A Rift at the Video Blog Rocketboom Triggers a Cyberspace Soap Opera
Star Jones Reynolds and Dan Rather, meet Amanda Congdon. — The departure of Ms. Congdon, the popular host of the well-known video blog Rocketboom.com, is not exactly on a par with Ms. Reynolds's rif...
Digg versus New York Times Reality Check
Recently I've seen some posts that have hypothesized that Digg could be as big as the New York Times online, based on extrapolations from Digg's reported stats, which surely includes visitors wolrdwid...
New York to Examine Creating Citywide Broadband Network
Even as a contractor moves ahead with plans to install wireless networks in 10 parks, New York City intends to study whether to establish a citywide broadband network similar to those planned by citie...
Does Microsoft have an iPod up its sleeve?
SEATTLE — Microsoft kept mum Thursday about widely circulating reports that it is developing a would-be iPod killer timed to hit store shelves for the holiday shopping season. — But that didn't stop...
Business card best practices
I just organized my 1,011 business cards. I realized that is my most valuable asset from my career so far. The people I've met. The cards really don't matter much anymore in the age of Google, but ...
Go-ahead for hacker's extradition
A US request to extradite a British computer hacker accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" has been granted by Home Secretary John Reid. — Gary McKinnon, who is accused of breaking into ...
Google joins Xerox as a verb
Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently. — In fact, many regularly used tech words are just now getting the official stamp...
Microsoft to start evangelizing Vista to small ISVs
Microsoft Corp is beginning a soft roll-out of a new program to push small software vendors to build applications for Windows Vista. — Aiming at what Microsoft calls "MicroISVs," the program, called...
The Plot To Hijack Your Computer
They watch you surf the Web. They plague you with pop-up ads. Then they cripple your hard drive — Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your ...
"Switch to Ubuntu Linux" say two high profile Mac advocates
Apple has long positioned OS X as the operating system for getting the most out of your computer, and there is something to that claim. — If you want to spend more time enjoying your PC (and less ti...
BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One
HuffPo's "Eat The Press" has learned that Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated by Amanda Congdon earlier this week.
DO WE LOVE BLOGGERS? YES WE DO!
One of things that we hope Zooomr will become in the months ahead is the photo sharing site of choice for bloggers to host their images on. Since we're new though and need to get the word out we thou...
Copy protection hole in Blu-ray and HD DVD movies
The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures. For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them. Fo...