Everywhere I turn today, I find a story by colleagues or comments by readers saying that the new Microsoft ad with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates fails on almost every level. Some complain that it doesn’t mention Vista at all, which makes it useless, while others say that watching Gates’ derriere waggle at the end [...]
Glam Media jumps into e-newsletter market
Plus, what brings together the geeks from Google and the British rock band Radiohead? Why, technology, of course. Read on–and then take a listen.
Veoh Networks launches behavioral ads
eBay wins counterfeit-sales lawsuit brought by Tiffany
CNET News’ Declan McCullagh explains why a federal judge’s decision may have potentially major implications [...]
Internet phone company Vonage is turning to a former Cingular Wireless to help guide it forward.
Vonage announced Wednesday that Marc Lefar, former chief marketing officer at Cingular, will become the Vonage’s new CEO. Lefar, 44, will take over the top spot at the company from Jeffrey Citron, Vonage’s founder who stepped in last year to [...]
It’s a simple thing: It shows a list of OpenID providers and lets users click on the one they know they have an ID with. Then the user logs into their provider, and the site using the widget authenticates against it.
But the concepts of OpenID are still a bit too weird for [...]
Real estate search site Trulia released a survey Thursday showing that the “American Dream” of owning a home is still alive even as the recession continues to plague the world. According to the company, more than 75 percent of Americans still consider owning a home as part of achieving their personal dreams, but only 5 [...]
We’ve received complaints from a lot of customers who we recognize and respect. And while it’s easy to discount the noise from those who only want to post or transfer thousands of copies of the game on the Internet, I believe we need to adapt our policy to accommodate our legitimate consumers.
Faced with growing criticism [...]
Apple has disclosed information on a recent MobileMe update, offering a glimpse at the changes and fixes it made in late September to its beleaguered service.
Apple apparently wanted to specifically point out its efforts to improve the service. “Since server-side updates are a bit more innocuous than a standard software update to
Mac OS X [...]
“Prototypes can be developed by small teams working rapidly,” he said. “We don’t typically worry bout things like bullet-proof stability, cross-platform issues or compatibility across multiple PC configurations. They’re just little toys that help us decide what we’ll really want to do when we roll out the big guns.”
In the highly anticipated lead-up to the [...]
If T-Mobile USA acquired Sprint Nextel, it would gain an additional 53.8 million subscribers and become the largest U.S. cell operator, surpassing both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 and No. 2 cell phone carriers, respectively, in the country today.
But making T-Mobile bigger wouldn’t necessarily make it better. The main problem is that [...]
“Glam Today surfaces and highlights some of the best content created daily by the professional publishers across the Glam network,” Ryan Roslansky, Glam Media’s vice president of products, said in a release Monday. “Glam Media’s focus on packaging display advertising with relevant content extends is core to everything we do and extends to our premium [...]
