Advice and an Offer for Amanda Congdon
Update: Funny... someone DUGG this story. — Update2: Yes, going indie is also a great choice for Amanda. If she has the bank she could just hire a writer or two part time, as well as one or two tec...
Open source urged to remain European
The organizer behind the Open Source Business Conference has called on European enterprise open source companies to retain their roots and avoid the urge to relocate to the US. — "One of the things ...
Apple Introduces $899 Education Configuration for 17-inch iMac
NECC, SAN DIEGO-July 5, 2006-Apple® today introduced a new $899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac® designed specifically for education customers featuring a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, a built-...
Click fraud a huge problem
Study finds practice widespread; many cut back online ads — Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prom...
BSkyB May Offer Free Broadband to UK Customers
UK satellite broadcaster, BSkyB, will reveal the details of its long-term broadband internet strategy on July 18, said News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch, at a recent investors conference. — Many an...
Nintendo's Wii may get early launch
Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)...
Commentful Tracks Comments on Digg, YouTube, Blogs and More
Commentful is a new service that helps you track comments on Digg stories, YouTube videos, blog entries, MySpace pages and Flickr photos - in fact, virtually anywhere with a comments field. You just ...
Paris wants wireless Internet access across city
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris wants blanket wireless Internet cover by the end of 2007, helping to make it the most connected capital city in the world, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said on Tuesday. — Under a n...
Google says bill could spark antitrust fight
Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file antitrust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators. — Th...
Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God.
Press Release (in Japanese) [Marantz Japan via Fareastgizmos.com] — Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God. — READ MORE: BEDS, DECOR, GADGETS, MAGNETIC FLOATING BED, SCIENCE, DESIGN — Every so o...
Senate Scorecard: AT&T 1, Google 0
Telecom providers gained ground on June 28 when a Senate committee paved the way for them to freely set fees for delivering Net content. But they still must clear many hurdles on Capitol Hill before ...
Mission Statement
Let's ramp up the intelligence of politics — An open letter to the political blogosphere — For more than 50 years now, we have been living in the era of television politics. In the 1950s televisi...
Brisk sales of Apple MacBooks boost shipments for Asustek
Sales of Apple Computer's Intel Core Duo-based MacBook laptops have been stronger than expected, boosting monthly shipments of 13.3-inch MacBooks from Taiwan-based Asustek Computer to about 120,000 un...
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next
A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and ent...
Nintendo Gifts DS Lite to President Bush
Nintendo of America sent President Bush an early baby boomer gift pack today. The bag of presidential goodies includes a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. Bush turn...
Perspective: Congressional confusion on Internet privacy
When it comes to Internet privacy, Rep. Joe Barton embodies contradictions. — The Texas Republican, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, claims to be a steadfast supporter of online ...
Web perils advise switch to Macs
Security threats to PCs with Microsoft Windows have increased so much that computer users should consider using a Mac, says a leading security firm. — Sophos security said that the 10 most commonly ...
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score
Google has defended its right to rank web pages in any manner it likes in a groundbreaking court case over its search engine results. — The search giant is being sued in California by a parenting we...
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in Google
Google is vulnerable to cross site scripting. While surfing around the personalization section of Google I ran accross the RSS feed addition tool which is vulnerable to XSS. The employees at Google ...
Developer to raze Bell Labs Holmdel facility, birthplace of the cellphone
It's not very often that we here at Engadget adopt an issue and stand behind it; one of the only notable examples includes the Broadcast Flag, which in 2004 — very early on in its life — we made our f...
The Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps
Top ten lists are a dime a dozen, but I haven't seen one floating around yet on the most beautiful OS X apps out there. And as someone who's hitting MacUpdate daily as a small part of my job, always ...
WiMax firm raises $900 million
Clearwire, which hopes to install WiMax networks that will cover continents, announced Wednesday that it has received $900 million in financing from Intel and Motorola and will work with the two giant...
Google says bill could spark anti-trust complaints
SOFIA (Reuters) - Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. ...
Voice Activated Remote Control
I hope you'll all forgive me, as I'm about to go all "old fogey" on your for a moment. When I was a child, our television sets had these numbered knobs on them, which we used to manually change the t...
Microsoft Is Looking for More Elbow Room
In the midst of its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, the world's largest software company has suddenly found itself with a major setback: not enough room to grow. — Microsoft — in the midst of ...
YouTube challenger offers to pay for video
update A new video-sharing site is offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate, at a time when most video-sharing sites are just trying to eke out a profit. —...
Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes
Back in February, I posted an item on BoingBoing about the abundance of pirated tunes one can find by way of Chinese-language search engines Yahoo China and Baidu. Not news for anyone who's spent tim...
Munich Linux 'a reality'
The City of Munich has insisted it is on track with its massive Linux migration, in the face of claims in the German Senate that the project seemed to have failed before it ever got off the ground. —...
Download
1.0b1 - Tuesday, July 4, 2006 — Note: Backing up a copy of the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/ before using betas or alphas is probably a good idea. — Known issues — Larger downlo...
SOAP, REST and XML-RPC
Dave Winer on SOAP, REST and XML-RPC. … Dave believes that XML-RPC is easy compared to SOAP and REST. Let's examine the merits of each with concrete examples. Following is sample SOAP, REST and XML-...