Why is your website slow? YSLOW has the answer

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just picked up YSlow from Yahoo. It’s a Firefox plugin extension the Firebug addon for Firefox.
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a […]

Nokia Acquires Media Sharing Site Twango

Nokia made another move to expand it’s ability to provide content to it’s users by acquiring Twango. Twango provides a media sharing solution for organizing and sharing photos, videos and other personal media.
“The Twango acquisition is a concrete step towards our consumer Internet services vision of providing seamless access to information, entertainment, and […]

Google proposes open broadband platform

In a move that seems like a good thing for consumers, and most certainly for companies like Google and many others that are on the outside of the closed US mobile environment, Google has told the Federal Communications Commision (FCC) that it will commit $4.6 billion to the upcoming spectrum auction if the FCC agrees […]

Privacy based competition heats up

The search industry seems to be moving in the right direction when it comes to privacy. Privacy based competition is good for everyone. It should be a dimension on which consumers get to choose who they use for search.
So here’s the roundup on what people are claiming:
Microsoft announced announced that the company […]

U.S. music webcasters to get stay of execution

Reprieve on Royalty Increase Being Pursued for Internet Radio according to the NY Times
SoundExchange tells Congress webcasters may keep streaming RAIN reports.

Record Industry Accepts Formal Offer of Judgment of $300 in North Carolina case

In a North Carolina case, Capitol v. Frye, the Capital Records, Virgin Records, UMG Recordings, Sony BMG Recordings, Atlantic Recording and Arista Records (aka RIAA) accepted a formal “Offer of Judgment” of $300.
Offer of Judgment and Notice of Acceptance according to Recording Industry Vs the People

Re-writing history is getting harder

The nice, and maybe scary, thing about the web is that it is actually hard to rewrite history. The WSJ wrote an article today about the history of blogging and it got ripped to shreds by bloggers and the facts that sit out there on the internet that are hard to deny.
Maybe we are […]

Is the Nano iPhone next?

Reuters is reporting that Apple plans to launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player, according to a JP Morgan report.
According the the Reuters report, Kevin Chang, a JP Morgan analyst based in Taiwan, cited people in the supply channel that […]

Samsung offering mobile podcasting

Samsung has joined Nokia in offering podcasts for your mobile phone. In partnership with VoiceIndigo, they will put client software from VoiceIndigo onto Samsung mobile phones. The first model has already begun shipping on the Samsung UpStage, a music-centric dual face phone which is available through Sprint.
The solution lets consumers manage their podcasts through […]

Press reports that Apple has sold a whole bunch of iPhones

Business 2.0 Reports 1 Million iPhones Activated
The number of iPhones Apple had stockpiled at its 164 stores last Friday is still a closely held secret. But an unconfirmed report at the website waitingforphone, quoting an anonymous staffer in ATT Mobilty’s Commerce Group, suggests that AT&T (T) may have already fulfilled more than 1 million […]