Google finally puts Picasa albums on the Web
Google launched a new beta of Picasa on Tuesday [news story]. Its biggest new feature is the capability to post pictures directly from the application to a Google-hosted Web album. It's about time. ...
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power
Google is building two computing centers, top and left, each the size of a football field, in The Dalles, Ore — THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is wor...
Scoble The Exit Interview
Microsoft tech evangelist and alpha blogger Robert Scoble talks about everything from his tensest moments at Microsoft, to what Microsoft could have done to keep him, as he prepares to leave the Redmo...
MusicGremlin launches the Gremlin MG-1000 WiFi DAP
It's a little weird that it's 2006 and we're only now seeing a major launch of a WiFi-enabled, service-driven digital audio player, but we've got to start somewhere. Say hello to MusicGremlin's Greml...
Non-scents from Nokia
For six months, 25 Industrial Design MA students from London's CSM College of Art and Design have been working to create concepts for a premium but mass market mobile device capable of providing 4G or...
Google Is Killing the Economics of Content
When Seth Jayson at Motley Fool suggested the other day that Google's AdSense is killing the internet by driving the creation of sites that exist solely to squeeze money from AdSense, many people scof...
Thunderbird VoIP
Well, I can really say that Abbeynet Labs is releasing one "toy" after the other! — Following the great success of Firefox VoIP, Abbeynet Labs released today Thunderbird VoIP. — The user experienc...
Flickr Cracks Down on Screenshots
Online worlds collide as Second Life fans and Flickr spar over how to handle screenshots on the popular photo-sharing site. — At stake is a little-known Flickr policy of flagging accounts that conta...
Microsoft Hardware Advances Digital Communications Experiences
First webcams from Microsoft make seeing, hearing and sharing a breeze. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 13, 2006 — Seeing your grandchild's first steps from miles away. Hearing your friend's laugh from acr...
Teens turn away from e-mail
SITES LIKE MYSPACE OFFERING `INSTANT' SOCIAL SCENE, FAST MESSAGING ATTRACT YOUNG USERS, STUDY SHOWS — When she gets home from school, 14-year-old Jennica Paho of San Jose switches on the computer an...
Thecus shows five-drive NAS box
Computex 2006 N5200 supplants N4100 — THECUS BROKE COVER on its newest NAS product at Computex, the N5200 NAS box. I looked at the previous N4100 a while ago, and liked it a lot, with a few minor c...