DIGITAL MAOISM:
The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism — An Edge Original Essay — In "Digital Maosim", an original essay written for Edge, computer scientist and digital visionary Jaron Lanier finds fault wit...
Technology and Easy Credit Give Identity Thieves an Edge
PHOENIX — In a Scottsdale police station last December, a 23-year-old methamphetamine user showed officers a new way to steal identities. — His arrest had been unremarkable. This metropolitan area,...
Social Networks are the New Media
No one can argue that MySpace has been the "it girl" for the past year. And the fact that she belongs to Rupert Murdoch only seems to have heightened the envy, and gotten everyone's knickers in a twi...
Earn Cellphone Minutes by Watching Ads
With the cost of mobile phone calls already dropping sharply, Virgin Mobile USA plans to announce a way that people can talk for no money at all. They will, however, have to pay with a chunk of their...
Cell Carriers Seek Growth by Catering to Hispanics
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 — Now that nearly three out of four people in this country have mobile phone service, cellphone companies are chasing new customers by marketing to ever more specific slices of t...
Sir, I'm afraid it's 'ringxiety'
IT IS a familiar and unnerving sensation: the false belief that you can hear your mobile phone ringing or vibrating. — Now the phenomenon is so widespread it has an official name: "ringxiety". — P...
A Concept Misunderstood by Wall Street: "Voice" and "TV" as an Application
When Vonage had the courage to launch their consumer voice over broadband service in March, 2002, they did so at a time when everyone else was on the sidelines just watching and waiting.
Old media to embrace internet upstarts
High-level media and advertising executives are to meet for a brainstorming session aimed at capitalising on the surging popularity of social networking websites. — McKinsey, the management consulta...
Catch all the action on FIFAworldcup.com
The Official Site of the FIFA World Cup™ is packed with fresh new features to give you the best and most extensive coverage ever of the biggest sporting event on the planet. Check it out for yourself...
AMD to invest $2.5 billion in German factories
Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 maker of microchips for personal computers, said on Monday it will spend an additional $2.5 billion to upgrade and expand its two factories in Germany. — The invest...
Alas, Second Life! Web 2.0 in a virtual world
Second Life has been my new hacking obsession ever since I bought a laptop fast enough to run it. I don't spend a lot of time socialising in the gameworld, but I am fascinated by the possibilities fo...
What's Missing in Web 2.0?
Web applications replacing the desktop? Here are two problems we need to solve before that can happen. — I'm sitting in the New York Café in Budapest, Hungary. It recently got redone after being i...
SteriPEN Water Purifier
A few moments ago, I wasn't too worried about my water. Then I read about the SteriPEN, a device for travellers that claims to use UV light to clean driniking water of "bacteria, viruses and protozoa...
What's your community model?
I didn't think that I'd come to resent the question "What's your business model?" as much as Andy does, but I have. While a relevant question with the appropriate disclosure of intent (i.e. "How will...
Music Phones Want to Be Free
For years, people have been speculating about the two possible futures of portable devices. Are they going to continue to be somewhat specialized, or will we end up with one device that does everythi...
Pay Bills With a Click? More Americans Are Doing It and Banks Are Loving It
FROM the annals of Online Economics 101 comes this shocker: free is good, especially when it comes to paying bills. — Big billers like Verizon Wireless and ConEd learned this bit of wisdom years ago...
Project #2: Fixing AOL Search (or "we need to love our users a little more"
Update: Jim talks about my approach to solving problems and I respond. — As everyone knows I like to point out all the good things we're doing at AOL on my blog as often as I can. Most folks compla...
Sharp's MP-B300: where thin and ugly meet
This 8.9-millimeter thin Sharp-made eyesore goes by the name MP-B300. It ekes-out up to 1GB of on-board memory with the possibility for more via miniSD expansion. Yeah, the included FM-transmitter i...