Mark Milian
Covering consumer technology in San Francisco. Author of Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple's Steve Jobs.
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Before Google applied for the .Lol domain, PepsiCo used the popular text-message shorthand in a 2009 billboard.
Google Wants Web Addresses That End in .Lol
This is not a joke: Google intends to purchase the .Lol Web domain, Vint Cerf, an executive evangelist for Google, wrote on the company’s blog. So instead of going to Google.com, you might be able to type Google.lol and get,...
Read more »Meeting Canceled: How Ex-Microsoft Workers Converted to GitHub’s Ways
When Paul Betts worked as a software developer at Microsoft, he was so frustrated by the number of meetings that he created a program for himself that looked at the job titles of attendees, estimated their salaries and tallied up...
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Facebook's IPO was a popular topic on Twitter today, but not a runaway hit.
Facebook’s IPO Wasn’t a Huge Hit on Twitter Either, Say Studies
Facebook’s stock didn’t have the first-day pop that many had predicted. Nor was the initial public offering a breakout hit in Twitter chatter, despite dominating much of the media coverage. An hour before the stock market closed, there were 104,616...
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Video of Steve Jobs Parodying ‘Ghostbusters’ Surfaces
Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott’s attic. After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one exclusively on Bloomberg TV. In the...
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Facebook to Debut Personalized Apps Listing
Facebook plans to introduce an app store in the coming weeks that is customized for each of the social network’s 900-million-plus users, similar to how the site’s News Feed displays content according to a person’s closest friends. “We’re trying to...
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Viddy Reaches 16M Users, Gets Boost From Zuckerberg’s Dog
Count Mark Zuckerberg among the hundreds of thousands of new users that Viddy, a mobile-video social network, is adding each day. The Facebook chief recently joined and uploaded a clip of his dog, Beast, which brought a wave of publicity...
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Several tech startups are selling products or services that rely on antennas to grab over-the-air TV signals.
Back to the Future: TV Antenna Makes Comeback, Gets Some Static
Rabbit ears are hopping back into the picture. Several startups are breathing new life into an old technology that relies on antennas to grab over-the-air TV signals. “Rabbit ears, broadcast television: It is a forgotten technology,” Boxee Chief Executive Officer...
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Google Drive gives users online storage similar to a hard drive’s, allowing access to files from computers and other devices.
A Look Back at Google Drive’s Long Road to the Finish Line
Google Drive sure took the long way to get here. Details of a storage service called “GDrive” first came out in March 2006, a few months before Twitter launched and almost a year before Apple’s first iPhone made its...
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When killing technology, sometimes a bat is required.
Yahoo, Google: Proud Product Killers
For top Internet executives, a failed project is apparently something to brag out. In earnings calls during the past few days, chief executives for Google and Yahoo boasted about how many products they had shuttered. Last week, Google CEO Larry...
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Google's Project Glass: Terminator-like functionality, but Terminator style?
Like Google, Oakley Has Been Working on Its Own ‘Project Glass’
Google generated a lot of buzz over its effort to display information on eyeglasses, Terminator-style. Less clear is whether the search giant can create something cool enough that would make someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger want to wear it. Crafting a...
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