United States cedes control of the internet - but what now?
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet.
Parts of French 'iPod Law' Struck Down
PARIS, July 28 — The French Constitutional Council has declared major aspects of the so-called iPod law unconstitutional, undermining some controversial aspects of the legislation. — " Apple's lawye...
US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites
US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by sch...
What's in Google's Sandbox?
It's been a while since I've done any digging around Google's servers to try and find some new services, so I thought I'd have a quick go tonight. — I started by looking at one of the subdomains I f...
Feds Retrieve Google Records after Gmail Used for Hate Speech
Federal agents requested and retrieved records from Google concerning a Gmail account that contained threatening speech, Google Watch has learned. — The agents requested the records on June 22nd, 20...
Make Your Blog Popular
David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. Here's his advice for cracking his site's Top 100 list. — 1) React quickly. Commentators like Andrew Sull...
MICROSOFT'S "EXPERIENCE HUB"
Today, during Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie astutely framed his role. He spoke of his role in past transitions, such as the mainframe to ...
Google Talk Swings Back
There's lots of instant messaging news today. Google isn't letting the fact that it has less than 1% market share and only 44,000 people used its Google Talk client last month get it down. Tonight t...
Intel Unveils World's Best Processor
New Product Line Delivers Record Breaking Performance While Consuming Less Power — SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27, 2006 - Intel Corporation today unveiled 10 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo and Intel® Core™ 2 Extr...
Warner Bros. To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango
'Inappropriate Material' Could Reach Children — Warner Bros. Studios, home to Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Harry Potter, said yesterday that it plans to terminate a business relationship with Zango I...
Mobility Is Relative II
A mobile and wireless phone kiosk in Kamapala draws its power from a car battery (in the red box, photo below). Despite its bicyclesque design they were not particularly mobile - one or more tyres we...
Wonkette's Ingredients for a Successful Blog
A couple of weeks ago, CBS News Sunday Morning broadcast my introduction to blogging. As so often happens, my reporting for this segment involved some really interesting interviews, of which we could...
YouTube CEO: IPO would be 'exciting'
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As red-hot YouTube's profile rises its CEO isn't ruling out an initial public offering in the future. — The buzz around the new brand has built in recent days as YouTube fou...
Confessions of a Cybermule
John Dillinger was a bank robber whose tool of trade was a machine gun. But in today's cybercrime era, the weapon of choice for "John Dillinger" is an MSR206, a card-writing machine used for encoding...
Opera reveals version 10 vision
Opera Software is making plans to steal market share from Microsoft. — Though a launch date for Opera 10 hasn't yet been set, Opera is hoping the updated application will lure users away from Micros...
Apple Ponders a Touchless iPod
Patent application suggests the popular player may soon be operated without being touched. — Just as talk about the inevitability of upgraded iPods passed the saturation point, speculation arose thi...