Dell's World Isn't What It Used to Be
Dell is sharply reducing prices on its computers. — The tactic is classic, straight out of the playbook that made the company the world's largest computer maker. As overall demand for personal comp...
BBC starts to rock online world
The BBC has staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties. — The rented island exists in online game Second Life and wil...
Scan This Book!
In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the u...
Blogging vs Traditional Media - This time its personal
A blog is media. Its a platform to communicate that can reach anyone within reach of an internet connection. Ive been writing this blog for more than 2 years and that time has allowed me to recogniz...
Coming Soon: In-Flight VoIP Calling
An FCC frequency auction under way this week will likely pave the way for VoIP calls in-flight. — TechWeb.com — Like it or not, airline passengers in U.S. skies are likely to be listening to their...
TechCrunch Goes Green
Mike Arrington's well-read TechCrunch blog has a new look, as he announces on one of his other blogs, CrunchNotes. Many of the commenters there aren't so sure about the heavy use of the color green, ...
Microsoft Statement on Agreement to Extend Part of Consent Decree Related to Protocol Licensing Program
Microsoft voluntarily agrees to continue licensing and documenting desktop communications protocols for Microsoft Windows. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 12, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. issued …
Back Up Your Blog
BackupMyBlog is a new service (in public beta) that will automatically back up blogs daily (I love the heavy use of green in the design). This is a much needed tool. Wordpress, which is what we use ...
LAPD starts a blog
It's true, the LA Police Department have started their first blog. (Found via Ed Cone on eWeek.) They say they aim to have all 19 precincts blogging soon. Typepad, moderated comments, using Feedbur...
CONTEST: DESING THE NEW STUDENT TABLET PC HEADER
You may have picked up from a past post that we're planning on making a big move from MovableType to WordPress. You may also remember our move from TypePad to MovableType wasn't exactly seamless ^_^....
Yahoo CEO laments not buying Google
In the annals of missed opportunities by tech CEOs, Yahoo Chief Terry Semel has a doozy. — In a talk with The New Yorker writer Ken Auletta as part of a Newhouse School lecture series, Semel was ask...
The Net's not-so-secret economy of crime
The people who want to rip you off are very polite with each other when they're buying and selling credit card numbers. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Raze Software offers a product called CC2Bank 1.3, avai...
Gannett Buys Planet Discover; Kicks up Local Search
U.S. newspapers have largely maintained the artificial line that separates their classifieds from Yellow Pages. And vice versa. — There have been a couple of minor Yellow Pages acquisitions over ti...
BZ Research on Java EE Market Share Data
I'm currently working on a very in-depth report on JBoss. I needed some updated statistics on market penetration, so I asked BZ Research for their latest numbers from their December 2005 survey of 60...
Apple said to be working with Softbank on "co-branded" handset
Japanese news agency Nikkei is reporting that Apple and new Vodafone Japan owner Softbank are working together to develop cellphones capable of downloading and playing music from the iTunes store.
All Users Are Not Created Equal
Brad Feld called Josh Kopelman's recent blog entry, 53,651, "a perfect post." I completely agree with Josh's fundamental premise - that there is a strong disconnect between new Web 2.0 companies clai...