Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches
Amazon Web Service is launching a new web service tonight called S3 - which stands for "Simple Storage Service". It is a storage service backend for developers that offers "a highly scalable, reliabl...
Internet means end for media barons, says Murdoch
· Magnate hails second great age of discovery — · Power 'moving from the old elite to bloggers' — Rupert Murdoch last night sounded the death knell for the era of the media baron, comparing today'...
Upstart aims to ease Web crawling for classifieds
If you're in the market for a slightly used Toyota Corolla or want to have dinner with an ex-felon, Vast just might be the search tool for you. — Vast, which launches Tuesday, is a search engine and...
25 Things I Hate About Google
Google's purchase of Writely sort of drove me over the edge last week. When I saw the news confirmed, I exclaimed out loud to myself, "Oh, give me a break." A break from what, freakishly talking to ...
Seven-ounce "wrist PC" runs Linux
A European embedded computing specialist has announced a wrist-worn wearable computer that runs embedded Linux or Windows CE. Eurotech's WWPC ("wrist-worn PC") offers a wealth of standard PC interfac...
April 8th & 9th 2006 (Saturday & Sunday) Chennai
Quick Navigation Links — What is Barcamp? — Confirmed Presentations — Confirmed Participants — Prospective Topics — Tips for Presenters — Latest Developments — Ideas to improve BarCampCh...
The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?
Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent...
WinXP on Mac... for rizzle this time?
Most of us by now are painfully aware of the Windows XP on Mac challenge that has been going on since, well, Intel Macs were finally announced at this year's MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. We are co...
Google News Credibility Foiled By 15-Year Old
Sometimes the most well thought out practical jokes trigger an uneven brand of justice that falls under the laws of unintended consequences. While not formally codified and ill defined, the law of un...
Apple corrects patch trouble
Apple Computer on Monday released the second set of Mac OS X security fixes in two weeks. — Security Update 2006-002 corrects problems caused by the company's previous patch and fixes newly discover...
NewsGator Extends RSS Leadership with New Mobile Applications
New Java and Windows Mobile Aggregators Harness Power of RSS Anytime, Anywhere — Denver, CO - March 14, 2006 - NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS platform company, today announced that it...
Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War
Man vs. machine stories are an old standby in journalism. — Think back to John Henry racing a steam drill and forward to Garry Kasparov trying to outmaneuver IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 to the Onion twe...
Judge to help feds against Google
update SAN JOSE, Calif.—A federal judge hearing arguments in the Department of Justice's records fight with Google said Tuesday that he would grant federal prosecutors at least part of their request f...
The bottom line on blogging
Honesty is the best policy — Robert Scoble should be a boss's worst nightmare. — He's been known to openly criticize the company he works for, with thousands of opinion-leaders listening in. In t...
Class action lawsuit filed against music industry
People have complained about the price of recorded music for decades. It's always seemed a little fishy that there was no price competition between the labels, and that CDs have always remained more ...
Sony loses another round in DualShock lawsuit
Sony's battle with Immersion Corporation over technology that makes gaming controllers vibrate has taken another turn as a federal judge dismisses Sony's latest attempt to shake free of the suit. The...
Microsoft's labor troubles
On top of a stagnant stock and a host of new competition, the software giant is said to be struggling to attract the best young talent. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Microsoft's all grown up. — Now,...