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| Signostics wins FDA approval for portable ultrasounds
May 19, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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|  Signostics Medical, maker of more affordable, compact and portable ultrasound devices, announced today that it has gotten the stamp of approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company says that the price and convenience of its palm-sized product could disrupt the current ultrasound market as soon as its released. |
| HP chops away sales slump in Q2
May 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm
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|  Hewlett-Packard's profits fell 17 per cent during the second quarter this year, thanks to slumping sales of PCs, printers, servers, and storage. Sales were essentially down everywhere except in HP's services biz, where the EDS acquisition is inflating figures quite nicely. The company also announced another round of layoffs. |
| Frequent Walks Key to Transition from Couch Potato to Marathon Runner
May 19, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|   Unlike Adam, some of us can barely get off the couch—let alone run around the block. Whether you want to run five or twenty five miles, use this simple technique to make it happen. "Is it really wise to encourage people with no recent running experience to 'get back in shape' by training for a full marathon?," a reader of The NYT Well blog inquired of site blogger and marathon hopeful Tara Parker-Pope. This question and other reader comments got Parker-Pope thinking: |
| Google Reader Tells You Which Friends Are Worth Following
May 19, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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|   Google ReaderGoogle Reader reviews has been adding more and more social features recently, like the commenting on shared items options they added back in March. Today, they announced some updates that continue this push with several new social features. The most social of Google Reader's new features is a new section of Google Reader Trends called "Friends Trends." It's designed to be a way to gauge how much you rely on the shared items of certain friends. You can quickly figure out whose shared blog posts you love most and who is just filling your RSS reader with noise. |
| For Yahoo's New Search, Form Follows Function Follows Form
May 19, 2009 at 7:41 pm
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|   Yahoo has found inspiration for its new web search functionality in an unusual place: its own pared-down mobile search results. The company discussed the latest enhancements to its search technology at an early afternoon "Chalk Talk" event today, displaying a new way of delivering results that's both simpler and more complex than the old way. |
| Palm Pre Launch Party for Sprint Premier Customers
May 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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|   This morning Sprint announced that the highly anticipated Palm Pre will be launched on June 6 for $199.99 with MIR after a two-year contract. Just now we got word that a special launch party will be hosted by Sprint for the coming handset, which arrives at retail stores the very next day. |
| Microsoft to Debut New Kumo Search at D: All Things Digital
May 19, 2009 at 7:35 pm
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|   The long-expected upgrade to Microsoft's search engine will soon make its debut. Sources say the company will demonstrate it publicly for the first time at our D: All Things Digital conference next week. Code-named Kumo, the engine is Microsoft's (MSFT) effort to raise its hand to table stakes in the battle for search market share with Google (GOOG)–something it desperately needs to do... |
| MSI Wind Top AE1900 gets reviewed, patted on the back
May 19, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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|   Those crazy kids over at Computer Shopper have got their hot hands on MSI's all-in-one Wind Top AE1900, and have been cool enough to share their thoughts with us. Sure, the thing is pretty snazzy (if not at all cutting edge, design-wise), and the 1. |
| Flock browser beefs up Twitter, Facebook support
May 19, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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|  Flock version 2.5, released on Tuesday by Redwood City, Calif. based Flock, Inc., is designed to let social network addicts spend their entire day in a single browser window. Flock, an enhanced version of the open-source Firefox browser, streams status updates from Twitter and Facebook in a sidebar that can be popped open or shut without shuffling windows around a computer screen. |
| The Rise of Social Music: How the Web Transformed Audio
May 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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|  Not even 15 years ago, we were listening to our favorite tunes on compact discs, lugging around our Walkmans, and singing along to the FM radio (Collective Soul, anyone?). But with the rise of the web and social media, music has been transformed into an even more vibrant and accessible art. No longer do you have to be signed by a major label or own a massive collection of CDs to dive into the world of music. |
| Cybersecurity groups band together in malware fight
May 19, 2009 at 7:14 pm
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| Three cybersecurity groups said Tuesday they plan to band together to combat the growing scourge of malware. The Anti-Spyware Coalition, National Cyber Security Alliance, and StopBadware.org said the Chain of Trust Initiative will link together vendors, researchers, government agencies, network providers, and other groups involved in internet security. The members said they want to establish a united front against malware suppliers in much the way groups coalesced to successfully fight providers of adware several years ago. |
| Yahoo Search, As We Know It, Is Over
May 19, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|   Earlier today, we were at Yahoo's "End of the 10 Blue Links" event. Basically, it was their state of search gathering, similar to the "Searchology" event that Google had last week. But there was a key difference, as anyone who was following along with the live notes likely saw: Google's was interesting. Yahoo's was not. |
| AT&T to Sell 3G Netbooks Across U.S.
