Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away
Microsoft knows you're making throwaway e-mail accounts, and wants to make that process easier. — Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at “e-mail enthusiasts,” which lets anyone create mult...
My thoughts on this week's debate
Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It's forty minutes long, but it covers a lot of gr...
A dash of speed, 3D and apps
Today, we're excited to bring several new features from Chrome's beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. — WebGL is a new technology which brings...
Apple Shareholder Demands The Company Establish A CEO Succession Plan
In the wake of Steve Jobs' latest medical leave, an Apple shareholder has demanded that the company establish a CEO succession plan. — This proposal has now been seconded by a major institutional ad...
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week, Topping Record Set in '07
Google Inc., the world's biggest Internet-search service, received more than 75,000 job applications worldwide last week, setting a record for the company as it embarks on a hiring spree.
Verizon Wireless to begin throttling data speeds of heaviest users, optimizing content; starts today
According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” …
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google's iPad Rival
This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn't much news around the OS — we've seen it previewed in a few d...
Blocking Internet Cost Egypt at Least $90M, Says OECD
The Egyptian government's five-day block of Internet services cost the national economy at least US$90 million, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Thursday. — The ...
Digg This: Reddit Serves Up a Billion Pages a Month
Reddit, the community news sharing site, has now joined the billion-page-per-month club, having served up some 1,000,404,480 pages to almost 14 million unique visitors in January, as measured by Googl...
Rumor: Dual-core HTC Pyramid superphone coming to T-Mobile by May
Let me be the first to admit that not everything in my last rumor report came true, but it was pretty darn close. Google unveiled their web-based Android Market and we heard that the music store is f...
Apple Tightens Reins
Apple Inc. is moving to take greater control over delivering and billing for electronic content viewed on its iPhone and iPad devices, an outgrowth of the tech giant's expanding influence that faces a...
Is Apple's Data Center Using a ‘Unique’ Design?
Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can't say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from ...
The Fallacy of Facebook Diplomacy
Why “21st Century Statecraft”—the idea that America can use the Internet to influence global events—is more dream than reality — Mediocre ideas survive longest in government. In business, at least,...