Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt)

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 27 minutes ago

The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire’s and Sprint's WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. And that someone was Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Maybe he just can't say “No” to visionary billionaires like Clearwire chairman [...]

Meet Greg Kumparak, the New MobileCrunch Editor

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Introducing yourself is always kind of awkward, isn't it? It's tough to try to explain who you are without coming off as cocky or arrogant. I usually tend to go straight from my name to how incredible I am at skee-ball, which for some reason turns people away. My name’s Greg Kumparak, and I’m the [...]

• Meet Greg Kumparak, the new MobileCrunch editor - CrunchGear
• Meet Greg Kumparak, the new MobileCrunch editor - NovaCiencia.com

Tag the World With GeoGraffiti

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago

Now in public beta, GeoGraffiti is a free “Verbal Bulletin Board” that allows you to record and share location-specific voice notes, or “Voice Marks”, whether you're on the go or in front of your computer. Find a new coffee shop that you love? Call up GeoGraffiti, and leave a Voice Mark to let the world [...]

Will Image Ads Bring Google More Money?

Mashable (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Companies need to make more money. If it's a publicly traded company, then a continuous increase in revenue generally makes the shareholders happy. And despite a neck-breaking soar to high stock prices in the past year, Google has suffered some slowed growth in recent months. With text ad growth slowing, it's time [...]

Sprint releases BlackBerry Curve 8330 into wild

Cnet (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Credit: Sprint) Just a quick heads up to all you Sprint customers: The RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 is now available for purchase. Yes, that's right, the Curve can now be yours for just $179.99 with a two-year contract and after rebates and discounts. Like ...

Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants to make sure that people only add “real” friends to their account, and the [...]

• Facebook reported ready to lift 5,000 friends cap - Cnet
• Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit - moraaz.org - feed all tech!

Big On Hulu: 'Speed Racer'

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 15 minutes ago

What's that moving up the Hulu charts ? It's " Speed Racer "' -- not the movie but the weird and sort-of-loved animated series that dates back to 1967. Thirteen episodes of the original series were added to Hulu on Thursday. One of them -- " The Great Plan ," -- made its way into the top-20 TV shows on Friday. No mystery as to why: Hulu featured it on the home page. That can't be bad for Time Warner...

A D.C. Test of Google Cloud Computing [BestBizWare]

Know More Media (Free subscription) | 24 minutes ago

We have said several times that internet apps are not as good as desktop apps. At the same time, we have said that the Cloud Computing Powers That Be (CCPTB) which is mainly Google with Microsoft as a wanna-be, certainly have the horsepower to improve their online apps at will, thereby changing cloud computing from pie in the sky (pun intended) to true computing on the net. All it would take, we believe,...

Making bombs more powerful with reactive materials

DVICE (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago

The military is experimenting with replacing inert metals in munitions with reactive materials to create enhanced "superbombs." By replacing the inert metals in Explosively Formed Penetrators, the resulting explosions is much larger and is more able to get through rock...

Roundup: Tidbits on Jangl's demise, Virgin considers Helio hookup, VCs looking overseas, and more

VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The back-story on Jangl's slow death — Yesterday, we reported on Jangl's asset sale process. A tipster tells us that Seattle-based WhitePages had offered to buy Internet phone company Jangl for $20 million, but then kept the company in diligence for more than a month and walked away at the last minute — giving Jangl [...]

Facebook sees MySpace’s Twitter partnership and raises it Digg

VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

We’re at the point that when either of the two social networking giants, MySpace and Facebook, does something, the other has to respond. Yesterday, MySpace unveiled its “Data Availability” initiative, allowing other sites around the Internet to utilize its users’ data to update profiles, photos, videos and other attributes. Today, according to a TechCrunch scoop, [...]

Lehman Brothers Raises Layoff Axe, Invents New Way To Say "You're Fired"

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Lehman Brothers (LEH) layoffs are expected next week. Some soon-to-be-whacked employees have apparently found out their unfortunate fates in advance. A reader submits: A friend of mine...has heard of their likely layoff (rumors are many coming next week), not thru a direct communication from a superior, but by receiving a notice re COBRA benefits and monthly costs. They expect the official word of...

AT&T: Free Wi-Fi For iPhone Users Is Coming…Someday (T, AAPL)

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Last week, the news was that iPhone owners could cash in on free Starbucks (SBUX) Wi-Fi , along with AT&T broadband Internet subscribers. Then AT&T pulled the rug out from under them . Then the offer appeared on AT&T's Web site , and then that disappeared as well. Now? An AT&T spokesman tells the NYT that iPhones will get free Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots , just not yet. We promise to update you just as...

Not A Flashback: TheGlobe.com Not Dead Yet

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Pop quiz: Whatever became of theGlobe.com, one of Bubble 1.0 's most infamous stories? We know, we know - we would have failed this one, too. Turns out the company (here's an excellent history , via Wikipedia) is still extant , technically speaking. That is, someone -- that'd be CEO Michael Egan , presumably -- cares enough about it to keep filing statements with the SEC, even though it's long been...

Protect Mom with a GPS-packing Marilyn Light Bag

DVICE (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

While this almost-clever handbag resembling a pair of riveted blue jeans might look ordinary, inside it's stuffed with helpful tech. Much better than some of the silly, pseudo-tech handbags we've seen lately, Its interior is lit up by LEDs...

Social network & publicity: the originality of web 2.0

teatrends | 05/05/2008

We were left some months ago with an accurate survey on what was happening in the democracy of web 2.0, which revolutionised the contents and the practises of today's industrial culture. Seeing the velocity which characterises our time, we felt we had to return to this discussion, to see, also for curiosity's sake, how the internet has changed between the end of 2007 and the beginning of the new year.

Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Withdrawn

mbeteta | 05/04/2008

Microsoft has officially withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo in a letter that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer sent today to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. In a final meeting that took place today between Jerry Yang and David Filo from Yahoo and Steve Ballmer and Steve Johnson from Microsoft, Yahoo stated that the lowest price they would accept was $37 per share and Microsoft reported that they would not go over

Will Treehoo.com become the new Yahoo and save the planet to?

ppbg | 05/01/2008

The new website "Treehoo.com" has the aim to compete with the greatest webportals like Yahoo, MSN and others. The difference is that "Treehoo.com" intends to give most of its proffit to planting trees. Internauts can then easily help to save the planet by using the page as their portal each time they log on to the net. The service is free and offers for the moment Google search, You Tube videos, news,...