A Letter to Our Readers
To Our Readers: — Our goal when we set out to redesign The Times Web site more than a year ago was to make experiencing The New York Times online simpler and more useful. We hope you conclude that ...
Google Maps API Version 2
Maps API Version 2 is officially launching! We're starting the beta-test of the new version that many of you have already been playing with these past few weeks. — Version 2 Features — Version 2 ...
At Last, Movies to Keep Arrive on the Internet
Six major studios plan to begin selling movies over the Internet today that buyers can download and keep for watching at any time. — Until now, the only downloads the studios have offered have been ...
France's Alcatel to buy Lucent for $13.4 bln
PARIS/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - French communications-equipment maker Alcatel said on Sunday it would buy smaller U.S. rival Lucent Technologies Inc. for $13.4 billion to gain market heft and broaden i...
Every Click You Make, They'll Be Watching You
WOULD you trust a company enough to let it follow your every click online? — Claria, a company once vilified for raining pop-up advertisements across the Internet through its Gator software, is bett...
Writing On Newsvine
If you'd like your own column, we'd like to publish it for you! Start writing here, and we'll promote your articles throughout the site based on what keywords ("tags") you provide for each article. ...
Playing with a UMPC
This weekend I have been playing with a UMPC ;) — It is a pre-production unit that was lent to me for the weekend. It takes a bit of getting accustomed to a touch screen. I am used to the screen o...
As Magazine Readers Increasingly Turn to the Web, So Does Condé Nast
Getting married and wondering how you would look in a mermaid-style sheath? Brides.com, a new Web site, takes you to a virtual fitting room, lets you pick from one of four body types and examine how ...
What does it mean to communicate relevantly?
For the last few years, Iotum has been a company obsessed with solving the dilemma of relevance. Today's patterns of interpersonal communication are so invasive, so fast, and so voluminous, that it h...
DIY KYOTO'S WATTSON
When I first heard about DIY Kyoto, the literal meaning of the company's name didn't immediately strike me. But these designers are doing exactly what they say: creating products that make adhering t...
Web users walk Great Firewall of China
BEIJING — Clad in jeans and a denim jacket, college student Jin Shan sips Coke and battles demons in an online fantasy game at an Internet cafe in Beijing's university district. — "Most people who c...
Treo 700w users: Daylight Savings Time Change Bug
Palm contacted TreoCentral early this morning to notify our staff and our readers, that Palm has found a significant bug related to the Treo 700w's Daylight Savings Time functions. Sunday morning, wh...
Will Wikio challenge Google News and Technorati?
Wikio, a Switzerland based company, was released in private Beta yesterday night (in French). It is one of the most ambitious web launches born in Europe this year. Pierre Chappaz originated this id...
THE STATE OF WEB 2.0
Now that Web 2.0 has had its mainstream media coming-out party in both Newsweek and Slate recently (here and here), I thought I'd take some time this afternoon and try to get a real sense of the preva...
VoIP builds velocity ... as Apple waits in the wings
Shepard online — CONVENTIONAL mobile communications providers should be afraid, very afraid. If they haven't built VoIP into their plans, it could already be too late. — Industry observers are spec...
Nick Carr wins the annual hypocritical April Fools' Day "Dark Cloud" award
UPDATE (April 2, 2006): It's strange—and oft mentioned—how the most random little posts, the ones you don't think will really draw any attention, suddenly do. Kind of like the room going quiet as you...