iPod Replaced With Meat
Unsuspecting Mom Gives Son iPod for Christmas — Discovers Mystery Meat Inside — HAWAII, Dec. 29, 2005 — Rachel Cambra couldn't wait to see the look on her 14-year-old son's face when he opened a ver...
Critical Impact: Windows Metafile Flaw a 'Zero-Day Exploit'
Updated: Code for what Secunia is deeming an "extremely critical flaw" in Windows Metafile Format files is being exploited on fully patched systems. Researchers are currently tracking thousands of si...
Sony BMG to Settle Class-Action Lawsuit
Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to a settlement that would end a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought against the company over security flaws in anti-piracy software that it shipped on mill...
Amazon Connect program not an author blog hosting experiment
The new Amazon Connect program aims to increase the connection between author and readers by providing an Amazon hosted 'blog'. Ok, that's what Clickz is calling it, but that doesn't seem to be what ...
Microsoft predicts Xbox 360 to become profitable by July 2006
Microsoft has taken the bold step of announcing that the Xbox 360 will become profitable by the start of the company's 2007 financial year, which begins in July 2006. While this is an admirable and a...
The Perils of JavaSchools
Lazy kids. — Whatever happened to hard work? — A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin' and moanin' about "kids these days," and how they won't or can't do anything hard any more. — W...
How Women and Men Use the Internet: Women are catching up to men in most measures of online life. Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes.
A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows …
BLOGGING DOUBLED STORMHOEK SALES IN LESS THAN TWELVE MONTHS
[The original brochure that came with the bloggers' Stormhoek bottle.] — A journalist phoned me yesterday about an article she is writing about business blogs for one of the large UK trade mags.
Does Ma Bell want a DISH?
There are rumors that AT&T may bid for EchoStar. Speculation seems premature but a deal makes sense. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Cable companies and telecoms are at each other's throats. — Cabler...
More than 50 WMF variants in the wild using zero day exploit
What does this mean? — BlogThis! — WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2005 — More than 50 WMF variants in the wild using zero day exploit — Sunbelt researches have come across more than 50 new variants o...
Google team sets sights on big screen
Entertainment-savvy co-founders invest in Stanford friend's independent film, shot in S.F. — After becoming Internet moguls, Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are dipping their toes...
Robot car: streets ahead in cities of the future
· Architects and engineers rethink auto technology — · 'Easy to drive, stackable vehicle for people to share' — The MIT Smart Cities research team's car. Image: Franco Vairani/MIT Department of A...
Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files
By The Associated Press The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most f...
Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams
BERLIN — When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Q...
Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005
Everyone else is making Best of 2005 top 10 lists, so here's a quick list of Top 10 ways in which technology has impacted our culture during 2005, in no particular order. I didn't check any other wri...
John Battelle Talks to Performancing about FM Publishing
Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to John Battelle of FM Publishing, a new but much discussed blog ad network that's currently in beta. FM has a whole bunch of high profile bloggers working wi...
dannysullivan
Reputation: — As it happens, I was at a friend's house yesterday who has a completely new site, only a month and a half old. He was wondering why another site was outranking him. I'm probably goin...
Overstock shares fade as CEO warns of 'drugs or dead body' caper
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne continues to break new ground as the head of a publicly traded company. In a single TV interview last week, he shocked investors by revealing that holiday sales were f...
SNL Chronicles of Narnia Rap causes YouTube to Overtake Google Video Search
Video Search has continued to take off since my post on the Chinese Students Singing Backstreet Boys. Visits to Google Video search have increased by 48% for the week ending 12/24/05 compared to the ...
Trade your CDs for an iPod
How important are CDs to you? Do you read your liner notes? Do you like to display your CDs in your place of dwelling? A company out of Charleston, South Carolina is offering those of you that have...
Acquisitions and The Big 3
William Slawski has compiled two very useful lists of acquisitions, first by Google and now by Yahoo (see also The Guardian's list). I'll add the third, Microsoft's acquisitions as listed on their co...
Amazon Hosting Author Blogs
Adding to its user-generated content, Amazon.com has launched a program to allow authors to blog on the Amazon.com site. — The Amazon Connect program, in beta for the past month, aims to increase th...
10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year
ON New Year's Eve, don't be surprised to witness more heartfelt celebrating than usual; 2005 was not a year noted for its tidings of good cheer, and plenty of people will be happy to see it go. — St...
Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files
By The Associated Press The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most f...
Preliminary Settlement Filed in Sony Suit
Lawyers in a class action lawsuit filed against Sony BMG, First 4 Internet and SunnComm last month have submitted a preliminary settlement, which calls for Sony to stop manufacturing CDs with XCP and ...
Offspring in Charge, and Ma Bell Gets a Makeover
NO one will ever fault the new AT&T for not having big ambitions. — AT&T became the country's largest phone company in November when SBC Communications, one of the original seven Baby Bells, bought ...
Curling Up With a Good E-Book
Is the iPod of e-readers at hand? Previous models haven't caught the public's fancy, but some major publishers seem to think Sony is about to change that — Can Sony make the iPod of digital books? ...
'Ear bud' headphones can cause hearing loss, experts warn
All those ears ringing from newly gifted iPods and MP3 players may not be able to hear next year's Christmas bells as well if music lovers aren't careful, hearing specialists are warning. — "We're s...
Google Base Switches To Force All Searchers Through Jump Pages
When Google Base first launched, one of my key questions was whether people could click on a entry and go directly to the submitter's web site. Yes, you could. Now, you can't. Instead, you're force...
Marriott timeshare unit says customer data is missing
ORLANDO (AP) — The timeshare unit of Marriott International is notifying more than 200,000 people that their personal data are missing after backup computer tapes went missing from a Florida office. ...
"Absolutely terrifying" flight after ground-crew mistake
Alaska Airlines Flight 536 was 20 minutes out of Seattle and heading for Burbank, Calif., Monday afternoon when a thunderous blast rocked the plane. — Passengers gasped for air and grabbed their oxy...