May 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  AT&T says its trial selling netbooks in company stories in a couple of cities has been successful so it will begin selling the small laptops nationwide in a few months, the company said on Tuesday. The carrier will also expand its netbook lineup. Netbooks from Acer, Dell and Lenovo that have built-in AT&T 3G cards will be sold in AT&T's 2,200 stores across the U.S. starting as early as June. |
| Remains of the Day: Wi-Fi the Friendly Skies Edition
May 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  Airlines race to bring Wi-Fi to your crowded airline seat, personal finance webapp Rudder seriously screws up, and Snow Leopard is spotted in the wild. |
| Lawnmowers, Killer Bees and Fire: Five Tales of Mowing Madness
May 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|   Who knew a machine with razor-sharp blades spinning at 200RPM you're supposed to sit on top of might cause injury or death? Here are gruesome tales of mowing mishaps—from this past month alone! Lawnmowers, with their spinning, ground level blades, are most dangerous to small animals, young children, and feet. Recently, one Mowing Menace trapped a 4-year-old girl's foot under its blades of doom, causing enough damage to require amputation. In fact, she was one of 77,000 people who go to the hospital every year, victims of mowing-related violence. |
| Google Releases New Version of Reader
May 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  The Google has released new version of Reader that's been tweaked a bit. Google has added a new set of tabs in the trends page called "Friends Trends," where you can see which friends share the most content and whose shared items you read. Another change relates to the comments feature, which is now available to Reader's non-English users. Google says that sources of items in Reader are now visible in the comment view and makes it easier to mark items as saved. |
| Microsoft To Reveal New Search Engine Next Week
May 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|   Microsoft (MSFT) will show off the latest edition of its new search engine next week at the WSJ's D7 show. WSJ: Microsoft, as previously reported, has been testing its new search engine for weeks with Microsoft employees. Company executives have said the new search engine -- which carries the code name Kumo -- is designed to help users more easily find relevant results to online searches. The company is planning a major advertising campaign to promote the new search engine. |
| HTC Touch Pro2 for Sprint spotted in the wild, mid-June release?
May 19, 2009 at 6:59 pm
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|  We've known that a version of the HTC Rhodium / Touch Pro2 was inbound for Sprint at some point this summer (assuming no delays), but would mark the first time we've seen one in what appears to be finished production trim. |
| Advanced Algorithms Enlisted To Fight Cyberwars
May 19, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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| First Estonia. Then Georgia. Increasingly, the theoretical potential for cyberwar is becoming hard reality. One new report argues that the unchecked proliferation of cyber warfare weapons is comparable to that of nuclear warheads. At least one branch of the US military, United States Navy takes the threat seriously and monitors cyber threats on a daily basis. |
| Yahoo BOSS Search Bigger Than Ask.com
May 19, 2009 at 6:50 pm
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|  Last summer, Yahoo (YHOO) rolled out a search service called BOSS that let other companies use Yahoo's technology for their search functions. It's gotten to be very big since then. Yahoo announced today that the BOSS API is on track to hit 1 billion search queries this month. That's more than three times the queries it served six months ago. |
| Pandora Expects to Make a Profit in 2010 - Still Growing Rapidly
May 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|   We have seen our fair share of doom and gloom this year, but, according to a report from Bloomberg.com, at least Pandora, the free online music discovery service, expects to be profitable next year. Pandora was founded in in 2000, and derives its revenue from targeted audio advertising in its music streams and affiliate sales through Amazon's MP3 store and iTunes... |
| Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It
May 19, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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|  Is Google interested in searching the Real Time Web? Are they at all threatened by Twitter? Are Google spiders already so fast that this emergence of Real Time is old news to them? Further fodder for pondering these types of questions was offered by Google co-founder Larry Page today at the Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, UK.
