Google Base Was Sort of Live
Several people report Google Base (as predicted yesterday) went live, or at least, its login-screen. I can't reach it at the moment as it seems Google took it down again, but Dirson posted a screensh...
Mac OS X 10.4.3 release imminent, Australia iTunes Music Store opens
October 24, 2005 - The most substantial update to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is nearing release, multiple indications suggest. Over the weekend Apple seeded developers with build 8F45, the first seed to not...
Writers Side With Google in Scrap
Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search e...
Comedy Central Unveils Motherload Network
Comedy Central unveiled details on its new broadband network Motherload on Tuesday in New York. — Motherload, which goes live on Nov. 1, will consist of five video-based channels featuring a mix of ...
VideoEgg: Hassle-Free Video Blogging
As I once mentioned here, I like capturing teeny-tiny video clips with my digital camera. My only problem is that after I've viewed those clips once or twice, they tend to sit on my hard drive where ...
Wal-Mart pulls plug on 360 kiosks
Xbox maker acknowledges consoles interfering with Wal-Mart's internal management systems; says fix is in the works. — Gamers looking to be among the first to get their hands on an Xbox 360 controlle...
Will Mark Cuban (Finally) Revolutionize Hollywood?
His plan to break the video window. — I recently demonstrated my high-definition projector by showing scenes from the beautifully shot Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. First, I played an HD r...
Google's pursuit: knowledge
To answer a question recently posed to me by CNBC host Ron Insana, Google's ultimate goal is to have a wire into our brains in order to have complete knowledge of who we are. Of course, I don't belie...
Where are we now?
With all the questions about Vista I thought it might be interesting to talk about where we are in the project and to see if there were things you were hoping to see. — Right now we're in a bug fixi...
Key MSN manager is leaving to launch startup
The highly regarded manager of Microsoft's MSN.com portal and content group, Hadi Partovi, resigned last week, a month after a large reorganization folded MSN into the larger Windows group. — Additi...
PodTech Exclusive from IBM's World Headquarters: IBM Supports Podcasting as a New Media
Download to MP3: Exclusive PodTech & IBM Podcast - IBM Corporate Podcasting Team Speaks Out on Podcasting — The PodCast: — PodTech Exclusive from IBM's World Headquarters …
Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You're In Luck!
A buddy of mine just sent me a torrent for a hack version of the new Front Row application for the new iMacs. Download the torrent file and get the contents (2.8 mb file) follow the read me and you'r...
How to get Google to fix BlogSpot
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Google spam suite primer: … One answer to this problem is counter-intuitive. The solution to the problem it to click gratuitously and never make purchases on the links at blog...
Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed
Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. — I...
Les Blogs 2.0 preliminary program
Introduction — Why have we started to organize the Les Blogs conference ? — A frustration. I have always been so sorry that there were not enough cool conferences around the Web generally in Euro...
"WEB 2.0" DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING YET
I promised myself I wasn't going to jump into this silly debate, but I just can't help it anymore. Is "Web 2.0" real or not? That argument is endless, mindless, and pointless. The name, in and of i...
Bratz Rock Angelz
Let's start a band! But whatever shall we wear? — October 24, 2005 - Bratz Rock Angelz has me at an unfortunate disadvantage. It seems I'm not a young female fashionista between the age of four an...
Ready for a 20-inch laptop?
How big is your laptop? Fifteen inches? Seventeen inches? How about a massive 19- or 20-inch wide-screen LCD model? — With so many DVDs featuring letterboxed or wide-screen versions of films, con...
Geo-Targeted RSS Ads Surprise Advertisers
Google has quietly been running geo-targeted contextual ads in RSS feeds for several months, but many advertisers, agencies, and analysts contacted by ClickZ were surprised to learn about the placemen...
Salary Survey: Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?
With another year of anemic 3% pay increases, it sure looks that way for most IT workers. — News Story by Stacy Collett — After five years as a LAN specialist at Albany International Corp. in Alba...
Dot-com lesson feared lost on venture capitalists
During the dot-com boom, venture capitalists bid up the values of consumer-Internet companies such as HomeGrocer.com, Pets.com and Kozmo.com — only to suffer the consequences when the money-losing com...