The New Boom
More on edge cases
Liz Lawley was the one who said I was an edge case and has more on her blog about why she said that. (I didn't realize until now that it was her, I just heard the voice in the back of the room and di...
Change is good!
We have some great changes in MSN Spaces. — Have a picture that has a great story around it...you can now add a description to your photos. Your viewers can now add comment to photos as well as blo...
Kosmix raises cash for a new search engine — to compete with Google
to compete with Google — If there's anyone itching to take on Google, it is the two Indian guys who went to Stanford with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. — Meet Anand Rajaraman and V...
Subpoena: No personal data released
Privacy is a serious thing. That's what I thought when last week I heard about the subpoena on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Last week I was also concerned about how all these players except Google ha...
Rethinking corporate communications
Crecente: Schlock wave
Director's juggernaut of atrocious video game films mystifies critics, players — Uwe Boll makes movies everyone hates. — And he won't stop. — While the German-born director's ability to turn a m...
Rest in Peace, Sony Aibo
SONY PULLS PLUG ON ROBOTIC DOG — The Aibo lived seven years — or 49 if you count robotic dog years. — On Thursday, Sony pulled the plug on its Aibo robot, the peppy robotic dog with a software-con...
MICROSOFT FISCAL 2006 Q2 RESULTS
This afternoon, Microsoft announced results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter, ended December 31. While the company's seven business units report separate P&Ls, the units are now contained within th...
NEWS 2.0 IS NOT JOURNALISM
Om's right. He says that the news 2.0 startups aren't doing journalism. But News 2.0 isn't about journalism. It's about news. — The key to understanding what is working in "Citizen Journalism" is...
THE STORY DOESN'T CARE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN STEWART
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I'm interested in alternate reality games, not just as an advertising journalist, but as a writer. While working on a recent story for Creativity, I did a long pho...
Torvalds: No GPL 3 for Linux
update Linus Torvalds said Wednesday that he won't convert Linux to version 3 of the General Public License, as he objects to digital rights management provisions in the proposed update. — The posit...
Royal Bank of Scotland opts for open source intranet
From Apache and Perl, to Python and Zope... The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has revealed it is working on a large content management system (CMS) based on the open source application server Zope. —...
The Coming Irrelevance Of My.Yahoo For Me
After reading Fooled By Randomness, I found myself becoming increasingly annoyed by the information on My.Yahoo page. I've had My.Yahoo as my default home page since 1997 or so and probably have it r...
When It comes to DSL, Speed Sells
As the parade of earnings of phone companies continues, interesting trends emerge. And some proof, that Bells don't need to muck around with the net much to make money. — BellSouth and SBC/AT&T rep...
Mobile phone boom set to continue in 2006: survey
LONDON (Reuters) - Global shipments of mobile phones soared in 2005 and will continue to grow in 2006 on the back of strong demand from emerging economies, which snapped up half of all handsets last y...
H&R Block puts tax software on USB thumbdrive
Yes, it's that time of year again. No, wedon't mean the post-holidays, post-CES, post-Macworld winter of discontent (well, we do, but that's another story).It's tax time! Or at least it's almost tax...
Yahoo, Linksys offer link for digital music
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and wireless equipment maker Linksys on Thursday unveiled a new product to help consumers move digital music from computers ...