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Friday, December 24, 2010
A musical holiday greeting, suitable for tracking Santa’s progress. Read More »
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 »
Skype group video chat is restored, just in time for Christmas. Read More »
Barumph ba ba bum! Read More »
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 »
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
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
- Facebook Buys eBay, Blockbuster IPOs Return and Other Predictions by VCs on Voices
- Skype Talks About Just How Full That Half a Glass Is (Updated: Glass Now 90 Percent Full) on Mobilized
- Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To) on Voices
- D: Dive Into Mobile: The Full Interview Video of Google Ad Head Susan Wojcicki on BoomTown
- Shhh! The FCC Says It Will Approve Comcast–NBC U Deal on MediaMemo
- What Tech Companies Are Spending in Washington on NewEnterprise
- Video Meme: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs! on NetworkEffect
- T-Mobile’s CES Plans: Lots of Android, Some Tablets and a Faster Network on Mobilized
- Demand Media’s IPO–Which Won’t Happen Until After the New Year Now–Depends on How It Accounts for Content on BoomTown
- Fortifying Phones From Attackers on Voices
Mossberg’s Best and Worst Products of 2010
Walt shares the best and worst products he reviewed in 2010 on WSJ Digits. Read More »