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MySpace, once the 500 pound gorilla of social networking, has been in retreat for over a year. Outmatched by Facebook on the outside, and faced internally with executive departures and creative squabbles, the Fox subsidiary has struggled to define exactly what it wants to achieve. Now a new p...
Google New Apps Marketplace not only challenges Microsoft on the Office front, but also as a platform for the enterprise mobile market.
Toyota's problem right now is how to find a needle in a haystack before it draws blood again. Of the millions of cars the company has sold in the United States, only a few hundred have experienced dangerous bouts of uncontrolled acceleration. But James Sike's Toyota, which sped out of control in California yesterday, shows just how poorly the company is handling its search.
Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz tells of times that Apple and Microsoft threatened Sun to keep innovative products off the market, and how he was able to turn the tables. The stories also suggest how much of market dominance come from intimidation and not product superiority.
Apple's iPhone developer contract heavily favors Apple -- and even says that developers owe Apple its cut of app sales even if Apple doesn't collect.
The Game Developers Conference barely started, but surprising news is already here: Windows Phone 7 games will integrate avatars, gamer handles, and other profile info from the massively popular XBox Live community. From Kotaku: Windows Phone 7 games will include the ability to unlock achievements ...
The story of Chatroulette, a site founded by a 17-year-old Russian who dreams of founding a company in the U.S., has some encouraging lessons for American business on the Web.
As my colleague Jim Edwards notes, Google (GOOG) has staked out a number of advertising-related technologies that suggest a lot about its strategies, including how it can compete with Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), as well as new excursions that might raise privacy concerns. According to a repo...
Apple's attempt to scare other handset vendors from using multitouch interfaces is a losing strategy.
The world wide web is a little smaller because of Microsoft. Bing now doesn't recognize what Microsoft deems "erotic" searches in Algeria, Syria and other Arabic countries -- 22 countries total. Furthermore, the aggressive filtering blocks gay lifestyle content. Says the Open Net Initiative (ONI): ...
Tablets will need handwriting and voice recognition as much as good touch interfaces, and Google, Microsoft, and Apple all seem to be pursuing a roster of technologies.
Steve Ballmer pushes Office 2010 out a month ahead of schedule as Google's DocVerse acquisition breathes down Microsoft's neck.
People railed when Apple (AAPL) dropped Wi-Fi finders from the iPhone app store. Back in February, "overtly sexual" apps were sent packing. And now there are rumors that Apple plans to ban "cookie cutter" apps built from templates. But I don't think that Apple is on a series of arbitrary witch hunts...
Microsoft filed a patent application to use third-party certificates to guarantee anonymity when users allow software packages to send data back to vendors.
In a bold move, Microsoft will now allow users to include sexual orientation and/or identity in their XBox Live "Gamertag". The Gamertag is the nickname people XBox 360 gamers use online, not unlike a Twitter name -- and game companies like Microsoft have generally been reluctant to allow this lev...
