Monthly archive February, 2010

Only Facebook can say what this really means, and it's not saying much: The Palo Alto social networking giant now holds a patent for technology "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network," AllFacebook reported Read More →

The main takeaway from Thursday's Apple shareholder meeting was there will be no giveaway. Steve Jobs is not inclined to start handing out cash to shareholders. Other news from the meeting: Apple plans to open 25 stores in China, Read More →

"The knife. The pencil. The pinhead. The dog. The fence. Rope. Glass. Concrete. Velcro. Baking soda. The roundabout. The Wellington boot. The 'back' button. The cuss word. Paper tissues. SQL. The Haber-Bosch reaction. The detachable high-speed chairlift. Cat's eyes. Hay." — Read More →

Awww! Chicks hatching now on the Chickam. A neat little NYT video on Olympic pictograms, good, bad and "huh?" And Channel Web's retrospective of poorly named tech products other than iPad (remember the Audrey?). Read More →

The name of the case — Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital Inc. v. Yelp Inc. — is kinda cute, but the claws are out on this one: The Long Beach, Calif., veterinary hospital is the main plaintiff in a Read More →

We hadn't thought of Yahoo as sitting alone in the school cafeteria, but its deal this week with Twitter has tech pundits nodding approvingly as though it had just lost a few pounds and dealt with those unsightly breakouts. Speaking Read More →