Teenage auteur ignites buzz about video graphics
Marketing experts pay heed: A video clip produced by a teenage girl has become a mini-blockbuster on a popular video upload site while also helping to introduce Logitech Web cameras to a legion of you...
Can Microsoft Make the Trains Run on Time?
Windows doesn't have the corner on the market when it comes to slip dates. Office 2007 is running behind schedule, too. So will appointing Microsoft's Office chief to head Windows really fix Microso...
The Allchin Tax Cut
Mike Arrington missed the Gillmor Gang taping today, even though he changed his travel arrangements to be there. I forgive him, because he's understandably starry-eyed by his lunch with Bill Gates at...
One 12-year old's opinion of TabletKiosk's Ultra-Mobile PC
Mix06 has ended and I've returned home to Prescott. My 12-year old niece latched on to the black and white Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC or Origami) by TabletKiosk. I followed her around while she was playi...
Google's Print Auction Fizzles
The search giant's auction of magazine ad space didn't generate much enthusiasm — or business, in the case of one successful bidder — Google's effort to roll its advertising juggernaut beyond digita...
Advertisers think commercials are less effective
Study worries TV industry already nervously eyeing digital recorder usage — NEW YORK - Nearly four in five marketers surveyed believe that television advertising is less effective than it was just t...
Macintosh and the Intel switch.
By now you have probably figured out that we aren't releasing Universal Binaries of our current application versions. If you haven't, all you need to know is pretty explicitly spelled out here. — "...
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
Think Web 2.0 and think Microsoft? Not necessarily. — The company has long provided the tools for building websites. But it's been a couple of steps behind when it comes to some of the bigger idea...
Google GeoAds beta
Google GeoAds beta has been out for less than 2 weeks. CPC's are super cheap. — Wanna see it? Go to Google Local and type in the search box, "booksellers nyc". You should see a little coffee cup ...
Microsoft Security Advisory (917077)
Vulnerability in the way HTML Objects Handle Unexpected Method Calls Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft has confirmed new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer....
'60 Minutes' Goes to Yahoo!; Buick Sponsors
Yahoo! has entered a deal with CBS to bring video segments and some interactive content from "60 Minutes" to its users. — Beginning next fall, video from the venerable TV news magazine will appear o...
Map Mashups Get Personal
A women named "Paiges" recalls hearing the band Portishead for the first time at a spot in New York's Upper West Side, while she was meeting a man with whom she was having a torrid affair. "I was in ...
Now Playing On Your Cell Phone
Advertisers are jumping on the mobile marketing bandwagon. Will subscribers join them? — Discovery Channel's I Shouldn't Be Alive profiles people who have survived some pretty unusual (and life-thr...
Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy
The digital gold rush is on across America, as cities scramble to develop free or low-cost Wi-Fi zones. These public on-ramps to the Internet are designed to provide every citizen with a form of alwa...
Purchase by Israeli Firm Called Off
The acquisition of a Columbia software firm by an Israeli company was scuttled last night in the face of close scrutiny by a government panel investigating the transaction's national security implicat...
Verizon PAYS Content Provider
at&t Chairman Ed Whitacre said that content providers who expect to use "his" pipes for free are "nuts". Maybe he's right: if a recent Verizon deal is any indication, at&t will have to pay content pr...
Let Computers Screen Air Baggage
It seems like every time someone tests airport security, airport security fails. In tests between November 2001 and February 2002, screeners missed 70 percent of knives, 30 percent of guns and 60 per...
worldblogcenter.com: lying turdmongers
BoingBoing reader Darren Rowse just pointed us to a shady site called World Blog Center, which touts itself as "prestigious virtual real estate location in which blogs from a variety of industry secto...
AjaxWrite
Rate this post: — AjaxWrite — March 23rd, 2006 — Lot's of blog postings about AjaxWrite today. I tried the service: — 1) It ain't a word processor, it's a text editor. Which is all well and ...
A Toshiba UMPC on the way? Its coming
I did a little bit of checking on Hugo's Toshiba UMPC article where he talks about an upcoming article in www.apcmag.com regarding a Toshiba UMPC. I checked with a source of mine at Toshiba and he ha...