Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public
If there was any point of agreement between publishers, authors and Google in a debate Thursday night over the giant Web company's program to digitize the collections of major libraries and allow user...
Google Analytics Is Now Full
Google redressed Urchin web analytics software and released it as Google Analytics. It seems to be quite a hit, that the company had to close the applications for the service. I tried signing up for...
Will small publishers still have game?
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco seven months ago, there was an undercurrent of fear. — Would sharply rising development costs, game developers worried, make designing games for th...
Babble not Bubble 2.0*
John Battelle in an op-ed for The New York Times argues that we are not in a bubble, but instead we are building a better boom. Looking back over past few years, John argues that things have changed ...
Now its Cisco versus Motorola, Microsoft
Cisco had data, Cisco had voice, and what it needed was video to complete the triple play. So they bought Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion. … The reasons for the deal are many, the most important ...
Wal-Mart only has three Xbox 360 units per store
According to some latest information, Microsoft has only sent three Xbox 360 units to smaller Wal-Mart stores, while the super centers only got 10. — The information comes from various GameSHOUT use...
You're Only a Newbie Once
Researching last week's column about adult webcam chat made me nostalgic for the online community I used to belong to. The conversations in the webAffairs book could have taken place in my chat room,...
Early Xbox reviews: so-so
Early reviews of Microsoft's Xbox 360 are starting to appear and so far the reaction is: eh, it's okay. — "Good, but not great," says CNN. "Don't buy the Xbox," The New York Post. — Most of the c...
CD woes may have had roots in merger
It sounded like music to record executives' ears. — Copy-protection software that would to do the impossible: make CDs that couldn't be repeatedly copied. — Britain's First 4 Internet landed meeti...
EMI says its DRM will support the iPod
Apple has been loath to license its FairPlay DRM, used to protect songs sold from the iTunes Music Store. That has been a sticking point for record companies, which yearn to provide iPod compatibilit...
IPv6 Forum chief: the new Internet is ready for consumption
IPv6 is not a pipedream. Founder of the IPv6 Forum Latif Ladid took time out from the IPv6 summit in Canberra to talk to Computerworld about why the new Internet Protocol is a pie to be consumed here...
PRODUCT REVIEW: Podcasts Converted to Text
BOSTON - Suddenly the universe of downloadable audio files known as podcasts seems as enormous as the Internet. Name a topic — from the weather in Asuncion to the ZigBee wireless technology — and the...
FCC Shows Rugged Pocket PC Phone From Panasonic
The FCC approved a new ruggedized Pocket PC Phone from Panasonic. The Toughbook CF-P2 has both GSM/GPRS 850/1900 as well as 802.11b Wi-Fi and Blutooth. It also features n full numeric keypad, LCD sc...