Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 - On Amazon.com, a customer interested in buying the novel "The Life of Pi" is also shown "The Kite Runner" because other Amazon customers - presumably with similar tastes - als...
And now, News
We're taking Google News out of beta! When we launched the English-language edition in September 2002, we entered untested waters with a grand experiment in news browsing - using computers to organiz...
Say Hello to Tello
The startup promises to revolutionize business communications. The involvement of four tech veterans lends that grandiose claim some credence — The months after the stock market crash of 2000 were ...
U.S. Supreme Court rejects RIM's appeal
update The prospect of a wide-scale shutdown of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail service is closer to becoming reality, as the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to review a major patent i...
Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry patent appeal
Since its introduction in 1999, the BlackBerry has revolutionized communications, allowing business travelers and government employees to send and receive e-mail outside their offices and away from th...
Advertising Is Obsolete. Everyone Says So.
AS advertising conferences go, the take-home message at the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association meeting was a little unusual: Don't advertise. — But at the conference, held here last Thursday and Fr...
Confirming the Copyright Gap
The Toronto Star today featured a lengthy article by Sam Bulte titled Closing the Copyright Gap which explains her views on copyright reform (unfortunately the article is not currently online). The a...
Internet: Freedom or Privilege?
[I wrote this as an Op-Ed or Letter to the Editor, but why wait for a gatekeeper who is laboring under the influence of scarce column inches? — David I] — The battle for Internet freedom has been j...
The Search Is Over: Google Wins in 2005
Global: Google Tops Ranking (view results) — In 2005's results, Google took the lead from Apple in what is shaping up to be a back and forth contest through the years for these two innovative tech c...
Pay Attention
Last Friday I dropped in on a meeting at Root Markets, a New York City-based company I wrote about earlier that helps you record and analyze your clickstream. It was an interesting crowd of beta user...
Software Notebook: Is Gates' prediction on spam a bust?
It was a prediction that captured the attention of the international media and weary Internet users alike: "Two years from now, spam will be solved," Microsoft's Bill Gates said. — Well, time's up.
Yahoo Answers to integrate YPN for contributors
Yahoo Answer accounts have something new in the control panel, namely a section for contributors to include their YPN login information, which is currently labelled as coming soon. You need to signup...
Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too.
Traditional broadcast radio, the last bastion of analog entertainment technology, sees a bright future for itself. Its strategy for success is to become more like one of its main competitors, satelli...
Missed It in the Theater Today? See It on DVD Tonight
PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 22 - Hollywood will inch further toward making movies simultaneously available in theaters, on DVD and on home television screens at the Sundance Film Festival this week, as IFC ...
Real Stern Shocker: No Podcast
Satellite radio is a pretty good technology that's attracting a respectable audience primarily through excellent programming. But let's be clear — satellite doesn't hold a candle to podcasting, and n...
WiFi sniffer turns your DS into a wardriving tool
Where would webe without the homebrew community, who snaz up our gadgets and humorously frustrate The Man at the same time? Thelatest little tool to emerge from the 'brewers' bag of tricks is a progr...
Quaero's challenge:I search, therefore I am
The internet graveyard is already filling up with Google-killers, challengers that have failed to knock the US internet search engine off its perch. Now a European challenger is stepping into the rin...
Kojima: 'Games Are Not Art'
In the February 2006 issue of the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima touches on everything from being a latch-key kid to how games aren't art. — The interview, condu...
Yahoo's Social Circle
In a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds … Yahoo! (YHOO) is on a quiet acquisitions tear. First, it snapped up photo-sharing site Flick...
This Site Knows a Cold Isn't a Rock Band
HYPOCHONDRIACS of the world, rejoice: a new Web site, Healthline.com, could make it easier to identify whatever doesn't ail you. — The core mission of the Web site, which is owned by Healthline Netw...