MySpace outlines European expansion
MySpace, the social networking site, is to use the UK as a beachhead for a push into Europe that will see it link up with "old media" companies and mobile phone operators to attract more users. — Ch...
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed
The news industry, congenitally nervous about its future, looks at the Web this spring and sees cause for panic. — Advertisers are rushing to the Internet. Readers, even of the best newspapers and ...
Researchers Say New Chip Breaks Speed Record
Researchers at I.B.M. and the Georgia Institute of Technology are set to announce today that they have broken the speed record for silicon-based chips with a semiconductor that operates 250 times fast...
Microsoft to embed Live services in Windows
BOSTON—Microsoft's Live-branded online services don't end at the Web browser. They extend deep into Windows. — The company last week quietly showed off software for embedding its Web-based Windows ...
T-Mobile Sidekick 3 Cell Phone Officially Launched
According to Engadget, Tri-band Sidekick 3 is officially launched today by T-Mobile and Danger but we can't find any link on the official release. No matter, millions of people are waiting for the fi...
Yahoo Messenger gets plug-ins
Yahoo introduced on Monday a beta of its Yahoo Messenger with Voice chat application that includes free plug-ins designed to let people to do things like track eBay auctions, see friends' wish lists o...
'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation?
Consumers now have the ability to buy digital versions of music and movies from a vast (and growing) online catalog. But that convenience has come at a price: Most of the digital content is packaged ...
User-generated content vs. reader-created context
For an internal IDG newsletter I was asked to pick the industry buzzword that most annoys me and write a brief essay explaining why. I chose user-generated content and wrote the following: … It's not...
Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday
Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will announce on Thursday a large round of layoffs in a bid to cut about one-half billion dollars in annual costs as it transforms itself into a broad based computer software a...
Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie: chant of change at Microsoft
The appointment marks the emergence of a ferocious technology intellect, writes Richard Waters in San Francisco — MICROSOFT has a new brain. Ray Ozzie, a white-haired Chicago native with a courtly ...
A Coming Attraction: Movies on iTunes
Consumers have been willing to spend 99 cents to buy Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" or $1.99 for an episode of "Desperate Housewives" from iTunes. — Now Steven P. Jobs is betting they will also pay $9.9...
MOG: social networking around music
Nearly 4000 photos of stick figures in peril in this Flickr pool. Link — MOG: social networking around music — Tomorrow, my friend David Hyman will launch MOG, a free social networking service th...
Mac Attack
Apple's mean-spirited new ad campaign. … (Click here to see the ads.) — When I write about ads, I often face an obstacle: I'm not in the target demographic. Am I really in a position to judge wheth...
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My History of Slate
The founding editor looks back at our first 10 years. — In August 1995, I made a secret trip to Seattle to talk with Microsoft about starting an online magazine (whatever that might be). On the pla...
'Nokia Open' phone is nice, unrealistic idea
We love fun, implausible concept designs as much as the next guy, but this one in particular seems kind of far-fetched. The "Nokia Open" is/would be a cell phone that opens like a fan with a "scrolla...
Perspective: Microsoft's forgotten monopoly
The story of how Microsoft used its monopoly in operating systems to acquire a dominant position in office applications and browsers has often been told. But there's another Microsoft monopoly that's...