Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki
Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in it...
RIM gets good news in patent case
Battered by two recent setbacks in court, Research In Motion won a round in its long-running patent fight against NTP on Thursday when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected one of the claims b...
There Goes The Other Reason eBay Bought Skype
from the two-strikes-and-you're-out dept. — Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 (potentially $4.1 billion), the company tried to justify the decision with a variety of vague statements. However, t...
SNARFing your way through e-mail
With the world's in-boxes overflowing with unread messages, researchers at Microsoft are offering up a tool they hope will help people sort through the morass. — The software maker this week release...
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads
NEW YORK—Yahoo aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising—and rates—by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursda...
The Truth About Click Fraud
Over the past year, there have been literally hundreds of articles and blog posts written about the topic of click fraud. I'm at the point that I actually get the urge to vomit every time I see a new...
Video Phones Offer Face Time, Even if Consumers Aren't Ready
George Jetson, his boy Elroy, Dick Tracy and Capt. James T. Kirk have used video phones for decades, calling people across the universe with unselfconscious ease. — But Americans have never embraced...
Inside Craig: SFWeekly writer profiles The Listman
Ryan Blitstein's done a lovely job profiling Craig Newmark in SF Weekly, digging into both Craig's smart simplicity and the profound disruption his efforts have caused. — Favorite snippets: — Desc...
Life Meditation IV
I have spent the better part of the last month actively negotiating on behalf of my company, kozoru. It is always a strange feeling when I realize I am focused on negotiation and not focused on build...
Sunbelt Software to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall
Best of breed firewall will become part of company's desktop security product line — Clearwater, Florida, USA — December 1, 2005 — Sunbelt Software and Kerio Technologies, Inc. today announced that ...
Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom
In an assault reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, Podcaster Erik Marcus recently found that his RSS feed had been inexplicably redirected. — According to Marcus, rather than fully coopera...
Podcast Amongst Yourselves
Today we're launching a new version of Odeo with several big changes. The most notable is that everyone can now record audio with the browser-based Odeo Studio - or via the phone. Either way, your v...
Motorola shows ROKR E2 iTunes handset
In a presentation to investors last month, Motorola revealed brief details and a photo of the ROKR E2 handset, one of the company's upcoming music phones with iTunes integration. — The capsule shape...