Huge Phone Deal Seeks to Thwart Smaller Rivals
The AT&T Corporation, in announcing plans yesterday to buy BellSouth Corporation for $67 billion after months of speculation, took the offensive against low-cost rivals in the free-for-all for phone, ...
Your Personal Shopper With the Initials R.S.S.
DON'T want to risk the indignity of being the last person to know when the new Kate Spade bag hits the market? Merchants stand ready to help. — Looking for new ways to reach consumers, retailers li...
NBC Universal to Acquire iVillage Inc.; Top Women's Online Community to Be Centerpiece of NBCU's Digital Strategy
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 6, 2006—NBC Universal and iVillage Inc. (NASDAQ:IVIL) have signed a definitive agreement for NBC to acquire iVillage, one of the nation's most successful online destinat...
What is an unconference?
The idea for an unconference came while sitting in the audience of a panel discussion at a conference, waiting for someone to say something intelligent, or not self-serving, or not mind-numbingly bori...
Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes
update Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulne...
The High-Speed Money Line
Are consumers going to start having to spend a lot more to surf the Web? — Phone and cable companies have stoked those fears recently by floating plans that would have Amazon, Yahoo and other Web si...
HP: Phones not a viable platform for video streaming
Hewlett-Packard (HP) won't be bringing 3G support to any of its smart phones until at least 2007. It cites the costs associated with the service, coupled with the fact that 3G's killer app — TV and v...
Origami Pics Leaked!
OrigamiPortal received this leaked photo from an online source today and we decided to share it with our visitors. — If this is the actual final product, it's pretty slick. And if it's not, it's a ...
Searching for an answer to Google Desktop problem
Q Google is making me gaga when I try to use the Google Desktop search service to find files on my hard drive. — I know what's wrong but I can't figure out how to fix it. When I had Google index al...
Langberg: Holdouts resist Internet's lure
Brace yourself for a shock: There are people in the United States who don't see any reason to use the Internet. — I know this is hard to accept if you live or work in Silicon Valley, where instant m...
What Jobs Didn't Say
When I covered Apple's first iPod announcement in 2001, it was unlike anything I had seen in my three years of covering MP3 players — and the iPod wasn't too shabby, either. — Steve Jobs plays the t...
Traveling man
Turning Sony around puts Stringer through the ringer — When Howard Stringer took over as chairman-CEO of Sony a year ago, he anticipated static from Japan. He didn't think he'd also catch fire from...
Women Gamers Duke It Out
For all the camaraderie fostered by the Women in Games International conference held recently in San Francisco, it was apparent a furious divide exists over how to get women to play video games. — I...
Working Toward Computer Roll-ups
One day you may roll up your computer and toss it in your bag — no more rugged titanium cases. Today's visionaries are planning a world of flexible electronics that will make even your svelte new lap...
MSN adCenter: Firefox Users Need Not Apply; Customers With Firefox Might Not Get Tracked
It annoyed me a few weeks ago when I signed up for the MSN adCenter pilot that Firefox wasn't supported. That was still the case with the open adCenter sign-up today and annoyed one of my readers Pau...