Channels.com compiles video from around the Web — including premium TV shows — into a central hub, where you can create playlists and subscribe to the shows you like. The two-year old Palo Alto-based start-up relaunched today with a new …
Yahoo’s kitchen sink approach to its mail and messaging services were on display as the company unveiled updates to both.
The updated Mail site rolls out today in the U.S., and over the next few weeks worldwide. Users of Yahoo …
Back in May, Yahoo hinted at how it wants search to be more than a simple string of links, and today the company showed what it has in store.
It turns out that Yahoo has no intent to destroy the …
I’m no legal expert, but my general understanding is that companies aren’t allowed to come together and agree on pricing for their products. In some circles, that’s called price-fixing.
So it struck me as odd that News Corp is reportedly …
MySpace officially announced its acquisition of music recommendation service iLike today, but said the platform and popular Facebook application will be expanded beyond music to other areas of the site, such as videos and gaming.
“We believe what iLike has …
Let’s face it, hunting through Google can be frustrating, especially when searching for advice, so Dorthy.com is working on a remedy.
The project of New York-based startup Saber Seven has raised $4 million to date, and is pushing to release …
For many of us, the extent of learning how healthy we’re eating amounts to glancing at the back of our food’s packaging, but FatSecret aims to provide a more complete picture.
The New York-based start-up recently launched a tool for …
Google Reader, a Google service that pulls content from all your favorite news sites and blog into one place, has announced two new features for receiving and sharing information that’ll make it far more social.
The first lets you add …
CNet is talking up the processing muscle in Microsoft’s Zune HD, saying it’ll use “one of the most powerful chips to go into a portable media player yet.”
That’s in reference to the Nvidia Tegra, a processor that combines the …
Aficionados of popular video game World of Warcraft will tell you that, despite the game’s reputation for being more addictive than drugs, it has redeeming value in team building and the pursuit of goals. But it’s hard to justify that …
Got an idea for a 3-D design you’d like on your desk or dresser? Starting today, a company called Shapeways will let you hire people to design and build it.
The company takes a page from Amazon’s “Mechanical Turk” marketplace, …
If you’ve used an iPhone, you’ll know how frustratingly spotty its wireless coverage can be.
Fact is, wireless carriers such as AT&T (which serves the iPhone) are desperately searching for ways to unload the huge amount of traffic that are …
Scholarly as they are, it’s easy to picture chemists quibbling over atoms and molecules, but Imaginatik hopes great things will happen by letting hundreds or even thousands of scientists work together.
Imaginatik partnered with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and with …
New software turns the iPhone into a powerful eavesdropping tool, but only for those who are willing to jailbreak the phone and wade into murky legal territory.
Seychelles-based FlexiSpy, a purveyor of snooping applications for mobile devices, has released new …
Voxofon is angling to be the first native VoIP application for the Palm Pre later this year, but a new Web version of Shape Services‘ IM+ can already access the more-familiar Skype.
IM+ for the Palm Pre, spotted today by …
In theory, call management programs like Google Voice are attractive, except they’re useless to people who don’t want to hand out new phone numbers to their contacts.
3jam, which launched today, solves the problem by letting users transfer existing phone …
Sometimes, the best part of a video is a minute or two past the starting point, and a new service called uShow is making it easier for users to get there.
The service lets users tag online video with notes …
Looking around the Internet, it’s hard to find arguments in favor of Yahoo handing its search technology to Microsoft. Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis calls the move “seppuku,” and the Guardian’s Charles Arthur said the gains for Yahoo are “invisible.” The …
The community gaming features found on social networking sites will soon come to Arkadium’s “advergaming” portals. (Advergaming means using video games specifically to advertise a product).
In acquiring Advergame.com and relaunching another gaming portal, GreatDayGames.com, Arkadium, whose clients include Sony, …
Wall Street failed to predict how well IBM would perform this quarter, with the tech giant posting an 18 percent increase in earnings per share from 2008. Earnings per share was $2.32 in Q2, compared to analyst estimates of $2.01.…
