eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout
eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to it...
Microsoft Falls Back Again: Announces ODF Plugin Project
In the latest in a series of concessions to the rising popularity of ODF, Microsoft announced yesterday that it has quietly been supporting the development of its own set of plugins to enable conversi...
Watchdog to vet internet content
Ben Doherty, Canberra, and Daniel Ziffer — ALL local internet content will come under Federal Government supervision after the Communications Minister revealed her response to the Big Brother sexual...
What was Podshow Thinking Hijacking my RSS Feed!
First things First, if you have a Podcast that is listed on Podshow then you going to need to hope that people that visit that site dig around pretty deep to find a link to your home page, as it is bu...
Sony ad casues white riot
A new billboard advert for Sony's white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a bla...
Make way for the terabyte laptop drive
New technology from Seagate could increase disk capacity 10 times — July 05, 2006 (TechWorld.com) — Seagate Technology Inc. plans to increase disk capacity by 10 times with new technology it has jus...
Microsoft planning WiFi-enabled portable media player, working on MVNO for next year
Ok, by now it's more or less an open secret that Microsoft is going to shift away from its current model and go straight after the iPod with a portable media player of its own, but we've landed …
For the Record
I am disheartened by Andrew Baron's decision to spread misinformation. He knows I cannot move to LA without a job...but insists on spinning things this way to shore up his assertion that I am "walkin...
Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability
Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents. — REDMOND, Wash. — July 5, 2006 — Expanding on its cu...
Looking to Take On Apple's iPod, Microsoft Plans Its Own Hand-Held Player
Microsoft has been developing its own hand-held music and video player to challenge Apple Computer's iPod and expects to have it in stores in time for the holiday season, entertainment industry execut...
To Google or Not to Google
It's official: Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) really is a verb now. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which bills itself as "The definitive record of the English language," added the company name as a verb...
AOL may offer free high-speed Internet
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc.'s <TWX.N> AOL unit may offer its full menu of services, including e-mail, free of charge to anyone with a high-speed Internet connection, The Wall Street Journal ...
After Delays, Wireless Web Comes to Parks
By the end of August, wireless networks will be established at 18 locations in 10 of New York City's most prominent parks — including Central, Prospect and Riverside Parks — in a major citywide expans...
Motorola and Intel to Invest in Clearwire
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5 — The investment units of Intel and Motorola said Wednesday that together they would invest $900 million in Clearwire, a wireless Internet service provider, in hopes of speeding ...
Free, Legal and Ignored
Colleges Offer Music Downloads, — But Their Students Just Say No; — Too Many Strings Attached — As a student at Cornell University, Angelo Petrigh had access to free online music via a legal mus...
Consultant Breached FBI's Computers
Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided Break-Ins — A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified comp...
`Leopard' puts its prey on the spot
APPLE TAUNTS MICROSOFT WITH FASTER OS LAUNCHES — In 2004, when Apple Computer showed off its latest ``cat,'' Tiger, it couldn't help but taunt Microsoft. — The Redmond, Wash., software giant was w...