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| Greylock Partners joins the Sand Hill neighborhood
May 19, 2009 at 2:05 pm
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| Greylock Partners is uprooting its headquarters after 44 years in Boston to move to venture capital's west coast mecca on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif. While the firm has been actively involved in Silicon Valley and the tech startup scene for years, leadership decided it was time to make a bigger commitment. |
| Google Cofounder Larry Page Has Twitter-Envy
May 19, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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|  We think Twitter's brightest future is as a sort of real-time search engine, serving ads against what people are saying about products and Web pages right now. Twitter users seem to agree. U.S. visits to Twitter search increased 514% from January to April, according to Hitwise. Google cofounder Larry Page shares our enthusiasm for Twitter search, too. Today he told a conference crowd that Google needs to catch up to the startup's "real time search" tech: |
| Beware of Viruses in Office 2010 BitTorrent Builds
May 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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|  The official Microsoft Office 2010 IT Blog asks users to avoid installing the leaked builds of the latest version of Office because many of them are infected with viruses—though readers will note that any and all torrents are potentially infected, so using your favorite anti-virus application is a must if you choose to download it. [Office 2010 IT Blog via Tweaking with Vishal] |
| Clarient closes $40M for cancer diagnostics
May 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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| Clarient, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based provider of cancer diagnostic and identification tests, has brought in $40 million from Oak Investment Partners. The first $30 million chunk of financing came in March, and the company could score $10 million more from the firm depending on terms of the deal. So far, Clarient has used the money to pay back shareholder Safeguard Scientifics. Things seem to be looking up, with the public company reporting $22.4 million in first quarter revenue, up 41 percent from last year. This marks the 19th quarter in a row that revenue has been on the upswing. |
| Citi: Worst May Be Over For Internet Stocks
May 19, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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|  More fuel for the "things may not be getting worse, and maybe even getting a little bit better" meme that I've been detecting (or perhaps promulgating ) recently: Citigroup (C) analyst Mark Mahaney notes that the Internet stocks he covers are up an average of 28% so far this year, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ is only up 7% and the broader S&P is down 2%. |
| Rumor: iPhone next gen specs, on-sale date July 17
May 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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|   The previously unheralded Apple iPhone Apps blog has a rumor post up regarding the next generation iPhone hardware, suggesting that July 17th is the expected date for the new phone to be on shelves (reasonably well aligned with an announcement at WWDC)...
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| Engadget Labs: The best point-and-shoot camera for under $400
May 19, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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|  The summer looms, and so too does the summer vacation season. Despite the economy there are visions of great trips brewing in the backs of peoples' minds, visions that will soon turn into (hopefully) great memories -- and (hopefully) great pictures. Some folks wouldn't dream of going on those trips without an SLR slung 'round their neck or hanging at the hip, but then there are plenty of others who'd much prefer something a little more pocketable. Even for aspiring photographers there are times when lugging around five pounds of glass just isn't going to work. |
| Verizon Wireless enV Touch to launch June 5th
May 19, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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|  Rumors have been flying around over the past day or so regarding the enV Touch launch and we just confirmed that the handset will indeed launch with Verizon Wireless on June 5th. The update to the almost two-year-old Voyager will feature some much needed improvements including a 3-inch internal display with on-screen keyboard, external 3-inch screen with 800×480 resolution, 3... |
| Satiety secures $7.5M bridge for tummy tuck shortcut
May 19, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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| Satiety, maker of a minimally-invasive device that shrinks stomach capacity via the mouth, has landed a $7.5 million bridge loan from its existing investors - a group that includes Skyline Ventures, HLM Venture Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures, Three Arch Partners, Venrock and medical inventor Thomas Fogarty, reports VentureWire. |
| New iPhone July 17? To Have Rubber Back, Light-Up Apple Logo?
