There goes Scoble again talking about search
The dinner tonight was really fun. Renee and Paul Mooney put together quite a great group of more than 30 geeks. I can't tell you everyone who was there, but Jason Calacanis was sitting next to me m...
In a Challenge to TiVo, DirecTV Promotes Its Own Box
DIRECTV, the satellite television operator, is introducing a $30 million advertising campaign on Monday to promote its highly anticipated digital video recorder. — The campaign, created by the New Y...
Security Suites Are Rife With Problems
If security software is so necessary in Windows — as it is — why are we supposed to pay extra for it? — For years, that's been a paradox Windows users have been able to mull over as they sat through...
Palm Linux mobile phones coming this year?
Palm will ship Linux-powered mobile phones this year, say sources claiming to be close to the company. The devices will be powered by Wind River Linux, and pending carrier reaction, may well be the f...
Using TCP Wrappers to secure Linux
TCP Wrappers can be used to GRANT or DENY access to various services on your machine to the outside network or other machines on the same network. It does this by using simple Access List Rules which...
No Office suite from us - Google
"See, we start with the toolbar, then we do the Talking Paperclip..." — Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite. — "...
Live from ConvergeSouth: Session with Dave Winer
These are the general notes of the ConvergeSouth session discussion led by Dave Winer on October 8, 2005. Unfortunately, I was not able to capture every tool mentioned. Please add what I missed thro...
Microsoft asks for feedback on RSS icon
Microsoft's RSS team floats a few icons to see what people think we should do in future news aggregators. Dave Winer answers "big thumb down ... stop reinventing." — One thing is that we love icons...
Sphere, the Relevant Blog Search
Blogs are big. There are 19 million blogs, and a few thousand will go online by the time you get done reading this. To paraphrase a popular disco ditty - so many blogs, so little time. Technorati, ...
Internet becoming part of life for Chinese
Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China's Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. — "It ha...
U.S. News Makes Big Bet on Internet to Try to Save Fading Magazine
U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet. It's also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to...