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Google Launches SearchWiki for Customized Search Results

Posted: November 20th, 2008, 6:46pm CET

After almost a year of testing and some recent early sightings, Google today is planning to launch SearchWiki, a way for searchers to edit their own search results. When you log into your Google account--and you need to have one...
Consumer Electronics With A Twist

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 11:05pm CET

One good thing that could come out of this economic downturn is an explosion of innovation in consumer electronics. There are signs that the electronics industry may be inching closer to breaking a new frontier and offering flexible consumer electronics.
Cisco Needs To Step Up To Reduce Net Censorship, Says Net Freedom Advocate

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 10:03pm CET

I recently finished writing a story on Net censorship in Saudi Arabia, as part of a larger package on Cisco's ambitions in the world's emerging markets. Throughout the process, my editor Peter Elstrom and I struggled with how to explain...
Microsoft to Stop Charging For Home PC Security

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 9:32pm CET

Two years after jumping into the PC security software market, Microsoft is scaling back its ambitions there. The company said Nov. 18 it’s discontinuing its $50-a-year OneCare software in favor of a give-away program due next year called Morro. Not...
Apple's iPhone to Debut at Wal-Mart?

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 5:57pm CET

Several blogs are claiming that Apple's iPhone will go on sale at Wal-Mart beginning Dec. 28. Is this the right move for Apple? You bet.
Who Should Lead Yahoo? Answer: Nobody

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:06pm CET

From Creative Capital: Well, no one can say they didn't see it coming. Jerry Yang is finally out at Yahoo, reports Kara Swisher with the big scoop. And no one can say he didn't deserve it. Yang, having spurned Microsoft's...
Focus On The Big Fish, SEC. There Will Always Be Mark Cubans To Go After

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:34pm CET

So SEC, you're going after Mark Cuban, for alleged insider trading on a company nobody has heard of? Really? Don't get me wrong. $750,000 is an awful lot of money where I come from. That's the amount he allegedly saved...
Jerry Yang to Step Down As Yahoo CEO; Will Microsoft Return?

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:56am CET

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a successor is found, the embattled Internet company just announced. The release (quoted in full after the jump, along with Yang's memo to the troops) came...
Spansion Fires A Salvo Amid Memory Slump

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:20am CET

Amid a memory chip market decimated by competition and plunging prices, flash memory maker Spansion is trying to remodel itself as a technology licensing company. It announced its intention with fireworks on Monday, filing twin patent infringement lawsuits against South...
Windows Live--Welcome to the Social

Posted: November 17th, 2008, 5:09pm CET

I'm a bit late getting to this, but Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off its completely overhauled Windows Live service, Redmond's attempt to become a force in the burgeoning world of social networking. While the service is well designed,...