Announces Expansion of Legal Team
Santa Rosa, Calif., (April 17, 2006) - Burst.com, Inc. (OTC: BRST) today announced that it has filed counterclaims accusing Apple Computer of infringing four of Burst's U.S. patents. In the countercl...
Can Bloggers Make Money?
Blogs have a lot of buzz, but there's still considerable debate about whether that can translate into profits. — While many blogs remain little more than amateur diaries, several bloggers have tried...
Eisner Makes Hairpin Turn in His Career
LOS ANGELES, April 17 — When Michael D. Eisner was bicycling in Italy last summer, he encountered a road sign that was so appealing to him, he named his new company after it. — The sign said "tornan...
Invention: The TV-advert enforcer
For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is exc...
Blogs 'essential' to a good career
Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. — Ben Day blogged his way into a career as a high-earning software consultant while maintaining the...
Hands-On First Impressions: Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player
Thursday: 11am. A series of planned phone calls are placed to four Best Buy stores within reasonable driving distance. Each is asked one simple question to answer. Each provides a different respons...
Zone Labs' glee at hobbled Vista firewall
The firewall built into Vista may be better than the one supplied with Windows XP, but by default, it will not automatically block outgoing traffic, which is great news for security software vendor Zo...
Display Impressions Double Year-Over-Year
MARKETERS INCREASED ONLINE SPENDING LAST month, purchasing 185 billion display ads—almost twice as many as last year's 97.1 billion and 31 percent more than February's 141 billion, according to new Ni...
iRiver preps WiMAX UMPC
South Korea's iRiver is preparing to enter the ultra-mobile PC arena, the company has revealed. This week it demo'd its first UMPC, the W10, at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. The prototype device s...
Web 2.0 has a local address
South Park, the neighborhood that fostered the dot-com boom, is back — The unofficial meal of the Internet comeback is a bowl of Kellogg's Crispix and some fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice - served w...
S.J. court to weigh blogger's rights
At PowerPage.org, a Pennsylvania blogger offers up a daily menu of passionate online dish about all things Apple Computer. It looks like just another run-of-the-mill site in the vast and exploding bl...
GETTING THERE
The science of driving directions. — It is a testament both to the early allure of the automobile and to the difficulty of travelling very far in one that, in 1907, Andrew McNally II, the grandson o...
Circumvent PDF DRM... with Gmail!
Apparently, Gmail's built-in "View as HTML" functionality, which allows you to view the content of PDF files (and other types of documents) as if they were classic webpages, works regardless of the fi...
A web 2.0 FAQ
Based on some initial feedback, I have republished this entry now as a FAQ for web 2.0 — What is web 2.0? — Because of my work with mobile web 2.0, I am often asked the question - 'what is web 2.0...
Online Video Publishing Gets Into The Conversation: Click.TV
Online video publishing it's truly unstoppable. As if the very recent announcements of video remixing and editing sites were not enough, a new highly innovative video service has just announced its a...
2006 INTERACTIVE FACTS PACK
Ad Age's 2006 Interactive Fact Pack is available. With blogs and RSS feeds coming in as official media categories for the first time (e.g. Blogger.com has a 528% increase in traffic vs. the previous ...