What's on your mind?
People use status updates to share what's on their minds, to tell others what they're doing, and to gather feedback from friends. The different ways people use status updates form some interesting pa...
Another update: Skype stabilized
I wanted to continue to update you on the status of the outage. We've been able to successfully stabilize Skype due to the dedicated supernodes deployed by Skype's engineering team. We're at roughly...
Netflix: We're Working On HTML5 Standard to Bring Streaming Video to All Devices
Remember a couple months back, when we were all waiting breathlessly for Netflix to release an app for the iOS, so we could finally watch streaming movies on the go? Well, iPhone and iPad users final...
New evidence raises questions about how long Mark Hurd knew of Jodie Fisher
Former HP CEO Mark Hurd's assistant has said she alone discovered and hired the former actress as an HP contractor in 2007. But it turns out Hurd asked about Fisher years earlier.
FCC chair to approve Comcast-NBC merger with conditions for program sharing
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission issued a draft order approving Comcast's proposed merger with NBC Universal on Thursday, putting the deal up for vote before the agency's other me...
Google And NORAD Team Up Once Again To Track Santa
Needed any more sign that Christmas is upon us? The annual Google and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) partnership to track Jolly Saint Nick is back in action, starting tomorrow at 2:...
Ex-Google exec's venture firm to raise $100 million: source
(Reuters) - Merus Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by Google Inc's former head of mergers and acquisitions, is preparing to raise a new $100 million fund, according to a limited partner of...
An iPhone Lover's Take On Windows Phone
Back in October, after the official launch of Windows Phone 7, I wrote up some initial thoughts after having played with a few prototype devices in the months leading up to the launch. Many seemed su...
Kinect Hacked to Aid Learning American Sign Language
Didn't I just predict this? Although, I see the merit for a computer being capable of reading American Sign Language simply for interface purposes, as a somatic and tactile language, it can be quite ...
Apple Trademarks ‘VoicePass’, And I Just Nicknamed My iPhone For Them
In the spirit of my trademark watch this morning: — Earlier this week, Apple filed a U.S. trademark for ‘VOICEPASS’, in the ‘Construction and Repair Services’ category. Bloomberg casually mentioned...
Gift Shoppers Flocked to the Web
Online Christmas Sales Rose 15.4% as Retailers Offered Free Shipping and Internet-Only Bargains — Web retailers rang up a very merry Christmas this year, with Americans going online to buy electroni...
Computers That Trade on the News
The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news. — Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blo...
Is Myspace protecting user data?
Back in October of this year, after the Facebook App transmitting investigation, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation into Myspace Apps that were said (which Myspace confirmed) to be tra...
What Tech Companies Are Spending in Washington
It's no big surprise that big companies spend a lot of money in Washington to try to influence the outcome of pending legislation and to try to talk lawmakers and agency officials out of regulating on...
Rovi To Buy Sonic Solutions, Forming New Force In Digital Distribution
Rovi Corp. declared its intent to acquire Sonic Solutions late Wednesday in a deal worth $720 million. The combined company could have the clout to accelerate the adoption of digital distribution in ...
Google Woos Local Advertisers
Google Inc., which helped popularize the idea of automated ad sales on the Web, has been quietly turning to an old-fashioned tool—phone calls—to compete in the hot market for local business advertisin...
Introducing Playlists and a New Way to Browse
Just in time for the holidays, we've unwrapped some new goodies to share with our users on Hulu.com: playlists and a new way to browse the site. — We're always looking for new ways to make watching ...
Status update on downtime
See our latest update on the downtime. — An update on the downtime which has been affecting many of you around the world: the ability of one Skype user to find another relies on what we call ‘supern...
Apple's next-gen iPad to get iPod touch-like back, wide-range speaker - rumor
The second-generation iPad may have a smaller bezel, a flat back panel and a wide-range speaker, a new unverified report claims. — Japanese Mac blog MacOtakara published the rumor Thursday, citing a...
Oh Look, Here's Samsung's 4G LTE Android Phone for Verizon
Looks like Verizon'll have plenty of Android phones running around on 4G LTE soon enough. Here's a first look at Samsung's, running Froyo and TouchWiz (but according to our tipster, not Bing!). Aaaa...
Obama cites Steve Jobs' wealth, product success
President Obama today cited Apple CEO Steve Jobs' product success as an example of a person who Americans should “expect to be rich” as an incentive for others. — Responding to a reporter's question...
The Blast Shack
We asked Bruce Sterling (who spoke at Webstock '09) for his take on Wikileaks. — The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write ab...
Kodaks' patent spat threatens photo web sites
The fallout from a patent dispute between Kodak and web photo site Shutterfly could embroil many online image sites, says patent experts. — Kodak claimed it owns patents regarding the display of onl...
ECS, Asustek, MSI to showcase tablet PCs at CES 2011
Elitegroup Computer System (ECS), Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) are all preparing to showcase their latest tablet PCs at CES 2011. — In addition to ECS' already introduced Marv...
Joint Statement On Wikileaks
In light of ongoing developments related to the release of diplomatic cables by the organization Wikileaks, and the publication of information contained in those cables by mainstream news organization...
Gawkergate Collateral Damage Now Includes the New York Times
It's now been at least 10 days since the Gawker group of Web sites was hacked by a group calling itself Gnosis in one of the side threads to the WikiLeaks controversy. — Within two days, sites like ...
A Holiday Card From Google
Five Artists, 250 Hours, Six Months to Create the Search Engine's ‘Doodle’ — Set to be unveiled at 9 a.m. eastern time Thursday, Google's 2010 holiday doodle has 17 interactive images that approxima...
Brightcove and TubeMogul Q3 Research
We are excited to launch the latest installment of our quarterly research on online video trends with Brightcove, just in time for the holidays!
Politics goes mobile
More than a quarter of American adults - 26% - used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. — In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew ...