Shall we Gather at the (funding) river
It's always nice to see startups — particularly those in the social-media, Web 2.0-type landscape — get some funding, so I don't want to dump on Gather.com, which has not only received $6-million in f...
Lessig is Wrong
There's a lawsuit under way with the Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers suing Google Inc for massive copyright infringement. — Oh, the echoes of the RIAA v MP3.com lawsuit (ful...
Windows Wireless Flaw a Danger to Laptops
At the ShmooCon gathering in Washington, D.C., today, old-school hacker and mischief maker Mark "Simple Nomad" Loveless released information on a staggeringly simple but very dangerous wireless securi...
Intel drops "Pentium" brand
Chicago (IL) - Intel has made a final decision to get rid of one of its oldest and most valuable brands, sources told TG Daily: "Pentium," unveiled in 1993 for its P5 processor generation, will begin ...
Microsoft working with Apple on future of Virtual PC
Just days after renewing its commitment to develop Office for the Mac, Microsoft revealed that it is also working with Apple to bring Virtual PC to its new Intel-architecture. — According to MacNN, ...
Hey Baby Bells & Cable, We need multiple tiers of service
it always amazes me when people talk about content delivery on the internet. They discuss it as if there is unlimited bandwidth available. Well guess what. There is not. — Sure, new bandwidth is...
WWNC 2006
The big news coming out of the 2006 Worldwide Newton Conference is that the NewtonOS runs on Linux PDA's! You read that right, we're one step closer to having a Newton running on non-Apple hardware. ...
Web 2.0: `a read and write mechanism'
Michael Arrington, founder and writer of TechCrunch, has become a go-to person for many of the new Silicon Valley Internet companies hoping to strike it big. — Foremost for the companies is to get f...
Technorati: Yahoo or Microsoft?
Speculation is percolating that Yahoo will snap up Technorati. Michael Arrington points to Yahoo's purchases of Flickr and Del.icio.us. … A month ago, I speculated that Microsoft would buy Technorati...
One-stop site for blogs offered
A new Boston website aims to bring order to the tens of millions of weblogs proliferating online and provide one-stop shopping for overwhelmed Internet surfers. In the process, it could put some cash...
Hey, Baby Bells: Information Still Wants to Be Free
AT the top of my wish list for next year's Consumer Electronics Show is this: the introduction of broadband service across the country that is as up to date as that 103-inch flat-screen monitor just i...
Could Yahoo Music become Apple iPod's Achilles's heel?
I hate my CDs. I hate them because they take up several large boxes and they follow me from apartment to apartment. — I ripped some of them onto my hard drive-but my jukebox is scattered across sev...
A Tylenol testimonial
I've been sick. My head began getting stuffy on my plane flights from Oakland to Santa Barbara the day before yesterday. Then yesterday a fever came. By evening it was a just under 103 degrees and ...
The Problem with Webcasting
A cast that can be imprisoning — There's a new restriction on content waiting in the wings—a "webcaster's right" that allows websites to control the dissemination of content they put up. With this ...
Who'd a thunk?
A perceptive Slashdotter notes that we just witnessed a remarkable turn of events in the computer business. Consider: — October 6, 1997: "When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has ...
I Don't Get Gather
I read about Gather in the Boston Globe online today (no link to the article, because I can't be sure that links to Globe articles will remain fresh and subscription-free). It is Boston-based. — I ...