Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors
Conroe at last — INTEL'S DESKTOP PROCESSORS HAVE NOT been in a good place for the past two and a half years. Pentium 4 and Pentium D CPUs have run at relatively high clock speeds but delivered rela...
Rumor: Mother compilation coming to US?
From the EGM rumor mill (which is often a bit more reliable and well-connected that some rumor sites) comes rumbling that Nintendo may re-release Earthbound in America as a DS title. To make the deal...
Turn your Flickr into a Photoshop with Preloadr!
Preloadr is a free image tool (web based), that connects you with your flickr account and lets you design your photos before or after you upload them to your flickr account. — The service is very ea...
Vaudeville
This media showdown is getting really interesting. In no particular order, some comments about some of the players: — Mike Arrington — Why on Earth is he keeping Marshall Kirkpatrick in such a visib...
Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Screenshots
I have been playing around with "Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs". The result can be seen in screenshots posted on my gallery. — Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinF...
Time, space put Eventful at the intersection of, .. well, of everything
This week, at Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, I had the opportunity to sit down with Eventful.com's API Developer Chris Radcliff. The interview is available f...
The "river" versus "folder" RSS approach
Dave Winer has been talking about RSS aggregators again. I don't use a River of News style aggregator. I use NewsGator which comes into Outlook. It is NOT a river of news style aggregator. But, I ...
Mtn. View WiFi net being tested by 100 users
GOOGLE SAYS ENTIRE CITY COULD GO ONLINE IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS — More than 100 people are test-driving Google's free, wireless Internet network throughout the city of Mountain View, officials from the ...
Craigslist silently fixes their end in the Cox fiasco
For months, Craigslist had been held up as the poster child for what can happen in a world without Net Neutrality. That poster child status expired last month when we found out what really happened w...
As Firefox infiltrates the enterprise, its market share will increase
As a follow-up to my previous post about Firefox market share increasing, note that the XiTi website has some interesting stats and graphics showing that Firefox take-up is much higher in parts of Eur...
Google Spreadsheets getting Charts soon?
To quench my curiosity, I had to take a closer look at the source code for Google Spreadsheets after it was updated yesterday. To my surprise (or not), it shows clearly that Google has definitely bee...
Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked
At the end of 2005 I made some predictions about the VoIP industry which I will review further in a day or two. While a couple of my predictions have already proved correct, perhaps the most interest...
When Did Earthlink Get So Cool?
Earthlink doesn't conjure up images of cutting edge new web apps. In fact, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Earthlink is my old dial-up ISP account that took me forever to cancel. ...
Judge dismisses suit over Google ranking
A California judge on Thursday dismissed a Web site's lawsuit against Google over its fall in the Google search index, but left the door open for the lawsuit to be amended and refiled. — KinderStart...
Responding to Felten (& Co.), squared
Submitted by Bill Herman on July 13, 2006 - 11:42pm. — My response to Ed Felten's policy recommendations (Felten suggests we wait and see before imposing network neutrality mandates), has garnered i...
Dailies Strike Back At Web
This just in: Newspapers and Yahoo! in talks to reslice the ad pie — Major newspaper companies and three online giants are deep in discussion about the future of newspapers on the Web. — Yahoo! (Y...
Disaster Relief Meetings at The FCC
Jeff Pulver and I went down to Washington, DC today for a series of meetings at the Federal Communication Commission on the petition Jeff and I filed last spring for better phone service in and follow...
Prices released on Conroe, AMD may need to slash 70% on FX62
The word is out on Intel Core2 Conroe processors. The price and model numbers have been set on the new Intel processors while the price on older Pentium D processors have been slashed. Even the dual...
Revised Dell XPS 700 to feature overclocked Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU
Grapevine (TX) - On the day Intel announces its next generation of Conroe desktop processors - which is expected within days - Dell Computer will upgrade its top-of-the-line XPS 700 desktop computer m...
CyberNotes: The Analysis of a Digg Effect 4X in 10 Days
Free For All Friday — An article making the front page of Digg and the effects on the website it came from is jaw-dropping to say the least. It effects everything from the obvious such as traffic t...
Plan-as-you-go `unconference' unleashes ideas
How do you plan a tech conference agenda in the Age of the Internet, when everyone learns about developments in any given field as soon as they happen? — You don't. — Instead, you give up on plann...
MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song
After hearing Sen. Ted Stevens' now infamous description of the internet as a "series of tubes," Andrew Raff sang the senator's words over a folksy ditty and anonymously posted it to MySpace.com, wher...