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Microsoft has teamed up with Facebook, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and LinkedIn to allow people to transfer their contacts between the five networks and Microsoft’s Windows Live Service. It’s a start in being able to access some of the data locked into a social profile, but it’s […] Read more »

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Google has issued to the FCC its plan for what it would like to do with the airwaves freed up by the upcoming conversion from analog to digital television, and it’s pretty optimistic. You may recall the 700 MHz auction that decided the fate of licensed […] Read more »

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London startup SpinVox raised $100 million today in a round of financing that values the company at $500 million. That’s big money for a company that translates voicemails into text, but SpinVox appears to have achieved some valuable intellectual property associated with its speech-to-text software. Currently […] Read more »

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Our friend Mark Mahaney, Internet Analyst at Citicorp, has issued a note parsing the latest search query data from comScore. He notes: Overall query growth decelerated, but Google gained market share, 70 bps to a “record-high 59.2 percent.” However, slower gains can be a harbinger of […] Read more »

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The University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be the recipients of $20 million in research grants from Microsoft and Intel over the next five years to further the use of multicore chips, the four said today. On the conference call […] Read more »

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Right now Microsoft’s Windows Live efforts are the software giant’s answer to web applications and cloud computing. In fact, however, they’re less a cloud strategy than a layer of fog over the multibillion-dollar packaged software franchises that keeps Microsoft going. But the Redmond-based behemoth isn’t dumb, […] Read more »

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Business software may be profitable, but the growth and sex appeal is in advertising. At least, Microsoft seems to thinks so. Amidst efforts to make headway with its takeover offer for Yahoo, the Redmond giant today said it’s agreed to buy online ad analytics firm Rapt. […] Read more »

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Some quick math makes Facebook’s $15 billion valuation look even crazier. Apparently the guys over at Silicon Valley Insider also bothered to crunch the numbers. Bebo sold to AOL this morning for $850 million and have about 40 million users, costing $21.25 per user. In July […] Read more »

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BroadbandReports: Israel Latest to Force ISPs to Block Piracy Reuters: Logitech Says Any Microsoft Bid “Without Sense” Virtualization for Everyone: Interview with Rackspace CTO InfoWorld: Former Head of Motorola Handset Business Leaves ArsTechnica: Bad Phorm? UK ISPs sell Clickstream Data to Advertisers SAI: Storage/Sharing Site Drop.io […] Read more »

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TechCrunch: Google, Microsoft Preparing Bids for Digg ArsTechnica: U.S. Rural Broadband, You Can Get it But You Can’t Afford It Light Reading: Appliance Vendors Don’t Fear Cisco Reuters: Ciena Quarterly Profit; Outlook Beat Expectations Fortune: Re-engineering HP Labs Gizmo News: Apple to Allow VoIP over Wi-Fi Read more »

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SAI: Google StreetView Competitor Everyscape Gets $7M News.com: In Tech Support Obama Beats Clinton BusinessWeek: Clearwire and Sprint: Squeezed Together? Fortune: Yahoo! Playing for Time in Microsoft Bid WSJ: Microsoft Expands Online Services FT: Vonage Negotiating with Bondholders to Stave off Bankruptcy Read more »

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Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant’s rich media development framework. This follows announcements last year of Silverlight support for Linux […] Read more »

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NYTimes: Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T: It’s a Deal WSJ Blogs: Should Verizon Buy Sprint? Investor’s Business Daily: Big Tech Companies Eyeing Acquisitions as Valuations Drop XConomy: Akamai Wanted $100M Patent Award NickCarr: Rumor: Microsoft Set for Vast Data Center Push? BroadbandReports: WiMax Auction in Italy […] Read more »

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SAI: WPP Sees Some Ad Slowdown in the U.S., More to Come ArsTechnica: Intel Unveils New Embedded 45nm Xeons, Updates Chipsets Austin American Statesman: Dell Net Income Falls in Fourth Quarter LightReading: AlcaLu Climbs to 16.4 Terabits Over Fiber AP: Microsoft Cuts Price for Vista Read more »

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Light Reading: Microsoft Tweaks its Carrier Strategy Reuters: Killer Robots Pose Greatest Militant Threat Computerworld: What’s Next for 3Com? Another Merger May be in the Works InfoWorld: Verizon’s First Open Network Specs Coming March 19 Telecoms.com: Nokia Unveils Shape-Changing Nano Phone Concept ArsTechnica: Spammers Crack Gmail’s […] Read more »

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Data Center Knowledge: EMC’s Cloud Offering Taking Shape Tech Confidential: Who Will be Dell’s Next Storage Buy? Light Reading: Metcalfe Pitches Terabit Ethernet Ars Technica: Windows Live SkyDrive Launches But Needs a Touch of Paint BusinessWeek: Sprint’s Wake-Up Call CNet: Firefox Crosses 500 Million Download Mark Read more »

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Microsoft is changing the way it does business and is opening up, according to a long elaborate press release the company issued this morning. I am reading through it and will try and make sense of it all. At first blush looks like the leopard is […] Read more »

