Yahoo adds Skype-like ability to IM service
NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc. is entering a suddenly crowded field, offering Skype-like capabilities through its instant-messaging service that will let people dial regular phone numbers using their computers...
MediaMax Bug Found; Patch Issued; Patch Suffers from Same Bug
iSEC, EFF, and SonyBMG issued a joint press release yesterday, announcing yet another serious security bug in the SunnComm MediaMax copy protection software that ships on many SonyBMG compact discs.
Yahoo's new online phone calls near
Yahoo is expanding its reach in the fast-growing Internet calling market, offering a service that will allow people to make and receive low-cost computer calls to and from regular phones. — The long...
The Digital Audiophile's Toolbox
So you want to be an audiophile? Great, but you need to realize this is an elite designation and that joining the ranks will take work. The key is having the right tools, and not all of those listed...
Don't scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart
David Dec 06 — Jeremy Wright purports a common misconception about new companies doing business online: That you need 99.999% uptime or you're toast. Not so. Basecamp doesn't have that. I think o...
Les Blogs: Me + Mena
(Health Warning: this is a rant) — Mena Trott (co-founder and president of Six Apart) gave, in my opinion, a badly toned and way-off-base speech at the Les Blogs conference in which she requested fo...
Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python
I was just looking at our BookScan data mart to update a reporter on Java vs. C# adoption. (The answer to his query: in the last twelve weeks, Java book sales are off 4% vs. the same period last year...
Best Buy's new outreach over the Xbox 360 launch controversy
I'll also add this to the previous post about Best Buy, but this deserved a separate headline. Here's a new letter to consumers from Best Buy's President of Retail in North America, Brian Dunn: — T...
CBS goes mad: free college hoops online
CBS Sports will offer out-of-market basketball games for free online during NCAA March Madness. — It's the fourth year that CBS Sports will offer the mostly regional games—ones that wouldn't appear ...
Web 2.0 and Scale
The point made by Jeremy Wright , and supported by Om Malik on the need for Web 2.0 startups to consider scalability of their systems is valid, as far as it goes. But I believe the argument is, in pa...
Starbucks: Using Confrontational Marketing to Build Brand Awareness in a Saturated Market
Today as I was crossing the Embarcadero I noticed that this gentleman had left his coffee on the roof of his car. Midway through the cross walk I turned and pointed at him and he just waved at me.
How to stop filesharers from stealing hotel bandwidth
Starts out with some geeky stuff, keep reading, the funny part is later on. — So, I'm in Milwaukee at ye olde Holiday Inn Express. They have a wireless internet connection here and it's been suckin...
Creative's new Zen Vision:M (with video)
Creative is introducing their new Zen Vision:M, an answer to Apple's 5G iPod, and what an answer it is. We know it gets old hearing every new player get compared to Apple's flagship offering, but can...
Ten things I hate about the Xbox 360
OK, so we've been through this drill before. Carnoy reviews a product, gives it a high rating, then writes a column talking about all the things he doesn't like about it. Worse, he starts referring ...
Microsoft, Google still vying for AOL
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are in a "two-horse" race to strike an Internet advertising partnership with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL online unit, sources familiar with the talks sa...
what does the future hold for communities?
Search has, thanks to Google, dominated Internet innovation for years. But, while search has made our lives easier and put hundreds of gigabytes of useful data at our finger tips, it has also served ...
Tech Blogs Produce New Elite to Help Track The Industry's Issues
Revolutions don't usually work out quite as planned. And that's what's happening now in the technology world with blogs. They are every bit as important as their boosters said they would be. But in...
Even in Web 2.0 Scale & Size Matter
Updated Many times in the past I have pointed out that most of the new Web 2.0 type start-ups have business plans that only go so far! I am actually glad to see Jeremy Wright take a stand on this iss...
More Revolution Specs Uncovered
Developers come forward to reveal new performance details on Nintendo's next-generation console. — December 6, 2005 - Just yesterday IGN Revolution launched with technical details on Nintendo's next...
Face It: Privacy Is Endangered
In the 1997 flick Face/Off, John Travolta wears Nicolas Cage's face in order to infiltrate Cage's criminal gang. Last week, movie fantasy became medical reality when a team of French doctors successf...
Microsoft Loses Antitrust Case Before S. Korean Regulators
GWACHEON, South Korea, Dec. 7 — South Korean antitrust regulators ruled Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. abused its market dominance, fined it $32 million and ordered the software giant to offer alterna...
Submitting Site Feeds and other Site Explorer updates
Two months ago we launched Site Explorer, a tool to explore the pages from your site in the Yahoo! Search index and the inlinks to those pages. Many of you have been using the tool actively and we ap...
Don't buy a new Tablet PC, buy an older model instead or keep waiting
I've looked over the specs and hardware of most the new crop of Tablet PCs and my advice to prospective tableteers: — Buy an older model and buff it up or keep waiting. — Sacrilege, I know, for a ...
Killing the Desktop
When I observe how my wife and son uses the family computer, I can help noticing how little use they have for the desktop. They look bewildered when I open the Windows Explorer. — To them, file ope...
Old Rips: May They Rest in Peace
Paul Rossman, an undergraduate at New Mexico State University, remembers vividly the last time he assembled a music library on his personal computer. It was the third time he had converted his CD col...
Newsmaker: Is the PowerPC due for a second wind?
How can a company be just about everywhere, and yet nobody knows its name? Just ask Michel Mayer, chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor. — Mayer's $6 billion Austin, Texas-based company, a rec...
DO NOT CHANGE THE POSITION OF YOUR XBOX 360 WHILE IT IS ON WITH A DISC IN THE DRIVE OR YOU RISK POTENTIALLY DAMAGING YOUR GAME DISC.
A growing number of Xbox 360 customers are reporting having problems with their disc's getting scratched by the DVD drive when switching the unit's position …
New Sony CD security risk found
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group jointly announced Tuesday that they had found, and fixed, a new computer security risk associated with some of ...
Study: Google users wealthier, more Net savvy
The longer people have been using the Internet, the more likely it is that they'll use Google, study finds — U.S. residents who prefer Google (Profile, Products, Articles) Inc.'s search engine tend ...