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Windows 7 streamlines computers

Introduced two years ago, Windows Vista was shunned for a number of reasons: It was clunky, confusing and incompatible with other programs, among other complaints. When Microsoft announced plans to stop selling XP through its partners and retailers, an ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Applications make Twitter a more powerful tool

On the road, Gilbert, founder of Gilbert Guide, an online resource for seniors and their caregivers, harnesses Tiny Twitter on her Blackberry. And shes uses SocialOomph to track when and how Gilbert Guide is mentioned on Twitter. "It allows me to ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Biz Stone,  Ashton Kutcher

Web site lists buyers so sellers can find them

You: Selling a two- or three-bedroom home in San Francisco, preferably in the Russian Hill neighborhood, and with a roof deck or patio. That's husband and wife Brian Czarny and Jessica Clifton-Czarny in a nutshell. For nine months, they've been going ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  23 Aug 2009

Baby books go digital

That's the latest status update from Janice Jung's three children. Like their mom, the toddlers each have their own online profile, only instead of Facebook, they're on TotSpot. With an emphasis on diapers, purees and pacifiers, TotSpot, Kidmondo, Lil' ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  HSBC,  Harvard University,  Twitter Inc,  LinkedIn Corp

For a fee, she'll make your scrapbook

"It looked like a fifth-grader made it," she said. How Fast They Grow, a digital scrapbooking company, was born out of that experience. Two years after her attempt at scrapbooking, Bennett left her job as a marketing executive for Jaguar and joined ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Shutterfly, Inc.

E-Ha taps into China's mobile culture

Like a growing number of entrepreneurs, the 50-year-old Bay Area native is chasing his American dream in China. But his upscale eatery is more than a restaurant - it's a laboratory for another project, a mobile and Internet startup called E-Ha. ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Aug 2008

China monitoring video Web sites more closely

Internet startups in China face the challenge of balancing their business interests, the government's rules and their users' enthusiasm for sharing content online. In June, 56.com, a popular Beijing video- and photo-sharing site backed by Disney's ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Stanford University,  University of California Berkeley

Chinese efforts can't stop some Web info

Just days after David Wang produced a mock newscast criticizing Taiwanese officials and uploaded the clip to Tudou, a popular video sharing site in China, it disappeared. What's surprising is not that it was censored - but that it remained online as ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Aug 2008

China's young people connect online

Alex Zhang opines on his blog about music and movies and, most recently, learning to drive on Beijing's congested roads. The 25-year-old sends instant messages to friends on his computer and cell phone, hangs out at social-networking site Xiaonei and ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Startups bring Web 2.0 to Chinese masses

Two summers ago, Tudou CEO Gary Wang handed cans of spray paint to his workers and told them to go wild. They coated the office's white walls with bold colors, doodling happy faces, hearts, paw prints and high-tech terms like "Java" and "Ajax." Their ...

From ELLEN LEE, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Aug 2008
Related Topics: LinkedIn Corp,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  University of California Berkeley

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