Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there?
Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been recei...
Math Will Rock Your World
A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data — Neal Goldman is a math entrepreneur. He work...
There Is No Open Source Community
Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by working against the grain to institute a methodology of sharing that would balance the power between software vendors and users....
Microsoft hopes to cash in with click-on ads
Advertisers pay top dollar to place products in popular television shows and movies. — Now, Microsoft is hoping to expand on the concept with a new technology that allows viewers to click on cars, c...
Another Forrester take on Google Personalized Home for Mobile
My colleague, Charlie Golvin, covers the consumer wireless space and participated in the Google Personalzied Home for mobile briefing with me today. He offers the following thoughts on the service an...
Putting The Screws To Google
How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty — What if 2006 is the year big media players take aim at Google's (GOOG ) kneecaps? No, not with more lawsuits; the Authors Guild, the ...
Anti-spyware guidelines get final version
A coalition of software companies have agreed on standard methods for identifying and combating spyware, those unwelcome downloads that have plagued Internet users with pop-up ads and other annoyances...
A Conversation with Phil Smoot
ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 10 - December 2005 / January 2006 — The challenges of managing a megaservice — In the landscape of today's megaservices, Hotmail just might be Mount Everest. One of the olde...
Three New Classifieds Companies
I've been watching three new web 2.0 classifieds sites - BlockRocker, rbloc and theadcloud. And for those of you who say I focus on silicon valley companies, I have a surprise for you - all three of ...
Microsoft Plans Launch of Search Ad System
Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its system for selling advertising alongside regular search results by June in the United States, giving the company its next piece of ammunition in the battle with riv...
Apple files 'Mobile Me' as U.S. trademark
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has filed to trademark the phrase "Mobile Me" for use in a wide range of businesses, furthering speculation it ...
St Lawrence of Google
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world. He is well on his way — Getty Images — DOES Larry Page ever get vertigo when contemplating his life and future? After...
The Great Firewall of China
A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland's Net under Beijing's thumb. But technology may foil the censors yet — Skype had a dilemma. The Internet telephony and messag...
The Windows MetaFile Backdoor?
Description: Leo and I carefully examine the operation of the recently patched Windows MetaFile vulnerability. I describe exactly how it works in an effort to explain why it doesn't have the feeling ...
Web Site of Agency Is Called Insecure
The General Services Administration has shut a Web site for government contractors after a computer industry consultant reported that he was able to view and modify corporate and financial information...
Intel Macs may boot XP after all
Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can't boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne. — Tech journos far and wide have been quick to jump on the story that while Apple says ...
Doubts Cloud Plan for Cellphone Service in Subway Stations
When proposed nearly five months ago, the idea held the promise of a new era of underground communications. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, long hesitant about enabling cellphone service i...
Disruption in mainstream media but where is the disruption in the mainstream PR industry?
Where is the PR industry disruption? — The mainstream media is heading to hell in a handbasket but where is the PR industry's handbasket? — Over the past two years the PR sector has been growing q...
Win Some, Lose Some
Bob's Prediction Average Was Down for 2005, but 2006 Is Looking Better Thanks to Apple and Burst — It is time for my list of predictions for high-tech in the year ahead. Two thousand and six will l...
DDoS Attack Cited in Million Dollar Homepage Outage
The company hosting the Million Dollar Homepage says an electronic attack was responsible for the extended outages earlier today. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) occurred as college student ...