McDonald's and Nintendo in Wi-Fi Deal
Would you like Mario with that Big Mac? — Nintendo of America is expected to announce today that it will offer free wireless Internet access for its Nintendo DS portable game system at McDonald's re...
Web 2.0, Community & the Commerce Conundrum
Nicholas Carr has an uncanny ability of saying things that manage to upset many, if not most people. His original essay, IT Doesn't Matter, managed to get under the skin of Silicon Valley insiders, w...
State of the Splogosphere
The topic of the day, is Blogspot splogs. I gotta admit, my own RSS reader is giving me more SPAM than anything these days. Many in the blogosphere have pointed the finger at Google and want Blogspo...
Doom
Review: The best videogame-to-film adaptation yet. — October 17, 2005 - Obviously, there will be two camps of people attending Doom: those who have played an installment of the storied (and at times...
Yahoo! and Whereonearth Get More Relevant Together
In an offline world 80-90% of purchases happen within 8-10 miles of your home. We believe this will carry over into the online world and in an increasingly personalized internet, users should expect ...
MIKE WENDLAND: Microsoft has a winner with Tablet PC operating system
Not to be a name dropper, but when Bill Gates spotted me last week at a news conference in Ann Arbor his face broke into a big grin and he greeted me with something to the effect of "Hey, Mike, my fav...
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems
Yes it's garbage, but it's delivered so much faster! — Encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with...
Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft; Moves to Open-Source Foundation
Ward Cunningham, one of Microsoft's high-profile hires, is leaving the Redmond software company to join the open-source tool group, The Eclipse Foundation. — Microsoft has lost one of its high-profi...
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You
Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print — San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color ...
Jobs Speaks: What's Next for Apple
What it takes to set the pace in consumer tech. — "There's just one more thing," says Steve Jobs, as he does near the end of most Apple product launches. The phrase delights the Mac faithful in the...
How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod (with video)
This week's How-To comes to us courtesy of Dave Zatz, a long-time Engadget pal who we finally convinced to join the staff as a contributor. Dave is the master of all things TiVo, and for his first Ho...
Links are dead, Doc
Good grief. My friend Doc Searls has reacted big time to my suggestion that links are dead. OK, I was going to sugercoat it but if you insist…. — Doc, last in first out. Links have leverage, atte...
Wireless technology changing work and play
(CNN) — Geoffrey Bowker, executive director of a research institute at Santa Clara University, remembers a time when going to academic conferences meant leaving office concerns behind, hearing provoca...
Innovation 2.0: Why Web 2.0 companies might have to flip to avoid being flopped
The question of "What is Web 2.0" has been debated at length in the blogosphere and in the alleys of the eponymous conference a week ago (and I am not sure that we have come to any agreement yet).
Ten Suggestions for Google's Blogspot
Emotion. Raw emotion. — That's what caused me to write something about the Blogspot spam problem this weekend - independently from Jarvis writing independently from Haughey writing independently fr...
More info on updates
I've already talked about index updates some in the past. These days rather than having a large monolithic update, Google tends to have smaller (and more frequent) individual launches. So I think my...
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You
Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print — San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color ...
Microsoft Releases Code for Windows Server R2 RC1
Microsoft Corp. on Monday came closer to the final release of Windows Server 2003 R2, expected before the year's end, by making Release Candidate 1 available for download. — The release of the RC1 c...
Three reasons why Internet-based applications are a bad idea
By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller — We've all heard the hype about how Sun and Google may someday, somehow, produce a version of StarOffice or OpenOffice.org that you'll access online through your browser ...
Cafe 2.0: After the Gold Rush
SAN FRANCISCO — A hip Mission District cafe has become the unlikely nerve center for a new wave of software innovators, amid signs of a second internet gold rush. — Ritual Coffee Roasters opened jus...
Meet the 21-yr-old Norwegian who defied Hollywood
Jon Lech Johansen dropped out of high school after just one year. He lives alone most of the time, except when he stays with his parents in his native Norway. The 21-year-old doesn't drive, rarely g...