It wasn’t so long ago that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg seemed like a nervous teenager on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at an All Things D interview. Today the company is expected to make its Initial Public Offering (IPO) – valued at about $90 billion, at $38-$40 per share. For more on the [...]
DreamHost is a popular web hosting provider and domain name registrar. Its hosting network of shared and dedicated systems is generally well-regarded. Today, though, users online loudly complained they were last to know — and that the company had hours to better prepare them for a forced password change. DreamHost is advising all customers to [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:34 — 5.3MB) | Embed Hosts Gina Smith and Mat Lee do a wrap up for the tech news of November 7, 2011. Details on how the new B&N tablet compares spec-wise to the Amazon Kindle Fire and Apple iPad — and details on Google + Pages. [...]
12:55 Pacific: Still no sign of Gmail in the Apple iTunes store. Google posted Gmail for iOS with great fanfare — and, due to an error message on its opening, took it down. Bug fix? Google, so far, declines comment. According to the Google Blog Update: 11/2/11: Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:42 — 5.4MB) | Embed Today in the Tech Garage hosts Mat Lee and Gina Smith do that voodoo that they do — it’s our short daily tech news wrap. Today Gina and Mat dig into Gmail’s redesign — as leaked a couple of weeks ago, everything [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:27 — 5.7MB) | Embed Audio: [12:27] On today’s news round up at Tech Garage, hosts Mat Lee and Gina Smith get into the specs of Motorola’s new Android-based Droid RAZR smartphone, available for preorder beginning today, October 27, at 5 a.m. PT. Also, in the news, [...]
It’s easy to make text in your Word documents hot — that is, into hyperlinks readers click on to get to a site online. I do it with the key combination [CTRL][K]. Here’s how. First, open your document and select the text you want to turn into a link. Then hit the key combo [CTRL][K]. [...]
LONDON — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is expected this morning to announce Nokia’s first two smartphones with Windows 7.5 Mango on board. The two Lumia series phones (the 800 and the 710) make good on Elop’s promise — to dump Symbian and Meego in favor of Microsoft’s new mobile OS. The phones, codenamed Sabre (Lumia [...]
Jack Ma wants Yahoo. He wants it bad. He also wants to buy back Yahoo’s 40 percent stake in his Alibaba Group, owner of Yahoo China and a myriad of B2B and e-commerce sites. But why? Why buy a floundering former search giant? The answer is: Ma has a mobile OS, now a second rev [...]
This amazing graphic comes courtesy of Paul Kedrosky, who built it based on Neil Kodner’s impressive analysis using Chrome dev tools. These, according to the analysis, are the words emailers most used when describing the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs for Apple’s Jobs tribute page. Image Credit: Paul Kedrosky
This Dylan Thomas poem was a Jobs favorite. Thanks for raging, Steve. By Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words [...]
October 23 marks 10 years since the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPod in 2001. It wasn’t the first MP3 player, but it was the first to take the world by storm. Even if it did cost $399 and only work with Macs at first. Read the original Apple press release here. “What [...]
If you’re like me and have any background at all in publishing, you probably had the same reaction I did when Google execs this week unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in Hong Kong — showcasing it on the first ICS device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Roboto looks eerily like the san-serif Helvetica, a [...]
Gmail is in for a major user interface overhaul. An eagle-eyed Google watch blogger earlier today caught a video from Google UI wizard Jason Cornwell demonstrating a “completely redesigned” interface on what looks like an imminent Gmail release. Within minutes Google took it down — a “it was a mistake,” a Google PR person said [...]