May 19, 2009 at 1:35 pm
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|  Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone will go on sale Friday, July 17, according to AppleiPhoneApps.com. What'll be inside it? Most of the reports we've seen about Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone -- expected in the next two months -- are about its technical guts: A faster processor, better camera, more memory, faster Internet, etc. But here's a few cosmetic details that are supposedly going to be included in the new phone, if AppleiPhoneApps' sources are trustworthy: |
| Oops: Did Rudder Just Send Your Financial Data to Someone Else?
May 19, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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|  Some Web apps have more margin for error than others. For apps that deal with highly personal data – like financial planning applications – that margin is very slim. Rudder, one of many apps that competes in this space, may have just committed a huge blunder today: sending user's confidential financial information to the wrong people. |
| Get Ready for a Liveblog of the Yahoo's Search "Chalk Talk": No Word Yet on Erasing Google's Market Share
May 19, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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|  Later today, as BoomTown reported last week, Yahoo is putting on a search party. Well, not a "party" party–although there will apparently be some lunch noshing at the "Search chalk talk," during which top techies at the Internet giant will talk up the strategy for its more innovative products, such as Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) and Search Monkey. |
| Tear Mender Patches Rips in a Jiffy
May 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  If you (or your kids) live a rough-and-tumble lifestyle, Tear Mender makes instant patches on fabric and leather for a quick and effective fix. How well does it work? According to weblog Cool Tools: We haven't had the opportunity to use Tear Mender yet, but for $8 at Amazon, it sounds like a great addition to your household DIY kit. (Check out the instructional videos on the Tear Mender homepage for more usage specifics.) If you've had a chance to use it in the past, share your experience in the comments. |
| How the Semantic Web Will Redefine Digital Music
May 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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| Monday's SanFran MusicTech Summit featured a host of informative panels dealing with the ways technology is transforming the music industry. One thread concerned how music companies are using the so-called "Semantic Web," the field of web data from which actual meaning can be derived through analysis and machine learning... |
| Is Boston Still a Venture Capital Hotbed?
May 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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|  Waltham, Mass., and Route 128 were once compared to Menlo Park, Calif., and Sand Hill Road, but is the Boston region losing its entrepreneurial edge? The latest evidence that it may be: Greylock Partners, which was founded in Massachusetts in 1965, is moving its headquarters to Silicon Valley. "Looking at Greylock's history, for a long time, Silicon Valley has been dominant, in terms of money invested, returns and headcount," said Bill Helman, a Boston-based partner at Greylock since 1984... |
| Larry Page: Twitter Made Google Focus On Realtime Search
May 19, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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|  Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google did a double header interview from the Google Zeitgeist conference just outside of London today. But the real question on our lips was what is Google going to do about the astounding buzz around realtime search and Twitter? During a press conference I asked the question of of of Google's executives, and the answer came back that "the kind of innovation like what Twitter is doing and what we're doing is increasing search speed, relevance , freshness and comprehensiveness. Other companies will come up with solutions of course." |
| Google result-manipulating Gumblar exploit picking up steam
May 19, 2009 at 1:18 pm
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|   A malware exploit that has been circulating since March or so is picking up the pace lately, hijacking more than 3,000 websites as of this week. Gumblar's goal is to manipulate Google's results in order to affect as many PCs as possible, which has some researchers describing it as "a botnet of compromised websites." |
| Grab your US Army-issue iPod touch, soldier!
