Microsoft Introduces New Version of Windows Live Local
New capabilities include real-time traffic reporting, new ways to collect and share search results, tight integration with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger, and geographic expansion...
Should the Net Be Neutral?
The "net neutrality" debate has reached a fever pitch as Congress mulls legislation that would allow Internet service providers to charge Web sites for preferred delivery of digital content. — Net n...
Morpheus makers file suit against eBay
StreamCast Networks, the creators of the Morpheus file-sharing software, is alleging in a lawsuit that auction house eBay is profiting from peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to it. — S...
Imagining a day without Microsoft
If the company we love to hate disappeared tomorrow, we'd be in for still more headaches — Did you ever hear the warning, "be careful what you wish for, it might come true?" Well, because Microsoft...
Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runners
Nike and Apple announced a partnership targeting runners and iPod users. Tune your run is a way to use the iPod to track data captured in the soles of new Nike running shoes. … Nike+ compatible runni...
Spam filter gobbles up phone bid for Cobb schools
There it was in the e-mail spam filter, along with offers to invigorate both your bank account and your sex life: an offer to save the Cobb County schools $250,000. But this message was for real. — ...
Plaxo gets hip to VoIP
Plaxo, the company that drove some people nuts with e-mail invitations to its service, is getting on the voice over Internet Protocol bandwagon. — On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif., company unve...
Seattle anti-DRM flashmob
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World's most expensive mobile number is 666 6666
The world's most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar. — The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m. — The previous record holder was Chinese number 8...
Doom 3 Like You've Never Seen
Plummeting prices and advances in motherboard technologies are making dual-card graphics a must-have for serious gamers. — Two competing technologies, ATI Technologies' CrossFire platform and Nvidia...
Politicos ponder patent system changes
WASHINGTON—In the wake of high-profile lawsuits involving BlackBerry and eBay, Congress is once again talking about fixing what the technology industry says is a thoroughly broken patent system. — W...
The Future of Music?
Ars profiles eMusic, the world's number 2 online music retailer. And they don't use digital rights management, choosing instead to sell their songs in unprotected MP3 format. Yes, you read that righ...
Would you pay $100 for this laptop?
MIT unveiled the first working prototype of its $100 laptop today at something called the Seven Countries Taskforce Meeting, which is apparently a subset of the G8. 10-4. — Anyway, Photos of the mi...
Web inventor warns of 'dark' net
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh — The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. — Recen...
Microsoft Says New Windows Is on Schedule
Microsoft said yesterday that Vista, the much-delayed new version of its Windows operating system, was ready for its last and broadest round of testing. — Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, announced...
Google AdWords Experiments With New Ad Layout at Google.com
A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting Sporadic Reports of Google Testing New Ad Layout. The new ad layout shows two ads at the top, and then four ads on the bottom, but none on the right hand panel.
Khosla Ventures Sponsors Carnival of the Mobilists
I'm really happy to announce that Khosla Ventures have agreed to sponsor the Carnival of the Mobilists from June 2006 until the end of the year, which will help us extend our presence and profile in t...
Windows Vista Beta 2: The key word is 'Beta'
Trials and tribulations with an operating system under development — On the right side of Vista's home screen is the new Windows Sidebar - with little applets the user can choose. — Gary Krakow —...