Technology News

New Year’s Tech Resolutions (via TechCrunch)

This is a great list from Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch on this year’s new Tech Resolutions …. (I love the last one) …
Okay, I know, I’m late with these, but coming up with New Year’s resolutions is tough. And isn’t there a one-week grace period anyway? Rather than do predictions, I thought I’d offer […]

DomainTools January 3rd Live Auction List Announced

UPDATE: The Live Auctions is now Open for bidding. Now until January 10th. Take a look or start bidding.
DomainTools.com announced that it’s having their next Live Auction on Janurary 3rd. Out of over 2000 domain submissions only 170 made the cut (I actually was able to get three on the list - simplyfrench.com, aboutwifi.com, […]

Wordpress vs. clunky CMS

Here’s a interesting read from ZDNet on using Wordpress versus a standard “clunky” CMS. He’s got some good points and really nails-down the “IT geek”.
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In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I think it’s all the same and chances are techies don’t care anyway–he touches on blogs partially being a function of […]

Sprint Caves In and Agrees To Unlock Phones

The AP reports that as part of a proposed settlement to a class-action suit Sprint Nextel has agreed to provide customers with the code necessary to unlock their phones, after they’ve finished the service and paid their bills. Sprint won’t have to pay financial damages under the terms of the settlement. Considering people have to […]

Compete.com Search Analytics Opens Officially to the Public

I’ve been using compete.com for several months now and really enjoy the site’s features for keeping tabs on my competition. I got an email from them this morning annoucing the official launch of their new Search Analytics which they say allows users to:

Identify new relevant keywords for possible bids
Learn competitor’s search strategies
Track performance of specific […]

Skype co-founder Agrees Skype was Overpriced

Na … ya think?
That’s eBay for ya, at the time. I mean hey, they were sitting pretty with a ton of money in the bank  - so who’da’thunk it that this “brand new technology” wouldn’t turn our to be as profitable as they initially thought.
Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has said that he agrees the […]

Google GPhone Plans?

For a number of years, a large group of Google engineers have been working in secret on a mobile phone project. The unknown project name has sperd curiousity and names like Google Phone and GPhone have been spreading around the Net like Apples iPhone hype prior to hitting the streets. But the GPhone is not […]

Microsoft Chief Has Seen Future: Advertising!

Steve Ballmer’s plans for the computer software giant include taking on Yahoo! and Google in their own internet territor.
Steve Ballmer doesn’t do half-measures. The veteran Microsoft chief executive says that he relaxes by running, playing golf and seeing his children “and the other 18 hours of the day I work”.
Moments later, the dynamo charged with […]

Microsoft Acquires Jellyfish.com

Online shopping is going places and Microsoft wants a piece of action. According to a their Live Search Blog, Microsoft Corp. has bought comparative shopping search engine web site Jellyfish.com. The site gives a portion of the advertising revenue it earns from the retailers back to the customers, which materializes in a rebate on […]

Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra

That’s cool … as long as they keep it open source and FREE! Heck, they should give away the Network Edition now … they want to compete with Google don’t they…?
Yep, they bought them for $350 million cash (read the official blog post here and here … and here’s
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