The Mystery Blog
I was intending to wait to announce the mystery blog until the seller posted his view of the process, the whys and the wherefores and such. However, the time we'd agreed for him to post to has come a...
The Gather.com Issue
"News 2.0″ sites are launching faster than I can keep up. Gather is the most recent. — Gather is a social news site that allows user to submit content and generate a revenue share based on activity...
A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAME
Why Blogging vs. Traditional Media Has Been Oversold — I've been thinking of what I am — about what any media person in the digital age is — since having coffee last week with a 30-something newspap...
Google Base & The v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO Contest
Damn — just when I thought I could ignore the latest SEO contest, it does something interesting. First, Greg Rockstar Boser notes that while Yahoo already has picked up 130 matches for v7ndotcom elur...
Firefox for Intel Macs planned for March
The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox Web browser that will run on Apple Computer's Intel version of Mac OS X. — "We are targeting the official release of F...
Anonymity on a Disc
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail — a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Star...
Rootkits In Commercial Software
By now many of you have heard that Symantec released a security advisory last Tuesday that reported its use of rootkit-like cloaking technology in its SystemWorks product. The Symantec use of rootkit...
NBC: iPod Boosts Prime Time
'The Office' Scores Demo High Following Top Download Ranking on iTunes — NBC's "The Office" delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits i...
Marketers Want to Appear on Small Screen
Forget the 30-second spot on a 50-inch high-definition TV. How about a three-second message on the tiniest of screens? — Television-style advertising is coming to a mobile phone near you. It is pa...
Frequently Asked Nintendo Revolution Questions
Welcome to Revolution Report's Revolution FAQ. — Our staff at Revolution Report receives about 30 mailbag questions per week, countless message board questions per day and ungodly hours of communica...
Mac users 'too smug' over security
Technology commentator Bill Thompson is worried about the lack of herd immunity among his fellow Apple Mac users. — The first known computer virus, the Elk Cloner, is 25 years old. Since its appear...
MIcrosoft delays Windows XP Service Pack 3 from 2006 to 2007!
2 weeks ago I posted my annual list of what we can expect for this year. WinXP SP3 was also mentioned in the list, I put it in summer 2006 as I had several sources for this, including this official l...
Sharing Broadband to Increase Speed
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - Two West Coast start-up companies have built new wireless technologies that take to heart Benjamin Franklin's exhortation to hang together rather than hang separately. — Bot...
No Page Reload Required: See Sponsored Ads in Various Categories on Yahoo Movies Pages
Is Yahoo testing something new with sponsored links on some pages found on Yahoo Movies? — Allow me to explain. — Sponsored links on Yahoo Movie pages for thousands of films and actors are found …
A (New) Chip on His Shoulder
Apple CEO Steve Jobs brought new Intel chips to his machines faster than anyone expected. What's next for Macs and iPods? — Partners: Intel CEO Paul Otellini (left) and Jobs at Macworld — By By S...
Google's Shadow Payroll Is Not Such a Secret Anymore
Shawn Hogan, the founder of Digital Point Solutions, said his company received about $10,000 a month from Google for ads placed on its online forum. It shares the revenue with users. — FEELING depr...
Jobs suggests Dell should eat his words
It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expens...
Compact Nokia 6125 offers excellent performance in stylish folding design
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today expanded its porfolio of highly popular mid-range mobile phones with the stylish Nokia 6125 fold phone. Sleek and compact outside, the Nokia 6125 offers excellent perform...
Google, You Tube & Dark Side Online Video
Online video is hot, and you can judge that from the break neck growth of You Tube. The San Mateo, California company was founded in February 2005, and a year later it is serving more than 3 million ...
More Jobs Being Found Online, but That Doesn't Mean It's Easy
One of the first things Brooke Christiansen did as college graduation neared last spring was post her résumé on three of the largest Internet job boards: Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs.
E-read all about it
The world of publishing stands on the cusp of the greatest innovation since Gutenberg. With cheap, portable electronic readers just around the corner, what is the future of the printed book? — Ever...
China, Still Winning Against the Web
FOUND AND LOST A Yahoo search for "Falun Gong," a quasi-Buddhist religious sect that the Chinese Communist Party outlawed in 1999, found nearly 2 million sites. The same search on Yahoo China "did no...
Bright and Clear Digitally — Over the Air
Over the Air — The future of TV looks impossibly sharp on RCA's 27F634T — except when it comes up as a blank blue screen with a "signal unavailable" message. — This unremarkable-looking cathode-ray...
Adults exempt from online playing limits
FACED by a flood of protests from adults, China plans to modify its anti-addiction online game policy with time limits directed at youth. The decision, exempting adults from time limits, was announce...
So Long Apple Nay Sayers
Nicholas Carr reminds us that on October 6, 1997, Michael Dell proposed that Apple be shut down and the money given back to its shareholders. On Friday the 13th, Dell was lapped by Apple. Oops! Del...