On this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week–Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga–as well as the Viacom vs. Google lawsuit. It was a busy week on the search front. Adobe kicked off the week by announcing Flash is more searchable now. It [...]

The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last economic downturn was the dot-com bubble and the tech industry was smack in [...]

Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD’s ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems. In an SEC filing, the company said it is offering a driver that keeps fans running to relieve stress on the faulty chips [...]

Updated: The latest battle in Google’s ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant’s search code and other critical intellectual property. In the half [...]

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses Subscribe to News to know’s RSS feed Ryan Naraine: IE 8 Beta 2: Security makover Ed Bott: Microsoft to ratchet IE8 [...]

Dell CEO Michael Dell has acquired about a $100 million worth of Dell shares in the last three days. Guess Mr. Dell is a believer that the company is on the right track. On June 27, Dell picked up 2.23 million shares at $22.93. On June 30, he picked up 100,000 at $21.94. And on July [...]

There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. Chairman Kevin Martin [...]

Guest blog: Bob Warfield has founded three startups, run R&D at Borland, developed software for Callidus and Oracle and created tools for Rational/Pure Atria. He currently works for SaaS customer service company Helpstream.  He is responsible for Quattro Pro, the Borland spreadsheet, and is the inventor of the notebook tabs you see on all modern [...]

Amid all the talk about AT&T’s data plan fees and the cost of buying an unlocked iPhone perhaps the most notable jump is the cost of texting. News.com’s Maggie Reardon breaks it down: Since 2005, rates to send and receive text messages on all four major carrier networks have doubled from 10 cents to 20 cents per [...]

Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target’s search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search business out of Yahoo and is enlisting Time Warner [...]