Google ignites hiring frenzy
In June, as engineer Anselm Baird-Smith mulled leaving eBay Inc. for another job, he received a call from Google Inc. Within days, Google executives had interviewed him and dangled before him an entic...
Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.
It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce. — Of course, Google has always wanted to be more than a search engine. Even in the...
Xbox 360 honeymoon is over
Gamers' enthusiasm for the newly released Xbox 360 quickly waned after the first reports were posted online of problems with the machines crashing and overheating. — No word yet on how widespread th...
How to fix your overheating 360
Sure, if your Xbox 360 is crashing you could call up Microsoft tech support and get your new toy repaired or replaced — or you could take design flaws matters into your own hands and source out the ro...
Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple Took Over the Portable Market in 1991
The PowerBook has consistently been one of the most respected and lusted after brands in the portable computing market. — This wasn't always the case. Apple's first attempt at repackaging the Macin...
Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked
update Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just some of the popular artists whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa following Federal Court o...
Why open source projects are not publicised
"Lots of companies are using our products, they just aren't talking about it", is a popular excuse from software companies …
Google fixes glitch that unleashed flood of porn
A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week. — Launched last week, Google Base is the search...
Press release: New digitisation report calls for cross-sectoral e-content strategy
Public sector risks being left behind in information revolution, says new report — 24th November, 2005. Although around £130m of public money has been spent on the creation of digital content since...
Next-gen victor won't be revealed until 2007, says Gates
Microsoft chairman suggests — As US consumers continue to snap up Xbox 360s following the console's launch on November 22, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has suggested that the ultimate victor in the...
Starting a Blog Part 1: What to blog about
Welcome to part one of my new series on starting a blog, both aimed a people new to blogging and perhaps as a handy refresher to those who are currently writing a blog but who want to start a new blog...
From paper to plastic: How credit cards change our lives
Kathy Dodd stood a few steps away from the Mary Tyler Moore statue on the Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. She'd flown in from Washington, D.C., for a few days on business and had arrived at the local i...
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Lillian Kreisle, whose name I'm sure I'm mangling, was my first book keeper at my first company. She was a generation older than us young whipper snappers, we were in our 20s, and determined to make ...
Placing Ads in Some Surprising Spaces
THE parade of mainstream advertisers starting to use nontraditional media is growing almost as long as that march through Manhattan yesterday sponsored by a certain department store. — Joining the t...
Steve Jobs Ruined My Thanksgiving
I recently got an iPod Nano, mainly because I'm annoyed at the limitations of my iPod Shuffle on long trips (like flying half way around the world). — Two nights ago, I fired up iTunes and finally a...
Desktop Linux for small business
Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner. — As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Micr...
Over 30% of DMCA cease and desist notices deemed illegal
Director Jennifer Urban at the University of Southern California (USC) and Laura Quilter at the University of California-Berkeley have released a summary report that studies a sample of over 900 notic...
It's a worthwhile platforming experience for hardcore Potter fans, but some may be put off by all the collection quests and backtracking.
The Good: Three-player cooperative play; card system of upgrades adds depth; triwizard tournament levels mix up the gameplay style.
Dark Clouds over Skype?
Despite the general euphoria about Skype's retail launch in the US, there are some disturbing developments in the Skype-world that make you wonder about the future of eBay-Skype integration. — Andy ...
A machinima commentary on the riots in France
Here's an extremely cool project: "The French Democracy", a machinima film about the recent riots in France. It's a little dramatization of the lives of three different black French citizens. One is...
First Xbox360 Game Pirated?
It seems that it has taken those crazy software pirates only 1 day to rip the data off an Xbox360 Disc. According to an nfo file found by us on the web, the game Call Of Duty 2 has been released in ....
Microsoft loses money on each Xbox
The cost of building a Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console is nearly 40 percent higher than the retail price, technology and microchip research company iSuppli said on Wednesday. — The firm estima...
A Novel Repair Concept: Replace Battery, Not iPod
Apple's wildly popular iPod has a well-known Achilles' heel: over time, its rechargeable battery tends to lose its capacity to hold a charge. Apple's begrudging solution has been a cumbersome mail-in...
Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive'
Neuros updates MPEG 4 recorder for PSP, iPod
Neuros has updated its Neuros MPEG 4 Recorder (NMR), dropping the original gadget's SD memory card support for the Sony PlayStation Portable-friendly MemoryStick family. It's also added support for v...
Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial
Microsoft asked for references to free software …
GourmetStation: A Case Study of Damage Control in the Blogosphere
We at the Blog Business Summit think that the much-discussed Forbes article "Attack of the Blogs" was rather over the top. But that doesn't mean we don't know the truth - the blogosphere has sharp te...