What's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft? Here Are Five Possibilities!
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content on...
Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA — including ours
including ours — Apple's new Core i7-based iMac might be a performance monster, but it looks like the whole family's having some problems getting out of the gate: in addition to the previously-noted ...
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader
Amazon on Tuesday said it has improved the battery life of the Kindle and added a native PDF reader. — The statement appears to be timed to get holiday shoppers off the fence about the Kindle as riv...
Joost Finally Acquired, By Online Ad Network Adconion
So Joost's been put out of its misery and its assets have been acquired by Santa Monica, CA-based online ad network Adconion Media Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but likely would have b...
Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users
Updated with new information from Dropbox: You don't go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that's what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox. Simply put, people — inclu...
News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come?
Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely posturing with hypotheticals, reports contin...
Microsoft CFO Liddell Leaving; Replaced By Peter Klein
Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon announced that CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of 2009, and will be replaced by Peter Klein, who is now CFO of the Microsoft Business Division. — ...
Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday. — “That is something we are de...
Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock Structure
Facebook Inc. has established a dual class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual initial public offering. — The company is in the process of converting all current sh...
Time Inc.'s Squires Assembles Team of Rivals to Harness Digital Media
Some of the magazine industry's biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands. — The company would make up one of the ...
Millions using social media on Xbox Live
Microsoft on Monday said that millions of Xbox Live members have used the new social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. — In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xb...
Digg For Bargains: Deals.Woot Is Now Open To The Public
Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now h...
Apple iPhone eats up 50% share of all mobile data traffic globally
Apple's slice of mobile data traffic has grown to now exceed 50% share in the US, UK and in global figures, according to the latest monthly mobile data traffic report by AdMob. — AdMob just released...
The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
The mobile industry is now completing a huge shift in its attitude toward mobile data. Until pretty recently, the prevailing attitude among mobile operators was that data was a disappointment. It ha...
We Hold These Truths To Be Awesome: The Founding Fathers Give Google Wave A Try
Now this is cool. Some of the hype over Google Wave has died down over the last few weeks, in no small part because most people have absolutely no idea how to use it (no, the 80 minute long video dem...
Negative Cashback from Bing Cashback
In a recent post that Microsoft made me take down, I wrote about some security holes in Bing Cashback. While technical flaws are somewhat interesting to me, most Bountii users don't really care about...
eBay: Our Mobile Users Will Spend More Than $500 Million On Goods This Year
Internet commerce juggernaut eBay is unveiling a brand new iPhone application dubbed Deals today, alongside an upgraded version of its shopping app for the iPhone and iPod Touch platform and an enhanc...
SAP Joins PowerPoint and Twitter - Does This Work?
As we approach 2010, a number of new efforts are underway to make documents more social. One consultant told us how recently a client tried to turn Sharepoint into a Twitter client. That's a monster...
Firms channeling apps to TV
Consumer electronics makers and software companies are hoping to take a page from Apple's App Store and turn the TV into a dynamic, evolving platform for widgets and applications. — Instead of being...
Google Opens Chrome Extensions To Developers, Will Only Review Certain Ones
As anticipated, Google has taken the first step to launch full extension support for its Chrome browser. Starting today, Google is allowing developers to upload the extensions they are making to the ...
Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart
Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. — Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com. — In what is emerging as ...
Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U suspend sales of Sony Ericsson's Satio after customer complaints
Beleaguered mobile phone company Sony Ericsson suffered a further blow yesterday when the UK's two largest mobile phone retailers withdrew its flagship Satio handset from sale.
The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market
The internet giant is about to launch a system offering free calls - along with the mother of all handsets. — Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include...
Major Intel chip upgrade coming to new Netbooks
Intel is set to announce the biggest makeover for its Atom processor since it was introduced back in the spring of 2008. And PC makers are ready with new Netbook models, some due before the mammoth C...
E-tailers snagged in marketing ‘scam’ blame customers
First the good news for consumers: the U.S. government's investigation into how dozens of well-known online stores worked with controversial marketers to “deceive” customers out of $1.4 billion has pr...