BMW given Google 'death penalty'
Search giant Google has "blacklisted" German car manufacturer BMW for breaching its guidelines. — Investigations by Google found that BMW's German website influenced search results to ensure top ran...
M600 slim, compact and stylish UMTS messaging phone puts secure e-mail and Internet at your fingertips
London, 6th Feb 2006 - Sony Ericsson today announces the M600 phone and messaging device. This is a fully-specified email tool and mobile phone rolled into an extremely stylish …
Did Nvidia Hire Online Actors to Promote Their Products?
About a week ago, The Consumerist stumbled upon claims made by various gaming websites (specifically, Elite Bastards and [Update: a poster on the forums at] Beyond3D) that graphics chip manufacturer N...
State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
It's been 4 months since last October's State of the Blogosphere report, so it's time to update the numbers! For historical perspective, you can see earlier State of the Blogosphere reports from July...
Wave of Video Game Fatigue Afflicts Sales, Not Thumbs
In November, Activision released True Crime: New York City, a video game that seemed to have all the makings of a hit. It was the sequel to a well-received game, it had the violent aesthetic of the p...
how to kill email
Rumors are (once again) flying around that people are going to be charged for sending email, postage stamp style. The details are uncertain, although the NYTimes has their version; apparently, Yahoo!...
NYT check in on Goodmail debate (or "We are keeping the White List so Fred and Brad are happy")
Saul Hansell of the New York Times picks up on the Goodmail spam solution that we are adopting (we being AOL). Yahoo is also testing Goodmail's spam solution. — However , Saul leaves out one of mos...
Speakeasy Says No Deal with Fon
Speakeasy says that Fon claims a deal where none exists: I just received this missive and permission to share it from Lynn Brackpool, a spokesperson for Speakeasy Networks. Fon said in reports to som...
First Take: Cocomment Takes Comments Out Of The Dark
Two of my buds at the Web 2.0 Workgroup, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, beat me to the punch on Cocomment. Robert is enthusiastic while Michael is more lukewarm. — The idea is to collect all ...
Where Did Firefox Come From?
The story of Mozilla is long and rich in detail. There are many perspectives. This is mine. — Getting Involved — I got involved with Mozilla because I loved the idea of working on something that...
PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google
When Jeff Jordan learned last May that Web-search leader Google Inc. was building its own Internet-payment service, he reacted swiftly. — Mr. Jordan, who is president of eBay Inc.'s PayPal online-pa...
Microsoft's security product hits home stretch
Microsoft plans to release its subscription security program before the summer and to challenge its main rivals on pricing, CNET News.com has learned. — Windows OneCare Live marks Microsoft's long-a...
AJAX Design Patterns
Snyke wrote this terribly early in the morning: — By now the entire World has heard about AJAX, even those who don't care about Web-Development have seen the potential of this new technology. Every...
'Exotic' Programming Tools Go Mainstream
The January release of Franz's Allegro Common LISP 8.0 puts developers on notice that "exotic" programming tools, long relegated to research environments, are becoming more viable options for mainstre...
Dozens of Web 2.0 companies' logos
Andre Torrez Ludwig Gatzke has collected the logos of dozens and dozens of "Web 2.0" companies and laid out them out in a grid in a gigantic image-file he's posted to Flickr. It's pretty amazing — li...
Vaporware: Better Late Than Never
Ladies and gents, welcome to the 2005 Vaporware Awards — the prize that celebrates the tech products that were promised last year but never delivered. — We have a few surprises this year — wait 'til...
Taking On the Database Giants
Can open-source upstarts compete with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft? It's an uphill battle, but customers are starting to look at the alternatives — OPEN SOURCE'S NEW FRONTIERS>> … Rick Herman is awas...
I present to you, VMware Server 1.0 beta 1
Wow, what a ride. We just put out this morning (or late last night, depending on time zone) beta 1 of our new VMware Server product. Now you know why I've been saying "I'm really busy, can we discus...
Grazing
A comment from James Corbett (in relation to feed-unsubscription) I reckon is worth repeating: … Ubiquitous computing is on its way, and interaction paradigms that reflect those of the real world cert...
Venture for Sharing Wi-Fi Draws Big-Name Backers
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 — A telecommunications executive said on Sunday that he had received $21.7 million for what he called "a global network of shared Wi-Fi connections" from backers, including Googl...
The Dog told me
I wrote this a few weeks ago before a trip to New York. While getting in and out of cabs or walking down the street, I lost or was relieved of my EVDO card, plunging me back into the darkness that pr...
AOL to charge fee as way to cut spam
SAN FRANCISCO — America Online will begin charging businesses to send commercial e-mail to its users in the first wide-scale use of authenticated e-mail to reduce spam. But some marketers affected by...
Catching up with Peerflix
Journalists too often fall into the hit-and-run reporting trap, where we write about a start-up and then rarely, if ever, check back on its progress. So when the Peerflix guys invited us in for a cha...
LAPD to throw GPS at fleeing cars
The LAPD will outfit cars with a device that propels and sticks a GPS onto a fleeing car. — The department will mount the StarChase LLC device in the grill of some squad cars. "Officers in the car ...
Two Dot Roundup
Poor Paul Allen — always the bridesmaid, never the bride. The Steelers won by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the Seahawks operating system with a defensive denial of service attack. Though the 'H...
CoComment Screen Shots and Clarifications
The CoComment guys were nice enough to send me an invitation to try the service after my post yesterday. I am now able to answer some of the questions I had in that post. — They support six big blo...
The Death of the Cold Call
I started my technology career at a startup, running sales. Now "running" is probably generous, given that I was the only sales guy (my partners were busy creating products). But every morning, I'd ...
Did Nvidia hire an army of message-board sock-puppets?
Nvidia stands accused of hiring online actors to create dozens of personae in online forums, where they won gamers' trust by talking about subjects unrelated to Nvidia's products, and then splurged in...
Prosper Launches - Social Lending
San Francisco-based Prosper launched today (Prosper was called Circleone during its stealth stage). — Like London-based (and Benchmark funded) Zopa, Prosper is a marketplace for borrowers and lender...