The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience With Times Reader
New application uses Microsoft software to benefit readers. — SEATTLE — April 28, 2006 — Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveile...
Microsoft Software Will Let Times Readers Download Paper
SEATTLE, April 28 — Microsoft and The New York Times unveiled software on Friday that would allow readers to download an electronic version of the newspaper and view it on a portable device. — With ...
Your Tube, Whose Dime?
NEW YORK - — The Web lets users watch whatever they want, whenever they want to watch it. So what do they want to see? A home-made video of two boys lip-synching along to the Pokémon television th...
The Lance Dunston Debacle
If you haven't heard about the blogger who's been sued for criticizing the state of Maine's tourism promotion efforts (among other things, the state's advertising agency created draft advertisement th...
What I Said at Columbia University
Treo™ 700w Updater 1.10
for Verizon Wireless smartphones — The Treo 700w Updater installs the latest software on your smartphone. It is designed to update your device while preserving your data. In some instances, user s...
Some AMD Opterons suffer heat issue
update Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual, high-temperature circumstance. — The...
A stroll down this week's carnival midway:
First a note about mobilists getting together. I have not been asked to mention anything this week on the subject but there may be a mini mobilist meet-up soon anyway. When I sent an email to Justin...
Building a Google? Microsoft pouring cash into Web fight
Microsoft is supercharging its business in the coming year with a spending burst that made some Wall Street analysts do a double take Thursday. — The company plans to plow perhaps $2 billion more th...
Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It
Step 1 — Download Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. — Step 2 — Use WinRar (you can download a free trial) to extract the files from the setup to a folder, for example C:\Program Files\Internet Explore...
Q to be launched May 22nd?
Alright Q fans, we've got some good news for you. We've received word that Verizon and Motorola are holding a joint news conference in New York this May 22nd — no, not May 22nd 2007, though we should...
Sony Readies iPod Rival
Company is developing a new digital music player that will go on sale later this year. — Sony is preparing to take another swing at Apple Computer's iPod digital music player, a top Sony executive s...
Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping
It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress. — Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a R...
Feedback
I'm one of the team here at Mozilla that's been working on the Firefox Flicks campaign since we rolled this out back in December of 2005. We're nearing the close of the initial stage of this campaign...
Podcast: Second Life Review, Robert Scoble, Chris Salazar and Me!
Check out the Podcast Roundtable for more Podcasts — I did a podcast interview of Chris Salazar (age 20, and Novice User) and Robert Scoble (Second Life evangelist and experienced user) who both are...
Pre-E3 2006: Halo 3 at E3
Microsoft to show Halo footage at E3 news briefing. — April 28, 2006 - With Microsoft, the rumors are always true. The next iteration in Bungie Studios' Halo series will appear at E3 2006 in video ...
Branding 2.0 - Ask A Ninja
I'm going to take some time out from the neverending barrage of Web 2.0 launches and try to explain how smart individuals are building global brands with zero marketing dollars, simply by leveraging e...
Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 3rd Edition
The biggest S60 news of the week has been announcement of 3 new S60 NSeries multimedia computers by Nokia. In the Open Studio event Nokia demonstrated interesting beta version of forthcoming applicat...
More On Yahoo & AT&T VoIP Messenger Deal
Based on some G2 I've been able to discover from some well healed off-shore type players in telcom who have played in the telco game for many years and made a bundle off of selling things to SBC I was...
Perspective: Bush's dim pitch for energy
President Bush blew into Silicon Valley last Friday for a televised meet-and-greet with Cisco Systems' John Chambers before heading out to Napa Valley for some quality mountain biking. As it turned o...
Start-up aims to ditch kids' training wheels
GyroBike wants to eliminate the wipeout. — The company, a spin-off out of Dartmouth College, is coming out later this year or early next year with a gyroscope/flywheel that fits into the front wheel...