May 19, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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|  Contemporary soldiers are fighting what Newsweek calls "Networked Warfare." Portable electronic devices and other equipment keep them connected to each other, weapons systems and real-time intelligence where ever they may be. In Iraq, the iPod touch is finding a role with the US military. In one scenario, touches with language software have replaced much pricier translation units... |
| TransferJet completes close-proximity specs, now wants members, respect
May 19, 2009 at 8:22 am
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|  Wahey! It's been awhile since we've heard from you, TransferJet, the high-speed but low-range wireless would-be standard that promises 560Mbps over a near-adjacent range of just 3cm. Sony kicked off the initiative, but now has about 15 others playing along who have all managed to put aside their differences to finalize the specs on both the physical and connection layers... |
| Ford crushes half-price hybrid hoax
May 19, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| Ford has stepped forward to debunk a hoax email suggesting the motor firm was selling new models of a hybrid car at half price in response to the global financial crisis. The bogus emails, ostensibly from a Ford sales manager in Michigan, claim 500 Ford Fusion Hybrid cars are on offer at the bargain price of $15,500, instead of the real "on the road" price of a 2010 model hybrid car of $27,270. |
| Atheros AR6002 makes NEC's N-06A dual-mode handset a WiFi access point
May 19, 2009 at 8:11 am
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|  We've seen oodles of dual-mode handsets, but none quite like this. Rather than boasting two radios, two keyboards or two faces, NEC's N-06A -- which is gearing up to debut on NTT DoCoMo over in Japan -- actually has two purposes. |
| Five Things Wolfram Alpha Does Better (And Vastly Different) Than Google
May 19, 2009 at 8:05 am
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|  Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. Perhaps it will one day become one, but currently it's exactly what its tagline says: a computational knowledge engine. However, it looks like GoogleGoogle reviews, it provides you with answers and therefore most users will try to use it as a search engine, which doesn't always yield good results. Once you start asking it the right questions, it'll give you better answers. |
| Asus Eee PC 1008HA Seashell
May 19, 2009 at 8:02 am
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| Review We liked the Asus Eee PC 1008HA - aka Seashell - when we first saw it at the CeBit show this past March. Asus has done 'luxury' netbooks before - most notably the Eee PC S101 - but they never won us over. Just too darn angular for us. You might as well have a regular netbook and pay a lot less for it. |
| Apple, RIM: No Netbooks
May 19, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) may disagree on many things, but they are of the same mind when it comes to the the netbook phenomenon: it will be shortlived. Asked about Apple's interest in the category during an late April earnings calls, COO Tim Cook said it has none. |
| Palm Pre Launching June 6 For $199
May 19, 2009 at 8:00 am
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|  As expected, Palm (PALM) and Sprint Nextel (S) will start selling the new Palm Pre smartphone on June 6. Like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone -- the phone it's going to compete closest with -- it'll cost $199. Unlike the iPhone, Sprint and Palm will make you go through the hassle of redeeming a $100 mail-in-rebate. |
| Wacky Jacqui defends US shock-jock ban
May 19, 2009 at 7:59 am
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| The home secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday faced an indignant Tory MP, who described her decision to ban US shock-jock Michael Savage from darkening the UK's shores as 'ludicrous'. Smith recently included Savage on a "name-and-shame" list of 16 undesirables not welcome in this Sceptr'd Isle, which also included a Russian skinhead duo, Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, ex-Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Stephen 'Don' Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe and Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky. |
| Hearst Says SeattlePI.com Is Growing With An 80% Smaller Staff
May 19, 2009 at 7:57 am
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|  Hearst says online-only newspaper SeattlePI.com is growing even with an 80% smaller staff. From a statement: During the last week of April, the site broke its one-day unique user record since going online-only. There were 324,000 unique visitors on April 30—the 4th highest day in terms of unique visitors in 2009—breaking previous records set since going online only on April 29 (290,000) and April 27 (283,000). Total page views for those days were 1.5 million, 1.4 million and 1.5 million, respectively. |
| Facebook Embraces OpenID: But What Does It Mean?
May 19, 2009 at 7:55 am
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|  Facebook today integrated OpenID, crossing a major landmark in the openness of social networks. The step is even more significant as Facebook, the biggest social network of them all with over 200 million users, was considered resistant to being "open" -- until now. If you're planning on joining Facebook, then OpenID integration would make the biggest difference. If you already have a Google Mail account (which supports OpenID) then all you have to do is enter your email credentials and your new account will be populated automatically with your data. | | | 
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