Editorial: Google's power couple
Marissa Mayer used to date Larry Page. There, we said it. — The relationship shouldn't be a big deal. Larry Page is co-founder of Google. Marissa Mayer is vice president of search products and us...
RSS Is a Glorified "Favorites" Feature
RSS is in Internet Explorer 7!!! The blogosphere is shouting from the rooftops. Yawn. I tried RSS in IE7, and it highlights the true shortcoming of current RSS applications — it's really not much o...
CBS Cuts Out Download Middleman
The network will make 'Survivor' episodes available for $1.99 on its own website, bypassing Apple's iTunes service. — CBS Corp. has spoken: When it comes to making its reality hit "Survivor" availab...
Feds Blast Tech Firms on China
Congressional caucus launches blistering assault on absent tech firms as the debate on China begins. — The tone of the debate between the U.S. government and U.S. technology companies Google, Micros...
IE 7 bugs abound
update People didn't lose any time in finding bugs in the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 7. — It's been but a day since Microsoft publicly released a test version of Internet Explorer 7...
New blog for high-fliers
Got your own blog yet? If not you'd better hurry up if you dont want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons, according to New Scientist. — Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies a...
Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000
Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian hacker groups for $4,000 a pop. — The fir...
Interview: Josh Robinson
Josh Robinson's review of PS3 development cost him his job at Sony. We caught up with him to talk about life after his few minutes of gaming fame. — FULL STORY: — We had a chance to chat with Jos...
Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans
Verizon Wireless has changed its policy and will now let subscribers use several popular phones as high-speed modems for their laptops, company representatives confirmed Thursday. — The shift repres...
30 Boxes, Best... Calender... EVER!
Let the ajaxification of your life continue! Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with a group of bloggers and technologists for a discussion about how we use calendaring as well as view a pre...
CBS to sell new 'Survivor' episodes on own site
Digital media chief says network likely to offer other shows for download — NEW YORK - New episodes of the popular "Survivor" reality television series will be made available for download directly f...
Firefox 1.5 patches 'undisclosed' security holes
[Updated: 1:40 PM] Open Source has always prided itself in openness, but why is the Mozilla foundation patching security flaws without disclosing what they are? A new Update for Firefox 1.5 was relea...
Apple's patented the Tablet Mac (part II)
Well, what do you know? Yetanother Apple tablet PC patent's shown up on the USPTO site, this one also with none other than Jonny Ive's Handcock onit (last time around it was both Jobs and Ive on the ...
Dabble Dabble
Update: Mark Sigal has an excellent comment about Dabble. He runs vSocial, a video service I prefer over You Tube. Pete Cashmore, Heather Green and Anne 2.0 are extending the conversation. — It ha...
Slip-up spills beans on Dell notebooks
update Apparent specifications for Dell's future notebooks were briefly exposed by Google's search engine Tuesday, before the spreadsheet was removed from a Dell FTP site and from Google's cache. — ...
SAP Gets On-Demand Religion
At last, Europe's biggest software maker is making a tentative — too tentative? — push into the on-demand CRM market occupied by rivals — Marc Benioff, the boisterous boss of Salesforce.com (CRM), h...
Is Verizon a Network Hog?
The telecommunications giant wants to devote most of its capacity to its own traffic, to Internet companies' dismay — Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress. The legend...
BLOGUE, by Owen Thomas (apologies to Madonna)
Owen "Ditherati" Thomas shares the following original monstrosity masterpiece of pop music parody with BoingBoing. "If you film the music video," says Owen, "I'd gladly pay $1.99 on iTunes for it." …...
Budde Outlines Yahoo News Future
YAHOO NEWS HAS ADDED THE weekly advice columnist, Margo Howard, to its short roster of writer/journalists. The news site has also undergone a mild restructuring, featuring popular video more prominen...
Gtalkr's New Features
Colorado-based Gtalkr originally launched in November 2005 as a Flash based way to access Google Talk, Gmail and Yahoo maps from a website. I drew comparisons to Meebo as well as the Ajax home page c...
Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1
Yesterday I interviewed digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss digg's popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg's upcoming personalization features. This is the fir...
Microsoft Amends Its Policy for Shutting Down Blogs
Microsoft unveiled new company guidelines yesterday intended to spell out how it will deal with government censorship demands, in China and anywhere it does business, and limit the impact of its compl...
British warships get iPod docks, surround sound
Here's a question for our British readers: does itbother you at all that your government is spending your tax quid on outfitting each berth in the Royal Navy's six new,£6 billion Type 45 Destroyers wi...
BitTorrent Client Shootout
Michael Calore is Webmonkey's editor in chief and the ringleader of Snackfight. He spends his spare moments cultivating bamboo and re-organizing his iPod. His favorite film is Rockers. — Over the ...
ON NEWSPAPERS NOW WANTING GOOGLE TO PAY
Well, a third industry is getting in line after telcos and book publishers wanting Google (and other search companies) to cut themselves in on a piece of the business model action around online paid-s...
Reviews of IE7 Beta 2 Preview - will be threat to Mozilla and RSS Aggregators
Some brave developers have downloaded the IE7 Beta 2 Preview and are beginning to report back their findings. The main new features in IE7 are tabs, RSS integration and improved security.
Open Letter to the LAPD and LASD
Sean Bonner: — OK, this isn't so much of an open letter as it is an open request. Please read the comments on this post. And please take a look at this site. Search for "LAFD" on this site and se...
Your Labels, Your Way
Reader has supported labels since the very beginning, but they haven't always been easy to get to. To make them more accessible, we've added a drop-down menu at the top of the page, allowing you to g...
Bigdaddy progress update
In case you don't want to download a 70 megabyte audio file, here's the latest on Bigdaddy. Bigdaddy continues to roll out and is now available at three data centers. In addition to 66.249.93.104 an...
Craigslist's laid-back approach to success
NEW YORK—Online classified-ad site Craigslist isn't your typical Internet company, and CEO Jim Buckmaster isn't your average media mogul. — While other CEOs in the fast-paced technology market are d...
Western Union abandons telegrams
The Internet strikes again. — First it mostly did away with brick-and-mortar auction houses. Then newspaper classifieds went the way of the Model-T Ford. — And now, thanks to the ubiquity of e-ma...
How I stalked my girlfriend
For the past week I've been tracking my girlfriend through her mobile phone. I can see exactly where she is, at any time of day or night, within 150 yards, as long as her phone is on. It has been ve...
BMW's Doorway Pages
The German websites of car maker BMW make use of doorway pages. It's hard to tell whether or not they intentionally used this blackhat SEO technique, but someone at BMW needs to spend 2-3 hours readi...
Mark Burnett Makes AOL Game
Online treasure hunt will provide web-based reality series across portal's sites. — America Online has teamed up with Mark Burnett, creator of the reality series Survivor and The Apprentice, to crea...