Vonage Moves to Reassure Nervous Investors
Vonage, tarred by a disastrous initial public offering last week, is scrambling to reassure investors. The company, which provides Internet phone service, said yesterday that it would reimburse the b...
The DVD War Against Consumers
Makers of new DVD players are going too far in copyright protection efforts, but buyers needn't take it lying down — Having grown tired of one war, we're on the eve of another, complete with allianc...
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CLOSE TO $4 BILLION FOR Q1 2006
New York, NY (May 30, 2006) - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the ...
Bill Gates kicks of the "D" conference
Updated 11:50 PM PST: Bill Gates held court at the D (all things Digital) conference at the Four Seasons in Carlsbad, Calif., touching on the usual topics (Vista, Office, Google, Xbox) during a Q&A wi...
SixApart To Launch Comet, Renamed Vox, on June 1
San Francisco based SixApart, which owns the Typepad, MovableType and LiveJournal blogging platforms, will start letting users test their new Vox (formerly Comet) hosted blogging platform on Thursday,...
Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote
Mozilla has reached the latest development milestone for its next-generation Firefox 2.0 "Bon Echo" browser with a little anti-phishing help from Google. — Anti-phishing capability, which Mozilla ha...
Redmond Derby: Microsoft Meets NASCAR
Security experts have long compared the process of securing and safely using a Microsoft Windows PC to that of maintaining an automobile. Most people depend so much upon their cars — and their comput...
Weekend with the Q1
The Q1 and the Slingbox arrived on Thursday, just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend. I had taken Friday off because we were going to the beach, so I had a really long weekend ahead. I got mo...
Next-generation Wi-Fi tech to deliver IPTV
Next-generation Wi-Fi could soon be used to deliver IPTV throughout the home. — Airgo Networks, which makes Wi-Fi chips, announced Tuesday that Caton Overseas and STMicroelectronics will use its lat...
Flickr to Get Contextual Nikon Banner Ads
Nikon has struck a deal with Flickr to place Nikon branding on the site, including small logos next to photos that were taken with their cameras. In addition, there will be branding on the login page...
Searching for the Google of cell phones
Can startups like 4Info and Promptu challenge the Web search giants in the mobile market? — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - On the Web, Google may have search all wrapped up. But search on ...
Strap Up and Jump Like Mario
NEW YORK — Mario can jump four times his height, and soon so could you. — The Nintendo Amusement Park is a project by three New York University students who want to create a life-size obstacle cours...
Rated M games in Japan
CERO recently announced that they changed their rating system, which ended up looking similar to the ESRB's scale. Now there are two distinct ratings for "M" type games. A game gets a "D" rating if ...
blog production/consumption musings
I'm not very good at reading blogs. Let me clarify... i'm not particularly good at reading blogs that are good for me. I check in on Brangelina is the new pink gossip daily, consume cute imagery unt...
Always Connected with P525 Quad-Band PDA Phone
Convenient Mobile Business Solution with Push E-Mail, Wi-Fi VoIP and Built-in Keypad — Taipei, Taiwan; May 29th, 2006 - ASUSTeK Computer Inc. today introduced the P525 quad-band PDA phone, which inc...