Google has just started supporting kind of the OpenID standard for authentication. The problem is that Google has mangled the protocol — the most noticeable change is how the username is an email address rather than a URL. As NeoSmart points out though, it’s a shame that Google…
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 6% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.7% 3. www.myspace.com 4.01% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.88% 5. mail.live.com 2.14% 6. www.ebay.com 1.61% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.48% 8. www.facebook.com 1.2% 9. www.msn.com 1.08% …
A slip-up by a Motorola executive this week revealed that Microsoft’s next version of Windows Mobile isn’t Windows Mobile 7, but is actually Windows Mobile 6.5. by Mary Jo Foley
updated: Sun Microsystems reported a loss for the first quarter of its fiscal 2009 year of .67 billion, or .24 per share, on revenue for .99 billion, down from .22 billion for the first quarter of 2008 statement. The loss was largely attributed to the write off of a .44…
Among those employed, 16% are self-employed and 84% work for someone else. Close to one in three (30% of employed Americans) work for large corporations, and 28% work for small businesses. The remaining 39% of employed Americans work for medium-sized companies, for the government, in educational institutions, or in the…
Microsoft used this week’s Professional Developers Conference to flesh out a bunch of codenames that had been circulating for the past several months — everything from “Red Dog,” to “Geneva,” to “Zurich.” At the Los Angeles confab, the company also introduced a few brand-new codenames. by Mary Jo Foley
A recent article on Silicon Alley Insider noted that Motorola, whose cell phone business restructuring includes a “big bet on Google’s Android platform,” will wait until the next winter holiday season to roll out the first batch of what the web has been referring to as their first gPhone –…
Some clever computer scientists at UC San Diego UCSD have developed a software that can perform key duplication with just a picture of the key — taken from up to 200 feet. One of the researchers said ‘we built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys…
When vendors are just sitting down to create an interoperability road map, it’s hard to see everyone singing from the same hymnal in just four years. by Dana Blankenhorn
A couple weeks ago Om Malik wrote an article in the NY Times titled, Why Windows Mobile is in Trouble, and most of the focus was on how the T-Mobile G1 and Google Android poses the biggest threat to Windows Mobile. The article gives an honest assessment of where Windows…