Cameroon registry accused of typo-squatting .com
The .cm registry in Cameroon appears to be redirecting misspelled .com addresses to an ad-based search page. — Internet authorities in the West African nation that owns the .cm top level domain (TLD...
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749
Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymit...
Update, Reload & Party
Folks - we are going to be relaunching our site shortly, and what this means is that there will be moments of high anxiety and major service disruptions. Well, anxiety for us at least. And I apologi...
CDs Find Their Way Into Papers
A Santa Monica company is packaging movie previews, music samples, interviews and ads with Sunday editions. — Most newspapers have built their long-term growth strategies around the Internet. But a...
Nikon D80, 10 mp, previewed
This new camera is the natural successor to the D70/D70s with a refreshed design, user interface and a wide range of new features. Headline improvements are; 10.2 mp CCD, new image processing engine,...
AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false
One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate. I lamented this sad st...
Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's what I thought watching coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developer's conference opening yesterday, where banners that read things like "Hasta ...
Google Talk on the mylo
For the past several months we've been working with partners who are leveraging the tools of Google Talk's open platform. Sony has just announced that its new WiFi device will feature Google Talk. T...
Mobile Podcasting Not There Yet - It's Starting to Happen..
What about mobile podcating? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I'm not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is wh...
Britain's digital tribes revealed
Households in Britain can be classified into 23 "e-types" depending on their access to technology, say researchers. — E-types include mobile explorers, the e-committed and rational utilitarians. — ...
Sprint To Launch 4G in 2007
Today, 12:47 PM source: Sprint Nextel — Sprint today announced they will roll out their 4G wireless broadband network beginning in the fourth quarter of 2007. Though it tested many options, th...
The Value of Web Standards
While at OSCON, Mark Lucovsky of Google sent us a bit of HTML that'd embed a slender map search widget into our conferences web site. It's an easy way for attendees to find restaurants, hotels, parks...
Technorati's Numbers are Wrong
Dave posts another state of the blogosphere with some interesting stats. The one I found shocking was the claim that there are 50 million blogs. — These numbers are overly optimistic and dangerous....
Mobile internet is still a turn-off
Most punters still find mobile internet usage to be a frustrating experience they'd rather avoid. — Despite investment by operators in services such as i-mode and Vodafone Live, 73 per cent of respo...
Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman - Part 1: Web history and future, P2P
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray (Director of Web Technologies) and Radia Perlman (Distinguished E...
Video highlights from WWDC 2006
In this special selection of video excerpts from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2006, we present three selections from Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address: — First, we show you a clip fr...
7 Apps on Leopard's Hit List
While yesterday's preview of Leopard didn't show too much (I'm talking about the "top secret" features that Steve left out this time around), it did show enough to, well, make quite a few shareware an...
Features Wide-Aspect Movie Recording and Data Storage Function
Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of the EXILIM ® Card EX-S770 . This latest addition to the stylish EXILIM digital camera series is a powerful...