Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years; Seeks to Take Image Beyond PCs
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. — The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor o...
Blogger's aircraft emergency account draws praise, scorn
A California man who was a passenger on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost cabin pressure earlier this week is now being both praised and scorned online for taking photographs and posting an account...
New Focus for Intel: The Home
Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital...
US-CERT: 5,198 Software Flaws in 2005
Security researchers uncovered a record 5,198 vulnerabilities in software products this year, nearly 38 percent more than the number of flaws found in 2004, according to statistics published by US-CER...
The DEP controversy
I admit I'm getting rather tired of talking about this WMF exploit and hope to stop writing about it soon. But because we were the first security company to break the story, a lot of people have been...
How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet
A note on DEP and the WMF exploit
Based on preliminary research, we're finding that systems with software-enforced DEP will get the WMF exploit, but systems with hardware-enforced DEP will not. — For those of you unfamiliar with DEP...
Inside Intel
Paul Otellini's plan will send the chipmaker into uncharted territory. And founder Andy Grove applauds the shift — Even the gentle clinking of silverware stopped dead. Andrew S. Grove, the revered...
Sony BMG Ends a Legal Nightmare
The label has quickly settled the class action over its "secret" copy-protection software. That's good for all parties — including the future of digital music — As peace treaties go, it might be on...
ANNOUNCING THE FORTUNE 500 BUSINESS BLOG INDEX
Short form: In collaboration with Socialtext, we've created a wiki that tracks which of the Fortune 500 is blogging. We found that only 3% of the F500 are doing so. Check it out here. — Long form:...
Women Narrow the Internet Gender Gap, Survey Finds
Traditionally, women have lagged behind men in adoption of Internet technologies, but a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that women under age 65 now outpace m...
Towards Nearly Free Voice
Rupert Murdoch says voice will soon be free, and so does eBay's Meg Whitman. And even if you laugh of these non-telecom types procrastinations as wisdom of the novice, there are signs that they may n...
Windows Security Flaw Is 'Severe'
A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system is leaving computer users vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other programs that could overtake their machines and has sent the ...
Web services thrive, but outages outrage users
LONDON (Reuters) - Web sites that share blogs, bookmarks and photos exploded in popularity in 2005, but in recent weeks a number of major outages left users stranded and frustrated. — The new breed ...
The PR Issue Behind Alaska Airlines Decompression
Found via Scobleizer, then seen on MP, and then noted on BuzzMachine the PR issue ... here's an interesting story on Alaska Airlines ... and how the plane decompression was blogged about with nice pho...
Nissan puts video gamers behind the wheel ... for real
If you think of driving in the real world as precious hours away from your racing video games, Nissan may have a car for you. — The Japanese automaker said Wednesday it will unveil a concept roadste...
Why I'm working on an aggregator
Background — The first RSS aggregator developed at UserLand was called My.UserLand.Com. It was a centralized application, like Bloglines or My.Yahoo. It first shipped in 1999, alongside My.Netscap...
The Daily Paper Of Tomorrow
It won't look the same. But with reimagining, the local daily ain't dead yet — The boss walks into your office and shuts the door. Sits down. Looks you solemnly in the eye. "We're buying a bunch...
Satellite will bring cinema listings to your mobile phone
THE first of a network of 30 satellites that will provide Europe with its own version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS) was launched yesterday. — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the Gi...
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
There have been numerous 2005 "best of" and 2006 "predictions" posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I'm not going to write one of those. Giving out "best of" awards seems presu...
Google To Supply Search For Opera's Mobile Browsers
Google will supply the default search function for Opera Software's mobile browsers, the company said Thursday. Opera Software supplies two separate browsers for mobile and wireless devices. — In a...
No Happy Ending in 2005 For Hollywood
Ticket Sales Drop for Third Year in a Row — LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. 2005 — Hollywood's year-ending good news is that moviegoers are opening hearts and pocketbooks for "King Kong" — it brought in more...
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MASHUP RSS, IM, AND PUBLISHING SERVICES?
So remember that prediction I made back in 2004, the one about mobile busting out in some kind of Web 2.0 way in 2005? And how it didn't happen, so I repeated it again this year? Well, I was wrong.
Suck.com, Gone for Good?
Suck.com, one of the most important and influential webzines, appears to be offline permanently, replaced by a porn search portal. — The strangest part is that the domain continues to belong to Lyco...
Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005
2005 has been a banner year for gearheads, with more hot gadget launches than you could shake a USB cable at. But there's a great chasm separating pre-launch buzz from real-world performance, and not...
Internet Sales Show Big Gains Over Holidays
Online retailers, whose growth was expected to level off after a decade of dizzying gains, experienced a stellar holiday season, according to two preliminary reports released yesterday, as traditional...
Breaking News
This is going to be a hard post to write, so I'm going to keep it as short as I can, but forgive me if I run long. After pouring so much of my blood, sweat and tears into Behavior, I've decided that ...
WhiteHouse.gov Uses Cookies, Bugs
NEW YORK — Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's w...
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy
Update on WMF exploit
Some new approaches have emerged for reducing the risk of being affected by this exploit. One approach involves using Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Explanation of DEP from Microsoft: … SunbeltBLO...
Announcing Mashup Camp
Published by FactoryJoe 21 hours, 9 minutes ago in Open source, Flock, Bar Camp. — So it serves me right that serendipity scooped me on this one, but I'd had this long post thing that I was working ...