For example, the task bar at the bottom of the screen now displays icons for all running programs. If you mouse over that icon, you’ll see the window translucently appear in a preview mode over part of the bottom of the screen. If that program has more than one window you’ll see all of them. [...]
Also in Stone’s e-mail: a plug for “Company Buzz,” Twitter’s app on LinkedIn’s platform, which lets members of the business-networking site see what Twitter members are saying about their companies.
Stone also reminded users to load up cable network Current on Tuesday night for election coverage, where live “tweets” from Twitter will be displayed onscreen. One [...]
T-Mobile USA, which is currently rolling out its 3G wireless network across the country, is turning to Yahoo to power its search and mobile Web portal in an effort to boost data usage.
But that could soon change. As smartphones like Apple’s
iPhone, all the BlackBerry devices, and new Android phones become increasingly popular among consumers, users [...]
Along with offering reaction to the debate from politicos including Rudy Giuliani, himself earlier this year a hopeful for the Republican nomination, the CBS Webcast features questions submitted from ordinary folk via the Web. Among the topics raised in the Web questions: pork-barrel spending, corporate taxes, military experience, and the age of the candidates.
Sens. Barack [...]
Four years after women’s media and advertising network Glam Media made its debut, the company has announced its male counterpart: Brash.
Looking at Brash’s smooth, purple-and-charcoal-gray color scheme, you can tell this isn’t the same sort of male demographic targeted by the fratty Heavy ad network. Like Glam, Brash aims for upscale audiences–that way, it [...]
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Speaking of software, in particular, we’ve reached the end of an era that treated software as a packaged product. Software is a process, and so demands that it be monetized through subscriptions or other service fees. We spent decades pretending that digital goods like software are the same as physical goods like tables or televisions, wrapping digital goods in copyright and patents in an attempt to make them feel like perman
