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Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry? — Watching a Blu-ray movie in all its high-definition glory on your laptop may finally become an affordable prospect this year. Just don't wander too far from a power outlet. — With the Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious …
ConsortiumInfo.org The Standards Blog:
Showdown in Geneva: OOXML Fails to Achieve Majority Approval at BRM — Slashdot It! DiggThis Add to Del.icio.us — Contributed by: Admin — Views: 4,833 … A rather incredible week in Geneva has just ended, bringing to a close the Herculean task assumed by the over 100 delegates …
Magid Abraham / comScore Voices:
Why Google's surprising paid click data are less surprising — James Lamberti, SVP of Search and Media at comScore, is a co-author of this post. — Earlier this week, comScore released its January 2008 qSearch paid click report, which showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December '07 …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC: Ready To Bail On Ask? — More on the impending shakeup at IAC's long-suffering Ask. An insider tells us that IAC is considering finally pulling the plug on Teoma, the engine that powers Ask's search, and just using Google: — There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's MyBlogLog Adds An Activity Stream Feature — MyBlogLog, a blogger social network acquired by Yahoo about a year ago, launched v.2 of their service tonight, with a significant new feature. You can see the MyBlogLog widget in the right sidebar of this site - it shows pictures and names of recent visitors.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: iPhone SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit accs — iPhone SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit accs — According to several sources familiar with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software development kit (SDK) plans, the company will use a March 6 event in Cupertino …
Reuters:
Microsoft cuts Vista prices to urge upgrades — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Final goodbye for early web icon — A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is about to disappear. — Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said. — In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reduces Price on Several Retail Stand-Alone Versions of Windows Vista — Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing at Microsoft, discusses changes to pricing of Windows Vista retail stand-alone editions. — Since its release …
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
The many flavors of Twitter — Pedestrians repeatedly thumbing their cell phones could be playing the latest mobile game, but it's just as likely they're microblogging addicts updating their Twitter accounts. Twitter's short-form service makes it ideal for two-sentence contributions from mobile phones …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Steve Chen: YouTube to Add Live Video — YouTube will support live video before the end of this year, co-founder Steve Chen told Pop17 videoblogger Sarah Meyers. Check out the clip: — The background party music is thumping, so here's a transcript: — Meyers: “When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?”
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not....Why Google Apps Could Lose the Enterprise Market — Lately, we've been discussing the concept of tech populism and the how enterprises are moving towards a more people-centric focus when it comes to their IT infrastructure.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Guidelines for competing with Twitter — Every time Twitter goes down I think of how can we create something to use when Twitter is down. — There's a difference these days, because there's serious talk among developers about whether or how to compete. Earlier this week at lunch with one of them …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft chops Vista retail prices — In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista. — For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral Homeless Stunt Worked So Well It's Time For An Encore — Most companies target early adopters with their new products, hoping those users will tell all of their friends all about it. But not GrandCentral, the company Google acquired for $50 million in July 2007.
Vladimir Vukievi:
Finding the OS X Turbo Button — Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago. There's an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up. We've had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
“Vista Capable” logo - what went wrong? — Now that a federal judge has unsealed nearly 160 pages of internal Microsoft emails which have been used to support the plaintiffs' lawsuit relating to the “Windows Vista Capable” program we can start to get a clearer picture of how the logo program went wrong.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue — Despite collecting an estimated several hundred million dollars in P2P related settlements from the likes of Napster, KaZaA and Bolt, prominent artists' managers are complaining that so far, they haven't received any compensation from the labels.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google offers SF homeless free voicemail: “Don't be evil” or smart gimmick? — Google's motto “Don't be evil” seems to be getting substantial weight behind it today as Google is announcing life-long phone numbers and voice mail for all of San Francisco's homeless population.
MSNBC:
Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. — Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Microsoft admits: we still haven't fixed Hotmail — Some Hotmail customers are still unable to log in, Microsoft admits, despite previously claiming that the problem was fixed — Microsoft has admitted that it still has not fixed the problem which has left tens of millions of Hotmail users unable …
Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
Google Sites: What's all the fuss? — The launch of Google Sites is like the opening of a movie or play. The critics (including myself) feast on it, churning out copy and opinions as to whether Google Sites is a Microsoft SharePoint killer or merely the McDonald's of wikis …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All — Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone — Apple has dropped some serious hints that its iPhone strategy will at least be tweaked-mostly in ways that will court business users. — First up, Apple has sent invitations for the launch of the iPhone SDK next week …
Kevinle / Windows Live Dev:
David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services — Hey folks, Dave Treadwell here. For those who don't know me, I run the Live Platform Services team here at Microsoft. Before coming over to the services world, I spent many years working on .NET, and I feel really fortunate …
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Under the bonnet of Android — I had the chance this week to meet Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms. — He's the man behind Android, the open source operating system that is at the heart of the Open Handset Alliance. — He was kind enough to give me a demo of Android running on a handset and the video is here.
