During the quarter, the company’s media and advertising businesses, such as Ask.com, Fun Web Products, Dictionary.com, and Citysearch, posted revenue of $183.7 million, a 19 percent decline compared with the year-ago quarter.

But when excluding the sale of one of its investments and the write-down of other investments, IAC posted a profit of 18 cents a [...]

In August Google announced Android Market, an online center that will let people find, buy, download, and rate applications and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open-source operating system. But at least initially, the site will be a beta version that will only support distribution of free applications. An update later will handle [...]

But that suggests a downside. SourceForge does all the provisioning and patching. That makes it quick and probably more secure, but also means you depend on SourceForge for all the updating. Yeah, infrastructure issues are taken off your shoulders, but sometimes being able to tinker is what it’s all about. This is sure to rub [...]

Got a
Mac and a Muxtape account? You’ve got to check out this mashup that uses the free Mac application Fluid to let you browse an entire group of people’s Muxtapes without having to click on each one. Once you’ve linked up Fluid to Muxtape.com’s front page, you’ll see the track listings of each album in [...]

While a seemingly small thing, this actually fixes one of my peeves about iTunes–when you want something more tailored than a full shuffle but you don’t want to switch to radio, how do you do it? iTunes has always had a fairly black-and-white approach–it’s random, or it’s exactly what you asked for. There was [...]

T-Mobile USA will be the first mobile operator to offer a phone that uses the open-source Google Android operating system. The device made by HTC has been widely anticipated. And on Tuesday morning, T-Mobile and Google will finally unveil the phone, which is expected to go on sale in October.
Tuesday is G-day for T-Mobile USA [...]

But bloggers have reason to be skeptical, and not just because there are so many ad networks already: Technorati just hasn’t been doing a first-rate job in the performance department recently.
Technorati clearly needed to change direction in the wake of Google Blog Search, but launching an ad network might just be too little, too late.
As [...]