Updated 1:55pm with comment from Intuit below.
Mac users who installed an update to their QuickBooks software over the weekend were met with a nasty surprise: missing data.
If you're a user of Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software for small businesses on your Mac, and you haven't ...
The Golf Channel plans to offer high-tech data to its viewers in the form of 3D representations beginning in January.
A Doppler radar system made by the Denmark-based software developer Interactive Sports Games will begin to be used to convey club movement, ball trajectory, and other statistics to viewers, according ...
Some people say political polls mean nothing. MySpace disagrees: the News Corp.-owned social network has announced that the results of its first "Impact" political polls are in, and that it will continue conducting polls each month as the 2008 presidential election draws closer.
According to MySpace representatives, the poll ...
A new version of QuickTime is available from Apple that plugs security holes in the software for both Mac and Windows users.
QuickTime 7.3.1 was published Thursday afternoon in order to plug unspecified "security issues," according to Apple's Web site. But the fixes appear to correct the ...
The former president and CEO of eGroups, once the world's largest group e-mail provider and now part of Yahoo, was killed Sunday in a small-plane crash in a remote jungle in Panama.
Michael Klein
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Michael Klein, 37, of Santa Barbara, Calif., died in the crash of a ...
This post has been updated with information about Bebo's implementation of Facebook's code.
And now, for something we didn't see coming: Facebook has announced that the architecture for its developer platform will be made available to other social-networking sites, potentially rendering moot the criticism that its strategy ...
UPDATED: See lengthly explanation below.
Apparently blessed with the best salary-negotiating skills in the universe, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is getting a raise.
After spending most of Thursday apologizing to financial analysts for AMD's performance in 2007, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is breaking up with YouTube.
On Thursday, Hilton said that he would stop posting videos on YouTube, according to a story on TVWeek.com. Instead, he plans to host video on his own site, Perezhilton.com.
(Credit: PerezHilton.com)The feud began earlier this week after ...
This post was updated at 10:18 a.m. PST to add information about Bebo's plans for OpenSocial.
SAN FRANCISCO--When Bebo co-founder and CEO Michael Birch took the stage in a theater at the Metreon complex here to announce the social network's Open Application Platform, he made the ...
AMD executives put their best foot forward Thursday during a conference with financial analysts, but only time and a better performance will lift the company out of its 2007 spiral.
The company owned up to its mistakes with Barcelona, its first quad-core server processor, during the conference call. Barcelona will ...
The little black squares on the top of the billboard are the speakers.
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg)UPDATE: An earlier version of this blog incorrectly described the
technology used in an advertisement for the A&E's TV show Paranormal State. The technology, developed by the Holosonic Research Lab, uses a ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Right now I'm in a theater at San Francisco's Metreon complex, awaiting the official launch of social-networking site Bebo's "Open Application Platform." The announcement has not yet been made, but from what I gather, this will be exactly what we think it is.
The Social Times reported Tuesday ...
Palm plans to get smaller in the coming weeks, as less money coming in the door means less money to spread around.
A company representative confirmed a report earlier Wednesday by PalmInfocenter that the struggling company has begun informing employees of job cuts, just as the holiday season kicks into ...
I was reading through IEEE's recent patent portfolio survey and was surprised to see that Microsoft was ranked No. 1 in terms of the overall quality, and more importantly, scientific value of its patent portfolio. The company that gave us Clippy is also sitting on a small mountain of innovation.
The question, of course, is how to turn raw innovation into saleable products. In this area Microsoft may be too dependent on last decade's products to truly focus on the next decade. Yes, Microsoft has churned out the Zune, Xbox, and other new products. But I suspect its dominance in operating systems and office productivity suites keeps it from truly pushing the envelope with new products, because everything has to fit within yesterday's conception of how computing should work.
In short, could Microsoft be its own worst enemy?
Here are the rankings:
Rhapsody, the subscription music service owned by RealNetworks, has teamed up with music blog network and social networking site Mog.com to provide, well, music.
