Version of Google in China Won't Offer E-Mail or Blogs
SHANGHAI, Jan. 24 - Google is bringing a special version of its powerful search engine to China, leaving behind two of its most popular features in the United States. — In an effort to cope with Chi...
Netflix Continues Online DVD Dominance
Davis Freeberg is both a current shareholder and customer of Netflix. This post should not be construed as financial advice. — Netflix reported strong Q4 2005 earnings today and continued to show i...
Are you kidding?!
There's been a lot of conjecture and confusion today about Yahoo!'s commitment to being the world's best search engine-talk which anyone who's been following the evolution of Yahoo! Search would have ...
Disney buys Pixar
update Walt Disney announced Tuesday that it's paying $7.4 billion in stock to acquire Pixar Animation Studios—a deal that puts Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Disney's board of directors. — For th...
Hacker guilty of taking over PCs for attacks
A 20-year-old Southern California hacker admitted Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers, using the zombie network to serve pop-up ads and r...
A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society
IT is strangely fitting that President Bush's no-warrant wiretapping came to light during the season of holiday gift buying, much of which took place online. — As Washington huffed and puffed over a...
As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind
AMID the cacophony of the sprawling Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, the main action had little to do with electronics. Sure, booth after booth claimed to have the biggest T...
Avatars Among Us
DEMOCRACY ISLAND — There are certainly more glamorous ways to spend a Friday night than watching an animated version of a computer engineer discuss approaches to harnessing collective intelligence. —...
Broadcast Flag praised, panned in Senate hearing
By Ken "Caesar" Fisher — Introduction — The Broadcast Flag was up on the Hill Wednesday for a full hearing in front of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The two-hour, two-panel ...
Tello - Good Product, Dumb Strategy?
Tello has been all over the news since last night. It hasn't launched yet, but the promise is to allow people within your company and at trusted other companies to see your "presence". — This means...