Microsoft Live Event - My Real Time Notes
UPDATE: My Windows Live full profile is up on TechCrunch. — Well, it's started. I'm sitting about 20 feet from Bill Gates, who's speaking now. Next to Niall Kennedy. Dave Winer, Steve Gillmor and...
The Looming Attention Crisis
Umair Haque said something (or actually quoted someone) at our Sessions event that has been rattling around my brain for the past week. — Umair said: … So I went to Wikipedia and looked up Herbert S...
Halloween on the Hill
Halloween is traditionally the time when the undead walk; preposterous monstrosities that no-one could imagine living stumble and moan through the land. — So guess what the entertainment industry de...
Coming soon, Nightly News, free and online
Next week, America's No. 1 newscast will stream worldwide after it airs — NBC News announced Monday that "NBC Nightly News" will soon become the first and only network newscast to be offered free on...
CD DRM Makes Computers Less Secure
Yesterday, Sysinternals's Mark Russinovich posted an excellent analysis of a CD copy protection system called XCP2. This scheme, created by British-based First4Internet, has been deployed on many Son...
DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Ever come across something that only gets stranger and stranger the deeper you delve into it? That was my experience when I almost purchased a new CD — a DRM crippled CD — this...
Turn on a Dime
Tomorrow Bill Gates (convicted monopolist) and Ray Ozzie (respect) are expected to announce the third coming of Microsoft. Just as they turned a massive organization on a dime to embrace the Internet...
Top US cable co's land Sprint Nextel deal-source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three top U.S. cable operators on Monday reached a deal to resell wireless phone services with Sprint Nextel <S.N> to compete against telephone operators entering the video market...
Will Wal-Mart sell $398 notebooks, desktops?
Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard will likely celebrate this Thanksgiving season by attempting to crush their competitors with low-price desktops and notebooks, according to a Web site that tracks bargains...
Google: Thinking about the future of TV ads
The New York Times published an interesting article yesterday that gives some insight into how Google operates and what may be coming in the advertising arena. I was particularly intrigued by the men...
Wikipedia may go to print, says founder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimm...
Is Windows Vista Out of Sync?
All the years in the making might hurt more than help the adoption of Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.'s next client operating system. — The release of the software giant's new operating system will b...
Google hiring like it's 1999
It may take a village to raise a child, as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to say. But it looks like it's going to take quite a bit more than that to fulfill the Google dream of one day indexing al...
Google vs. Microsoft (VC Style)
In the course of doing the voodoo that VCs do, I've started to ask a number of questions of new companies in order to get a "man on street" view of this or that battle, this or that standard, and oth...
Ross doesn't trust Microsoft's approach to Web
SocialText's founder, Ross Mayfield, nails why a bunch of my friends don't trust Microsoft and are finding what Microsoft's Web offerings quite boring (or, even worse, worthy of derision). — As I've...
SCO describes alleged IBM Unix misuse to court
It took more than two and a half years, but the SCO Group finally has disclosed a list of areas in which it believes IBM violated its Unix contract, allegedly by moving proprietary Unix technology int...
Mathematicians get a handle on centuries old shape
Theorem puts new twist on topology of minimal surfaces — It has been almost 230 years since French general and mathematician Jean Meusnier's study of soap films - the same kind used by children toda...
Google Will Return to Scanning Copyrighted Library Books
Google Inc. will resume scanning copyrighted library books into its search engine after a self-imposed hiatus, despite the efforts of some publishers and authors to block it from doing so without the ...
iTunes store counts 1 million video downloads
Apple Computer said on Monday that it has sold more than 1 million videos in the 19 days since it launched its video iPod and started selling TV shows, short films and a wider assortment of music vide...
I love Technology
Today (the day I wrote this) I woke up early because I have a cross-country flight. I fired up my computer and used the airline's web site to change my seat assignment and print out my boarding pass....
Jack Thompson Versus Gamers
I'm no stranger to video-game violence. — I was actually programmed into the game Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes as a guard that quite frankly doesn't even put up much of a fight before he is gun...
Candidates Reach Voters With Blogs, RSS, Text Messages
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign is going mobile. The mayor's campaign Web site landed a spot on AOL's beta site AIM Today, where his smiling face appeared Monday morning next to the ...
IRC Channel as Startup Incubator
In the past few years, some of the most revolutionary software emerged not from Silicon Valley startups or high-powered universities, but from a humble online chat room. — Many in the tech industry ...