Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge  —  It’s taken them 10 years but Nokia boffins have finally perfected a ‘touch feedback’ touchscreen.  Don’t be fooled by simple vibrational imitations folks, this is the real McCoy - you press a key on the screen …

Source:   The Red Ferret Journal
Author: […]

Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product  —  Microsoft is expanding its family of enterprise-search products with a new, free, entry-level product, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which is due to ship in early 2008.  —  Microsoft made available on November 6 for download via …

Source:   All about Microsoft
Author:   Mary Jo Foley
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=902

Alibaba Shares Triple in Hong Kong Trading Debut  —  Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — Alibaba.com Ltd., operator of China’s largest online trading site for companies, almost tripled on its first day after an initial public offering in Hong Kong, making the stock four times more expensive than Google Inc. relative to earnings.

Source:   Bloomberg
Link:   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid…

5 newspaper giants in talks about online ad network  —  Five of the nation’s top newspaper companies are taking steps to create a national online advertising network they hope will help them recapture ad revenue leaking away from their print products.  —  Sources close to the situation said Gannett Co. …

Source:   Chicago Tribune
Author:   […]

Apple Tablet PC is real, says Asus  —  Crave hangs with people in high places — that’s how we get exclusives and free food.  A few weeks ago we were having a civilised dinner with our friends at Asus and angling for cool stories when we were told in a very hushed manner: “Asus is […]

Five New iGoogle Themes  —  Here are some new iGoogle themes that will probably added soon to the customization dialog (the descriptions are from Google).  To add one of these themes to the active tab, go to iGoogle and type in the address bar the JavaScript code you’ll find below.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   […]

I’m not happy with Leopard  —  I’ve given Leopard a chance, but it’s pretty clear, this is not a good operating system release.  —  I’ve been out of the Mac loop for most of the last decade, just got back in a bit over 2 years ago.  I don’t know if early OS releases are […]

Meet the Crunchies  —  When it comes to the world of technology, the start-ups are the real stars.  In order to recognize the start-ups and their achievements, we are teaming up with TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat to collaborate on the Crunchies.  They are like the Grammies …

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Om Malik
Link:   http://gigaom.com/2007/11/06/meet-the-crunchies/

More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites  —  THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Richard Pérez-Peña
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/business/media…

Joost Partners With Meebo  —  Joost, the desktop-based long-form video service that aims to take on the old TV model with a large pile of venture capital, is scrapping one of its defining features built in-house, inline chat, and replacing it with outside chat service meebo.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Marshall Kirkpatrick
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…