AOL to Add Free Phone to Instant Messaging Feature
AOL is preparing to offer the 41 million users of its instant messaging system a free phone number that will allow people to call them from regular phones while they are online. — The move is part o...
Microsoft doesn't support Firefox?
Darren Barefoot notes "I guess Microsoft doesn't want my money." — This pisses me off. — If I were Bill Gates I'd issue a memo that said "any team that ships without Firefox support automatically ...
Suit accuses Google of profiting from child porn
Google has made child pornography an "obscenely profitable and integral part" of its business and must be stopped, a new lawsuit claims. — Jeffrey Toback, a representative in New York's Nassau Count...
Microsoft QnA Enters Crowded Market
More Microsoft news today: Live.com has announced the upcoming launch of QnA, and a few screen shots have been conveniently leaked as well (see end of post). — QnA is a question and answer service t...
Microsoft to Acquire In-Game Advertising Pioneer Massive Inc.
Massive's technology for weaving dynamic, relevant ads into video games will extend next-generation advertising across Microsoft properties and beyond. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 4, 2006 — Today at the ...
Unconferences and the value of participatory events
The Internet Identity Workshop ended Wednesday afternoon and I've had a day to decompress. This was really an outstanding event and one I'm proud to have been a part of. Even though I was one of the...
"Innertube" leaves local affiliates in a rip tide
So CBS has launched a broadband channel (innertube). This should surprise no one, since Viacom owns CBS and Viacom channels MTV (overdrive) and Comedy Central (motherload) have similar broadband chan...
Israeli start up creates wearable display
REHOVOT, Israel — Israel-based Mirage Innovations has developed a lightweight, compact and affordable personal video display device for use with portable media players, game consoles, cellular phones ...
CIA in Silicon Valley invests in — shocker — a tiny photo lens
shocker — a tiny photo lens — The CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel, may have lost its lead Silicon Valley operator, Gilman Louie, but the group is still working away on deals here. — Gilman has since la...
Xbox 360 spotted on South Park ... with 4 wired controllers?
Microsoft's Xbox 360 made its South Park debut last night. In one scene (seen here), Stan, Kyle, Butters, and Kenny are all using wired controllers. What up with that? — Could this be a hint? Is ...
INGRAM: Apple wins, but who loses?
Steve Jobs, benign dictator: It's funny how our view of what is right changes depending on whether we like the person who is making the rules. Take Apple and iTunes for example. After months of nego...
Oblivion Re-Rated = Bad News
The ESRB just re-rated Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Teen to Mature. On the surface the bad news for Bethesda is that fewer units will be sold to an M audience and it's a little bit of a black eye ...
There's some Reader in my Homepage!
Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage have always been kindred spirits, seeing as both deal with feeds (and the teams sit 10 feet apart). We're therefore very happy to announce that your Reader...
Google Doodles doesn't care about Mexican people
Yahoo gets festive today for Cinco de Mayo, while Google snubs the Mexican holiday for the seventh year running: — Olé, Olé, the Fifth of May. — Nothing on the American site... ...or on Google Me...
Maintaining a Quality Network
As noted on certain message boards, some publisher accounts have been recently closed. These account closures were based solely on traffic quality issues. — Yahoo! Publisher Network is still an i...
The RFID Hacking Underground
Ahh, it's linked to Attention ©
Some follow-on discussion about the linking question by Justin Peterson who makes a very good point in that while I want the viewpoint of the writer on a given subject, it's likely not the only view I...
Yum or Dumb?
Yum! Brands is set to become the first-ever presenting sponsor of the Kentucky Derby. For the next five years, the official name of the Kentucky Derby will be ... "The Kentucky Derby presented by Yu...
Transform PSP into a mobile!
Vonage rumoured to be working on software that will turn your PSP or DS into a VoIP phone. — Not content with playing games, watching telly and listening to music on your handheld console? Never fe...
Free Vista (and Office) for holiday shoppers?
Jupiter's Michael Gartneberg has a great suggestion for Microsoft: give holiday season PC purchasers a free copy of Vista. And Office. It's a terrific idea that would spur a lot of fence-sitting pot...
Spam War Knocks Out Blogs
An Israeli antispam company said Thursday that a junk e-mailer's vendetta is behind attacks this week that took down its site, five hosting providers and one of the internet's largest blog networks. ...
Microsoft pictures a 10-gigapixel photo
Forget megapixels, where the resolution of digital images is counted in millions of pixels. Michael Cohen, a scientist at Microsoft Research, is trying to create a photo this summer that will contain...
Cingular Vs AT&T: The Name Game
The changing pieces on the great telecom chess board has brought the grand old name, AT&T, into the lime light again. SBC, which had acquired AT&T quickly renamed itself AT&T. Now post BellSouth merg...