'Podcast' Is the Word of the Year
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted "geeks." Now you can hear everything from NASCAR coverage to NPR's Al...
The Lost Road Map of B5
Jeremy, over at B5 is talking about how their servers have been grinding along slowly lately because they are hosting a lot of worthless content. They also seemed to be "quietly" being supported by C...
Can Google Go Glossy?
Why its plan to resell print ads to its army of advertisers may be off to a slow start — It was a babystep that sent tremors through the media establishment. Seeking ways to expand its advertising ...
AOL Deal May Omit Stake Sale
Time Warner may not be selling a piece of America Online after all. — Time Warner is still in negotiations with Microsoft and Google over a variety of potential deals involving its AOL unit. But mo...
Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat
THE record company Sony BMG recently got in trouble after attempting to stem piracy by encoding its CD's with software meant to limit how many copies can be made of the discs. It turned out that the ...
Looking for the Proceeds in TV-on-Demand
For five decades or so, the television industry's main mission has been to come up with hit programs, get them on screens, and hope people will stop and watch. Now, that is just the starting point. ...
Top 20 Games That Nobody Played - But You Should
There are hundreds of excellent games that have been released over the last two decades that never quite got the attention and sales they deserved. Many times it is because of lousy marketing, but at...
Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs
A top international model is using social software and cell phones to give high fashion an air of high tech. — Anina, who struts her stuff on European catwalks and magazine covers, is a self-proclai...
Revolution Launch
What exactly does "2006" really mean? We narrow down the launch date. — December 5, 2005 - Asking a Nintendo executive for Revolution's official launch date will always yield exactly the same respo...
Google Fixes Desktop Search Loophole
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - news) has strengthened its Desktop Search tool so that it cannot be used any longer by hackers who are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - news)...
IBM to support OpenDocument early next year
At a press conference in Delhi, India, IBM executives plan to announce Monday …