Available Today for MSDN & TechNet Subscribers
As we previously announced, today MSDN & TechNet Subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English. On October 1st, the remaining languages will be released. — The bits are available no...
ShoeMoney Reaches Settlement With Google Employee Over AdWords Violations
Over the last few months we've been tracking a lawsuit between online marketing guru Jeremy Schoemaker and a Google employee named Keyen Farrell. This week comes news that Schoemaker has settled the ...
Sirius Lives!
Sirius XM (SIRI) reported Q2 ‘09 earnings essentially in-line with consensus estimates, with a subscriber loss that was not as bad as many expected, though still down from last year. — Sirius’ incre...
Google Testing New PPC Ad Layout in SERPs
With increasing numbers of people throwing out their bulky old CRT monitors and switching to large flat screen monitors with their increased resolutions, this is a very welcome change to the search en...
What's The Google Brand Worth These Days? $100 Billion.
WPP subsidiary Millward Brown Optimor has released its highly regarded annual brand ranking BrandZ Top 100 (PDF), which identifies the world's most valuable global brands as measured by their dollar v...
Sony Finalizes Backwards Compatible Memory Stick XC With 2TB Maximum Capacity
Sony has finalized specifications of Memory Stick XC, which was also known back during CES 2009 as “Memory Stick Format Series for Extended High Capacity.” At that time, Sony had mentioned that this ...
Spotify and the Great Leaps of Faith
Last month at The Europas - TechCrunch Europe's version of the Crunchies - a lot of impressive start-ups were honored. But one was clearly cleaning up: Spotify, the sexy online music app that has mus...
Putting lipstick on Microsoft's pigs
Windows Mobile. Logo: Microsoft — At the end of a long report on the Apple Stores — and the corner he believes they have turned — Needham analyst Charles Wolf turned his attention this week to Micr...
Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, imposes irritating opt-out
Despite knowing the ways in which DNS hijacking can cause problems for non-Web clients, Comcast has rolled it out in an attempt to make money off misspelled URLs. To make matters worse, opting out is...
Iowa 911 call center becomes first to accept texts
An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the country to accept text messages sent to “911,” starting Wednesday. — Call centers around the co...
NAA/Nielsen stats show newspapers own less than 1 percent of U.S. online audience page views, time spent
The NAA has issued another of its regular updates on the state of the U.S. daily newspaper Web audience. As usual, the numbers, sourced from Nielsen Online, sound impressive: