Correction at 5:00 p.m. PDT: The Photobucket/T-Mobile deal is not exclusive.

Personal finance site Wesabe launched a new version of its financial management tools for banks and credit unions Wednesday. Dubbed Wesabe SpringBoard, the service will offer customers a “smart statement” that allows them to view their account data and guide them in savings and creating financial goals. The service also boasts community features that will allow users to share advice, support, and tips

Stewart and Colbert have been two of the most visible figures in cable television’s slow crawl onto the Web. Not only are they wildly popular with young and tech-savvy audiences, but the segmented format of their talk shows lends itself well to being split into short clips and swapped via video-sharing sites, which meant that unauthorized clips of the two were some of YouTube’s earliest hits. That’s what indirectly led to Comedy Central parent company Viacom’s massive copyright lawsuit agains

Planet Metrics CEO Andy Leventhal said the company does not yet have hard return-on-investment numbers for its software, but companies with sustainability initiatives, such as Wal-Mart Stores, have found significant savings in reducing fuel use and waste.

The San Francisco-based company on Tuesday released the beta test version of its hosted application, which it calls Rapid Carbon Modeling. It also said Method, which makes eco-friendly home-cleaning products, is a customer.

The wait for Windows 7 will soon be over–at least for those in Microsoft’s MSDN and TechNet developer programs. Members of those two groups will have access to the new operating system starting on Thursday.

Microsoft finalized the code for
Windows 7 late last month. CNET colleague Seth Rosenblatt’s official review of the operating system can be found here, and I’ve embedded his video review below.

Consumers and small businesses, meanwhil

Monday’s news that social giant Facebook is acquiring the less than two-year old FriendFeed included an important postscript: “FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.” But for FriendFeed users, the future seems unclear. Will development on the service be discontinued as the now Facebook-employed FriendFeed creators have been tapped to work on a bigger, and more popular social-networking site? Probably.

The VPC, outlined here by fellow CNET blogger James Urquhart, provides a way for companies to create a logically separated set of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and a secure VPN connection to their own networks. Effectively, it takes a chunk of Amazon’s services and makes it private. Still on the Internet and still on shared hardware, but private.

A huge amount of digital ink has been spilled trying to define “the cloud” and “cloud computing” and now Amazon Web Se

“I met Magnus yesterday at 2 p.m. (Friday),” Pandeya said. “(Bergman) also (spoke) with AktieTorget at around noon…If he resigned, he would have told me and AktieTorget and they would have sent out a press release.”

On June 30, Swedish newspaper Di.se interviewed Pandeya and he acknowledged that the company had liquidity problems in the past but cited Sellstrom and Bergman’s strong personal fortunes to bolster his claims that the company was in good financial health.

Woofer has a clear link explaining in almost 1,400 characters that it is not affiliated with Twitter. The link reads: “Is this Twitter?” Click on it, and you see, in very large type, “No,” coupled with a link to the site’s legal notice.

I dream of a world of macrobloggers who write in full, who never use acronyms, and who create an online oasis for complete literary expression in a world of dogs eating dogs and merely offering sound bites. But let’s see how long it takes b

Schiller’s other recent decision to reach out happened Thursday when he responded to a post on Daring Fireball that criticized Apple for rejecting a dictionary application from the App Store.

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Apple)

“My position is not that every app should be approved — it’s that rejected apps should be rejected for reasons that at the very least make consistent, logical sense, without garbage form-letter rejection notices that explain nothing, and with at least some sor

Television networks are struggling to keep advertising revenues up, and movie studios are under pressure to prevent digital piracy from eating into their profits. Meanwhile, Comcast, which is facing more competition from phone companies and satellite providers in its TV business, is also trying to figure out how best to use the Internet to deliver video content.

The Wall Street Journal said that talks between Comcast and GE could still fall apart. Comcast is looking to pay as l