New Feature: Link within a Video
Has this ever happened to you? — You're watching this documentary on monkeys and then halfway through, this monkey does the funniest thing ever. So of course, you want nothing more than to share th...
YouTube's new policy says "we own your content."
The newly revised Terms and Conditions page at YouTube raises important questions for anyone who uploads videos there. Eliot Van Buskirk at the Wired News music blog "Listening Post" writes: … Read t...
Google Accessible Search
Google released a new product called Accessible Search, a "web search for the visually challenged." Though result pages are somewhat less cluttered compared to normal Google results, the point here i...
Bezos Expeditions invests in 37signals
Jason Jul 20 — Today we have a very special announcement to make: Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, has made a minority private equity investment in 37signals. — Here...
Spore Lives Up to the Hype
When Will Wright invited us over to play his latest masterpiece, we couldn't refuse — Will Wright does not do things by halves. That's just as well, since with Spore, he will attempt to outdo The S...
Escaping Siberia: How Netscape's boss exploits controversy and paid users
After just a few months, the new head of Netscape wants out. That's why he's fomenting controversy over his newest job offer — paying his competitors' top users to seed Netscape.
EU: Town Can't Build Fiber-Optic Network
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The European Commission on Wednesday banned a small Dutch town from building its own fiber-optic network, saying the plan would be unfair to broadband companies - a decis...
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search
Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of p...
eBay Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (EBAY)
Executives — Analysts — Heath Terry - Credit Suisse First Boston — Christa Sober Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners — Presentation — Operator — Please stand by, we are about to begin.
web 2.0 revenue models: Show me the money!
Last week, I was featured on CNN in an article by Grace Wong entitled Follow the web 2.0 money. — The whole subject of making money with web 2.0 is quite critical. — Ironically, a couple of weeks ...
SQL injection attacks against banks on the rise
SecureWorks announced that it has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hacker attacks attempted against its banking, credit union and utility clients in the past three months using SQL Injection....
Yahoo, Motorola to feature Web services on phones
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc., the world's largest Internet media company, and Motorola Inc., the second-biggest maker of mobile phones, said late on Wednesday that Motorola will embed Yahoo se...
Linux-powered robots from France? Oui!
A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots has emerged from stealth mode. Aldebaran Robotics, of Paris, expects to ship its first product — a human...
CoComment upgrades, now worth using
CoComent is a popular browser tool for tracking conversations in the comments sections of blogs. It catches the comments you've made around the web and comments made after yours. It was initially la...
Image navigation, with a sci-fi touch
Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point of view. — However, bor...
Windows Vista trouble spots improve in interim Beta Build 5472
Microsoft gooses performance, improves networking UI — July 19, 2006 (Computerworld) — Computerworld obtained a recent interim build of Windows Vista, Build 5472, that shows Microsoft is making prog...
PodShow attaches business podcasts to new AIM Pro — but at what cost to the businesses?
but at what cost to the businesses? — There's nothing like hitching a ride on a partner's voluminous installed base to get a new product or service into the market fast. Looks like that's what PodSh...
Microsoft Reports Fourth Quarter Results and Announces Share Repurchase Program
Microsoft delivers strong finish to fiscal year with 16% fourth quarter revenue growth; Announces $20 billion tender offer — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Redmond, Wash. - July 20, 2006...
Introducing RSS Smart Answers
Great news, our Smart Answers program is expanding and we're excited about it. We think you will be too. — Today, we're formally introducing RSS Smart Answers. — What are they? — Now, when you ...
Tech File: Sony's Playstation Portable
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) — Tech File caught up with Peter Dille, senior vice present of marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., to grill him about the future of Sony's portable multime...
Text-To-TV: Worth A Buck?
The TV show American Idol is the example often used when showing the potential popularity of how text messaging can be used with television shows-mobile and interactive TV company Telescope Inc. says ...
Technology Rewrites the Book
When Steve Mandel, a management trainer from Santa Cruz, Calif., wants to show his friends why he stays up late to peer through a telescope, he pulls out a copy of his latest book, "Light in the Sky,"...
Apple Earnings Bolstered by iPod and Notebook Sales
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 — Confounding Wall Street skeptics, Apple Computer released quarterly financial results Wednesday that showed strong growth in both its iPod music player and its MacBook portabl...
Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Apple and the sports giant team up to create a new running system — For a field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner's aids. An instrument the s...
News about Google News
InfoWorld's online folks have long complained about the absence of InfoWorld news stories from Google News. Here is the most striking illustration of the problem: — 1. WWW.google.com/search?q=site:...
Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever.
Skype ruffled some feathers in the internet telephony world earlier this year when they announced they'd be offering free SkypeOut calls to the US and Canada for the rest of 2006. We weren't too inte...
eBay Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (EBAY)
Executives — Analysts — Heath Terry - Credit Suisse First Boston — Christa Sober Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners — Presentation — Operator — Please stand by, we are about to begin.
Macs see growth spurt
With a wider range of systems available, consumers have been snapping Macs up, giving them a growth boost that outpaced the rest of the market. — Macintosh shipments were up 12 percent compared with...
Promotion Firms Caught in Internet-Gambling Crackdown
Accused of Acting as Fulfillment House for Prizes — WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Miami-based promotion and fulfillment firms that have done work for major marketers, such as McDonald's, are now caught u...
What is the 1% rule?
It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 8...
SanDisk Introduces SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash - World's Fastest Cards For Professional Photographers
New Cards Result In Faster Capture of High-Resolution Images and Quicker Card-to-Computer Transfers — NEW YORK, NY, July 19, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) …
A Sound Marketplace For Recorded Music
Here in Washington, there is nothing more amusing than watching business interests work themselves up into a righteous frenzy over a threat to their monopoly profits from a new technology or some upst...
Got Browser?
Whether you use Windows, or Mac OS X you are going to have a hard time determining which browser to use, which is right for you? Choosing a browser is basically like choosing a car, a car that will t...