Google Is A Tourist In D.C., Brin Finds
Dressed in blue jeans, silver mesh sneakers and a black T-shirt and jacket, Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin came to Washington yesterday to lobby members of Congress and found it was a little harde...
Google to add Albums to Picasa! And I Need to Vent
Google-love is getting out of hand. In fact, Google is getting out of hand. — After I wrote about the launch of Google Spreadsheets this morning, one commenter said "Its very nice and sleak. Will ...
What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood
BETWEEN "The Godfather" and "The Godfather: Part II," Francis Ford Coppola made a movie called "The Conversation." It stars Gene Hackman as a paranoid wiretapper in Watergate-era San Francisco, and t...
Google Spreadsheets: Very Basic, Pretty Interesting
Google Spreadsheets is, indeed live—but not yet, alas, open to all comers. Try to get in for the first time, and it'll let you get in a first-come-first-served queue; I did, and got in, and found tha...
Google: Don't Not Be Evil
Google's mantra is "Don't be evil," which as corporate mottoes go is the equivalent of "Build an eternal bonfire in the parking lot and fuel it with thousand-dollar bills and the occasional Gutenberg ...
Blind inventor makes web accessible
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website — A new device that will make internet content available to blind people without the need for computer skills is to be launched in a few months' time...
Why Getting the User To Create Web Content Isn't Always Progress
At first, it seemed like the sort of silly, self-serving thing that many companies are wont to say about their products. Only later did I realize it represented the opening of another front in the ba...
Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?
As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: Which one can better save planet Earth? — Being portals and search engines, the companies ar...
The Consumer Council of Norway is on track to win case against iTunes
The Consumer Council of Norway won support for almost all its complaints regarding iTunes Music Store. This is a great victory for the digital rights of Norwegian consumers. — On 25th January, the ...
TOPIX.NET FOR SALE
On Saturday, Steve Rubell outed our Classified System, which we've been quietly baking on our local news pages for about a month. While we still think it's a bit premature to crow about this, given t...
Major League Baseball takes swing at Sling Media
LOS ANGELES—Major League Baseball wants Sling Media to stop slinging around the league's content. — Sling enables TV viewers to access their set-top or TiVo boxes from anywhere in the world via any ...
UK grows i-mode fastest outside Japan
O2 claims i-mode raps WAP — HAVING ACQUIRED some 0.25 million subscribers in just seven months, O2 claims its UK service is the fastest growing i-mode service outside Japan. — It also claims that ...
Apple dumps more countersue-age on Creative
If you enjoy legal dramas, it must have been tough the past couple weeks now that sweeps are over and network programming is on hiatus. Lucky for you, Apple has really stepped up to the plate recentl...
Spreadsheets are remarkably flexible things.
Microsoft Names Jeff Bell Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business
Award-winning marketer brings unique mix of consumer experience and innovation to Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 6, 2006 …