Microsoft, Apple Sign 5-Year Software Pact
SEATTLE - Apple Computer Inc. won't thwart users from loading Microsoft's Windows operating system onto its new Intel-based Macintosh computers _ but don't expect Apple to start offering a Mac running...
XP Won't Run on Intel MacBook, iMac
With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple's use o...
Google Analytics Status Update
We've added enough capacity that we are re-opening signups on an invitation basis. Many of our users who previously submitted their email address to us will be receiving an invite shortly. — As you...
AOL Betrays Google
Butch and Sundance. Starsky and Hutch. Peas and carrots. If you're thinking of adding AOL and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) to that list, think again. — Ever since the entire AOL bidding war was resolved...
Dealing with the Dell...
even with standard shipping. The order was correct, with nothing missing. Lavie was able to unbox the system and hook it up without any issues.
America Online Buys Developer of Video Search Service
Furthering its efforts to focus on Internet video, America Online said yesterday that it had acquired Truveo, a private Silicon Valley company that runs a search engine for video clips. AOL did not d...
Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites
In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86. — That may mean nothing to the ...
Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register
Cory Doctorow: When editing my own Wikipedia entry got me smeared in the pages of The Register, the irony was too delicious. Andrew Orlowski's account of my editing of my Wikipedia entry was founded ...
Microsoft's open source point man
Martin Gregory does one thing, and one thing only, for Microsoft: lobby against open source. Dan Warne talked to him. — What are the misconceptions of open source? — Number one, we don't compete ...
Fear of a Skype Planet
I just had an "interesting" experience. While travelling I was alerted that my main office PC was sending out enormous amounts of traffic. According to the tech person involved, the culprit was ... ...
Windows DVD Maker FAQ
If you have a question, please add it as a comment, and I'll add it to this post. — Questions about Windows DVD Maker — 1: I hope you support HT and Dual Core processors — A: The short answer is...
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished 'Till all the additional ounces have vanished. I won't have a cookie—not even a lick. I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
not even a lick. I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick. — I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie, — I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
In a Flash, Camera Dealers Feel the Web's Wrath
The last best address leads to a metallic gray warehouse by the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Trash haulers go about and there is a dull buzzing sound in the hallway. Graffiti gives informati...
SearchFox To Shut Down
Richard Curry and Russell Limprecht just sent me near-simultaneous emails that they noticed Searchfox, a RSS reader with a small but dedicated group of users, is announcing on their site that they wil...
iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?
A new version of Apple's iTunes for Mac appears to communicate information about every song you play to Apple, and it's not clear if there's any way to turn this off, nor what Apple's privacy policy i...
Microsoft vs. Computer Security
Why the software giant still can't get it right. — Four years ago, Bill Gates dispatched a companywide e-mail promising that security and privacy would be Microsoft's top priorities. Gates urged th...
PlayStation 3 price - $500?
Analysts, developers say they expect Sony's new console to break new price barriers. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - While there was little doubt the Xbo...
Friendster Sales Saga Continues
DirecTV 'close to wireless strategy'
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp, said on Monday the group's DirecTV satellite television arm was close to deciding a strategy on how to enter the wireless high-speed internet...
Garmin Announces GPS Product Support for Mac OS X
MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO/January 10, 2006/PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced that it will immediately begin to make its line of GPS and ...
Anonymous Internet annoyance illegal? Yes and no.
The 'net is alive with buzz about a new bill signed into law by President Bush that could see certain forms of harassment online turned into criminal behaviors. The bill, dubbed the Violence Against ...
E! swings 'Vine' online
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - E! Networks is launching a broadband channel that will deliver streaming video and original content exclusively for the Web, the channel said Tuesday at the Televisi...
Game Advertising-Only Agency Launched
Dedicated to bringing clients and videogames together — Engage In-Game Advertising is describing itself as "the first independent in-game media company" offering "strategic planning and placement se...
MASSIVE Blog for Sale
I'm about to begin brokering what is likely to be the largest blog ever sold. As most people know, blogs are sold all the time. Most are somewhere in the top 10,000 blogs around, and they go for a c...
SpotRunner: Easy TV ads for local businesses
Think it's tough getting local advertisers to embrace Internet advertising? Try TV advertising. The complexities and cost of producing a video and buying air time are too daunting for most small bus...
1000Tags - Another Stupid, Brilliant Idea
I was talking with an entrepreneur earlier today about about milliondollarhomepage and what a simple, brilliant concept it is. It's one of those things that will really only work once (although I hav...
What Is 30Boxes?
In case you were wondering why I did not go to the Steve Jobs Show yesterday, let me tell you the reason: I was meeting with 83 Degrees co-founders Julie Davidson, Nick Wilder and Narendra Rocherolle,...
The wonderful world of Apple RSS
Here's an example feed. You can't read it in Firefox, and I haven't been able to get NewsRiver to read it. They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it's their browser. Apparently ...