DHS Official Weighs In on Sony
A high-ranking Bush administration official weighed in Thursday on anti-piracy efforts domestically and abroad, indirectly chastising Sony BMG Music Entertainment for its digital rights management (DR...
Portals 2.0 flesh out their product lines
Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked, but you can...
Paper War
Microsoft Is Leaking Internal Documents to Make Us Think They Have a Plan — Oscar Wilde said that the only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you, and it must have...
SAP dismisses open source innovation
'IP socialism is the worst that can happen,' argues SAP president Shai Agassi — Open source will fail to deliver innovation and is more likely to break applications, according to Shai Agassi, presid...
Full Metal Jacket
I have, for several years, subscribed to the theory that those who are mostly desk-bound should buy the cheapest laptop they can get by with and the most expensive desktop system they can afford. One...
Nintendo hints at coming price war
Revolution may lowball competitors to help attract consumer eyes. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - While the Xbox 360 is going to be dominating the media spo...
Epic proportions
Mark Rein has been in the news more than he'd perhaps like lately. The Epic Games vice president is a man who likes to talk, and a man who's passionate about games - a combination which can sometimes...
And the Emmy for Best Actor on iPods Goes to ...
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Measuring podcasts: The right first step
Measuring podcasts: … Jeff Jarvis makes the point that defined Audible's effort to produce a tool that supports a broad range of business models, ignoring the fact that the technology doesn't do what ...
UPDATE: Google Weighing Test Of Print Ads In Newspapers
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) is considering testing print advertisements in Chicago newspapers, in a sign that the Internet giant, to date seen primarily as a threat to traditional media,...
Tempted by the Apple?
Add this column to your News Alerts (New!) — APPLE'S MACINTOSH COMPUTERS claim only a tiny share of the overall PC market, but they are getting more consideration from Windows users thinking of swit...
Mobile phones making a monkey out of Japanese
Going bananas over mobile phones for so many years is turning Japanese into monkeys, according to Sapio (11/23). — Nobuo Masataka, a professor at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and ...
Perspective: All the news that's fit to blog
A few unrelated items for your consideration: — • Last spring, an assembly of editors was asked how many of them knew who Craig Newmark was? A few hands in the audience went up. And how many had h...
Man buys virtual space station for $100,000
NEW YORK — In one of the largest sales yet of property in an online game, a Miami resident has bought a virtual space station for $100,000 and wants to turn it into a cross between Jurassic Park and a...
Apple's Growing Army of Converts
Windows users are trying Macs in increasing numbers — and it's not just a function of the iPod "halo effect — Nothing fires up a group of Mac users like the chance to score a convert — except maybe ...
Internet holds only future for newspapers, experts warn
MADRID (AFP) - Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid. — "We are getting the whole organisation ...