Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar
Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. — The new features include enhanced "suggestions" that appea...
Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media
There is a bubble in the tech industry, but it has nothing to do with the behavior of venture capital, as so many people are discussing. There's a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the...
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 — It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help ed...
Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken - It's About Time
The traditional venture capital model formula in technology was simple from 1945 to 1995. It was a form of arbitrage based on two scarcities — risk capital and understanding of technology. — Starti...
Dual-Booting Windows XP on a Macintel
The Problems — The modified Darwin Bootloader is made for EFI w/ EFI supporting operating systems — OK... So step by step. — Where is the BIOS used? For what? How? — The OS sends low-level ca...
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use
In March 2001, just a few months before Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling resigned, an employee e-mailed him a joke about a policeman pulling over a speeding driver, whose wife subsequently rats him out to t...
Steve Jobs' Magic Kingdom
How Apple's demanding visionary will shake up Disney and the world of entertainment — Early on a July workday in 1997, Jim McCluney, then head of Apple's worldwide operations got the call. McCluney...
Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing Of Films, TV Shows in Germany
In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell movies and television shows on...
Q&A with Jim Allchin of Microsoft
Talk about a swan song. — Retiring Windows boss Jim Allchin is putting final touches on software that could finally help people start feeling safe and secure using a PC, if all goes according to pla...
Behind the scenes in the RIM/NTP patent war
If you thought theBlackberry patent battle between RIM and NTP was just a fight between a successful wireless company and a greedy patentfarmer, this lengthy article from the Toronto Globe and Mail ma...
A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China
Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now endorses. — Google Images Censors Too in ...
How Much Did Google Agree to Censor?
How much does Google self-censor (or "filter", as they call it) in China? We don't know exactly, as Google doesn't tell us so far. — What we do know is that the Chinese gov't handed Google some sor...
IBM sets DB2 database free
DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on.
Congressional staff actions prompt Wikipedia investigation
Edits by Massachusetts congressman Marty Meehan's staff on his Wikipedia article spurred a Lowell Sun story and a subsequent Wikipedia investigation of all Internet addresses assigned to the Congress ...
FOCUS: Blogs by Olympics participants to be banned+
(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Jan. 30_(Kyodo) _ The Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to open web logs becaus...
Google logo redesigned by Students for Free Tibet
Inspired by Xeni's post about Google's active role in the supression of information in China, Han Shan sent us this graphic from The Students for a Free Tibet, showing Google's logo over a sniper-and-...
Homebrew Games and Emulation for ALL PSP's!
That's right, the day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived! Thanks to the fantastic work by our forum moderator Fanjita and his coding companion Ditlew, it is now possible to play vast amou...
Exemption for government BlackBerry users riles others facing shutdown
'They're sticking it to private business,' says one CIO — JANUARY 26, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Government workers and emergency personnel would be exempt from a possible shutdown of BlackBerry wireles...
Blogs versus the NY Times in Google
In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: … I decided to see how well each sid...
MacIntel Dual Boot? Fer Real?
Looks like an intrepid haxor has dumped Vista on a MacBook by fooling Vista into thinking that the MacBook has a BIOS in there somewhere. The instructions are kind of convoluted but we encourage you ...
180solutions Dismisses Lawsuit Against Internet Security Application Company
Updated Labeling of 180solutions' S3-Enabled Search Assistant Software — BELLEVUE, Wash. - January 30, 2006 - 180solutions, Inc., a leader in online search marketing services, today announced the di...
ESPN Finds Selling Ads on iTunes is a Bad Idea
It's only been a day since ESPN started selling their cute "This is Sports Center" Ads on iTunes, but already they are getting a big thumbs down from consumers. So far 23 reviewers have weighed in an...
The Mobile Phone Rings: You're Fired!
Most young Europeans would choose SMS over their phone service, if they had to pick one — Feb. 6, 2006 issue - Are you afraid of storms, bursting levees and killer tsunamis? Hold on to your cell ph...
Me and Microsoft, Part I
London's AIM Calls To US VC Community
As the number of venture capital-backed IPOs in the US has nosedived-due in large part to burdensome costs and strictures imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley-the London Stock Exchange's AIM has emerged as an ag...
Debate: Major IPs as MMORPGs [ page 1 of 1 ]
Debate: Should Major IPs (Intellectual Properties) Be Made Into MMORPGs? — Editor's Introduction: We change up the authors - although full credit for topic choice goes to Frank and Garrett who will ...
DOJ May One Day Try to Break Up Google
In chapter eight John Battelle's incredible book, The Search, he astutely predicted that Google would increasingly fall under the watchful eye of the US government. As we saw earlier this month, John...
Tello Explained
Last week a rocking big story broke in the Wall Street Journal about Tello, a company that has extremely deep roots in VoIP, especially when you realize that the essence of the company is Presence, an...
Flipping the Funnel—new ebook
new ebook — The ideas I've been playing with over the last few years came together over the last few weeks... and my funnel post was a small part of that. — This new ebook (3 versions, 18 pages eac...