Nicol to 'bring out the soul' of MSN
John Nicol was on sabbatical with his teenage daughter delivering computers to schools in Uganda last September when he got a phone call from a top honcho at MSN asking him to be general manager of Mi...
One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's 3D Interface
Roughly half of today's PCs won't be able to take advantage of the "Aero Glass" compositor found within Microsoft's upcoming Vista software, due at the end of this year. — The estimate was one of th...
Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop — San Francisco - Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy.
HBO Wants No Recording of Shows—Ever
Ever — Looks like HBO is trying to use a broadcast flag to ban us from recording any of its programming on our DVRs. The company has recently filed with the FCC, saying its shows—and all "Subscripti...
Vent
The Real Reason why Tech Media Snub Fooky — I told you before how I felt Techcrunch was snubbing Fooky.com. But Techcrunch is as insignificant as a small fry sitting at the bottom of the McDonald's...
Giving GrabPERF a new home
Technorati is now hosting GrabPERF, a blog performance monitoring project created by Stephen Pierzchala in a Silicon Valley basement. We've been big fans of GrabPERF's distributed monitoring service ...
Vonage Churn Investor Heartburn
Vonage, the New Jersey-based VoIP services provider filed documents with the Securities & Exchange Commission yesterday, hoping to raise a whopping $250 million in a widely anticipated initial public ...
IStock 'Changes Nothing' . . .
"At the same time that this announcement was being made …
Thank You from Apple!
Back in June 2005, we started the WebKit Open Source Project. — Since then, lots of people have gotten involved in the project. Those of us at Apple are grateful for all the work they've done and h...
Loyalty Programs for Search
A number of folks have commented on the survey that some Yahoo! Mail users received about search incentives. I don't know a lot about it, but I'm a bit surprised by the reactions to this hardly new i...
The New Gatekeepers
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal claims that there is a level of conflict of interest for bloggers who have advised FON and are writing about it. While the Journal's story, in itself, is p...
Borland plans separate company for Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, InterBase, JDataStore and other developer products...
Today, Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 1am Pacific Time, Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for our IDE product lines that include Delphi …
Could the Playstation 3 Kill Sony?
As we quickly approach E3 in May, many people are eagerly anticipating more details on the Sony PS3. Since Sony burst onto the gaming scene with the original Playstation, they have been the company t...
How to get your missed TV shows with Azureus and Bittorrent
I'll start by saying that I am a paying cable subscriber. Often times there are multiple shows on at the same time that I would like to watch and I wanted a way to be able to watch those other shows.
Can MTV Stay Cool?
How CEO Judy McGrath must remake her TV empire for a digital world — Nearly 40 years ago, in a blue-collar Irish neighborhood in Scranton, Pa., Judy McGrath fell in love with music. As much as her ...
Advertisers may face public humiliation over adware
WASHINGTON—Companies could find themselves put up for public humiliation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission if they continue to advertise through insidious ad-serving software. — Such a move might...
Korea Develops Running Robot
South Korea has developed a robot that is capable of running. The feat is the second in the world after Japan and was accomplished by a local venture start-up working on a small budget. — Robotis T...
Can Sony's Kutaragi Score Big?
Once pegged as CEO material, the outspoken exec was bounced back to the games unit. Now his fortunes are tied to PlayStation 3 — Things have been unusually quiet for Ken Kutaragi lately. This time...
Better living through video games?
When he snags downtime from his schoolwork, Ryerson University student Brad Evans gabs with friends, grooves to Kanye West on his MP3 player and races virtual hotrods on his Sony PlayStation. All at ...