All too often, we strive to get everything right the first time around. As a consequence, our products suffer from costly delays and insufficient feedback prior to launch.READ»
Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been known as Internet Exploder for some time, due to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads. Is the curse finally broken?READ»
YouTube is to allow its viewers to skip ads on its videos later this year, according to a senior product manager. The firm has been experimenting with skipping pre-rolls since November 2009, but the new proposal, which consists of an ...READ»
As the tech giants are ramping up their cloud-based music streaming services--HP last week bought Melodeo, Apple has Lala (although as yet there is no clue as to what they're going to do with it) and both Microsoft and Google have ...READ»
Google Voice, a sort of phone management system, has been out for over a year, amassing over a million users, but until today, it was only available through invite.READ»
Today is Super Tuesday for the Midterm primaries, which means that for the next six months the Internet will be filled with cyber equivalent of political bumph. Anyone with less than a passing interest in the art of psephology runs ...READ»
Google announced yesterday that it's going to give advertisers more of a say in where they place their online ads. The new system, which debuted in Beta on Thursday, gives advertisers to place their ads "above the fold" on a Web ...READ»
We wondered if makers of GPS navigation apps and systems should worry about Google's rumored efforts toward free turn-by-turn nav just the other day. And guess what--it's all true, and Tom Tom, Navigon, and the rest should be ...READ»
As part of his CES keynote speech yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer surprised the crowd by announcing that Windows 7 is now available as a Beta test version for free download.
MSDN and TechNet subscribers can get it ...READ»
Adobe [ADBE] products have been famously synonymous with creative Macintosh-types for years, but early reports from Wired magazine on the beta version of the company's Creative Suite 4 are even more Mac-friendly than ever. The ...READ»
Yahoo [YHOO] is, by most metrics, the most frequented website on the Internet. Conscious that more and more online activity is shifting into the realm of social networks, blogs, and other what-have-yous, the company is debuting a ...READ»
A few weeks ago I ran into a Beta for a product called Xobni Insite. (Xobni is Inbox spelled backwards). Xobni is another in a long line of email taming tools (NeoPro, TrogBar, Jello.Dashboard, Orgoo, etc).
The big difference ...READ»