3 Charged With Modifying Xbox
Authorities charge three Los Angeles-area men with hacking Xbox game consoles to allow pirated games to run on them. — Three Los Angeles area men including two game store owners were charged Monday ...
PREDICTIONS 2006
This post marks my third year of making predictions for the coming year. I'm emboldened by not failing utterly in the past two years (well, for the most part), but I am sure this will only ensure tha...
Poll: Americans Need High-Tech Gadgets
WASHINGTON - Personal computers, cell phones and high-speed Internet are considered essential to getting by for millions of Americans who are showing early signs of addiction to the next wave of high-...
NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost
Among the many milestones in the tech world this last year, one occurred almost without notice. The Bay Area NeXT Group, an important user group formed 15 years ago around Steve Jobs' second great co...
Tokyo search for a rival to Google
THE Japanese Government has marshalled a coalition of technological and corporate firepower in an attempt to break the global stranglehold of Yahoo! and Google. — The project is tipped to cost about...
A Brief History Of Tablet PCs
In the late 1980s, early pen computer systems generated a lot of excitement and there was a time when it was thought they might eventually replace conventional computers with keyboards. — After all,...
Salesforce.com outage cuts users off
Extent of the outage was not immediately clear — Salesforce.com Inc.'s "on demand" CRM (customer relationship management) system came up short in meeting demand on Tuesday, when some customers found...
Banned by Google
Let us suppose, for a moment, you are a small company (like kozoru) and you've figured out a way to take results from another search engine (like, say, Google) and run them through your own statistica...
Lawsuit against 180solutions, Direct Revenue and eXact Advertising
Hot off the press at SunbeltBLOG: … From law firm Bronson & Associates' website: … The complaint lists the defendants' alleged unlawful business practices: — Unauthorized software download.
The NES Reincarnated
And alive again as a higher being. Our review. — December 20, 2005 - For those of us that were actually alive back in the early '80s, there is no denying that the drab grey box that was the Nintend...
My Wikipedia Policy
Scoble published his, and these days, I think having a policy is a good idea. Unlike Scoble, I have edited my entry, in my case with a very specific goal. Both Scoble's entry and mine are labeled as...
FTC says federal spam law has worked
WASHINGTON—About 70 percent of the world's e-mail messages continue to be spam. But the number is leveling off, which federal officials on Tuesday cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago i...
The Parts/Tools
This short section will outline the tools/parts I used and some of the reasons why they were used. If you decide to undertake this project, your collection of tools might vary a bit. — Dremel — T...
Seagate to buy Maxtor for $2 billion
Updated Hard drive hard cheese — * SEAGATE and Maxtor confirmed the acquisition. The deal is worth $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination will be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after t...
New and improved Kinja launches!
I've been waiting over a year to write this post: Kinja, the weblog guide, has relaunched with an insanely cool design and tons of killer features for exploring and discovering weblogs. — View a blo...