My First BillG Review
In the olden days, Excel had a very awkward programming language without a name. "Excel Macros," we called it. It was a severely dysfunctional programming language without variables (you had to stor...
More cell phones than people
In 30 countries around the world, from Aruba to Italy to Hong Kong, mobile phone penetration has past 100 percent. Translation: the number of cell phone subscriptions has exceeded the size of the pop...
World's first 18x rewritable DVD
June 14, 2006 One of the most competitive areas of technology is the speed with which we write to optical storage media - five minutes saved writing a DVD is something we're all prepared to pay for. ...
Yahoo 'Strictest' Censor in China
Yahoo is stricter than any other search engine in China when enforcing censorship, said a journalism-advocacy group Thursday. — Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said their tests showed that Yah...
DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppers
A new kind of digital divide is emerging in the U.S. broadband market. — On one side are middle-income and price-sensitive households, which tend to favor DSL service offered by phone companies. On...
AdWords Ad Scheduling Officially Launches
Google AdWords officially launched their new ad scheduling, enabling advertisers the ability to schedule the appearance of their ads based on both time of day and day of the week. This new feature, w...
Cinevision 2006: 5000 x 2000 pixels create high-def for movie theaters
Berlin (Germany) - Three German companies yesterday demonstrated what could be considered the ultimate movie experience of the future: If you thought it just doesn't get better than a 1080p high-defin...
Linux Coming to Mobile Phones
A group of the world's mobile operators and handset makers said today they are joining together to develop an open-source Linux-based operating system that could to be used in phones by the end of 200...
Yahoo Hack Day Today
Yahoo has had a a couple of regional "Hack Days", which are day long events where engineers stop everything they are doing and just build stuff that they think is cool. The idea was first popularized...
A BUG'S LIFE
Is it still worth hunting bugs for a living - at the risk of being treated like an insect - for your break in the videogame industry? — "You are not playing games." While researching the life and t...
Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly
Online newspapers have often ignored search engines, or viewed them with mistrust, relying on the power of their brands to drive traffic. That attitude is changing dramatically at the New York Times,...
How to jam your neighbor's Wi-Fi legally
Have you ever get frustrated with your neighbor hogging all the Internet bandwidth on the block? Tired of your neighbor using his Wi-Fi gear on channel 1, 6, or 11 (that's all the possible choices) o...
CyberHome DVD Recorders Seized
San Jose, Calif. — A task force of local, state and federal agencies seized more than 20,000 CyberHome-brand DVD recorders that allegedly use Philips patents without a license. — CyberHome U.S.A. of...
ADSL Bonding - How To and Review
In the desire to increase my upstream speeds as much as possible I did some research into ADSL bonding or MLPPP (Multi Link Pont to Point Protocol). A handful of ISP's offer support for this (they te...
Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack Under Way
Microsoft June 15 confirmed that a new, undocumented flaw in its widely used Excel spreadsheet program was being used in an attack against an unnamed target. — The company's warning comes less than ...
Why the Future is in South Korea
Business 2.0 has an interesting article arguing that the future is in South Korea. There's so much food for thought in this article that I had trouble deciding whether to make one long entry about it...
Gnomedex Keynote: Senator John Edwards
Just when you thought Gnomedex couldn't get any better, Senator John Edwards signs on as our Keynote. The senator is a long-standing supporter of technology - including podcasting and blogging. Ever...