Privacy and MSN Search
There's been quite a frenzy of speculation over the past 24 hours regarding the request by the government for some data in relation to a child online protection lawsuit. Obviously both privacy and ch...
Is the New iMac a Cash Machine?
Disassembling the first fruit of the Apple-Intel alliance raises some interesting questions about the model's profit margins — For years the thought of an Intel (INTC) chip going into an Apple compu...
Tomorrowland: Apple Chief Set for Disney Role
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 - Steven P. Jobs could be considered the Walt Disney of his era, breathing new life into animated movies with hits like "The Incredibles" and "Toy Story," and reinventing Apple Co...
Tesco debuts 'VoIP for all'
"Simple service" to rival Skype — Retail giant Tesco has launched a new voice over IP service aimed at the mass market, which allows customers to place phone calls over the internet via their PC. —...
Science Blogs as a Vehicle for Upscale Ads
IF great oaks from little acorns grow, a company called the Seed Media Group is hoping that its efforts in a fledgling field, blogs, will yield a forest. — Seed Media, which produces science publica...
Image aggregator prototype
The other night, on the way home, an idea came to me...so I pulled up my development environment and decided to write some code. I think my terrified development team is probably locking me out of th...
RSS came from the publishing industry
Last night's conversations were incredibly interesting, the next day I'd like nothing better than to continue them. One thing I wish I had said to Om, so we could have developed the idea (or perhaps ...
Porn again
First things first: Google is to be applauded for fighting a subpoena requiring it to turn over data on people's searches to the federal government. The government isn't seeking the data for a crimin...
Creative Zen Vision :M Review
The Vision:M is Creative's newest creation poised with an impressive set of features. The most notable feature is the video playback file support which easily handles MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV9, and Moti...
Comments Turned Off
As of 4:15 p.m. ET today, we have shut off comments on this blog indefinitely. — At its inception, the purpose of this blog was to open a dialogue about this site, the events of the day, the journal...
German Wikipedia back up amid lawsuit
JAN. 20 9:48 A.M. ET The German version of Wikipedia returned to the Internet on Friday after three days offline, a blackout prompted by a lawsuit in which the parents of a dead hacker objected to the...
Screening the Latest Bestseller
Electronic books have traditionally gone straight from the manufacturer to the remainders bin — but the market has never gone away entirely, despite years of tepid sales and failed predictions. — No...
World Tracker turns anyone into a cellphone spy
Forget those piddly wiretaps.The next frontier in warrant-free surveillance is upon us, and it's open to everyone. A UK service called World Trackerapparently uses cell tower data (or GPS, when avail...
Yahoo 06
Before reading too much into Yahoo's earnings, you should: — 1) Read the conference call. — 2) Understand why we've been predicting that Yahoo's dominated for a very long time now; because it does...
Changes to User Subdomains
No action is needed on your part. — We realize this is a big change, and that many of you will have questions. Here are some answers to questions you may have: — Why is LiveJournal making this ch...
Are media consumers mostly couch potatoes?
Scott Karp, the managing director of research and strategy for Atlantic Media, seems to have a way of writing things that get under my skin. First he said that bloggers have it all wrong when it come...
Newsmaker: Nintendo's New Year's resolutions
Sometime later this year, both Sony and Nintendo will release their next-generation video game consoles, the PlayStation 3 and the Revolution, respectively. — The new machines offer the promise of s...
Google's botched video store starts coughing up cash
Google has started returning money to those customers screwed by its hapless video service. — Last week, we told you how billionaires Larry and Sergey had taken 99 cents from us and others as a resu...
Ning - R.I.P.?
What happened to Ning? — It was the perfect service at the perfect time. — Mashups are hot right now. Really hot. David Berlind oversold his MashUp Camp in a week and now has an impressive waiti...
jWIN JX-MP93 can eat 2GB SD cards
Some of these reps at the CES in Las Vegas were just rude, which is okay as long as there's a valid reason. Something like "No sir, you cannot take pictures of this device because your camera's flash...
Six month Mac report
This is my sixth month primarily using the Mac. I still use Windows, but when I travel, the Mac is what goes with me. That goes for trips down the street to the coffee shop, or trips on BART to San ...
Search Down Memory Lane
Was reading John Battelle's excellent book The Search (which I'll blog about when I finish it) and was suddenly sent hurtling down Memory Lane. John writes about the distant antecedents of today's se...
U.S. to open WiMAX spectrum
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Looking to stay ahead of Asian and European rivals in broadband deployment, the U.S. is making an aggressive bid to open up spectrum for emerging WiMAX technology, according to a Bu...