Verizon Limits Its "Unlimited" Wireless Broadband Service
Verizon Wireless proudly boasts that its wireless "BroadbandAccess" service is "unlimited." But Verizon's definition of unlimited may not match consumers' expectations, as those who use the service e...
TiVo Is Watching When You Don't Watch, and It Tattles
AS the advertising and television industries debate how to measure viewers of shows watched on digital video recorders, the pioneering maker of the recorders, TiVo, is getting into the argument. It i...
Google to offer advertisers click fraud stats
Responding to concerns about click fraud in the online-ad industry, Google will be revealing to advertisers the number of invalid clicks on their ads with changes it's set to make to its AdWords syste...
DID YOU KNOW? NINTENDO GAME OFFERINGS HEAT UP AS THE WEATHER COOLS DOWN
July 25, 2006 - The fourth quarter of 2006 will herald a new era for Nintendo with the launch of its remarkable new Wii™ home video game system. But that's not what this news item is about! How coul...
Real-Time Traffic From Google Maps Mobile
Google Maps has rolled out a new mobile version offering real-time traffic information in 30 US cities. The service also offers directions designed for those who are walking, in addition to driving. ...
Microsoft's Current Situation: Like IBM in the 80s
Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits: A flurry of stories about Microsoft (MSFT) recently got me thinking today about computer history. First was the story yesterday in the Wall Street Jour...
Time Inc. to suspend print version of Teen People
Teen People, one of the first major magazines to be launched simultaneously in print and on the web, on Tuesday said that it would suspend its print operations. — The decision, which was taken by Ti...
Facebook Launches Back-to-School Promotion to Give Away 10 Million Music Samplers from iTunes
PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 25, 2006—Facebook, the social directory that allows people to share information, announced today a back-to-school promotion to give away 10 million music sampler...
Skype releases 1.5 beta for Mac and "video preview" for the intrepid
As those of you with iSights are painfully aware, your video chat choices on the Mac have been severely limited. There's iChat and... well, pretty much just iChat. If you want to go all Jetsons on y...
THE BACKLASH, CHAPTER 1
I'll take it as a compliment that I now warrant a proper Wall Street Journal takedown for crimes of...well, I'm not quite sure what the crimes are. But Lee Gomes has tried mightily to find flaws with...
Symantec continues Vista bug hunt
After poking around the Windows Vista networking stack, Symantec researchers have tried out privilege-escalation attacks on an early version of the Windows XP successor. — In a second report on Vist...
Nintendo DS Browser Review
Josh goes over the Nintendo DS Opera Browser for his DS Lite in a 7 minute review. If you're interested in how this looks on a real-life system, reading sites like Slashdot, Digg, and Gizmodo—Which l...
Database guru to run Yahoo social search research
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. <YHOO.O>, said on Monday named a top academic database expert to head its research team studying links between computer and human-aided Web search. — Yahoo hired...