Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads
Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of ...
New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles
With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding contr...
ABC Full Episode Streaming is Live... and it's Spectacular
Seinfeld fans will note the Teri Hatcher reference in the title of this post, but I just tried out ABC's full-episode streaming video service which launched a few minutes ago (around 2am this morning)...
Yahoo Introduces a Site on Consumer Technology
In one of its first major efforts to build a Web site with original material, Yahoo will introduce today a site devoted to consumer technology. — The site, called Yahoo Tech (tech.yahoo.com), will f...
State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging
Late last month, I gave a high-level overview of the growth of the blogosphere, covering the overall size of the data sets that Technorati tracks, the number of new blogs created each day, the number ...
Voice 2.0 On A Roll
I've been offline all weekend. It was the first really nice weekend we've had since winter. Living in this part of the world, when the good weather arrives, you take advantage of it! — Anyway, hav...
Five Months After Its Debut, YouTube Is a Star
Online Video Site Could Help Create Old-Media Celebs, Too — The closest Terry Turner comes to Washington politics is his job as a bureaucrat at the Pentagon — until, that is, he fires up the camcord...
Viruses catch up to the Mac
Experts debate just how susceptible Apple is becoming — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unrele...
The case of the spying salesman
There's a scary and fascinating new service launching Monday: SalesGenius, from the modestly named Genius, Inc. It's a system that allows companies to track, with excruciating detail, what individuals...
a bigger pond
I'm thinking seriously about ditching python in favor of C# as my main programming language. — That's a hard thing to say, because it means walking away from the codebase I've been tinkering with fo...
Drupal 4.7.0 released
After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third p...
The Top Ten Lies of Marketers (with bonus)
By popular demand, here are the top ten lies of marketers. Actually, it was too hard to stop at ten, so this list is a dirty dozen. As my mother used to say, "How can you tell if a marketer is lying...
Download Music From MyBloop.com For Free
Bookmark This: del.icio.us - Digg it - Furl - reddit - Spurl - Yahoo MyWeb — A user on Digg had posted a method to get music from MyBloop.com for free. MyBloop.com allows users to have unlimited st...
Samsung's Q1 UMPC reviewed
We know we've been giving the UMPC — specifically the Q1 — a lot of face time, but we have to admit, even though we're unimpressed with the first generation of these devices both in capabilities and h...
Startup School: Launch fast, update frequently and be lazy
Mark Coker reports from Startup School at Stanford university where 600 people from around the world listened to some of Silicon Valley's top entrepeneurs give out their best advice. — By Mark Coker...