Social Media Consolidation Act 8: Yahoo takes out del.icio.us
First, I apologize for my complete silence over the past week or so, but I have been completely swamped by a number of things - that I can't talk about yet, and I have just returned from Paris where I...
Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese
FUZHOU, China - One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their comput...
Sony BMG repents over CD debacle
Technology correspondent, BBC News website — Sony BMG is rethinking its anti-piracy policy following weeks of criticism over the copy protection used on CDs. — The head of Sony BMG's global digita...
A cure for the common inbox
Ever get the feeling that your email experience is a little too predictable? I certainly have. Over the past few months, I've been working on Gmail Clips, a new feature that can help mix things up a...
Smartbomb
The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution — After immersing themselves in the video game culture by attending gaming conventions, interviewing its inventors and ent...
Words You Shouldn't Say Onstage for $500, Alex.
After reading the posts and comments about my speech and the controversial Q&A that followed, I've questioned whether it was worth writing a post defending my onstage actions. After much thought, I r...
The Carnival of the Mobilists Volume1 Issue8
Presenting: The Carnvial of the Mobilists. This week's CoM features some outstanding observations, analysis and commentary across a range of important topics on mobility. I'm excited by the number o...
SwarmSketch taps Web's 'collective consciousness'
About three months ago, Peter Edmunds, a 22-year-old communications student at the University of Canberra, in Australia, began a Web site called SwarmSketch with the idea of producing a sketch of "the...
UPDATE 2-Electronic Arts to buy Jamdat in $680 mln deal
LOS ANGELES, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it would buy Jamdat Mobile Inc. (JMDT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in a $680 million deal to inc...
Video Placebo: Is that Really HDTV You Are Watching?
News of the video bizarre: According to a just-released survey by Scientific-Atlanta, millions of people who have HDTV sets apparently think they are watching high definition television, but aren't. ...
Where Did You Get That Phone?
Wal-Mart and Radio Shack accounted for three-quarters of mobile phone handset purchases made in major US retail stores in the last 6 months. However, smaller stores also account for a large percentag...
FireWire not dead, but it's on life support
I was genuinely surprised when Apple dropped FireWire sync from the iPod nano. So much so that I almost returned mine when I first made the gruesome discovery. I thought for sure that FireWire would...
Vote : Search Engine Journal's 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Vote : Search Engine Journal's 2005 Search Blogs Awards — The Search Engine Journal's 2005 Best of Search Blogs Awards nominations are in and its time to start voting (well, really rating) your favo...
Message To The BSA: You Aren't Fooling Anyone
Every so often the Business Software Alliance comes out with a press release, based on a study they paid IDC to do, where they misrepresent the issue of illegal software copying. They make huge claim...