Google tests out Click-to-Call AdWords
Google is apparently testing out click-to-call AdWords - I can't see it myself, but Seth just searched for 'refinance' and spotted some phone icons alongside the AdWords listings. He entered his phon...
A Torrent or a Trickle?
HOLLYWOOD — Hollywood's copyright police and the maker of the most potent movie piracy software of all time took the stage here Tuesday and solemnly declared détente. — It's all but certain the deal...
The Great Google Wipeout
Chronicle of a corporate death foretold. — It wasn't like it had never happened before in the tech world. At the beginning of the 1980s, an Apple computer was the only box a self-respecting user wo...
CNN drops PS3 price story as Stringer comments are confuted
No comments on pricing or availability from Sony boss after all — Comments published in a CNN article yesterday purporting to be from Sony CEO Howard Stringer regarding the planned pricing for PlayS...
Xbox 360: shortages no joke
While some people insisted that the talk relating to Xbox 360 scarcity was just a veiled publicity stunt, I headed out this morning to see what the scene looked like on the ground. In a word: chaos. ...
UPDATE: A few words on a new media venture
UPDATE: just to let you know, I didn't "slam" US media. — I'm working with some folks on technologies that promise to help people find the most trusted versions of the more important stories... and ...
Web Site Agrees to Help Curb Access to Movies
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 - The creator of software used by millions of computer owners to download movies agreed on Tuesday to prevent his Web site from linking to illegally available movies online, the l...
Can Microsoft Score in Mobile Gaming?
With the new Xbox console out, Redmond's next target is games for mobile phones, with plans to overhaul the business as we know it — Now that Microsoft has unveiled its new Xbox 360 gaming console, ...
Gamers Wait in Rain for Xbox 360
NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters)—Hundreds of video game fans braved chilly temperatures on both U.S. coasts on Tuesday to be among the first to get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game c...
My Newest Investment - Judy's Book
Last week, Judy's Book announced that Mobius led an $8 million Series B financing with existing investors Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners and that I joined the board of directors. — The foun...
Microsoft's Red-Ink Game
Redmond will sell every Xbox console at a big loss, says researcher iSuppli. Not to worry, the profit is in the associated software — Microsoft's newest gaming console marks an improvement on the e...
Invention: Landmine arrows
For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention,...
Online Video Service Pairs Up With AOL
The migration of television to the Internet is getting another boost with a deal that gives Web video startup Brightcove Networks Inc. a foothold on AOL's Web portal. — America Online Inc. and media...
Peeved over TiVo
Biz hardly happy with download plans — TiVo's plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple's iPod and Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studio...
School Radio Stations Face Competition Over Licenses
THE week before classes started in August 2004 at Franklin Central High School here, Steve George stopped in to prepare the school radio station for the coming year. As the faculty adviser to WRFT, h...
Search technology comes to the camera phone
What do MP3s have in common with dairy? — Milk marketing. — By early next year, cartons of milk sold by a European dairy manufacturer will have images of CD art printed on them. Accompanying each...
New approach to licensing with the Office XML formats
Well, as expected there is a lot of speculation out there about what the new approach we've decided to take with the license may mean. Yesterday I posted about our move to standardize the Office XML ...
San Francisco gets Wi-Fi feet wet with 'hot zones'
Residents and visitors in some areas of San Francisco won't have to wait for the controversial proposed citywide Wi-Fi service to get free wireless Internet access. — MetroFi Inc., a maker of wirele...
Belkin kickstand case for video iPod
I am trying very hard not to succumb to the allure of the iPod with video, considering I haven't even half filled my 4G iPod, and I've already been through several portable media players from Archos, ...
A Digital Dodge City
The high-stakes battle between Verizon and Cablevision over a Long Island town is in the hands of a court and state regulators — James Altadonna Jr. won a heated election in 2001 to unseat the incum...