Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1
I spent a little time this morning expanding the Wikipedia biography of Gordon Keith, a dark-humored and hilarious radio host on the Dallas sportstalk station KTCK. — Having a biography in Wikipedia...
Traitors in our Midst
Russell Shaw, Dave Winer and Richard MacManus have each declared that Web 2.0 is dead and/or that it never existed. — In the words of Kyle from Southpark, "You Bastards". — These attacks come from...
Hackers Break Into Computer-Security Firm's Customer Database
Personal Data for Law Enforcement, Security Professionals Exposed — Guidance Software — the leading provider of software used to diagnose hacker break-ins — has itself been hacked, resulting in the ...
Best Laptop 2005
This was another tough category, there were a lot of contenders from a lot of different folks. I liked a lot of the stuff Toshiba is doing and the newest PowerBooks are excellent systems. There's al...
Apple shipping 100K nanos a day, mulls 1GB model
In a best effort to meet demand for its top-selling iPod nano this holiday, Apple Computer is building and shipping 100,000 of the ultra-slim digital music players each day, reliable sources tell Appl...
Texas to get broadband over its power lines
Two Texas companies have announced a plan to offer high-speed Internet service over the power grid. — The plan was announced on Monday by Current Communications Group, a service provider that specia...
Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5270 (December 2005 Community Technical Preview CTP) Screenshots & Features
Advanced Security — Today's computer user is faced with increasingly sophisticated threats from a broad range of sources. Enhanced security is a fundamental element of Windows Vista …
10 Apps Every New Mac User Should Download
Charles Stroup from 123MacMini and I have created a list of 10 applications every new Mac user should download. These applications should help new Mac users get off the ground and running with OS X. ...
GPS Could Speed Tsunami Warnings
GPS satellite receivers are already navigational must-haves for hikers and drivers. Now scientists are hatching plans to press them into service as tsunami predictors. — International organizations...
ReplayTV Announces New Strategic Direction With DVR For The PC
ReplayTV and Hauppauge Team Up to Offer Innovative PC-Based DVR— SANTA CLARA, CA., December 19, 2005—ReplayTV®, the pioneer of digital video recording , today announced that it will introduce a new D...
Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen. He had never run with the popular crowd and long ago had turned to the Internet for the friends he craved. But on thi...
Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow
The rising tide of Internet advertising is lifting all boats, but catching a wave could still be tough for IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take). — Barry Diller's Inter...
Current Flows Forward: Gore's Net Hopes to Win Viewers By Involving Them
Smirks were evident when former Vice President Al Gore stood in front of a small crowd at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association conference in 2004 and announced he was launching a news...
Icahn seeks to derail Google as AOL partner
update Billionaire Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn on Monday warned the media conglomerate's board against making a "disastrous" and "short-sighted" decision. — If Internet unit America Online ag...
Riya not recognized by Google
I've heard many rumors about Riya over the past few weeks. One strong rumor, reported by Om Malik, among others, was that Riya was getting purchased by Google. — I know our M&A guys had met with Ri...
AOL's Choice of Google Leaves Microsoft as the Outsider
This time, it was Microsoft that was snubbed at the last minute. — In 1996, America Online agreed to offer Netscape's Internet browser to its five million customers. A day later, the nonbinding agr...
Personal shopper Companies sending merchandise information to cell phone users
Everyone knows cell phones are good for communicating. But shopping? — Marketers hope so. In fact, several companies are experimenting with better ways to send merchandise information to mobile ph...
Web 2.0? It doesn't exist
No, I am not turning into a "flat-earther." The world is pear-shaped, Pluto is not a planet, and global warming exists. — But Web 2.0 does not exist. — The advances being touted under the general...
This is the Google side of your brain
As more people find themselves spending much of the day within arm's reach — or even pocket's reach — of something that can tap into the Internet, search engine Google quickly is taking the place of n...
A weekend of using the Thinkpad Tablet PC
It has been a fun weekend using the Thinkpad X41 Tablet PC. I've been to one conference at church, taken it with me on various outings, and then used it at church. I've also spent the day with it on...
Flipping your start-up the smart way
Microsoft employee Dare Obasanjo writes about flipping a startup to Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo, where he writes … Scoble and Don Dodge, also Microsoft employees, follow up with more commentary. All ...
THE PROBABILISTIC AGE
Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing? — A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices...
First Look: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
First Look: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet — So is this a Tablet or PDA? More on that debate in our full review. Our first impression is that this most certainly is a hell of a fun digital toy. What a...
Theater owners will petition FCC to jam cellphones
With flat panel prices in free-fall and sizes approaching those anaemic megaplex screens, it's no wonder the National Association of Theater Owners is in a panic about the decline in consumers willing...