AOL Joins Start-Up Company to Offer Web Video Distribution
America Online reached an unusual arrangement yesterday with a start-up company that will allow almost any producer of video content to distribute programming on its service, splitting revenue from ad...
Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores
Google executives said last night that the company planned to move quickly to capitalize on its new Google Base database service, adding a feature that lets merchants provide local shopping informatio...
Microsoft SSE Thoughts
Everyone knows Ray Ozzie is my hero right? I spent the first several years of my professional career as a Lotus Notes developer, and even worked for Lotus itself for a brief stint in 1996, so you can...
Gates at Xbox launch
If any managers in Microsoft's Server & Tools division have been missing an employee for the past few days, I think we've found him. The first person in line to buy an Xbox 360 console at the launch ...
World Digital Library Planned
Library of Congress Envisions Collection To Bridge Cultures — The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscrip...
Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)
There are companies I review every day that I don't write about. Reasons vary - it's been done already and the product isn't even as good as what's been done, its a mostly or totally one-way applicat...
Rosetta and Driver Upgrades; New Build is Leaked
We've received unconfirmed reports concerning a few interesting new toys under the hood of OSx86 10.4.3, including a vastly improved Rosetta and brand new ATI drivers - each far more complete than in ...
How Riya Recognition Works
Viswadep wrote here about what might happen if the technology behind Riya was used for evil. Let me address how the Riya recognition system works and how its limitations make it very unlikely that we...
Cleaning Up Sony's Rootkit Mess
Late last month, Windows expert Mark Russinovich revealed Sony installing a rootkit to hide its "XCP" DRM (digital rights management) software as installed on users' PCs. The DRM software isn't somet...
Microsoft Security Advisory (911302)
Vulnerability in the way Internet Explorer Handles onLoad Events Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer on ...
The consultancy recommends these users begin calling their software vendors as soon as possible to determine when they plan to support Vista—or they risk getting stuck with something no longer supported by Microsoft.
or they risk getting stuck with something no longer supported by Microsoft. — Companies running Windows 2000 on the desktop need to start preparing for Windows Vista …
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas
Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said,...