Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies. — The maker of Macintosh computers had anticip...
Looking beyond the twilight of the blogs
[Graphic courtesy of Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz at Elatable.com] — Slate magazine today is running an article titled "Twilight of the Blogs", arguing that all the signs are in place to say that bloggi...
'Spam man' wins gold
According to the International Olympic Committee's website, Australia's gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith, runs an internet pop-up advertising company that he describes as the third largest of its type. ...
Introducing, The Daily Om
Back in the day when I worked for a weekly newspaper in New York, the dismal newsroom taught me something: not everything merits a front page 24 point headline treatment. There are some stories which...
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers
I've had a tab open in my browser pointing at Tom's Native to a Web of Data slide for a few days now. It's been nagging me. I needed to do something with the ideas encapsulated in that one slide, an...
DirecTV blade coming to 360 Dashboard?
During CES in January, Microsoft andDirecTV announced a"long-term agreement to expand the reach of digital content throughout the home and on the go." Part of thatagreement involved extending "the Di...
Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame
When the U.S. House of Representatives convened a hearing on Wednesday to talk about China and the Internet, it quickly devolved into an exercise in political speechmaking. — Not until nearly halfwa...
Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party Tomorrow
I'm pretty excited about the Naked Conversations TechCrunch Party tomorrow night starting at 7 pm. — We've been working hard for weeks to get the event together and, thanks to our sponsors, this sho...
Invasion of the Computer Snatchers
If you think your computer is safe, think again — In the six hours between crashing into bed and rolling out of it, the 21-year-old hacker has broken into nearly 2,000 personal computers around the ...
News Corp. Goal: Make MySpace Safer for Teens
When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad. — The good part: The site, where teens and twenty-somethings p...
Google Warms to Wall Street
Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) is extending an olive branch. — The search engine giant's shares are down 18% this year, following a Jan. 31 earnings setback that cratered the...
NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday"
A source at YouTube informs BoingBoing that NBC recently sent the user-submitted video hosting site a nastygram over the Saturday Night Live "Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia" video. — That's right...
Proof: Employees don't care about security
Like we didn't already know... An experiment carried out within London's square mile has revealed that employees in some of the City's best known financial services companies don't care about basic s...
Dale Begg-Smith & AdsCPM: A Spyware low life Criminal Distributor wins an Olympic Gold Medal for Australia
You can run but you can't hide. If you fail to answer reporters questions in a candid and detailed manner, lots of folks will poke around and discover your checkered past.
OneNote 2007 Drawing Tools
Awhile back I promised to write about drawing tools in OneNote 2007. I'm pleased to say that thanks to the valiant efforts of one of our interns (hiya Bill!), we've got 'em! — Obviously a big part ...
Inside TiVo...with Amir
Welcome to the first "Inside TiVo" blog post. I spoke with Amir in Product Marketing and asked him if he would answer a few questions about the new online services that are currently rolling out. He...
— More Details On Amazon.com's Music Service
More Details On Amazon.com's Music Service ; Plans Pre-Loaded Branded Music Players — iVillage Feeding Frenzy: Bids Could Come Lower, Says Report — Daily Candy Goes On Auction Block; $100 Million Or...
It's a Wi-Fi kind of town
Chicago seeks proposals for citywide Internet access — The City of Chicago wants to blanket its streets and neighborhoods with a wireless Internet signal, granting residents and visitors access to t...
Is there an optimal size for a reading list?
I was reading Jim Moore's blog for the first time, and I came across this recommendation in his instructions for new users of OPML reading lists: … I've seen this idea before and it's always puzzled m...