Top Items:
![](/img/pml.png)
AT&T mistakenly announces free Wi-Fi for iPhone users...again — AT&T iPhone users will not be getting free Wi-Fi access, afterall. — For the second time in less than six months, AT&T has mistakenly published a notice on its Web site indicating that Apple iPhone users would get free access …
Discussion:
Infinite Loop, DailyTech, Today @ PC World, iLounge, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Gadget Lab, The Mobile Gadgeteer, CrunchGear, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Boy Genius Report, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, I4U News, Gizmodo, Macworld, Engadget, dailywireless.org, Cartoon Barry Blog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, O'Grady's PowerPage and Phone Scoop
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
iPhone Users: Despite Rumors, AT&T Wi-Fi Not Live — The launch of the iPhone 3G can be summed up in one word, and it starts with a “c.” Instead I will go with comedy of errors. Activation delays, long lines, online issues, application roll-out issues — it has been a train wreck …
![](/img/pml.png)
AT&T Finally Announces Free Wi-Fi For iPhone Users
Discussion:
VentureBeat, TechBlog, Gear Diary, jkOnTheRun, Podcasting News, AppleInsider, Today @ PC World, Mark Evans and Gearlog
![](/080718/i46.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Its Homepage To Battle Carl Icahn — Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worldwide in May …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Legg Mason Capital Management to Support Yahoo! Directors at Yahoo! 2008 Annual Meeting — BALTIMORE, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bill Miller, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management (NYSE: LM - News), has released the following statement:
Discussion:
L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Daily, Tech Confidential, Valleywag, Between the Lines, Furrier.org and Silicon Alley Insider
![](/080718/i65.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Yahoo Proxy War Over: Legg Mason Votes For Jerry And Co.
Discussion:
Good Morning Silicon Valley, Search Engine Watch Blog, Geek.com, BetaNews, paidContent.org and SitePoint Blogs
![](/080718/i72.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip — Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog — The tough reality of the on-demand game is taking its toll on software companies hoping to make a mint distributing their wares via the Web — The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software—perhaps a bit too much.
Discussion:
Beyond Search
RELATED:
![](/080718/i78.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparision — Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without losing out? Guest contributor Jared Goralnick's here today to take a look.
Discussion:
GottaBeMobile
![](/080718/i48.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Nintendo Wii Surpasses Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Sales — Nintendo Co. said U.S. retailers sold more than 666,000 of its Wii consoles last month, making the machine the overall leader among the new generation of video-game machines. — Consumers have purchased almost 10.9 million …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Firm From Rambler For $140 Million — We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought contextual advertising company ZAO Begun from it parent …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Why ISP's ‘Stand’ Against Child Porn Is Actually Not A Stand Against Child Porn — from the let's-try-this-again,-shall- we? dept — Following NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's success in getting ISPs to turn off Usenet access and pretend it was a victory against child porn …
RELATED:
![](/080718/i73.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Microsoft's Real Problem: The Second Coming of Apple — As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost—Internet media—its shareholders have bigger things to worry about. Namely, the future of the Windows and Office cash cows.
![](/img/pml.png)
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages — Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site …
Discussion:
Under The Stairs, TECH.BLORGE.com, CyberNet, AppScout, The Social, Techdirt, WebProNews, UMBC ebiquity and Mashable!
![](/080718/i63.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Speeding: Radar Gun vs. GPS — While an 11-year old, Louisville, Kentucky boy is using a toy radar gun to get drivers to slow down through his neighborhood, the police are finding that real radar guns might not be a match for GPS—at least not when contested in court.
![](/080718/i85.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Evite Gets A Much-Needed Facelift — Evite is getting long in the tooth. Every day it seems there is some new startup ready to take it down: Pingg, Socializr, Center'd, MyPunchbowl, Presdo. Well, today the IAC-owned invitation juggernaut is fighting back. Or at least, it's stirring.
![](/img/pml.png)
New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs — A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks. — The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files.
![](/img/pml.png)
Sony Ericsson sees profits tumble, turns on workers — There'll be long faces at Sony Ericsson this evening, with the gloomy news that the mobemeisters is cutting 2,000 jobs after pulling in just €6m in profits in the last three months. — This is a massive slide on the €220m …