UPDATE 4:10 a.m. PDT April 1: It’s up! Check out Gmail custom time to see how Google uses an “e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality.”
It looks like we are getting a preview of Google’s April Fools’ joke for Gmail a little early. Google put …
Original post by Harrison Hoffman and software by Elliott […]
UPDATE 4:10 PT April 1: It’s up! Check out Gmail custom time to see how Google uses an “e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality.”
It looks like […]
Ann Livermore weighs in on what separates her company from Big Blue, along with the shift to virtualization and what it means to be green. Last year, Hewlett-Packard overtook IBM as the largest IT company in the world when its revenue hit $104 billion for the year ending…
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ChaCha, the human-powered Web search service, is launching a new service on Tuesday that will allow you to ask your question over the phone instead of having to type it.
To use the new service you can call 800-224-2242 (which spells “chacha”) and specify the information you want. ChaCha then sends you a text message with […]
Ten years ago Monday, Mozilla was launched and its source code was first made available to the public. Out of Mozilla came such projects as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Bugzilla (close to the heart of many a CNET News.com editor, er, or maybe just a few).
Mozilla is summed up …
Original post by Anne Dujmovic and […]
We closed the voting for the 2008 Webware 100 today, after recording more than 1.9 million votes. Webware 100 Winners will be announced April 21 (we need time to go over the polling logs and write up blurbs for the winners). But in the meantime, we can already spot the major trends. The […]
In a stunning move that caught the blogosphere off-guard, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington announced Monday that his fast-growing blog empire is acquiring the venerable teen magazine and Web site Tiger Beat from the magazine’s parent company, Laufer Media.
Exact terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Arrington made …
Original post by Jim Kerstetter and software by […]
I’m not a heavy user of widget engines. Besides OS X’s Dashboard, I usually steer clear of having any more processes running on my machine and opt to go with a Web option instead. A new player called Sobees has piqued my interest though. Based out of Switzerland, Sobees is one of the neater ones […]
The robotic stars of last year’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, an autonomous car race, will have a rematch at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif., later this month.
This time, their competition will be solely about speed.
“Boss,” an autonomous Chevy Tahoe from Carnegie Mellon University and
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Original post by Stefanie Olsen and software by […]
Undertone Networks, one of the last independent online advertising networks, said Monday that it has taken its first round of private equity investment from JMI Equity, the firm that took DoubleClick private in 2005 and then sold to Google last year.
The 6-year-old Undertone would not disclose terms of the …
Original post by Stefanie Olsen and […]
IBM has been indefinitely barred from entering into new contracts with the U.S. federal government.
The General Services Administration’s Web site shows that IBM was added to a database of “excluded” contractors and subcontractors on March 27 by the Environmental Protection Agency. Under reciprocity rules, other agencies honor …
Original post by Declan McCullagh and software by […]
Layoffs hit close to home Monday at Dell, which said it will close its Austin, Texas, desktop manufacturing facility as part of an effort to trim billions in costs.
The Austin facility, which replaced a smaller facility in Austin, is where Dell fine-tuned its “build-to-order” strategy that allowed it to …
Original post by Michael Kanellos and […]
The Panasonic SC-BT100 will cost just under $1,000.
(Credit: Panasonic)
Now that Blu-ray has secured its position as the one and only HD disc format, it’s only natural to see it becoming more of a standard feature on desktop PCs, laptops, camcorders, and–now–home theater systems. Samsung’s HT-BD2T
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Original post by John P. Falcone and software by […]
Intel is working on technology that would allow handheld Internet devices to wirelessly use big screens.
Intel Mobile Internet Device (MID) could connect wirelessly to a big screen
All technology is a problem looking for a solution. (Or the converse.) Intel is working on technology that would mitigate one of …
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Yahoo’s stock price is beating a little stronger these days. And that rise was not necessarily driven by the full onslaught of the company’s big, splashy, three-year financial game plan unveiled two weeks ago, say several hedge fund managers.
Rather, the 12 percent share price increase over the …
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software by […]
Montalvo Systems, the super secretive company that wants to compete against Intel in chips for portable computers, has a big internal announcement coming tomorrow, according to sources, and the news may not be good.
The company may internally order layoffs and cutbacks, according to a source close to the company. …
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It’s been a long haul for phase change memory, but the goal is in sight.
Numonyx, the memory joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Intel, is already shipping samples of phase change memory (PCM) chips to customers and will start shipping PCM chips commercially later this year, CEO Brian Harrison …
Original post by Michael Kanellos and software […]
All these media-hosting and social-networking services are great, but there’s been a relatively untapped resource in tracking what you’re sharing: your e-mail in-box. Today a new service called Xoopit is opening up in private beta to Gmail users who are looking to not only sort through the deluge of photos, videos, and other files that […]
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Google Docs‘ word processor is finally getting offline access. Using the free Google Gears extension, users will soon be able to read and edit their files even when they have no internet connection.
Offline access is a necessary feature to make Google’s productivity suite a competitor to Microsoft Office, however […]
I spent some time this weekend updating my personal blog to WordPress 2.5 which was released on Saturday. I’ve been a WP user for a while now, and it’s worth noting 2.5 is one of the biggest updates since the release of version 2.0 back in late 2005. There’s a huge list of upgrades on […]