Through this partnership, songs mentioned on Mog's blogs are accompanied by a yellow "play" button that allows users to access the full-length streaming file ...
CNET News.com readers almost blew out my inbox Tuesday morning.
I had a pretty good idea it was going to happen, after posting a request in this space from Mac readers for comment on the story I posted today, "Why do Apple customers care so much?" At one point, ...
Games always seem to capture a lot of attention this time of year, in part because of kids and toys for Christmas or adults and getting together for the holidays. It would seem that search marketers enjoy games, too. While this often revolves around contests or challenges to get a ...
Viacom's MTV Networks unit announced on Tuesday that it has created Digital Fusion, a new-media advertising division designed to bring together the marketing for its oft-disparate digital brands.
Digital Fusion, according to a release from MTV Networks, encompasses both innovation and consolidation. On one hand, it's an efficiency ...
It's not going to be a happy holiday season for Palm employees.
The company issued a statement after the close of the market Thursday warning that revenue for its second fiscal quarter would be about $30 million less than it had predicted. In addition, its gross margin is expected ...
(Credit: APML)Michael Pick of Particls has written the perhaps most comprehensive overview of attention profiling and APML (attention profiling mark-up language) to date. APML is a proposed standard that allows users to share their own personal attention profile and compress all forms of attention data into one portable file
...The biggest problem with JetBlue's inaugural "BetaBlue" flight, equipped with Yahoo and BlackBerry e-mail and instant messaging, was the fact that there aren't power outlets on board the aircraft.
Sure, there are those little 110-volt things in each bathroom. But if you hog the airplane toilet so that ...
We're a little more than a month away from the Macworld Expo, and the expectations are starting to get a little clearer for arguably Apple's biggest show of the year.
CNBC reported Thursday that Apple plans at Macworld to introduce a 12-inch Mac laptop with flash memory in ...
It's interesting to see the mammoths of software looking to emerging and SMB (small- to medium-size business) markets to fuel big growth in the future. The traditional enterprise market is saturated, forcing them to move on to forage for food. The question is, can these big companies succeed on leaves and grass?
IBM is the latest to make its move, as the Wall Street Journal reports today. IBM is targeting developing markets due to higher growth rates:
In a memo to IBM's top executives, Chairman Samuel J. Palmisano said IBM will establish a new organization, reporting to sales chief Douglas Elix, to target markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Palmisano said many countries in these regions have economic and technology-spending growth "running well ahead of the global average--and we know how to capture it."...
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Please don't wear five-inch heels on these stairs.
(Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET Networks)A friend of mine once told me that one of the most striking characteristics of the Manhattan mini-neighborhood known as the Meatpacking District was the proliferation of "baby giraffes."
Basically, what he meant were the hordes ...
Apple has been sued for patent infringement over the iPhone's visual voice mail feature.
Apple has been sued over the iPhone's visual voice mail feature.
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Klausner Technologies announced Monday that it has filed suit against the company in everyone's favorite rocket docket, the U....
HALF MOON BAY, Calif.--Homesick entrepreneurs longing to return to China or Europe may find the motherland is offering more than a warm embrace: funding by eager investors.
China's stock market has climbed fivefold over the past two years, and efforts are under way to create an emerging market ...
3:14 p.m. PT: This post has been updated with the results of the hearing involving Facebook and 02138 Magazine.
There's a cliched old joke among the Ivy League set: how many Harvard students does it take to screw in a lightbulb? The answer: only one. He holds ...
Sprint could probably use a little help getting its business back on track, but it's not to the point where it's desperate, according to a report Thursday afternoon.
The Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required) reported Thursday that Sprint rejected a $5 billion investment bid this month from ...
Update, 10:09 a.m. PST: After reading my original column (see below), Yahoo representatives asked to discuss with me the current and future strategy Yahoo has embarked on. And while I was skeptical of where the company is going and I still think there is considerable work that needs to be done, I'm happy to report that after speaking with the Yahoo folks, it looks like the company has it together. (For starters, it has an iPhone-specific Web page.)
