I've attended both Google I/O and Facebook f8 developer conferences which both were held in San Francisco and were much bigger than Yahoo's Open Hack Days, with more than 1,000 attendees. When you compare with Yahoo's event that only...

This our friends at MomentiMedia photo album of the Yahoo Open Hack. A developer event I found smaller and more personal then let's say f8 or Google I/O....

Following the lead of Facebook and other companies of the Web 2.0 vanguard, Yahoo took a big step toward opening itself up to third-party applications Friday. Independent applications have been immensely popular on Facebook since the startup offered access...

Imagine an Internet company, such as Yahoo, collecting personal information on its users and making that data available to other people and third party developers. Now stop imagining. Yahoo on Friday kicked off its ambitious “Open Strategy,” part of...

(credit: TechFever Network) Mark and I are at Yahoo's Silicon Valley campus in Sunnyvale to cover the Web company's "Open Hack" event. Think of Open Hack as Yahoo's developer conference - although the company has until this day not...

(credit: TechFever Network) It is not hard these days to find companies with their sights set on GrandCentral. GrandCentral, of course, is the Google-owned company that hopes to simplify telephone communications by giving people one number and the ability...

Today, Sunny Gosain (pictured), the VP of Development of software developer Compiere shared with me his perspective on Google's new web browser. Fastest! So let's start with the good news. For the open source ERP developer, Google Chrome is...

The popular social-networking destination decided this week to migrate the rest of its users to its new site design. Almost 30 million of Facebook’s 100 million users already use the new design, which the company describes as cleaner and...

Americans viewed 11.4 billion online videos during July, 5 billion of which were found on YouTube, according to comScore. Three in four people online tuned into at least one clip and, in total, Americans spent 558 million hours behind...

The personal computer appears to resist the pull of this year’s worldwide economic downturn. Research firm IDC said it now sees growth for the year of 15.7 percent in shipments from manufacturers. The firm had anticipated 15.2 percent in...

(credit: TechCrunch) One might think so. But that didn’t keep a handful of entrepreneurs from promoting sites they hope will prove otherwise. Several picked unlikely niches to address. Footnote plans to use Social Security death records to create profiles...

Following Sun Microsystems' virtualisation announcement this morning, I sat down with Nathan Brookwood, analyst at Insight64, to talk about Intel's 6-cores server processor dubbed Dunnington that the chip maker will announce next Monday in San Francisco. Impressive performance chip......

Making money from and sense of new media on the Web – video, photos and social interactions – may be the job of the next generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Up to now, few startups have figured out how...

(credit: TechCrunch) If one thing is clear at this year’s TechCrunch50 it is that Web 2.0 is permeating the business world. Entrepreneurs, having watched the rapid adoption of consumer Web sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, are hatching...

Last but certainly not least for all the iPhone 3G users, is the new software update dubbed OS X 2.1 that Steve Jobs announced for this Friday for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. The patch will cost $9.99...

Jobs boasted that the company is unveiling a new iPod Touch, a thinner device with built-in volume controls on its side (the #1 request Apple got for the iPod Touch). The device also has a speaker. Apple's new iPod...

Apple introduced a sleek new oval iPod Nano for the Christmas season. The device has a large curved screen and is the thinnest iPod the company has made. It also includes an accelerometer - just like the iPhone! -...

An energetic Jobs, who did look thin but healthier, said NBC is bringing some of its top television programming back to iTunes, including the popular Heros and 30Rock and in HD. With over 8.5 million songs available, 125,000 podcasts,...

Uberpulse Editor at Large, Mark Boslet, is at Apple's music event in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts. Believe it or not (probably not as you've been at one of these launch events or at Steve Jobs'...

After a great line up of innovative products this morning, the afternoon sessions looked kind of average. Maverick's demo came out of the lot though with a software application that prevents unwanted access to a mobile handset data. For...

(credit: TechCrunch) Is the long-hoped-for merger of Hollywood sparkle and Internet ubiquity finally taking place? Don’t count on it. Yet, several companies took significant steps toward bringing studio-quality productions to this Web this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in...

(credit: TechFever Network) During the "head to head" session (pictured), AllThingsD.com executive editors, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg responded to VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi question on why both Dow Jones (the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and a subsidiary...

If you want a glimpse of what’s coming next, stop by the TechCrunch50 conference (photo courtesy of TechCrunch) this week in San Francisco. Young (very young) Internet startups of every ilk unveiled an astonishing array of upcoming products and...

(credit: TechFever Network) Plastic Logic was for me the most innovative company that presented this morning. That was actually a very difficult pick because the others in the list were also very good. The Mountain View, CA, start-up showed...

The search giant says it already does this for books and maps. “Now we’re going to do this with newspapers,” said Marissa Mayer (pictured), vice president of search products and user experience. “I think this is really good for...

(credit: TechFever Network) Close to the end of the morning sessions, the name of TechCrunch, the anti-DEMO tradeshow, was finally out! Hopefully for the last time quipped DEMO producer Chris Shipley. It's a little know secret that the TechCrunch50...

DEMO producer Chris Shipley (pictured) kicked the fall event touting the end of the Web 2.0 era, what she also refers as the third cycle of the Internet. An interesting thought as, back in San Francisco, 52 Web 2.0...

At the main DEMO conference earlier this year, producer Chris Shipley and crew kicked-off the tech show with a hip dance routine. And that's all it needed to start a brand new tradition: the DEMO dance! Check out below...

For the past few years, Fall means for me going to DEMO... Yes, again! It used to be a much smaller cousin of the "real" Demo happening earlier in the year and dubbed DEMO Mobile. Renamed DEMOfall 2 years...

Musinaut hopes to remake the world of online music by bringing new interactivity to downloaded songs. The Paris company is to launch on Monday a new format for online compositions – MXP4 – that it says will give musicians...