Allchin: Buy Vista for the security
If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged. — Microsoft has already touted the bells and whistles it is putting into Windows...
THE REAL IRONY HERE...
Google's first big editing job?
BAR CAMP DALLAS IN PROGRESS NOW READ THIS PART IT IS IMPORTANT : HOW TO GET IN
Update: you should sign up on the wiki, then come to loading dock "c" at the informart and tell the security guard you are with barcamp. they probably won't check the list, but if they do object …
New ANZ Launch Dates for Xbox 360
January 27, 2006 - Xbox today announced a new launch date in Australia and New Zealand for the Xbox 360™. The new launch date is 12:01am on March 23 2006. — The new launch date has been set due to ...
Rex Hammock points
Del.icio.us Competitors Try Paying Users
At least two Del.icio.us competitors, Simpy and RawSugar (profiles) have begun paying users to use and promote their services. While the companies have different payment models, both pay based on tra...
AOL, Broadband Providers Form Alliance
AOL Forges Partnerships With Broadband Providers to Provide High-Speed Subscription Packages — NEW YORK (AP) — America Online Inc. may be focusing lately on expanding free offerings on its advertisi...
New Search Service from TVEyes Offers Free Keyword Search Of Some Web-Based TV News Content & Lots More Video Search
A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes allows a searcher to keyword search each and every word spoken during tv news segment from well-known news organizations.
Bubble V. Boom?
There is a lot of talk about how we should redefine what's going on right now with the Internet not as a bubble, but at a boom. But I can't help but think that the third B word we should keep in the ...
I Pity The Fool
Normally I don't write blarticles related to the news. However, I could not resist writing something about Oracle's dog and pony show last Wednesday at San Francisco's City Hall. Oracle put on an ev...
Post Search Champs v4 non-NDA thoughts
Search Champs, the event itself is now over and as readers might recall I was very excited about being invited. I have many, many thoughts about the event, the interaction and what we saw, but of cou...
Google's new logo
I think it's a winner. — UPDATE: I did NOT create this logo, the photoshop credit goes to Paul Bubel. I should have made the link above more prominent to avoid any confusion.
Questions for Andrei Broder re emerging search technology?
You may have heard some buzz about Andrei Broder joining Yahoo! as a research fellow and vice president of emerging search technology. Longtime search industry folks will know that Broder is a noted ...
Google fixes China search bugs
A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted. — An inves...
Yahoo, Google, and Noise
The latest rumor gracing the gossip-rags is that Yahoo! has been in talks buy Digg, a user-generated news-site of sorts. If true (it's being denied at the moment) it would come on heals of the compan...
My Dinner With Microsoft Exec Jim Allchin
Microsoft co-president of Platforms, Products and Services Division, Jim Allchin — Last Night Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms, Products and Services Division met with a small grou...
Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination!
The Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the "Broadcast Flag" and "Audio Flag" proposals have been derailed because senators on the committee now use technologies that would be threatened by the fl...
Blogarithms: Rocketboom
My Blogarithms story for Metro this week is about the New York videoblog Rocketboom. And it comes with a little EiNY exclusive. — Over the past few months there's been some speculation about the va...
Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2
Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters. — Customers and partners who've bee...
Court date set for Google lawsuit
U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday set the date for the highly anticipated hearing …
Why Google made the right choice in China
A lot of folks, including John Battelle, are taking a hard line on China and our involvement there as technologists. For those of you who don't know, Google is going into China and they are—shockingl...
Microsoft may still face EU fine
Microsoft's offer to allow rivals access to its software blueprint may not be enough to prevent European Union action, the EU has warned. — The EU has threatened to fine the group 2m euros (£1.4m; $...
HOWTO build sustainable wireless networks in the developing world
A new free book delivers a complete HOWTO for assembling and maintaining wireless networks in rural towns in developing countries. "Wireless Networking in the Developing World" was co-written by some...
Dinner with Jim Allchin
The invite suggested an informal dinner with a rich discussion. A Vista demo would be involved. — I expected the night to include a group of people casually interested in Vista and a Microsoft-stee...
The supply-side boom
In The New Boom, a short article in the new edition of Wired, Chris Anderson makes a cogent case for why the current resurgence in internet entrepreneurship is "a healthy boom, not a fragile bubble." ...
Cell phone-accessible ATMs coming in autumn
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will introduce a service in autumn in which clients can deposit or withdraw money at automated teller machines using cell phones, the first service of its kind to be intr...