While Schmidt has declined to detail why the company is struggling to squeeze profits from YouTube, some of the site’s shortcomings as a money maker are obvious.

Greg Sterling, an advertising and marketing analyst, said studies have shown that ad agencies remain wary of putting their brands next to user-generated content. “They don’t like [...]

Judging by my Tweet Cloud, it looks like I most frequently Twitter about hopping around the grid of Manhattan. My most-Twittered word is “going,” followed by words like “getting,” “home,” “time,” and um, “party.” After that, it looks like I Twitter about my job: words like “office,” “work,” “writing,” “coffee,” and “facebook” (the company I [...]

The wealth of preferences lets users rein in the number of activity notifications that pop up and customize privacy settings and most aspects of the display. I highly recommend ripping out the system-tray icons, which only add clutter, and shutting out strangers in the privacy settings. I accidentally let the latter lapse the first time [...]

As with the Volt, lithium-ion batteries will power the car for the first 40 miles and a small, one-liter, internal combustion engine will charge the battery for longer rides. A consumer will be able to charge the batteries in eight hours from a U.S. 110-volt outlet or four hours from a 220-volt outlet.

The Wall Street [...]

Roughly Drafted was able to find a developer willing to talk about last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference sessions, which are supposed to be confidential. But these things have a way of coming to light, and one session on Friday apparently covered a technology called SproutCore that could give Apple a way to get its Cocoa [...]

With the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference around the corner, our intrepid photographer, James Martin, took a stroll past Moscone West and managed to snap these photos of banners hanging inside before the convention hall heavies came and shooed him away.
What do you think? Do the icons on these signs give us an idea of what’s [...]

The current Godson chip: the Loongson-2E High-Performance General-Purpose CPU
China’s Godson-3 chip is ambitious if anything. It proposes to be everything a world-class processor should be–and then some.
And Godson may go far beyond desktops. By 2010, China plans to build a petaflop high-performance computer based on the Godson-3. (A petaflop translates to a quadrillion floating-point [...]

In cloud computing lately, trust seems to be on everyone’s mind.

Can you audit, with absolute certainty, its file systems, logs, and physical access? Can you be absolutely certain that it is physically secure? Can you be absolutely certain that its virtualized file systems are not mingled on a physical disk with somebody else’s data? [...]