NEW POCKET SIZED COMMUNICATOR FROM SONY IS ALL PLAY AND NO WORK
The mylo Personal Communication Device Enables Social Networking in the Wireless World — Sony is launching its first WiFi broadband communication and entertainment device to capitalize on the growth...
Google Deal Will Give News Corp. Huge Payoff
Google has won a bidding war to provide search services and advertising to MySpace.com, the social networking phenomenon, and other Web sites owned by the News Corporation. — The deal promises to pa...
Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
It's finally official: Ruby on Rails will ship with the next version of OS X (see "Internet and Web"). Both server and client (on the developer DVD). We've been working with Apple for quite a while ...
Has Steve Jobs Lost His Magic?
Steve Jobs' keynote speech on Monday was the most uninspiring he's given in recent memory. It hints at the trouble Apple will be in marketing-wise if he ever steps down. — Steve Jobs usually gives ...
AOL Removes Search Data on Group of Web Users
AOL removed a list of the Web search inquiries of 658,000 unnamed users from a public Web site over the weekend, after bloggers complained that the information was so detailed and personal that it cou...
Nu RL PR HQ in SL
Public relations agency Text 100 — who came number 9 among tech consultancies in PR Week's top 50 last year — has opened an office in the virtual world of Second Life, a project built out by the Elect...
The Myth of the Living-Room PC
WHY YOU DON'T HAVE AN APPLE ITV. — Moments before Steve Jobs took the wraps off his supercharged new Macs in San Francisco today, he took a minute to talk up the company's recent successes. As numb...
The Time Fountain
All > Tech > Inventions > The Time Fountain by natetrue — I suppose it might be called a "Backwards in Time Fountain" or a "Time Manipulation Fountain" but I figured those titles would be a bit long...
So Much for Good Intentions
If all had gone according to plan, Bowdoin College students and their Brunswick, Me., neighbors would have received free wireless Internet access in town coffee shops and restaurants this fall. Inste...
Viacom considers bid for Bebo
By Tom Braithwaite in London and Joshua Chaffin in New York — Viacom, the US media group, is considering a bid for Bebo, the social networking site. — The acquisition would represent the latest at...
The Internet: a Series of Spoofs
One Senator's Take — On Net Neutrality — Spawns Parodies — Ted Stevens, currently the Senate's longest-serving Republican, became the latest unlikely character to go viral online when the 82-yea...
Duran Duran to give virtual gigs
British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts. — The band is the first major group to announce a virtual wor...
Software's Sky is Not Falling
Last week's SandHill.com oped doomed the enterprise software industry to a future dominated by open source. A collective rebuttal to the argument asserts that any obituary of enterprise software is p...
Vocus Acquires Online Press Release Newswire PRWeb
Acquisition Positions Vocus As Leader in Search Engine Optimized (SEO) and Direct-to-Consumer Press Release Distribution — Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ:VOCS) , a leading provider of on-demand software for co...
Alltel to offer podcasts on cellphones
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alltel Corp. (NYSE:AT - news) the No. 5 U.S. cellphone provider, said on Tuesday it will provide a service to download audio clips from the Internet to cellphones in a bid to expa...