Jobs to scoop $3.5bn as Pixar board approves Disney takeover
The board of Pixar Animation Studios, the digital animations company, is set to meet tomorrow to approve the company's $7bn (£3.9bn) takeover by Disney. — The all-share deal will make Steve Jobs, th...
What journalists can learn from software developers
One result of the whole Washington Post comments debacle is that, as Jay Rosen puts it, "We're going backwards in our ability to have a conversation with the Washington Post." The Post circles its wa...
New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use
Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio. (Please write your Senator about this!) — You say you want t...
Why do I need Windows Vista?
OK so this post is brought to you by myself and... Robert Scoble . Don't ask! — Expect more of these in the future; what I will do next is DIVE into some of these things, especially the AERO user...
The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet
Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping — do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these kinds of decisions several times a day, based on...
AOL Takes AIM At Social Networking
A Hundred Books in Your Pocket
The e-book will transform reading — and writing — NEW YORK — The e-book is back. So are the technophobes who swear it'll never catch on. They were right last time, and they might be right this tim...
Living a Cached Life
"You have zero privacy anyway... Get over it." — Scott McNealy , CEO of Sun in 1999 — Scott McNealy, the CEO who should have been a stand-up says a lot of things. Many you can ignore, but when he ...
Google, Yahoo! Lead Parade Of Bad Tech News
It was one earnings miss after another in what was certainly the worst week for technology stocks in recent memory. Missed estimates caused big-name shares to trip up, spreading their bad vibes throu...
Mobile Opportunities
Went along to Mobile Opportunities today. Tony Fish of AMF Ventures brought a good crowd of enterprises, entrepreneurs and investors, many part of the Momo community, to the basement auditorium of Si...
Google recommended news
Google News just launched news recommendations! — If you are signed in to Google News, do a search or two and click on a few stories. Come back to the Google News front page. There should be a sec...
CDT to escalate spyware battle
The Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based public advocacy group, is further escalating its fight against spyware and adware. The group on Monday plans to file two complaints with th...
Smartcard Key to Flier Fast Lane
Frequent fliers willing to be fingerprinted and background-checked may soon get their own airline screening lanes run by private companies in the nation's airports, homeland security officials say. —...
Who Are The New Media Gatekeepers?
Scott Karp poses a great question (before wandering into a maze of ideas that peter out without a solid conclusion): … In the perfect world, the answer would be that each person should be their own ga...
Down, Boy!
I've noted a few times that SAP has become the PR pit bull when it comes to Oracle. Last December, when Oracle announced its quarterly earnings, SAP sent out a press release within minutes of the com...
Party Time
Paula and I are up early this morning to head for Seattle. Tonight is the first of two Naked Conversations launch parties, this one, engineered and choreographed by Buzz Bruggeman and Maryam Scoble, ...