By Buckeye Hamburger
Contributor, Daily Kos
The history of Sun’s high ride and demise, and the continuing story of the newly-merged Oracle’s fortunes, will occupy the minds of the IT industry and its pundits for a long time to come.
By John Gruber
Editor, Daring Fireball
Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco.
By Louis Gray
Blogger, LouisGray.com
When FriendFeed debuted on the scene in late 2007, it was one of the simplest ways to aggregate all of my updates from the social outposts I have all over the Web, see friends’ updates and have a discussion around their shared items.
By John Tierney
Columnist, New York Times
Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they’ve had less success measuring what kind of information travels fastest.
By Simon Dumenco
The Media Guy, Advertising Age
If you’re a certain sort of still-employed media person, you’re probably wondering how much longer you can hold on to your job.
By Russell Adams
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
New articles from the Associated Press have quietly started rolling out on Google’s news site in the past hour, ending a nearly seven-week absence stemming from contentious negotiations between the two parties.
By Niraj Sheth
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
More talking, less texting. That’s the spin Sequoia Capital-backed Bubble Motion is putting on mobile social networking.
By Amy Schatz
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski gets a little peeved when people suggests that he wants to regulate the Internet.
By Ben Charny
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Electronic Arts Inc.’s loss narrowed in the holiday quarter from a year-ago period that was weighed down by charges. But the videogame publisher issued a weak outlook for the current quarter, sending its shares tumbling 10% after hours.
By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
IAC/Interactive, the Barry Diller-piloted Internet conglomerate, this morning posted Q4 results that beat Street expectations.
The company reported revenue of $367.2 million, ahead of the Street at $339.6 million; adjusted EPS of 20 cents a share was two cents better than the consensus at 18 cents.
By Don Clark
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors. The company also prides itself on setting the pace, underscoring the strategy recently by deploying its most tiny circuitry in microprocessors for mainstream PCs.
By Charles Arthur
Technology Editor, Guardian
On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple’s wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a “mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer” who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you’re in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.
By Noah Shachtman
Editor, Danger Room, Wired.com
The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.
By Jack Shafer
Editor, Press Box, Slate
Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.
By Vinnie Mirchandani
Blogger, Deal Architect
I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software.
By Jon Fortt
Blogger, Big Tech, Fortune
If you’re Toyota right now, the last thing you want is more surprises.
By Scott Denne
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
As high-profile cyber attacks, like the one that recently hit Google Inc., become more common, Internet security is getting more attention at commercial organizations and especially in the government.
By Andrew LaVallee
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Verizon Wireless said Monday that its recent blocking of parts of 4chan was caused by “potentially disruptive” traffic from the popular site.
“Our network security system found traffic from some of the 4chan web sites that were potentially disruptive of the Verizon Wireless network and could affect our customers’ use of their services,” Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for the wireless carrier, said.
By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily
Howard Stern told listeners this morning that he is considering leaving Sirius XM to become a judge on American Idol, according the TheWrap.com.
By Jessica E. Vascellaro
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. is set to unveil a new feature to Gmail designed to make it easier and faster for users to share media and status updates with friends, according to people familiar with the matter.
These people said Google could launch the new feature, which aims to make its Gmail email application more social, as soon as this week.
By Caroline McCarthy
Writer, CNET
The final season of the hit sci-fi series premieres next week, and travel site Kayak has what appears to be an unofficial tie-in. Or is it?
By Drake Martinet
Intern, All Things Digital
This week, we took a short walk down University Avenue in Silicon Valley with Keith Lee, co-founder and CEO of Booyah Games. We talked about his time as lead developer for Blizzard, his total lack of common sense, and how he’s trying to make the whole social game world “level up.”
Don’t worry–we made him translate most of the gamer lingo.
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