On a Russian Site, Cheap Songs With a Backbeat of Illegality
PARIS, June 2 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, but with a catch. The site may well be illegal.
Google to Release Web-Based Spreadsheet
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 — Google plans to make available on Tuesday morning a test version of a Web-based spreadsheet program that is intended to make it simple to edit and share lists and numeric infor...
Sony Alpha 100
Sony Alpha 100 : Since Sony and Konica Minolta announced that Konica Minolta consigned their camera service operations for Konica Minolta, Konica Minolta brand cameras and related equipment to Sony, t...
Sony Bundles PS2 With PS3
Report from Japan suggests that a mini PS2 will be included in every PS3. — June 5, 2006 - A surprising report has emerged from Japan's Ultra One monthly technology magazine. The magazine's July is...
The Future of Personalized Start Pages
Personalized Start Pages is a growing, but fiercely competitive, market. So what are they? Predominantly they're homepages for Web information, gadgets and widgets. The difference from old-style we...
Limited Appeal? Sell Songs Online
Record companies often issue collections of the B-sides and soundtrack contributions of popular acts; Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, is once again faced with a band whose regul...
Apple software logs out of India
BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has decided to call it quits in India. Apple, known for its popular iPods, is pulling out its software development and support operati...
Earth to Google PR
A Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API. I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs. P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to t...
Investors sue Vonage over IPO
Internet phone provider Vonage is being sued in a class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders who bought stock in the company prior to its initial public offering. — The suit filed on Friday in t...
PS3 hardware slow and broken
In words and pictures — AFTER BREAKING THE news to me about PS3 RSX speeds earlier on the flight to Japan, my row-mate said 'if you think that's interesting, wait till you see this. Cell is hurting...
Acme Packet, Another VoIPO
With all the attention focused on the Vonage's initial public offering, it just might be the beginning of a steady and long line of VoIPOs (aka Voice over IP public offerings.) Acme Packet, a Burling...
Looking for a couple Firefox users to test out an ink plug-in
The ink plug-in for Firefox is inching along. There's a test page online now (located here—Firefox REQUIRED), that I've been using to check out some of the plug-ins' features. — If you have Firefox...
The Video Game Goes Minimalist: Nintendo Comes Full Circle
SOME new media, like the Internet and cellphones, begin life in a niche, as curiosities even, before becoming everyday elements of mainstream culture. Others evolve in the opposite direction. — Thi...
The End of Telecom; The Emergence of Utilicom
For as long as I have been involved in VoIP (1994), I have been one of the guilty souls who have declared from the highest mountain top that Telecom was coming to an end due to the latest flavor of di...