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Thinking Outside the Dropbox with Minus–A New Image-Sharing Tool

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on December 2, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Friction: It keeps our shoes on, it’s a buzzword at product meetings and UX conferences and it’s the sticking force that keeps money in people’s pockets. So, reducing it can mean changing the game for an entire arena–just look at eBay’s PayPal and Netflix. Minus, a sharing service currently limited to images, mixes some HTML5 and cutting-edge Javascripting to lower the friction in online image sharing about as far as it can go without eliminating the drag-and-drop.

New BlackBerry Browser Thankfully More Like Safari Than Mosaic

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 16, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

The mobile browsing experience on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry is widely considered among the worst around. Inefficient and miserably slow, it is easily bested not just by the browsers of rival smartphones like Apple’s iPhone, but by third-party alternatives like Opera Mini. So long-suffering BlackBerry owners will be glad to hear that an all-new Web browser is on the way.

Liveblogging Bing Demo: No Donuts, Unlikely to Pay for De-Indexing Google, but Cool New Maps

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

BoomTown is awaiting a passel of Microsoft execs, who will be talking about a range of new features for Bing. I will be liveblogging, but I must say, I wish there were donuts.

Eolas Sues Internet

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2009 at 11:29 am PT

Three years after squeezing a settlement out of Microsoft for alleged infringements of its controversial patent on embedded Web applications, Eolas Technologies hopes to do the same to a bunch of other big tech outfits. This morning, the research and development company filed suit against nearly two dozen companies, including Amazon, Apple, Adobe and Google.

Zimbra Founder Satish Dharmaraj to Depart Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2009 at 9:18 am PT

Satish Dharmaraj–the founder of open-source email start-up Zimbra, which has been at the heart of significant new changes to Yahoo’s key communications services–will be leaving the company. Yahoo paid $350 million for Zimbra in the fall of 2007. And even though he had stepped back from leadership in the communications arena at Yahoo, the departure of an innovative entrepreneur like Dharmaraj–although typical when big companies buy start-ups–is never a good thing, given that it’s more important than ever to keep innovative leaders at Yahoo.

Yahoo's Scott Dietzen Speaks About Its New Online Calendar (Which Is About a Decade Late!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2008 at 9:00 pm PT

In its ongoing renovation of its offerings–last month it began rolling out a new homepage–Yahoo is unveiling a new online calendar, with a passel of new bells and whistles, to a small group of users worldwide. Overall, it is a good-looking, simple and clean design–which will eventually be extended to all of Yahoo’s 8.1 million calendar users worldwide. And, incredibly, although Yahoo’s is the top online calendar in the world, it has been 10 years since the Internet giant updated it.