Official Google Blog:
Google Health, a first look — It's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we announced our partnership and pilot with the Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric
Sprint:
Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 “Simply Everything(SM)” Plan — Plan Defines Simplicity, Offers Customers Unlimited Voice and Data — In an industry-defining move, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced it will launch a domestic unlimited pricing plan that gives customers unlimited voice …
Julian Guthrie / sanfranmag.com:
Googirl — The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who's generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety. — A week before Christmas, Marissa Mayer, the most closely watched woman in the most closely watched company in the world …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow — Google is adding a new front to its assault on Microsoft's software applications business. — The Internet search giant on Wednesday is rolling out a rival to Microsoft's SharePoint, a program used for collaboration among teams of workers.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We're Sorting Through Some Crazy Google/Yahoo Rumors — Google is continuing to try to disrupt Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, and, we've heard, may even be considering a bid to acquire a significant chunk of Yahoo's stock (keep reading though, we're calling this a long shot at best).
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Full text: Microsoft execs on Vista problems — A federal judge today unsealed internal Microsoft e-mails that have been used to support the plaintiffs' case in the lawsuit over the “Windows Vista Capable” program. Snippets were previously read aloud in court, but the full messages go further …
Danger Room / Wired:
Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs — The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word “blog” in its web address. It's the latest move in a larger struggle within the military over the value — and hazards — of the sites.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot — Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006. The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported. Now, nearly sixteen months later, Jotspot has been relaunched under the Google Apps team, as Google Sites.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now — In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Jotspot Returns As Google Sites: Wiki-Style Collaboration — Ever since Google bought the wiki-based online application startup Jotspot in late 2006, people have been wondering if it had disappeared forever inside the bowels of the search giant. Tonight, Google's launching Google Sites …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Docs Redesign — Parts of Google Docs (Google's office suite including web-based text editor, spreadsheets and presentations) just received a slight interface revamp. As I'm seeing this on two different computers with two different log-ins, it's probably not just a limited test …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple exec: iPhone “not married” to single-carrier model — Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Investment Symposium, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook stated that the iPhone isn't beholden to the one-carrier strategy used so far, even if it makes the most sense from a business standpoint.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Wikileaks gets legal help after domain name deletion — Wikileaks.org, a Web site that specializes in posting leaked documents often provided by whistleblowers, had its domain name yanked by a federal judge in California earlier this month. — Now Wikileaks is receiving some independent legal support …
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Picnik offers premium image editing features for free — Online image editor Picnik has always offered two tiers of service. Free users could access most of the popular image editing tools, while paid subscribers got a few extra bells and whistles and access to early beta features.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple COO Cook Confirms Forecast For 10 Million iPhone Sales In 2008; Stock Jumps After Hours (Updated) — Apple (AAPL) shares are making a nice move after hours, apparently in response to a talk COO Tim Cook gave a little while ago at the Goldman Sachs tech conference in Las Vegas.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What made me cry: Microsoft's World Wide Telescope — Lots of people are asking me questions about what made me cry at Microsoft a few weeks ago. — If I told you “a telescope” you'd make fun of me, right? Tell me I'm lame and that I don't deserve to be a geek and that I should run away and join the circus, right?
Yael Gruntman / Globes Online:
Microsoft buys Israeli ad targeting co YaData — Microsoft Israel R&D Center president Moshe Lichtman: I am convinced that their contribution to the Israeli R&D center and to Microsoft globally will be significant. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has acquired Israeli start-up YaData Ltd. …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Loses Mobile Giant Opera to Google; Did Google Just Buy a Mobile Browser? — Starting on the first of next month, the widely popular mobile browser Opera will switch from offering Yahoo! to using Google as its default search engine. While Yahoo! has its own relatively sophisticated mobile offerings …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
About.com CEO Scott Meyer To Leave — Scott Meyer, the CEO of About.com, part of New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), is leaving by next week, our sources say, and has been confirmed by the company. His last day will be Thursday next week. No replacement is being named now.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple: Event on March 6 about iPhone SDK, enterprise — The SDK may be late, but it won't be that late if Apple is inviting media to the bay area on March 6 for an iPhone Software Roadmap event. That's right: the company sent out invitations this morning inviting members of the press …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Zoho Writer Gets An Update—More Than One Million Documents Served — Web-based word processors keep closing the gap with Microsoft Office. Since its launch, Zoho now has 650,000 users, a 30 percent increase from just last November, the company tells us. It is doing 2 million user sessions per month.
Stowe Boyd / /Message:
Esther Dyson on The Coming Ad Revolution — Reston: Esther is going to invest in Dopplr, because sociality changes the way that advertising works: … I wrote years ago that in the future, all e-commerce would be socialized. Lools like we are about to pass over that horizon.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple planning iPhone SDK event March 6 — Apple distributed invitations Wednesday morning for “an iPhone software road map” event next week, which means we're finally going to hear details on the plans for an iPhone software development kit. — As you might be aware, next week is March …
Fred / A VC:
Thinking About GOOG This Morning — On Monday, I bought some more GOOG (and some more AAPL). I explained my rationale for both trades in this twitter post. I went into even more detail on the Google purchase in this covestor post. — I was busy yesterday and not paying attention to techmeme …