2007

Employees generally don’t leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And…

Penryn is hitting the streets. The 45 Nanometer procs are promising to be the “biggest leap forward” in processor design in almost 40 years. Or so they say. We really…

Even as the housing market goes south, real-estate Websites continue to soldier on. On Tuesday, after a year in beta, CyberHomes will launch officially and join a crowded field that…

I first met Yedda founders Avichay Nissenbaum and Yaniv Golan during a trip to Israel in February 2006. The company, which hosts a question and answer service that is similar…

Looks like CompUSA has been selling the 80GB Zune 2 for some time now and for $1,113.07! It’s probably a typo and I doubt that people would spend that much…

http://black20.com/b20.swf?vID=294 Oh noes!

Andrew Hyde’s Startup Weekend, born out of the TechStarts event this last summer, has been busy. The company goes from city to city, organizes developers to spend a long weekend…

Rich Tehrani over at TMCNet is reporting that Google may be looking at buying mobile phone network operator Sprint. Although it would be easy to scoff at the rumor (and…

Wow, it IS the most wonderful time of the year. In my self-centered quest for survival over the past however-many months, I completely forgot about Amazon.com’s Customers Vote thing. Products…

I was flipping through the Sunday circulars today and happened across this little gem from Circuit City. This is a pretty cool game and if you’re already a fan of…

GoodBarry GoodBusiness aims to make “ecommerce easier for small business owners” with a package that includes website creation, lead management, email marketing, online shopping, blogging, and business analytics in the…

We’ve praised new hosted forum startup Tangler on a number of occasions – most recently calling it the bleeding edge in new discussion board/forum startups. Apparently someone else likes it…

PayPerpost, which has renamed it’s parent company IZEA, says they’ll be launching a new social network in January 2008 called SocialSpark. Bloggers and advertisers (the company says they have over…

Does Microsoft want to create the next Flickr? Their job advertising certainly suggests it does: Come make Windows Live the best place to share your digital memories! Heard of Flickr?…

Google is being sued by Northeastern University and a start-up run by an associate professor over allegations Google breached a patent relating to the way Google pulls data from its…

IBM released an interesting new report earlier this week that predicts the end of advertising as we know it within 5 years. To quote IBM Traditional advertising players risk major…

As someone who sits at home in front of a computer all day every day, I can — like Richard to Tommy in Tommy Boy — actually hear myself getting…

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1788161&fullscreen=1 There’s a whole generation of people who don’t remember when the internet was exactly like this. I can still remember buying a 14.4k modem for something like $500 then…

The FCC may move to open up access to cable television on the basis that the big cable companies are too dominant, according to the NY Times. The move would…

Another tracker bites the dust. This time it’s Demonoid. Demonoid was big, popular, and I’d bet Demonoid’s not going anywhere. The name might change, the server will absolutely change, but,…

I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of light art. It’s just about the neatest thing out there in terms of non-traditional mediums of artwork. It also helps that they’re…

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1788161&fullscreen=1 Classic!

RIM is once again suing another mobile phone manufacturer over something completely absurd and, well, asinine. Apparently people will mistake the Black Label line of smartphones from LG to RIM’s…

Every industry needs an old, crotchety curmudgeon. We have the always-entertaining John C. Dvorak who’s lately seemed to be slowly slipping into senility. That’s okay, though. That’s okay. He’s our…

Zunerama forum’s n00b, eds, has acquired him/herself with a brand spankin’ new Zune before the Tuesday launch. That’s all well and good, but he/she can’t use said Zune 2 until…

I recently had the opportunity to see a demo of a product coming out in early 2008 called Blist (pronounced like “bliss” with a “t” at the end) that will…

Microsoft delays Surface technology Verizon Fashion Show: A circle of Hell or a good time with free mojitos? UK iPhone launche is a madde house YouTube unwraps multiple file uploader,…

With the glaring, bright, intense exception of the iPhone, music phones have more or less been a failure. Many have tried, many have failed. In fact, it could be argued…

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1788429&fullscreen=1 I actually know this guy. We used to work together. I never realized he was such a good crazed-undersea welder/Little-Sister-protector maker. Not many people are, so it’s nice to…

Boca Raton, Florida based VOIS Inc offers yet another social networking site but with one distinct difference: it’s traded on the OTC:BB. The site itself offers your usual array of…