Leo Hindery's death sentence for the portals
Leo Hindery's Washington Insider Keynote at the Convergence 2.0 conference barely touched on Washington at all, but was filled with plenty of bold statements. Hindery, managing partner at Intermedia ...
Arthur O. Suzlberger, Jr: The New York Times Company has the 'dough' online
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman, The New York Times Company and Publisher, The New York Times, is confident in the economic potential of interactive media, particularly for The New York Times Comp...
Hands off the Internet
There's a movement in Congress to make telephone and cable companies treat all the traffic on their high-speed networks the same. That is, charge all content providers the same price. This goes by t...
Put the Pedal to the Metal: Take the 2007 Microsoft Office System Out for a Spin
More than 2.5 million people already using the Beta 2 release. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 26, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a "try it before you buy it" program allowing people to take an onli...
Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option
For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making purchases online. This week, consumers could get access to anothe...
Jellyfish's Liquid E-Commerce Market
It's nothing new. — I get this comment all the time when I'm trying to describe what I think is a (r)evolutionary change. It's human instinct to cleave to what we already know, to hope that we can ...
Dabble DB Raises Cash
Dabble DB, a Vancouver-based online database / hosted application creation company has raised around $2 million dollars in Series A venture funding from Ventures West, a Canadian VC fund. Paul Kedros...
Invention: Password-protected bullets
For more than 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, i...
Windows Live Spaces to Debut July 15
Microsoft said Friday that it was preparing to migrate its Spaces blogging service to its Windows Live brand, and with the change the company will add new features and tighter integration with other W...
Google and MySpace: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda!!
In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google... So that means Google could have acquired MySpace a year ago for about $290 million. Talk about a strategic blunder....
THE MYSPACE PROBLEM
When it comes to some of the web's most popular sites - is their success because of or in spite of 'ugly' design? — In his 2004 AIGA magazine piece It's Good to Be Bad, David Volgler observed a trou...
Pink DS Lite on the way
We all knew that the DS Lite would end up coming out in many different colors, but who knew it would be so soon! Japan can expect to see the release of a Pink DS Lite somewhere around July 20th accor...
AVATAR-BASED MARKETING: THE AVATAR-BASED PANEL (PART ONE OF FIVE)
A virtual island owned by Harvard, five panelists from California, the East Coast, Toronto, and London, an audience of advertisers, academics, and developers from points unknown, all gathered together...
Suit 2.0
Back in the nineties, Jason Calacanis was a Silicon Alley cowboy. Now, at AOL, he's in full corporate harness. Is that the only way for an entrepreneur to get to the top? — B — ack in the fall o...
EU poised to rule against Microsoft
The European Union's top antitrust regulator is poised to issue a formal ruling that finds Microsoft guilty of breaking EU competition rules. The ruling is likely to be accompanied by fines for the U...
Wordpress And Automattic: A Sinister Pair
Following the recent announcement of a Support Network from the commercial arm of Wordpress, Automattic, I've decide to co-brand the two companies: — On the face of things, for the Wordpress develop...
NBC to run TV promos on YouTube
NBC and YouTube are going from foes to friends. — The network is announcing a deal today that will see select clips of NBC series embedded on the popular viral-video site beginning this week, source...
mobiBLU US2 - The UltraSlim DAP
MobiBlu has a new flash-player in the works, the US2, which stands for "UltraSlim-2" (although there never was a US1, as far as we know). And slim it is: this thing is less then 1cm thick, putting it...
DVD or download?
Early adopters may think that movie downloads are cool but it's too soon to declare the death of the DVD. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — How are you going to watch movies at home in the future? — Are...