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Please, Stop the Mark Zuckerberg Love Train

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of übergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Computers That Trade on the News

The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news.

The Blast Shack

The Wikileaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever.

So You Want to be a Viral Video?

You've likely been sent an Xtranormal video by now.

IBM Expects to See Holographic Phone Calls, Air-Powered Batteries by 2015

By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3-D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy.

Searching for the Future of Television

Nearly every week from last February until mid-May, Google trotted wide-eyed visitors into a small room at its colorful headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google’s Big Problem: It Ain’t What You Think

When I first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the 20th century, my first impressions about them included phrases like super-smart, engineer’s engineers and minimalists.
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Friday, December 24, 2010

NewEnterprise

Wishing You a Jazzy Christmas

A musical holiday greeting, suitable for tracking Santa’s progress. Read More »

BoomTown

D: Dive Into Mobile: The Full Interview Video of Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Head Joe Belfiore

Today, we ring up Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, who is the man in charge of its Windows Phone 7 efforts. It’s no small task, as the software giant struggles to get back into the mobile game and catch up from far behind in a very competitive smartphone race led by both Google and Apple. Read More »

NewEnterprise

Skype’s Group Video Calling Restored

Skype group video chat is restored, just in time for Christmas. Read More »

MediaMemo

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Bing Crosby and David Bowie Sing You a Holiday Song

Barumph ba ba bum! Read More »

NewEnterprise

Skype Is Working, No Explanation Yet for What Happened

After two days of struggling with an embarrassing pre-holiday system failure, Skype appears to be running again today. The company is offering free service to customers, but hasn’t yet explained what happened. Read More »

News Byte

Logitech Delaying New GoogleTV, Too–Report

Google has reportedly told some of its partners to hold off introducing new versions of Google TV. So this one at least sounds right: Google has supposedly told Logitech to stop shipping its version of the Google TV box while Google upgrades the software. The catch: This report comes from DigiTimes, which is sometimes quite accurate about the Chinese supply chain for consumer electronics, but also misses the mark with some frequency

BoomTown

BoomTown Talks About Smartphones and the Google Borg on “Nightline”

The fine folks at ABC’s “Nightline” news program were recently in Silicon Valley on a quest to find out whassup with this smartphone war going on between Google’s Android operating system and the iPhone from Apple. Here’s the video. Read More »

Voices

Zuckerberg in China: Huzzahs from Users, Hush from Alibaba

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made another stop Thursday on his “vacation” tour of Chinese Internet companies, visiting the headquarters of Alibaba Group. Photos posted on the web showed the 26-year-old chatting with executives at the Chinese e-commerce giant, including Chairman Jack Ma. Read More »

MediaMemo

Does the FCC Want to Kill Hulu?

If Washington forces Comcast/NBC to offer NBC shows to anyone on the Web, what happens to Hulu’s exclusive deal to offer NBC shows on the Web? Read More »

NetworkEffect

In Less Than One Month, CityVille Beats FarmVille to Become Zynga’s Biggest Game

Looks like I’m far from the only one addicted to CityVille. The newest Zynga game has done what no game maker, not even Zynga itself, has done in recent memory: Beat FarmVille’s number of active users. Read More »

BoomTown

Viral Video: O Come All Ye Digital

Here is a delightful video titled “The Digital Story of the Nativity.” It uses Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Amazon, YouTube, Zynga and Apple iPhones to tell an old tale in an entirely new way. Read More »

Voices

Blu-ray’s Time Comes as DVDs Fade

Blu-ray is emerging as a holiday hero for Hollywood as the film industry grapples with the rise of online video and a persistent slump in its most profitable source of revenue: DVD sales. Read More »

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Voices

Ring, Ring. Hi, It’s Google

Google Inc., which helped popularize the idea of automated ad sales on the Web, has been quietly turning to an old-fashioned tool–phone calls–to compete in the hot market for local business advertising. Read More »

eMoney

How PayNearMe Wants to Make Cash Cool Again

For just a minute, forget about futuristic stuff, like waving your mobile phone to pay for things. This Mountain View, Calif.-based company is trying to make cash cool again. Read More »

Voices

Gift Shoppers Flocked to the Web

Web retailers rang up a very merry Christmas this year, with Americans going online to buy electronics, jewelry and even clothing in record amounts this season, according to several new reports. Consumers also hit the virtual stores earlier than ever, lured by an increase in free-shipping offers and a plethora of online deals. Read More »

NewEnterprise

Night-Table Reading: The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules In Full

It’s now been two days since the Federal Communications Commission voted to pass its controversial network neutrality rules, and the consensus is clear–no one is terribly happy. Now we have a full text of the actual rules–the 194-page document that lawyers, lawmakers and lobbyists will be combing through in the coming weeks and months. Read More »

Voices

Headphone Spat Pits Monster Against Upstart

Monster Cable Products has a well-known brand and a history of defending it aggressively in court. But its suit against a new rival to a high-profile line of headphones has some singular elements. Read More »

eMoney

Google’s Improving the Android Market–Finally

Better late than never. Google’s just now starting to show interest in the Android Market, with two recent upgrades that will help it compete against the iPhone App Store (although it still has a long way to go). Read More »

NetworkEffect

So Hot Right Now: Pictures and Ratings of Food

Even the greatest menu in the world has all-star items and dishes that are just blah. A bevy of dedicated apps and recently launched features for existing local apps now enable smartphone users to take pictures of memorable dishes and rate or comment on them. Here’s a sampler. Read More »

MediaMemo

Game Off! Viacom Dumps Rock Band on Investment Group

Remember when music video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band were red-hot? That was a couple of years ago. Read More »

Earlier Posts

There's more good stuff on BoomTown, MediaMemo, Mobilized, NetworkEffect, NewEnterprise, Voices and eMoney

Mossberg’s Best and Worst Products of 2010

Walt shares the best and worst products he reviewed in 2010 on WSJ Digits. Read More »

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