Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy
It may be too soon to equate the Xooglers, as members of the ever-expanding network of ex-Google employees call themselves, with the “PayPal Mafia” — the founders and early employees of the online pay...
Why Nokia failed: ‘Wasted 2,000 man years’ on UIs that didn't work
For want of a nail, the Kingdom was lost? — When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that Nokia was abandoning its development of its own smartphone platforms and APIs, and betting the farm on somebody...
Click to call phone numbers
With the ability to call phones built right into Gmail, you no longer have to get out your phone and retype a number anytime someone send you one in an email or chat message. Starting today, you'll s...
If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products
Let us pretend for a moment that the year is 1997 and you're in the market for a new laptop computer. You want the top-of-the-line product at the time, so you opt for the newly released Apple Compute...
Google contradicts own counsel in face of antitrust probe
Admits existence of search algorithm whitelists — Google has admitted that it uses whitelists to manually override its search algorithms, more than a year after its European corporate counsel denied...
Hide sites to find more of what you want
Over the years we've experimented with a number of ways to help you personalize the results you find on Google, from SearchWiki to stars in search to location settings. Now there's yet another way to...
Yahoo fixes their implementation of IMAP, finally
Back in January, I wrote about a Yahoo Mail issue that affected smartphones such as Windows Phone and the iPhone. To quickly summarize, whenever a smartphone checked for new Yahoo mail, the server wo...
Beyond Facebook, SecondMarket Opens Its Doors to Thousands
The marketplace for private Internet companies is about to get a bit more crowded. — SecondMarket, an exchange for alternative investments, will introduce a new trading platform on Friday that will ...