I'm not a Guy kind of Evangelist
You know, my title (technical evangelist) bugs me. It bugs others too (especially in Europe, where people give me very strange looks when they see my business card). Why? Cause of its religious con...
Sorry, no Apple for you: Microsoft's bid fruitless
SAN FRANCISCO — It's not every day that Microsoft Corp. asks to put a competitor's logo on one of its own products. And the kicker is, the answer was "No." — In a first for Microsoft's hardware gro...
Eyeing the iTunes MiniStore
(Update, 1/11/06, 10:30 ET: After this story was posted, an Apple official told Macworld that the iTunes MiniStore feature does not collect any information from users. This story has been updated to ...
Sprint Refuses To Reveal Location Of Cell Phone In Carjacked SUV
EASTVALE, Calif. — A stolen car that had a kidnapped baby and a cell phone inside has become the center of a new controversy. — The parents of the kidnapped baby are outraged that the phone that cou...
Google Tests Local Ads on Maps
Google is experimenting with plotting local advertisers' locations on its Maps product, giving marketers a visual and spatial accompaniment to their locally targeted ads. — A search on "hotels" in N...
Google Personalized Goes Mobile
Today, your Google personalized home page has gone mobile. The new service reformats your personalized page for your phone or mobile device. The service is available for any phone or device that has...
Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence)
There's been lots of talk on the web lately about Digg being the new Slashdot. Two months ago, a Digg reader noted that according to Alexa, Digg's traffic was catching up to that of Slashdot, even th...
Sun and Apple almost merged three times - Bill Joy
Your iPod is an answering machine - McNealy — Sun Microsystems tried to acquire Apple once and then almost merged with Apple on two other occasions, according to Sun co-founder Bill Joy. Beyond the...
BlackBerry Users to Gain Mobile Access to Google Talk and Google Local
New Mobile Services Will Enable BlackBerry users to Stay Connected with Google Talk instant messaging and Google Local information and maps — Waterloo, Ontario - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RI...
No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go
If you've been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple's not about tomake it easy for you — at least not if you're attached to Windows XP. According to Apple SVP Ph...
Interview Exclusive: Revolution Report Talks with ATI about Hollywood
Following the Consumer Electronics Show 2006 held in Las Vegas, Nevada last week, Revolution Report had the opportunity to discuss Nintendo and its next-generation console, code-named the Nintendo Rev...
Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig
Exclusive: Start-ups are once again cool, enough for senior executives to leave the safe confines of large companies to take a flier on tiny tots. A couple of days I had reported that Jeff Graham, fo...
AdSense Party Trick #1 - Name that Company
So, what do you do in the contextual advertising world to amuse yourself and (freak out) your friends? The AdSense Party Trick #1, that's what. — First, you find an AdSense site belonging to a frie...
Congress looks askance at firms that bow to China
After hearing reports that American tech giants like Microsoft and Yahoo are abiding by Chinese law mandating Internet censorship, some irritated U.S. politicians are threatening to pass laws restrict...
Silos Are For Grain, Not VoIP
Wall Street Journal has a long piece about new VoIP phones, but misses the point about lack of interoperability between various issues. I wrote about this last week, here and also for CNN Money. Its...
What? No Google on Vista? Google Strikes Back on IE 7!
As some of you may know, Bill Gates unveiled Windows Vista at the CES Keynote address early this year in Las Vegas. There, attendees and users that followed via webcast (thanks Gary!) and other news ...
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet
In a recent essay, Kevin Kelly warns of the dangers of anonymity. It's OK in small doses, he maintains, but too much of it is a problem: "(I)n every system that I have seen where anonymity becomes co...
Nikon prepares to strengthen digital line-up for 2006
Following the success of our digital line-up over the last seven years, which has resulted in more than 95% of Nikon's UK business being within the digital area, Nikon Corporation has made the decisio...
When Will Yahoo Acquire Technorati?
I just read a print article in Red Herring, written by Liz Gannes, called "Hungry Hungry Yahoo". Liz discusses Yahoo's acquisition binge and speculates on a few likely candidates for future Yahoo sho...
Symantec Caught in Norton 'Rootkit' Flap
Symantec Corp. has fessed up to using a rootkit-type feature in Norton SystemWorks that could provide the perfect hiding place for attackers to place malicious files on computers. — The anti-virus v...
Sony Thwarted Again - Firmware 2.60 Hacked - First Homebrew Emerges!
It has only been a couple of days since our in-house Hacker / Coder / Forum Moderator extraordinaire, Fanjita, released the first homebrew game for 2.50 Firmware. Now he's taken the next step and acc...
TO OUR READERS
Effective Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Chicago Tribune will make several changes in its reporting on investments. — A major change will involve stock listings. The Tribune will continue to publish in th...
CBS to Make a Soap For the Smaller Screen
TV Drama Designed for Cell Phone Audience — CBS Broadcasting Inc. is developing a made-for-mobile-phone soap opera — known as a mobisoap — that is scheduled to be released in the next several months...
A Million to One
Chances Are Imitators Can't Match This Student's By-the-Pixel Web Sales Success — Look what Alex Tew did, and you get one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" flashes. It's so simple, so cheap, s...
Hooptyrides Corporate Art Collection (aka Gimmie)
My friend Jose Luis Junior, age 9, wants a PSP so palpably, it reminds me of my intense desire at the same age for an Atari 2600. Though he doesn't have the games he dreams of, he reads game strategy...
iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?
Yesterday's update to iTunes 6.0.2 comes with a surprise: it's spyware and adware. — Since Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, iTunes has been a compromise: both a music management program and sa...