Besides Chuck Norris, and the Rickroll, Internet memes rarely go mainstream. But San Francisco native Matthew Honan managed to accomplish that feat — he built a simple website that randomly display acts of kindness from presidential candidate Barack Obama. Honan...

You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created innovations to market: Startup Labs. by Mary Jo Foley

I started using Qik on Nokia Nseries devices, then tried it on the Blackjack II, and finally on my original Apple iPhone. I just received a note that Qik's live video streaming service is now available on several more Windows Mobile devices from HTC. The particular devices listed include the...

In the press release announcing the new Squeezebox Boom, Robin Selden, vice president and general manager of Logitech's Streaming Media business unit, says that "[t]he network music player will be the CD player of the 21st century." That may be true—eventually—but at $299.99, the Boom probably...

Verizon and Yahoo said Wednesday that they have re-upped a portal deal that began in 2005. Under a new multiyear agreement statement, a custom Verizon-Yahoo portal will be offered to all new subscribers to FiOS Internet services. Customers that take the offer will get Yahoo Search, email,...

Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...

Age Male Female Total Persons: Age 15-24 13.8% 10.0% 23.8% Persons: Age 25-34 12.1% 8.3% 20.4% Persons: Age 35-44 13.3% 12.9% 26.2% Persons: Age 45-54 8.7% 8.0% 16.7% Persons: Age 55+ 7.4% 5.7% 12.9% Persons: Total 55.1% 44.9%...

Regator, describes itself as giving "a bite of the blogosphere's best". After investigating this startup,  from a technical standpoint the website looks quite swish: lots of AJAXy goodness and Web 2.0 features. Unfortunately that's where the goodness ends. This website claims to pick out the...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's official gubernatorial Web site is back up -- to show off a two-paragraph statement about her thankfulness at being chosen to be Ariz. Sen. John McCain's running mate on the GOP presidential ticket. Better a day late, than two. Here's a summary of...

Property June 2007 June 2008 % Change Total German Internet Audience 32,857 34,986 6% Online Gaming 9,609 10,502 9% Zylom 1,977 2,492 26% Spill Group 1,521 1,542 1% Gameforge Sites 1,224 1,446 18% SPIELAFFE.DE 498 1,173 136% ...

Month YTY growth Jun-07 25% Jul-07 22% Aug-07 28% Sep-07 19% Oct-07 19% Nov-07 20% Dec-07 18% Jan-08 12% Feb-08 14% Mar-08 9% Apr-08 15% May-08...

Even if you don't often buy real caviar because of its high price, you know that the worldwide production of this gourmet treat has been drastically reduced in recent years because of sturgeon populations decline in the Caspian Sea. Now, Israeli researchers might help caviar lovers. They've started by importing...

In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...

Name August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 Yahoo Olympics 1,477 3,324 2,839 5,253 NBC Olympics 2,664 4,008 3,264 4,560 AOL Olympics 395 1,010 1,205 1,192 Beijing2008.cn 429 780 581 607 New York Times Olympics 341 466 301 482...

Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...

This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...

Knock knock. Who's there? A shameless self-marketing campaign, trying to throw anything Microsoft related your way. Well, not any more anyway, as the Microsoft Student Experience has been thrown out of beta with golden depth charges. The website now looks what it actually...

Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.92% 2. www.myspace.com 5.05% 3. mail.yahoo.com 5.00% 4. www.yahoo.com 4.09% 5. mail.live.com 2.44% 6. www.ebay.com 1.73% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.62% 8. www.msn.com 1.24% 9. www.facebook.com 1.19% ...

Being able to watch most of the 2008 Summer Olympics streaming over the Internet has been exciting for users, but not so much for businesses and IT departments. Hear CIO Ira Levy explain how his organization used a two-pronged approach of education and technology to limit the effect of Olympic...

I couldn't think of a fancy title. Had I done so I would have called it "Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Book of Sudoku"; nevertheless it'll do. After my daily hourly in some cases browse through the BBC News website to quash my horrid addiction to...