According to Yahoo, it's currently working on bringing that iPhone Web app to the Net, and as the company has pointed out, its integration with the iPhone on weather, stocks, and even mail has helped it parlay that experience into exciting new Yahoo products on the horizon. Obviously I can't get into some of the services that were discussed (and neither can Yahoo), but let me say that this company seems to have its head on straight and should be pretty well equipped to get in on the iPhone Web app game.
Now, I know some folks were a bit upset with the title of this piece (same as the current one, but without the "Yes!") because obviously Yahoo knows there's an iPhone, but the real intent was to highlight the issues that I have seen in Yahoo's mobile strategy and my belief that it has ignored the online side of the iPhone's functionality. But after speaking with Yahoo representatives who highlighted some of the finer points in the company's strategy and its intentions for the future, you can bet that I'll be looking forward to future launches of services.
Oh, and look for that Yahoo home page to get much more user-friendly, too (my biggest pet peeve).
Wake up, Yahoo.
(Credit: CNET Networks)Original post starts here: If you've been following the latest news out of Cupertino and Mountain View, you probably know that Google has developed an app that will allow all iPhone users to surf over to the Google home page and enjoy a page specifically designed for the Apple product.
Not only does the new page consolidate all of Google's services, it makes for easy browsing and a far more enjoyable experience.
But for some odd reason, Google is the only major search engine offering full-fledged support for the iPhone. And while I can understand why Microsoft may be unwilling to support the iPhone's mobile Safari browser, what is Yahoo's excuse?
Simply put, the mobile search experience on Google is fantastic, but when it comes to Yahoo, it's pure garbage.
This post has been updated to clarify the names of companies participating in the Beacon program.
Facebook has altered its controversial "Beacon" advertising program, following complaints by users and protests from activist groups like MoveOn.org. The Beacon ads, which project Facebook users' activity on third-party partner sites--retailers like Blockbuster ...
Verizon Wireless is shaking up its technology plans for the second time this week.
Two days after the company announced plans to open its network to outside devices and applications, it announced plans to switch gears when it comes to future networking technology.
Verizon Communications and Vodafone, joint owners of ...
Motorola Z6c world phone
(Credit: Verizon Wireless)Verizon Wireless and Motorola have introduced the Motorola Z6c, a new dual-mode CDMA/GSM world phone. It's the second such offering from Verizon (RIM's BlackBerry 8830 was the first), and you can use the Motorola Z6c with Verizon Wireless's CDMA ...
Reuters reported on Monday afternoon that social-networking site MySpace.com plans to launch a "news feed" feature in the near future.
The statement was made by Peter Levinsohn, president of MySpace parent company (and News Corp. division) Fox Interactive Media, at the Reuters Media Summit on Monday. "The concept of ...
Apple has agreed to a $10 million settlement with Burst.com over patents related to delivering video over the Internet.
Burst sued Apple in April of last year claiming that the iPod, iTunes, and QuickTime products all used technology patented by Burst without a license. Burst's software enables something ...
LiveJournal, the popular blogging platform/social network from Six Apart, has been acquired by Russian media company SUP. While financial details about the acquisition have not been disclosed, in today's press announcement Chris Alden, CEO and Chairman of Six Apart said the move "...is a great milestone for LiveJournal ...
Online activist group MoveOn.org is poised to announce a campaign targeting Facebook's "Beacon" advertisements, which post information about users' activity on partner sites (movie rentals, purchases from online retailers) onto their friends' News Feeds. According to MoveOn representatives, the organization considers this to be a "glaring violation of (...
Conspiracy theories sure are fun.
A forum post Friday about a curious line of code in Apple's iPhone quickly grew into suspicions that the company was tracking all kinds of data after a blogger picked up the tin foil and ran Sunday night. Apparently when you check stocks or ...
Correction at 8:15 a.m. PST: Due to an editing error, Motorola's standing in the handset industry was misstated. Motorola is the No. 3 handset maker worldwide.
Embattled Motorola CEO Ed Zander will resign from his post at the end of the year, the company announced Friday.
Greg ...
