Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7
Microsoft's new hire, Niall Kennedy (formally of Technorati), wrote in his blog today that Live.com will be the default homepage for Vista and IE7: … This is something I've been predicting for a while...
Time Warner Cable mulls TV ad auction system
Time Warner Cable is in early discussions to create an auction place for advertising spots on video-on-demand channels, modeled after Google's AdSense system on the Internet, the company's top executi...
The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger
I've been a blogger for a whopping 100 days, and it's been a delightful and educational experience. Some readers (Omer Trajman, in particular) asked me share my observations about my blogging experie...
ABC's new gambit
ABC's announcement, as reported in the Wall Street Journal today, that it will begin offering its prime time programs free-of-charge over the internet is another example of the leadership role they're...
ROBO-ONE SETS 2010 DATE FOR SPACE ROBOT BATTLES
At the ROBO-ONE competition held in Tokyo in March, organizers announced plans to begin holding its robot competition in space in the year 2010. According to the recently launched "ROBO-ONE in the Sp...
Creating a feed syndication platform at Microsoft
Starting next week I will join Microsoft's Windows Live division to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. I will help build a feed syndication platform lever...
China's got RedBerry
Cheaper rival hits the market on eve of RIM's long-delayed debut — BEIJING and TORONTO — On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese r...
Webaroo packs up the Web to go
A startup wants road warriors to tote a copy of the Web around with them. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Acer, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, is teaming up with a Silicon Valley sta...
'Red Hat wraps Linux in sh*t,' says new exec
With the sale of his company JBoss to Red Hat, Marc Fleury will be going to work for an open source pretender that has never done much in the way of innovation. Or, at least that's what Fleury used t...
Rebuttal: CNET's DRM Battery Test Refuted?
According to CNET's recent article, WMA DRM caused a 25% reduction in battery life in your portable music player. This seemed fishy to the guys at DAPreview, so they set out on their own test to see ...
Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2
We've analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library ...
THIS BORING HEADLINE IS WRITTEN FOR GOOGLE
One of the great self referential headlines, in that it not only is a headline, it's a headline about headlines in a paper which is also the subject of the story. Head hurt yet? — Well, turns out, ...
Red Hat scoops up JBoss
update Linux distributor Red Hat said on Monday that it has signed an agreement to buy open-source company JBoss for at least $350 million, a move that expands Red Hat's product line and adds to its g...
Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks
LUXEMBOURG & SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 11, 2006—Skype(TM), the global Internet communications company, today announced that it has acquired Sonorit Holding AS and its US subsidiary Camino Ne...
Launch of Free Broadband, Forever, from TalkTalk
Carphone Warehouse today announces its pricing strategy for broadband and residential telephony in the first 1,000 exchanges it has committed to unbundle, and the financial impact of this strategy. —...
Heading off to Boot Camp
Introduction — Last week when Apple announced Boot Camp—a free public beta utility straight from above allowing users of Intel-based Macs to easily install WindowsXP alongside OS X—people came out i...
A Home Where Bloggers Can Plumb Those Obscure Passions
IT'S not easy making a living as a beef jerky authority these days. — The jerky publishing industry churns out precious few books on the topic, magazines and newspapers never give dried meat its due...
On AjaxWrite
We at Radar have been pondering and playing with AjaxWrite and AjaxSketch. Our conclusion is that they're remarkable for what they are, but disappointing for what they are not. — The AjaxWrite web ...
First Nontraditional-Platform Emmy Nominees Announced
A cellphone-only spinoff of "24," an animated blog inspired by Jerry Zucker and an AOL webcast of "Live 8" are among the nominees for the first Emmy Award that will be given to entertainment programmi...
Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog
Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog — The Yahoo Publisher Network launched their YPN Blog today which will serve as a question & answer, feedback, information, and innovation forum for site...
What does it mean for Ruby on Rails to become mainstream?
We've been going through the Ruby on Rails book in our Bainbridge Island reading group, so I was interested to see Cedric Beust's post Why Ruby on Rails won't become mainstream. It took me a few mome...
The New LS800 Extended Battery
I just received the new extended battery prototype for the Motion Computing LS800. It isn't quite what I talked about in the video review, but it is still very nice. In fact, I think I like this sol...
Guba, Veoh Clean Up Their Act
Guba and Veoh, two companies that have come under heavy criticism are cleaning up their act, hoping to capture a more mainstream users. — Veoh was facing the ire of the video bloggers for taking the...
Europe Surpasses North America In Instant Messenger Users, comScore Study Reveals
London, April 10, 2006 - comScore Networks, the leader in digital media measurement, today released the results of an analysis of instant messenger (IM) usage in various parts of the world.
Introduction
BioWare shocked the video/PC game industry a few months ago with the word that the Canadian based game developer of titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Repu...
Burger King To Sell Xbox 360 Games?
Hamburger flipper Burger King is considering a promotion that offers 3 exclusive BK-branded games. Each would feature their own characters (in this case, the actual Burger King) in "popular" genres (...