Why Not All Earnings Are Equal; Microsoft Has the Wal-Mart Disease
For the first time in 20 years, Apple's quarterly profit exceeded Microsoft. Thus, on the face of things, the companies should be roughly equally valued. But they aren't. This week Microsoft's mark...
Gamers Can Kill Osama Bin Laden in New Video Game Recreation of Assassination
New York-based online game publisher Kuma Games is allowing gamers to assassinate Osama Bin Laden and experience what the brave Navy SEALs went through in Pakistan through a new free PC video game.
Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones
SAN FRANCISCO — It is the urban driver's most agonizing everyday experience: the search for an empty parking place. — It is part sleuthing and part blood sport. Circling, narrowly missing a spot, o...
The Tor Project plans a Firefox fork
The Tor project has announced that it is to launch its own fork of Firefox that will include Tor integration. At present, users who want to use the decentralised Tor network to browse the internet an...
Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS, Completely
Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website...
More Skype Rumors: Big News Soon, Microsoft In The Mix
For the past week or so, rumors have been swirling around Skype, the Internet telephony company. Reuters has reported that the company has been in talks with both Facebook and Google, either for a pa...
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad
My wife and I sat down at a nice restaurant last week. Our table was right next to a larger party of four adults and two young children — both girls under the age of 7 years old or so. — Each of th...
What are some startup ideas that persistently fail?
Answer (1 of 49): * Anything that makes programming “easy for non-programmers or businesspeople” — * Micropayments — * T-Shirts (except Threadless (and Busted Tees ... thanks Adam Kazwell)) — * ...
Where Are They Now? Products Announced During Past Google I/O Keynotes
The keynotes at Google I/O — Google's developer conference — are always filled with such promise. Google TV, Google Wave, music in the cloud! But the products themselves haven't always gone on to me...
The Next 10 Years Will Be Great For Both Founders And VCs
Earlier this week I issued a report about the positive changes that have recently taken place in the venture capital industry. These changes are profound and will have a lasting effect on both the ve...
Apple Ends Google's Four-Year Run as Most Valuable Brand
Millward Brown BrandZ Study: Amazon Besting Walmart as Top Retailer; BRIC Entrants Pick Up Steam — The strength of the iPad has pushed Apple ahead of Google for the first time as the most valuable b...
How People Share Content Online and With Whom?
A recent study done by AOL and Neilsen offers interesting insights into how people share content on the web and what kind of content do they prefer sharing. — Email is still the most preferred mode ...
Intel 3-D Transistors: Why and When?
A few days ago, Intel teased: On May 4th, the company would make “its most significant technology announcement of the year.” — Tongues wagged. Will Intel make ARM chips for Apple? The speculation ...
Skyhook Wireless v. Google Case Yields E-Mail Insight
A stack of internal e-mail messages from Google, which a Massachusetts state court made public last week, provide a glimpse into the competitive tactics and decision-making inside a business that is c...
Turn-by-Turn directions, Voice to text, Bing Audio/Vision all coming to WP7 Mango
We kept emphasizing at MIX11 that the information revealed there was geared for developers, not so much consumers and that we expected more details to come forward over time.