Steve Jobs keynote live from Macworld 2006
Yes, yes, this post is where all the action's gonna happen for today's live Stevenote-keynote coverage. Bookmark it, refresh it, do your thing — just be sure and come back some time around 9:00AM Pac...
U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software...
AOL buys video search company
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online company AOL on Tuesday said it had closed a deal in December to purchase Truveo Inc., a video search company. — Financial terms of the deal were not provided. — The dea...
Search Consolidation Act #1: Truveo goes to AOL
This post initiates a new consolidation series - about the Search market, similar to the one I have been writing about Social Media M&A. With the increasing number of search players, this consolidatio...
Microsoft's file system patent upheld
update Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent examiners have decided. — The decision, announced Tuesday by the software giant, ...
We Sat Around Waiting For Google Video And All We Got Was This?
from the needs-a-bit-of-work-it-appears dept. — Remember the good old days when Google used to "wow" people with their new products? AdSense. Gmail. Google Maps. These were products that took wh...
Digging The Madness of Crowds
Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story...
CES 2006 Video: TiVo Series 3 Video Interview, First Look
We got some quality hands-on time with the forthcoming TiVo Series 3, TiVo's first HD-capable DVR. The Series 3 unit has some cool new features, including a single-color, two-line OLED LCD display on...
Google Video Marketplace: It's Up
The mysterious delay has ended and Google Video Marketplace is a reality. To someextent, Google has mashed together user-submitted content with video licensed by major providers such as CBS and theNB...
Two new WMF bugs found
Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week — Just days after Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in t...
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises
Jakob Nielsen's just posted a Search Engines as Leeches on the Web article that makes a good point, don't be too search engine dependent. However, he muddles his point by confusing the issue …
DRM Groundhog Day
Talking to Tim Bray tonight, I realised I've been blogging about DRM for over four years now. Yet, the arguments recur. — I was going to write a post called 'Tyranny of the Storytellers' when I rea...
TOP TEN BLOGGER LIES
1. I don't consider myself an A-Lister. — No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh. — 2. I don't care about traffic. — Of course I don't. Even though I'm a...
Going to the Moon
At Riya we have a dream to completely change how people search photos. One day, Riya will help you search and find every digital photo in the world. That day is far off, but today we got the investm...
In Your Facebook.com
AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a se...
Debate on DRM
Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited's Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it's one of the most depressing things he's read. Shepherd wrote: … Doc points to others making arguments...
Emergency SMS
Our Berlin-based tech reporter, Kevin O'Brien, writes in today's IHT that there's a mobile phone emergency alert system that hardly anyone uses, in part because the phone operators don't want the gove...
Google Earth in a Mac world (PC too)
We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn't be more pleased. For those of you who downloaded early, upgrade ...
Fiber-optics cut affects Sprint service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Pho...
Google: The Bear Case
No one else is writing this piece, so it will have to be me. I should say upfront that I'm not predicting that this will happen (yet), and I'm certainly not making a recommendation. I'm just laying ...
Apple to Sell S.N.L. Skits for iPod Use
"Saturday Night Live" fans looking to watch classic skits from the show may not have to depend on reruns and DVD compilations for long. — Apple is set to announce today that it will sell a limited n...
NCsoft, ArenaNet Announce Guild Wars: Factions
Free Player-versus-Player Event to Provide Sneak Peek for Players All Over the World — Bellevue, Wash., Jan. 10, 2006 — NCsoft®, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games,...
IP attorney: Why SCO has no case
IT directors shouldn't worry about SCO Group's latest sallies in its legal war on Linux vendors IBM Corp. and Novell Inc., says attorney Thomas Carey. It's just more posturing, or as Shakespeare said...
Don't Invent XML Languages
The X in XML stands for "Extensible"; one big selling point is that you can invent your own XML languages to help you solve your own problems. But I've become convinced, over the last couple of years...
The story of PriceGrabber part 1: Grabware
Successful companies can be formed out of the failure of a dream and a side project created for friends and family growing into much more. This is the story of the birth of PriceGrabber.com, a shoppi...
Hollywood's New Zombie
The last days of Blockbuster. — In 1998, at the dawn of the age of the DVD, Blockbuster made a decision that would change the future of Hollywood. Warren Lieberfarb, who then headed the home-video ...
Analyst: Dell likely to adopt AMD chips
update Dell likely will reverse course and begin selling computers with Advanced Micro Devices' processors, Piper Jaffray analyst Les Santiago predicted Tuesday, sending the chipmaker's stock up 4 per...
A DVD combo? Don't hold your breath
For consumers, a device that could play both HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs would take a lot of risk out of adopting the new video players—but one may not arrive for a while. — Legal agreements, intellec...
Research Note: Media 2.0, On-Demand, and Strategy
"..."We have growth options, and I think we're going to surprise a lot of people," Moonves says. " Our future success will depend on maximizing the use of our great entertainment, news and sports con...
We Sat Around Waiting For Google Video And All We Got Was This?
from the needs-a-bit-of-work-it-appears dept. — Remember the good old days when Google used to "wow" people with their new products? AdSense. Gmail. Google Maps. These were products that took wh...
U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software...
Debate on DRM
Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited's Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it's one of the most depressing things he's read. Shepherd wrote: … Doc points to others making arguments...
Apple to Sell S.N.L. Skits for iPod Use
"Saturday Night Live" fans looking to watch classic skits from the show may not have to depend on reruns and DVD compilations for long. — Apple is set to announce today that it will sell a limited n...
The Conversations Network New Site is Up
We launched the new site for The Conversations Network on schedule today. Not without bugs, mind you, but now 12 hours post-launch, I think we've swatted the worst of them. Special thanks to David a...