Yahoo Shoposphere Just Launched
Yahoo Shoposphere launches tonight (well, officially at 6 am EST tomorrow, but I've gotten permission to write about it tonight). I met with Rob Solomon, Yahoo's GM of Shopping, and Sabrina Crider, a...
Is driving easier when Mr. T's riding shotgun?
To cash in on in-car GPS market, media firm to offer celebrity directions — Centuries ago, navigators looked to the stars to work out their location on Earth and plot their courses. Today, stars ar...
Sony to pull controversial CDs, offer swap
LOS ANGELES — Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will pull some of its most popular CDs from stores in response to backlash over copy-protection software on the discs. (Related item: Firesto...
How to Build an Intel Mac
Discuss this now (7 posts) … Building a Mac seems like a crazy enough idea. Throw in Intel hardware and the men in white suits should be rounding the corner. Yet the unfortunate leak of an early dev...
Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
Even as Microsoft readies a host of new ad-supported online services to battle rivals, the software maker has been mulling a plan to offer free, ad-supported versions of some of its desktop products, ...
Study finds TiVo losing ground among DVR users
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TiVo Inc. has created a digital video recorder with a name that has worked its way into the American lexicon, but its reputation among users and would-be users is be...
Microsoft reveals face plate designs for Xbox 360
14 November 2005 - The Xbox 360 is nearly here and to tease us even more, Microsoft has revealed a range of easily interchangeable Faceplates, which enable gamers to personalise their console to match...
Virgin flashes Red Pass for digital music
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Virgin Group Ltd. on Monday is set to launch Virgin Digital Red Pass, the latest choice in the increasingly competitive field of comprehensive subscription music ser...
Pheedo Intros RSS Analytics Tool
Pheedo is today expected to introduce an RSS analytics product designed to help publishers eliminate some of the guesswork involved in tracking user behaviors in that channel. — The new tool, simila...
Keeping a Genre Alive
In a Bid to Rekindle the Text-Only PC Games — Of the 1980s, Fans Write New Adventures … So begins "A New Life," a computer game created by Alexandre Owen Muñiz, a 31-year-old programmer who lives in...
Mini-Porn Could Be Mega-Business
Video IPods, Cell Phones Provide New Vehicles for Adult Industry — Apple Computer Inc. took 20 days to reach 1 million downloads of video files from its online store; the Web site SuicideGirls, offe...
VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic
A flaw in a key Internet security protocol used by major networking products could open systems up to denial-of-service and other kinds of attacks, experts have warned. — Finnish researchers at the ...
Krause Taylor Associates Spams Bloggers
Back in July when I half-jokingly suggested that we create An Email Blacklist of Technology PR Agencies, it stirred up quite a bit of discussion on my site and among PR bloggers. [See Bloglines citat...