Top News News, Reviews, and Events from July 2009

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  Steve Ballmer explains the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

  Jul. 31, 2009 (4:33 pm) By: Christian Zibreg In: Microsoft, News

  Microsoft’s CEO told a gathering of financial analysts and investors that nobody understands the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal announced Wednesday. He seized the opportunity to explain both companies’ perspectives, distilling key ideas driving the unusual partnership. “Nobody gets it,” Microsoft’s CEO told a group of analysts and investors who visited the company’s Redmond headquarters yesterday afternoon [...]

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• Get geek news, follow your favorite writers on Twitter

  Jul. 31, 2009 (2:01 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: News

  At this point most of Geek.com’s readers are either using Twitter or tried it out and gave up. If you are in the former camp then we have some good news for you: Geek.com has a twitter account. You should follow us. In fact, we’ve had a Twitter account for a long time and it’s [...]

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• This Week on Geek – July 2005 – Samsung’s 193p display, open source beer, Longhorn gets a new name

  Jul. 31, 2009 (12:50 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: Apple, Chips, Gadgets, Mobile, News, This Week on Geek

  In this installment of This Week on Geek we’ll visit July 2005. Do you remember what you were up to about 1460 days ago? The phone you were using? The computer? The gadget at the top of your wishlist? Drop a comment with whatever you can recall. And now on to that week’s news… Review: Samsung 193p+ [...]

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  Microsoft launching UK-centric MSN Video Player

  Jul. 31, 2009 (11:41 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

  With the announcement in June that Microsoft was scaling back Soapbox, otherwise known as MSN Video, it looked like the company was giving up on online streaming video. At the time Erik Joregensen, corporate vice president of MSN said: We definitely look at it and say we want Soapbox to stand for something and add to [...]

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  Yebol.com steps into the search market

  Jul. 31, 2009 (10:16 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

  There has been a couple of high profile search engines join the market recently. First there was Wolfram Alpha and then there was Microsoft’s Bing. But if you thought the search market was too crowded as it is make way for yet another search engine called Yebol. Yebol.com uses semantic search tech based on a neural [...]

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  NetNewsWire and Feeddemon gain Google Reader support

  Jul. 31, 2009 (6:21 am) By: John Brownlee In: Apple, News

  As a blogger, NetNewsWire has long been my go to newsreader. It has a slick interface, it can handle hundreds of feeds and it even automatically syncs feed status online, which allows me to keep up to date with all of my news across three computers and an iPhone. Unfortunately, the syncing up until now has [...]

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  Swaxy.com selling gadgets with bikini-clad women

  Jul. 31, 2009 (5:32 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: Gadgets, News

  In a clear example of sex sells a new gadget-selling website has soft-launched called Swaxy.com. The twist, if you haven’t already guessed, is preview images of the gadgets you are considering buying have been replaced with videos of some pretty ladies in bikinis “handling” the gadgets instead. Swaxy’s blog describes the site in very simple turns: Beautiful [...]

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  The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in the Netherlands

  Jul. 31, 2009 (5:13 am) By: John Brownlee In: News

  The Pirate Bay’s luck has really been running out lately. A couple months ago, their long flaunted legal invulnerability in Sweden was finally overturned, resulting in a massive fine and criminal sentences leveled against its founders. Even more recently, news came through that the Pirate Bay would be purchased for an amount suspiciously close to [...]

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• Teenager sues Amazon for deleting Kindle book report notes

  Jul. 31, 2009 (5:01 am) By: John Brownlee In: News

  When Amazon pulled digital copies of Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm from some individual’s Kindles, people responded to it with either an ironic chuckle or with a long, irritated eyeroll as a company, yet again, took frivolous advantage of DRM at their customer’s expense. But one irritated teenager who was assigned to read Orwell’s [...]

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• Google use wedding video and a song to prove YouTube revenue streams

  Jul. 31, 2009 (4:01 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

  Whether or not YouTube will ever be able to generate a profit for Google is a question that constantly appears in the press. But it looks like Google may be a bit sick of hearing people say its video site can’t make a profit and has decided to give us an example of how it [...]

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