A New Experiment: The RFS
Every funding cycle we try to do something new. For the upcoming winter 2010 cycle we're introducing the RFS (Request for Startups). — There are a lot of startup ideas we've been waiting for people...
Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone
In common with music and movies, it's not that hard to copy a website. It might take some serious server power to serve torrents to millions of people every day, but all the torrent files and site co...
Gmail Nudges Past AOL Email In The U.S. To Take No. 3 Spot.
Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, accord...
Sites Ask Users to Spend to Save
Some people will stop at nothing to snap up a bargain — even if it means paying too much. — That is the paradoxical principle behind Swoopo, a Web site that offers a seductive and controversial prop...
Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?
MacRumors has received a set of images claimed to be the retail packaging and disc for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. If the images, which appear to depict the Portuguese version of Snow ...
Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Submitted. Now Let's Count The Days Until It's Available
Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)” — Hewitt also says he'll post...
Scanning Headlines
We all scan headlines, whether it's the printed newspaper, Techmeme, Huffington Post, Hacker News, Seeking Alpha, Google Reader, Google search results, or Twitter. That's the way we consume informati...
To Microsoft, Basic Research Is Good Insurance
In an Unboxed column in Sunday's newspaper, I look at the continuing role and competitive advantage, if any, of large corporate research labs, given the new models of open innovation in the Internet e...
Britain Mulls Turning 7 Million Into Download Criminals
The debate on how Britain should tackle illicit file-sharing is heating up. The government has already set an utterly unrealistic target of reducing online piracy by 70% within a year. If that isn't...
TomTom for iPhone Appears in New Zealand App Store
iPhoneclub.nl reports [Google translation] that four regional versions of TomTom's much-anticipated iPhone GPS application have appeared in Apple's New Zealand App Store: U.S. & Canada, Western Europe...