Analyst Day Slide Comments
Putting the powerpoint slides in their raw form on the web was clearly a huge mistake since the company effectively "published" the comments to the world. Ah, the power and danger of the web! — I p...
AOL Introduces New Open AIM Strategy
Puts the Power of Real Time Communications and Access to More Than 63 Million Active Worldwide Users into the Hands of Developers, Online Communities and Sites and Services of Every Kind — Dulles, V...
Wiring the Web
For years, many companies including Microsoft have invested significantly in the open, interoperable use of XML and Web Services toward enabling programmatic interconnection between processes, service...
TiVo to expand program recording to cellphone
SAN JOSE, Calif. — TiVo subscribers will soon be able to program television recordings straight from cellphones using the Verizon Wireless network. — An agreement with Verizon Wireless, announced Tu...
Online Reputation Monitoring Beginners Guide
Every single day, someone, somewhere is discussing something important to your business. Your brand, your executives, your competitors, your industry. Are they hyping-up your company, building buzz ...
Mac OS X patch faces scrutiny
An Apple Computer patch released last week doesn't completely fix a high-profile Mac OS X flaw, leaving a toehold for cyberattacks, experts said. — The Mac maker released a security update for its o...
World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec
A BRITISH-designed internet system promises to break the "four-minute mile" of broadband technology by delivering the fastest web service on the planet to British households. — Residents in Shoredit...
Popular Web Site Falls Victim to a Content Filter
THERE are lots of ways to describe Boing Boing, the Web's obliquely subtitled "Directory of Wonderful Things," which draws millions of eyeballs to its relentless, stylistically minimalist scroll of hi...
Search: And the winner is...
Google and Yahoo - a tie! — Yes, that's the result of the evaluation I carried out in December 2005 with my students in Aix, some aspects of which I have already revealed on this blog (see [fr] 1, 2...
Six Apart Launches Enterprise Blogging Tools
Six Apart announced two new business-oriented blogging products on March 7, which the company said are meant to capitalize on the growing blogging trend among small and midsize businesses and large co...
Google Drive: What we know so far
We have all the ingredients for a great story: dramatic predictions of Google taking over the world, secret disclosures of a new stealth product at a Google analyst meeting, outing of the story by blo...
Microsoft Lands Milestone 5,000th Patent
Multibillion-dollar research and development investment yields powerful portfolio of innovations. — REDMOND, Wash. — March 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. has reached a patenting milestone by logging its ...
Cosby's Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation
Data Analysis Cosby and Toothpaste Cosby may be the height of humor to fans of the online parody "House of Cosbys," but the man who inspired them is not laughing. — Last June, Justin Roiland, the cr...
Who controls how you use your Internet access? Vonage Canada challenges Shaw "VoIP tax"
Internet phone service company Vonage Canada warns that cable and phone companies could restrict "network neutrality" by limiting Canadians' freedom of choice on the Internet; requests CRTC investigat...
EXCLUSIVE - oh my stars!
Ok folks, we've been learning more and more about the Google Base / wallet reputation system. Last week it was a rumor from Dirson with no screen shots/backup. Yesterday we found the link that talks...
Sabeer Bhatia Logs In To Web 2.0; Launches Blogeverywhere.com
Press Release: So this is the Web 2.0 product from the Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia. His new venture Blogeverywhere.com was launched in Delhi today. It claims to enhance (I am yet to test it) the...
Cingular launches new mobile TV service
Cingular is expected to announce on Tuesday an on-demand mobile TV service that runs over its new 3G wireless network. — The service—called Cingular Video—allows viewers to select short three- to fi...
Complexity causes 50% of product returns -scientist
Text+AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on...