Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting
Gee, this we weren't expecting...venture capital flowing to podcast creation. — John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds ar...
Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with th...
Analyst: Halo 3 Back in the Frame
A leading analyst says PlayStation 3's delay could prompt Microsoft to seek to sabotage the launch with the timely release of its key Xbox 360 title Halo 3. — » read more — Comment: Gloom Greets S...
Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site
Blog supplier Six Apart receives $12 mln in funding
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) - Six Apart Ltd., a provider of blogging software, on Wednesday said it had received around $12 million in a third round of funding for use in new products, internati...
Will your PC keep pace with Vista?
How does Windows Vista love thy computer? Let it count the ways. — Microsoft is building into the new operating system a tool that will rate a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it ...
TMO at SxSW - User Interface Designers Talk OS X, XP/Vista
This year's South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival, which concluded Tuesday on the eve of the famed music festival, served up a number of interesting panel discussions, but none of greater int...
Roomba takes Frogger to the asphalt jungle
reporter's notebook AUSTIN, Texas—It's almost two in the morning and I'm standing in the middle of Austin's Sixth Street, hoping that I'm not going to get hit by a car. — On the other hand, I am hop...
CozmoTV: Welcome to Television 2.0, Time to Supercharge the TiVo Part of Your Digital Lifestyle
Tuesday afternoon I had an opportunity to spend a few hours with Alex Rowland, founder and CEO of TV Technology upstart CozmoTV to demo their latest TV technology package for TiVo and talk …
EQO: Wonky but it works
So I downloaded EQO - the app that lets you chat and make calls and chat over Skype from your mobile phone. Which sounds cool, but I was confused on how exactly it worked so I just grabbed it. Well ...
Interesting Incoming Comments
Some really interesting comments coming in as of late. — Next week I'm going to take a moment to read-read them all and call-out some of the ones I find interesting (460+ to read through at the mome...
oil barrels price translation
a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S. dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. when a user loads a webpage, the script inserts converted prices into the page. as t...
Switched On: Origami is a paper tiger for now
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, anddigital entertainment: — Here we go again. In its unending capitalisticquest, Microsoft ...
LG to deliver dual-format HD DVD/Blu-ray
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.K: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it planned to launch a next-generation DVD player that will bridge the yawning gap between two ...
ECONOMISTS FIND MAJOR FLAWS IN FCC MEDIA BUREAU'S FURTHER REPORT ON A LA CARTE PROGRAMMING
NCTA and Disney Release Independent Economist Reports — That Dispute Recent FCC Study … WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and The Walt Disney …
SEO Mailbag: Search Engine Spam and SEM Salaries
› › › Search Engine Marketing — Reader requests to address innumerable SEO (define) issues come in many shapes and forms. Some questions are site specific, search-engine specific, campaign specif...
The 2006 Independent Games Festival Finalists
Download and play these awesome indie games, as Fargo and FilePlanet take you on a tour of the best entries in this year's IGF. — [Readers: Day 2's coverage is now live! skip ahead to part 2 if you ...