The BBC's latest star - a baffled cabbie
A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC's 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver - in the mistaken belief it was him. — Guy Kewney - a white, bearded technology expe...
Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada
We just announced that SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and mobiles, until at least the end of 2006. — How does this work? — If you're in the US or Canada, you can us...
Outside the 53,651 bubble
I've been thinking about the 53,651 people who read TechCrunch. What, you missed that whole meme that passed through the tech blogs this past week? — Rick Segal wrote about the meme and said it's t...
High-Definition Video Could Choke Internet
NEW YORK - Every day, it seems, a new service pops up offering to send you video over the Internet. "Desperate Housewives," Stephen Colbert heckling the president, clips of bad dancers at wedding par...
The phone of the future: wired to run your life
ESPOO, Finland — Harry Santamäki vows to take a sip of cod liver oil from the bottle on his desk if he ever utters the word phone. — That's odd, considering Santamäki works at Nokia, the largest mob...
Yahoo! Answers: 10 million strong and growing
At around 5:30 am on Sunday, May 7th, almost precisely five months since we launched, a user posted the 10 millionth answer on the service. This is a big day for us, and we've decided to celebrate by...
Amex Digital MPC-505 worlds 1st Blu-Ray HTPC A/V Center Computer
From Hong Kong based Amex Digital comes the MPC-505 which is the world first Blu-Ray Home Theatre PC A/V Center computer. The MPC-505 is Intel Viiv enabled which further enhances your multimedia expe...
Me, Me, Me
The personalized newspaper was dreamed up two decades ago. We're getting closer and closer. — The Web has made accessing far-flung news outlets, from tiny local papers to major foreign presses and ...
At an Industry Media Lab, Close Views of Multitasking
LOS ANGELES, May 14 — In a sleek media lab hidden in a Los Angeles high-rise, some of the country's biggest media companies and their prominent clients are seeking to understand the state of the divid...
Snap.com Blurs Lines Between Ads, Content
Snap.com Blurs the Lines Between Advertising and Listings Retrieved by Objective Formulas — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Internet search engine Snap.com is hoping to expand its sparse audience by making Web...
Palm Treo 700p announced
Yep, we were expecting it any day now (well, today actually) — now here it is. Looks like Sprint was definitely more the leaky ship on Palm Treo 700p's impending launch, being that we only caught win...
Long Tail evidence from Safari and Google Book Search
Last fall, I came to the defense of Google against lawsuits by the Author's Guild and Association of American Publishers, arguing that Google Book Search would help readers to rediscover works that we...
Section 115 Amendment
Tomorrow the U.S. House of Representatives IP subcommittee will hold a hearing on a draft bill to amend Section 115. Here is a short sectional analysis and here is the draft bill. Kudos to chair Lam...
PR done badly
It's amazing how many product pitches I've received in the past few days. Even in phone calls. Do they not read my blog? Do they have no clue what's happened in my life in the past five days? — A...
AllofMP3 Down - For Good?
The extremely popular, quasi-legal AllofMP3 site went down over the weekend and is not yet back up. The site currently says "We are sorry but the server is closed for maintainance." — We've written...
You Always Bet the Company
Fred Wilson blogged about "betting the company." Great post but, I think, he was only two-thirds right. — "...in a venture stage business," says Fred, "you should be betting the company every day."...