Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0
Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time sticking to their...
Sprint Nextel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications to Form Landmark Cable and Wireless Joint Venture
Comcast: — Time Warner Cable: — Cox Communications: — David Grabert, (404) 269-7054 (office) or (678) 592-2258 (cell)
Sony to patch copy-protected CD
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and a technology partner are working with antivirus companies on a fix for a potential security problem in some copy-protected CDs. — Earlier in the week, security exper...
Presenting the Nokia N92: TV goes Mobile
The world's first integrated DVB-H mobile device makes prime time any time — Nokia Mobility Conference 2005, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - At the Nokia Mobility Conference, Nokia today proudly p...
Sprint, Cable Hit Prime Time
Carrier and operators will invest in 'grand slam' services and coordinated distribution to 75 million U.S. homes. — Sprint Nextel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, and Advance/Newhous...
SGI Securities to Cease NYSE Trading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (November 1, 2005)—SGI announced today that it has been advised by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that its common stock - ticker symbol SGI - and its 6.5% Senior Secured Con...
Grandpa Is Sued Over Grandson's Downloads
MILWAUKEE - A 67-year-old man who says he doesn't even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home c...
Invention: Coffee beer
For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention,...
SEC FILES EMERGENCY ACTION AGAINST ESTONIAN TRADERS TO STOP ONGOING FRAUDULENT HACKING SCHEME
Foreign Traders Used Computerized "Spider" Program to Fraudulently Steal Nonpublic Issuer Press Release Information from Commercial Wire Service — The Securities and Exchange Commission …
Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results
Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results — Yahoo is testing a clever marketing tactic in its search results outside of the United States. If you search for "google" on Yahoo Australia & N...
Massive Frontal PR is incompatible with Ship Early and Often
Microsoft's new (beta!) portal page, live.com, doesn't work in Firefox, and doesn't work too great in IE either. The first thing I used it for was to search for "firefox market share." — Like every...
Byte of the Apple
And Speaking of Things Michael Dell Said About Apple — And while I'm thinking of Michael Dell, something else he said about Apple - this much more recently - came to mind following Apple's release l...
Poly Business Card Book
I present to you my low-tech solution to a common hassle: what to do with all those business cards you collect? If I were an organized person I would purchase one of those nifty electronic card-scann...
Sony Announces PSP Podcasting Support
Sony Media Software has announced PSP Media Manager, software for the PC that lets users move content from their personal computer to their PSP (PlayStation Portable) system. Podcasts and video podca...
Think Partnership Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire UK-based Web Diversity LLC
NORTHBROOK, Ill.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 2, 2005— Headquartered in London and poised to expand into Hong Kong, Web — Diversity will work with THK's Smart Interactive operations in the
Rubel Rocking at Blogging Enterprise
Steve Rubel is delivering the keynote here at The Blogging Enterprise in Austin. He's rocking. He spotlights the impact of blogging on PR and the traditional media. He held a moment of silence im m...
Microsoft Previews New Windows Live and Office Live Services
Company outlines software-based services strategy. — SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 1, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today previewed two new Internet-based software services — Windows Live™ and Microsoft® Office Liv...
Sony Raids Hacker Playbook
New research from Mark Russinovich over at Sysinternals (the company I've blogged about before as the source a ton of excellent and free software utilities) indicates that Sony BMG has configured some...
Broadway Joe Was A Blogger
In 1965, immediately after the Alabama football team lost a squeaker in the Orange Bowl, the cocky owner of the professional New York Jets signed the cockier yet 'Bama quarterback, Joe Namath to a con...
Consumer Spending For Web Content Nears $1 Billion
LED BY A SURGE IN entertainment spending, U.S. consumers shelled out $987 million for online content during the first half of this year, marking a 16 percent increase from the first half of 2004, acco...
Following the Search Engine Referral Money Trail
Now that the month of October is over and my AdSense numbers are complete, I figured it was time for a slightly more detailed follow-up to my October Web Search Referral Statistics post from a couple ...