TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 - TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, plans to announce a new feature on Monday that will let TiVo owners watch recorded television shows on Apple's video iPods and on S...
Standardizing the Microsoft Office Open XML formats
Today we are making a really important announcement about our XML formats. We are going to bring the Microsoft Office Open XML formats to a standards body with the intention of eventually making the ...
Really Simple Sharing
One of the great things about once again having an active blog is that it enables me to engage in discussion about concepts I'm excited about, and that I'm working on, before they're fully-baked and w...
Cingular will be sold under name of AT&T
NEW YORK — SBC, which closed its merger with AT&T on Friday, plans to sell Cingular Wireless under the fabled AT&T name, Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of the combined company, has confirmed to USA...
New rules for 21st century workers
The most important three rules for today's workforce bar none: Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher has the following rules for today's worker: … I've lived by these three rules for more than a deca...
Wi-Fi mosquito killer coming to a porch near you
A biotechnology company with a specialty in killing mosquitoes is turning to wireless technology and computers to make a killing for itself. — American Biophysics, a small private company based in N...
At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner
Twenty years ago, when Sidney Verba became director of the Harvard University Library, he thought there was a good chance he would enjoy a placid transition into retirement. — Placid is not the word...
Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords
Yahoo Search Marketing has long supported the model of allowing separate bidding on the content and search networks, which enabled advertisers to decide how much they were willing to pay dependent on ...
New Xbox Goes on Sale at Midnight. Good Luck.
The transition to a new generation of video game consoles kicks off tonight at midnight when retailers begin selling Microsoft's Xbox 360. — The event is a much-anticipated step in an intensifying b...
No Blogs Next Year
› › › Intellectual Capital — At my ad:tech panel earlier this month, I had a number of real blog luminaries, including Nick Denton, the brains behind Gawker Media. He pointed out the blog reader ...
Google Base blog import instructions
Google Base launched last Tuesday as a new repository of information for distribution across Google's network of sites including Google search, Froogle, and Google Local. You can add your existing co...
Mario Kart Tears It Up
I was raised on Mario Kart. If I see stock-car racing on television, I wonder why they're not firing missiles made out of turtle shells at each other. — That's why you can believe me when I say tha...
Gartner: piece of tape defeats any CD DRM
Anti-piracy technologies 'easily defeated', reports analyst — The highly controversial XCP digital rights management (DRM) technology bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its audio CD albums can be defeated...