Apple's plan for Lala cloudier than ever
SAN FRANCISCO—A speedy launch of an iTunes cloud-music service hasn't materialized the way many at the large record companies expected. — The thinking among some music insiders was that once Apple a...
Welcome to your new photo page
After a few weeks in public preview, we're rolling out the new Flickr photo page to 100% of the Flickrverse. Our effort in this release focuses on two areas that will continue to make Flickr the very...
With iPad, Apple is No. 3 in portables
If you count tablets as notebook PCs, Apple just passed Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and Dell — Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank — Apple is usually considered an also-ran in the global PC market....
The new Hotmail is now available to everyone!
Here at Hotmail, we've had quite a busy week! All of our customers are now upgraded. The majority of you got the new Hotmail just this past week, as we completed the rollout to over 350 million peop...
WikiLeaks must be stopped
Let's be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possi...
Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet
Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group attempts to chip away at a market established by Apple's popular iPad. — ...
Spotify Who? Rdio Launches In The US And Canada, Lands More Indie Music Deals
It's been two months to the day since Rdio launched in the States - check out Erick's review if you're interested in learning more about the (awesome) social music service. — But until today …
Bing's Bringing Sexy Maps
Over the last few weeks a few of you lucky ducks got to experience a new map type we were flighting. Around 10% of users were seeing our new maps in all its aesthetic glory. Today, we're releasing i...
Google Multiple Sign-in, Now Available
Google is rolling out a feature I mentioned in a previous post: signing in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously from the same browser. When you go to the Google accounts page, you might see a n...
Introducing the new Search History link on Google
Have you ever tried to remember how to get back to a website that you found from a recent search? Today in the US, we're launching a new search history feature which helps you quickly get back to sit...
How Big is Amazon's Cloud Computing Business? Find Out
It goes without saying that with its array of web services, Amazon has transformed the computing landscape and nurtured what is generically known as the cloud computing industry. By turning expensive...
Bing Maps Adds OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the newest layer for Bing Maps and the newest Bing Map App in the gallery. The map app, dubbed simply, “OpenStreetMap” loads OSM maps as a new map style option. OpenStreetMap ...
You are not an eyeball: Why tracking is the ad biz's last gasp
Marketers are following you around on the Internet. They don't know your name but they know what you do, what you buy, where you buy it, what you're interested in, and more. The sites you visit coll...
The end of Wintel
As Microsoft and Intel move apart, computing becomes multipolar — THEY were the Macbeths of information technology (IT): a wicked couple who seized power and abused it in bloody and avaricious ways....
BlackBerry 6 New York City Event Live Chat!
Hi friends! We're in New York City this morning for a special BlackBerry® 6 related media event. To make sure you can join in on the fun, we've set up the live chat above. Below is the speaker list...
AOL Sublets Huge Building From Google, Wants Startups To Move In
Google apparently has a lot of empty office space in Silicon Valley laying around under long term leases. One three story building - all 225,000 square feet of it - was just subleased by Google to AO...
F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken on everyone from Al Capone to John Dillinger to the Unabomber. Its latest adversary: Wikipedia. — The bureau wrote a letter in July to the Wikimedia Fo...
iPad Reader Pulse Teams Up With Posterous To Make You A News Aggregator
Alphonso Labs' Pulse app for the iPad provides a beautiful way to read your favorite feeds. Unfortunately, compared to the newer entry Flipboard, it's not very socially personalized. An update tonig...
Latest Launch Brings China Closer to ‘GPS’ Of Its Own
At 5:30 on Sunday morning, the Chinese government fired a Long March 3A rocket into orbit. It carried a navigation satellite — the fifth in a planned constellation of 30 or more Beidou orbiters that ...
Affiliate Link Startup VigLink Buys Rival DrivingRevenue
VigLink, a Google-backed startup that helps publishers monetize the traffic they send to e-commerce sites, is buying more established rival DrivingRevenue. Like VigLink, which launched its service ea...