Microsoft preps IE 7 Beta 3 for August
After years of letting Internet Explorer 6 languish with no new development, prompting criticism from both outside and inside the company, Microsoft promised that they would shift their priorities and...
Microsoft to Drop PDF Support in Office
Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the product...
MySpace No Longer Their Space?
BRANDS, for teenagers, are fleeting things. — For big, slow-moving corporations, this presents a problem. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired the community site MySpace nearly a year ag...
DOJ, Net firms fail to agree on data retention
A meeting at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday to discuss forcing Internet providers to record Americans' online activities ended without reaching an agreement, according to multiple participants....
Alan Kotok, 64, a Pioneer in Computer Video Games, Is Dead
Alan Kotok, a computer designer who helped create the first video game program as a member of a small group of M.I.T. students in the early 1960's, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on May 26. He...
Joe Volpe strongarms the Internet and erodes freedom of speech in Canada
Yesterday, a Joe Volpe parody site went up called YouthForVolpe.ca which lampooned the Liberal leadership candidate's drug money (ahem pharmaceutical donations) from children of Apotex execs.
Is Vonage Sinking or Coming Up for Air?
When the Internet telephone provider Vonage went public last week, it was meant to be a coming-out party for a technology that many see as the future of voice communications. It was also a chance at ...
Dotster named in massive cybersquatting suit
update A new federal lawsuit charges that Dotster, one of the largest domain name registrars, has unlawfully participated in a massive cybersquatting campaign targeting companies such as Cingular Wire...
Like Its Logo, Dutch Bank Stays Simple
While many Americans are familiar with the cheery orange ball that is the corporate logo of ING Direct, the Internet-based savings bank, few may know much about the bank's parent company, the ING Grou...
Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress
Tim Ziegler builds websites in Texas with d2p. He wants to fabricate a giant bicycle-powered gyroscope. He hopes he's around when the robots all break free. — Over the last few years, WordPress ha...
Sony not so concerned with market share — ah, that explains it
ah, that explains it — We've been scratching our heads over all the wild Sony moves during the past few months — with pricing themselves almost out of the game right at the top of our list — but we'd...
BellSouth Says It's Not Blocking MySpace
BellSouth customers filled the Technorati blog Thursday and Friday, complaining that they had not been able to access YouTube, which stores and plays back user-generated videos, and MySpace, a social ...
When the bough breaks
I've long been an advocate of Free Software. I've been a card-carrying associate member of the Free Software Foundation since 2002. I've been writing GPL software since 1993. The Mac is a thread wo...
How to get traffic for your blog
My friend Fred, a talented blogger, asked me for advice the other day. Here's a partial answer, with a few apologies to Swift: — Use lists. — Be topical... write posts that need to be read right no...
Comcast upgrade speeds up downloads
Aiming to keep its broadband customers happy without lowering prices, Comcast Corp. is introducing a technology that temporarily doubles users' download speeds. — New England is the first region in ...