Mom Fights Downloading Suit on Her Own
WHITE PLAINS, New York - It was Easter Sunday, and Patricia Santangelo was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeked into her computer and decided to take her to court....
What Looks Like Graffiti Could Really Be an Ad
The images are painted directly onto building walls in urban areas, graffiti-style. Wide-eyed kids, portrayed in a stylized, comic-book rendering, pose with a mysterious, hand-size gadget. One licks...
Wholesale Blog Plagiarism ... Alert
Update: Thanks to reader suggestions, some aggressive reporting by Dave Burstein and Andy Abramson, along with a quick response by the said site's host, the xb90.com has been shut down. Thank you all...
Fiddling With Format While DVD's Burn
The war for control of the next-generation DVD is approaching a critical juncture: next week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show, companies championing the two competing high-definition DVD ...
Yahoo Revamps Search Ad Plans
The media giant's search marketing business wants to be numero uno in the field it helped create. — Yahoo Search Marketing's getting an extreme makeover. — Earlier this year, Yahoo re-branded its ...
Best Tech Moments of 2005
In the tech world, 2005 was a period of bold ideas and exciting breakthroughs — shadowed, at times, by devastating reversals. — New software apps changed the way we looked at the world, while hardwa...
One Remote Fits All
Florida-based OpenPeak is about to introduce a brand new remote (most likely at CES) that can do it all. According to their PR firm, "Simple Remote, is part movie/IM command screen, part electronic p...
Tampa Airport, I salute you*: TPA
File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005
The year 2005 was an excellent year, depending of course on your point of view. For the tech industry, BitTorrent soared to new heights while Steve Jobs enjoyed record breaking iPod sales. Yet not e...
A Man and His Vision for the Browser
Q&A: Tim Berners-Lee invented the world's first Web client in 1990 and fifteen years later he's still plugging for smarter browsing technologies that give end users more ability to create and interact...
The Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005
Before making our predictions for 2006, we revisit 2005 in a list of the Top 10 interesting people in the Blogosphere in 2005. — 1. Matt Mullenweg, WordPress — The rising star of the blogosphere t...
Basic Rules Plus Common Sense Add Up to Security
For some people, the worst gift ever would be a new computer with an Internet connection. One embittered user wrote in October to say that he was "so frustrated with hackers, virus, Trojans, worms, c...
Internet Explorer Sucks
This study is from August, but I missed it. The researchers tracked three browsers (MSIE, Firefox, Opera) in 2004 and counted which days they were "known unsafe." Their definition of "known unsafe":...
Omnidrive's Online Storage Actually Works
I've been talking to Nik Cubrilovic, the founder of Sydney, Australia based Omnidrive, since I posted about the need for a good online storage service in November (see no. 1 in that post). — I've ha...
Ray Ozzie's Christmas Message: 2006 will be Year of Build for Microsoft
In the tech world's equivalent of the Queen's Message, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie reflects on the year past and offers his thoughts on what lies ahead for Microsoft in 2006: — As he reviews the 'leaked...
iTunes: Easy to use, or not?
OK, I never expected to post anything on Christmas, but my wife is putting the kids to bed, so I turned on the PowerBook and found an interesting debate. First, Dave Winer posted a fairly accurate cr...
For Workers, It's Face Time Over PC Time
IN the early hours last Tuesday, before most New Yorkers woke to learn that a transit strike had halted their subway and bus service, Judy Breck was at her computer, getting ready to work. — "Sittin...