Push for Net neutrality mandate grows
The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, may be more famous for its lobbying muscle on pension plans and Medicare, but now it's taking up a new platform: keeping the Inte...
New at Rojo: Mojo, Relevance, Today Cats
Rojo now has extra mojo: voting, relevance, and categories. — Rojo Mojo - Voting Meets RSS — Vote for the top stories and blog posts of the day with one easy click. Each story now has a snazzy ti...
Google's Schmidt Clears The Air
Stung by recent criticism of the company's actions in recent months, Google CEO Eric Schmidt held a roundtable lunch Thursday with a number of journalists in which he talked a lot about the company, h...
You've Got Goodmail
A COMPANY called Goodmail Systems thinks it has come up with a potential (and partial) solution to the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. According to Goodmail, market forces are the answer, ...
Xbox 360: We're Big in Taiwan
And Singapore. And Hong Kong. — On March 16, Xbox 360 launched in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Folks on the Asia marketing team were nice enough to share photos with me (seeing as how I didn't...
Xbox Live 'Artist of the Month'
You can now download Natasha Bedingfield's 'Unwritten' music video from the Xbox Live Marketplace in 480p and 720p. — This is the first in a series of "Artists of the Month' series on Xbox Live. — ...
MacBook Magnetic MagSafe Connector Not So Safe After All
Apple's magnetic Mag"Safe" connector on its Intel-based MacBook must be inappropriately named. How safe is a connector that bursts into flames with no provocation? This happened to a MacBook belongi...
Digg is used for Sun stock manipulation
Something extremely weird is going on over on Digg.com. Today for the third time in a short period, a story got promoted to the front page where a blogger raises a baseless rumour about Google buying...
Microsoft Reveals Plan to Take Business From I.B.M.
Microsoft began a $500 million marketing campaign yesterday to stir enthusiasm among corporate customers for its new products and grab business from I.B.M., its biggest rival in the business technolog...
Windows XP on Intel iMac: confirmed
Over the past few days, Infinite Loop has been following developments which seemed to indicate that a workable solution for installing Windows XP on Apple's Intel-based computers had been developed. ...
PLEASE, GIVE ME LIVESOFT (OR...PLEASE SPLIT UP MICROSOFT!)
I've been thinking about Microsoft lately, maybe because I've been in an email dialog with Gary Flake, or because I just interviewed Ray Ozzie for my column, or because, perhaps, of silly speeches giv...
Google wins a court battle
update In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excer...
Maybe Your CEO Shouldn't Blog
I learn a lot by new questions that come up, then keep coming up. The most recent of them is "How do I get my CEO to blog?" — My short answer is: "Don't." — First, it is usually unwise and occas...
Go on My Sun, says News Corp
The Sun is planning to give its website a massive boost by tying it to the recently acquired and hugely popular MySpace.com community and networking site to create a "MySun" online readers' network. ...
Hacking Made Easy
Automated Tools Gather Victims' Keystrokes, Upload Passwords to Illicit Database — When Graeme Frost received an e-mail notice that an expensive digital camera had been charged to his credit card ac...
Lynch Mob? Security!
There sure is a lot of invoking of words like mob and "lynch mob" today. Please. Please guys. — There is no one being lynched in this latest legal battle (and ongoing RSS scuffle) surrounding your...
Pre-Order of Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc Player Starts Today!
Sony announced at their Las Vegas '06 Open House event that their first Blu-ray Disc Player BDP-S1 is available for pre-order starting today March 17th. Besides Sony Style, Amazon.com and other store...
iTrip PSP
Griffin Technology has been making really excellent iPod accessories for several years now. During the same time, our poor ol' PSP hasn't gotten much love in the way of quality accessories. That cha...
Engadget's birthday cake winners!
You guys are thebest. Seriously, we mean it. Last week we put up acontest offering up an AlienwareArea-51 3550 for the best Engadget birthday cake you could bake for our 2nd birthday. What we got b...
Imagining the Maximum Net
Why the best model for building out infrastructure may be the Interstate Highway System. — Here's a question: should the decision to build the Net to maximum capacity—the broadest we can make broadb...