First Amendment Applies to Internet, Appeals Court Rules
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 — A California appeals court ruled Friday that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists, striking a blow to efforts by...
Can anyone own "Web 2.0?"
O'Reilly Media have taken a ton of criticism for attempting to enforce a service mark against a nonprofit group in Ireland that wanted to have "Web 2.0" conference. O'Reilly exec Dale Dougherty coine...
Going to Google
The cat's out of the bag. I made the announcement here in New Zealand at Webstock, so I'll confirm that, yes, the rumors are not just rumors. After a bit of negotiation and a lot of internal debate,...
TALKS COOL BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND EBAY
May 26, 2006 — For several weeks Microsoft has been in discussions about a possible acquisition of online auctioneer eBay, The Post has learned. — According to multiple sources close to the matter, ...
EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future. — A European Parliament wor...
Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future
This week, our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future", from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all here. Which ones are your favorites? — 10. Citiz...
A Cure for the Summertime Blues
First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montg...
Announcing IE7+
With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, I want to announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista "Internet Explorer 7+". While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code ...
Bungie Weekly Update
E3 brought up a lot of confusion about Halo 2 for Windows Vista, which is hardly surprising. We'd been working on fixed platforms (Xbox, Xbox 360) for so long, that we'd almost forgotten the vagaries...
Video ads: Your questions answered
A couple of days ago, we launched click-to-play video ads. We thought we'd follow up with answers to some of your top questions: … Google will host the video, and it is user-initiated, so it will not...
Serendipity casts a very wide net
It is no accident that technology commentator Bill Thompson believes that the web does a lot to promote chance discovery — One of those rumbling arguments that betrays a deeper discontent is going o...
Feds cut off phone tax after 108 years
A pesky, century-old tax on your phone bill is finally being put to rest. — The Treasury Department said Thursday that it will no longer collect a 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls and wo...
Apple developing new Mac for education
Exclusive: Apple Computer is working feverishly on the design of a new Macintosh computer that the company hopes will strengthen its position in the education sector when it goes on sale later this ye...
First impressions of Picasa - Google's first rate Graphics suite for Linux
Today, Google did something which would gladden the hearts of thousands of GNU/Linux users - well atleast those who are not as rigid in outlook about GPL any way. That is they finally released a vers...
XM Pulls FM-Enabled Radios from Kiosks & Online Store
Earlier today word came in that XM has stopped selling certain radio from their kiosks and from their online store. As further investigation showed that only satellite radio receivers with an FM-Modu...
TabletKiosk eo Battery Fix
Here is an email from Martin at TabletKiosk. Thanks, Martin, for keeping the heat on Amtek for us!! — Hello John, — We will be sending out a notification later today to all recipients of the init...
Gmail to get prices
In my latest source code inspection, I found more snippets code that foreshadow upcoming features in Gmail. As far as I know, these features aren't available in the current version — I couldn't repro...
Why There Are No Indie Video Games
And why that's bad for gamers. — Don't believe all those recent articles about how video game manufacturers are headed to the poor house. The global market share for video games should surpass $40 ...