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LightReading: French Firms Take on Microsoft San Francisco Chronicle: Microsoft Opens Xbox Live to Amateurs Seeking Alpha: Wireless Price Wars Likely to Hurt Landline Carriers Ars Technica: AOL Ending All Support for Netscape on March 1 NewTeeVee: Google Finally Launches AdSense for Video Read more »

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The Register: Qualcomm and the Real Story Behind The Mobile World Congress ArsTechnica: Amazon Hopes to Chill Steam With Game Downloads EETimes: Alliance Formed to Promote Gaming on PC NYTimes: Microsoft Said to Plan Proxy Fight for Yahoo Reuters: Garmin Results Beat Wall Street CNet: New […] Read more »

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Data Center Knowledge: Microsoft Considering Iowa Data Center Ars Technica: Net Neutrality Bill Poised to Surface in House Light Reading: China Mobile Joins LTE Threesome BusinessWeek: Rupert Murdoch’s New Startup Incubator Marketwatch: Nortel Sees 4G as Opportunity to Leapfrog Rivals The News Market: Google Asks U.S. […] Read more »

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[qi:110] Update: Microsoft is in some of kind of spending mood. First they offered up $45 billion for Yahoo (not enough for some!). And then there was that Danger acquisition. But how much did they spend on the Palo Alto-based company started by Android leader Andy […] Read more »

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Bloomberg: Yahoo Defense May Fail to Repel Hostile Microsoft Bid Apple Web site: Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Reuters: Nokia Adds Google Search to Handsets Broadband Reports: Competition Still Not Lowering TV Prices Reuters: RIM May Offer Touchscreen BlackBerry NYTimes: Wide BlackBerry Outage Reported […] Read more »

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It’s not as fun as counting delegates from Super Tuesday, and figuring out which mobile operating system is pulling ahead can be complex, but we’re on it. And while we’re not tallying intangibles such as the “cool” factor of the phone, and have no idea how […] Read more »

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Exactly how are companies going to make money on the social web? The path to the next generation of online advertising does indeed remain murky, but two new deals may provide a little light. Read more »

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Google has kept mum on the much talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal, but today the company broke its silence and posted its official statement on its blog. The statement is credited to David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer… Could Microsoft now attempt […] Read more »

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This morning, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. While not entirely hostile, as Yahoo’s board is considering the deal, it’s not exactly friendly, either. Steve Ballmer said on a conference call that the two companies have been talking about this […] Read more »

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Just when you’d think Google’s financial discombobulation would give Yahoo some rest comes this heartfelt bullet from Microsoft. On the PR newswire this morning runs this incredibly respectful yet dispiritingly asexual love letter from Steve Ballmer to Jerry Yang. And, oh how Mr. Ballmer loves to […] Read more »

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The rumors of computer giant Dell teaming up with Google to produce an Android-powered mobile phone are a nice break from all the iPhone hooplah, but folks, it’s not going to happen. Thanks to its hiring of Ron Garriques, the former head of Motorola’s handset business, […] Read more »

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The problem with the nebulous nature of computing in the cloud is that the real money is made by controlling a platform. In the vapor of bytes that make up the cloud, the platform is the underlying land. So one can look at Nokia’s $153 million […] Read more »

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The tail wagging the dog on outlandish valuations of Web 2.0 companies are corporate buyers and investors. But free-spending strategic buyers are showing signs of coming to their senses, so valuations may be coming down. Read more »

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Stock markets around the world are tumbling, with the Dow staying firmly in negative territory even in the face of an emergency interest-rate cut. And ready or not, the parade of technology earnings is on its way as well. A handful of tech bellwethers have already […] Read more »

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Years ago, Stephen Dukker helped to disrupt the personal computing industry when the company he founded, eMachines, started selling PCs for $400 each, effectively broadening the number of consumers who were able to buy computers. And now he’s trying to do it again, as CEO of […] Read more »

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Microsoft is bolstering its enterprise search with an offer to buy Norway’s Fast Search & Transfer ASA in a cash deal valued at 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion). The deal is aimed at increasing functionality in Microsoft’s business software, as well as acting as a […] Read more »

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I’ve taken seven of the more interesting stocks of 2007 — all stocks that inspired a good deal of passionate discussion and, for the most part, a good deal of capital gains — and ranked them according to how I think they’ll perform in 2008. Take a look. Read more »

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Microsoft & Viacom announced a wide-ranging agreement this morning that’s valued at about $500 million. It’s essentially a way to thwart Google’s growing influence in the online video and advertising markets. Here are the online video implications: (We will follow up with more details later.) Viacom […] Read more »

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Om just passed me the link to two contests on a Microsoft site that sells their office software to college students. I can just picture the meeting in Redmond where this was cooked up. “So what are the kids into nowadays?” demands the Microsoft exec. His […] Read more »

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Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of many web […] Read more »

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We have put most of the major panel and keynote clips on NewTeeVee. These include a chat with YouTube co-founder Steve Chen , CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith keynote, Mika Salmi, Search & Discovery Panel, Crossover Hits Panel, The Monetization Panel and our introduction. AT&T’s Ralph […] Read more »

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[qi:053] This will be good news or bad news depending on how you feel about Microsoft, but the software company seems to be roaring back. And it has nothing to do with its overpriced, over-hyped 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. Instead, it has more to do […] Read more »

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