The elephant in the kitchen
Dare Obasanjo, of Microsoft, just pulled the ad hominem card. In debate class in high school the teacher would instantly award the other side a win if you ever pulled that card. Why? Because it dem...
Three workers depart AOL after privacy uproar
update Two AOL employees have been fired, and its chief technology officer is resigning, after the release of Web search data from thousands of AOL members prompted widespread criticism of the company...
FeedCrier, another way to act fast with RSS and IM
Adam Kalsey, a founder and former CTO of RSS vendor Pheedo, released a new service last night called FeedCrier that makes it easy to receive rapid notification of new items in an RSS feed by IM. The ...
SocialPicks enables collaborative investment research
There's no shortage of stock market oriented communities coming online, it's almost hard to tell them apart, but today's entrant is particularly interesting. SocialPicks is focused on reputation buil...
A Quantum Leap for Cell Phones
A new no-buttons handset by Pilotfish and Synaptics signals that mobiles as we know them may soon be a thing of the past — It's likely to evoke the children's song inquiring, "Where's the button?" ...
Enterprise 2.0 = Next Generation IT
After Wikipedia deleted the "Enterprise 2.0" entry, the Enterprise Irregulars swarmed, responding to the critique of the term by a Wikipedian editor as a "neologism of dubious utility" and taking a cr...
THE ADSENSE GAME
Joel Comm has created a pretty nifty AdSense game, a colorful Flash game that asks you to create, market, and optimize a website to earn money off AdSense ads. While I like the game, which is reminis...
Google launches free, kick-ass word-processor
Google has re-lauched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe...
Holdout Bands Give In to iTunes
DETROIT — Bob Seger turned the page, and Metallica finally found justice for online fans. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple Computer's popu...
Box Pics, Specs of Sprint's Treo 700wx Leaked, August 31 Release Date
The world is holding its breath waiting for more details on Sprint's version of the Palm Treo 700w, and, lo and behold, we've got some more info on the little wundergadget. Due to arrive on August 31...
Textable iBall, the Big Ball That Displays Text Messages
Spacewriter's Textable iBall is poised to change the way you read text messages, since, apparently, reading text messages on a cellphone is passé. Once you've inserted the proper SIM card, the 11-inc...
Yahoo! Sites Register a Moderate Share Gain for the Second Consecutive Month
comScore Releases July U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In July 2006, Yahoo! Sites posted m...
Farecast Goes Coast to Coast
Farecast, the plane ticket price predictor site, is now live in 55 U.S. cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Atlanta. — The company is building a dir...
TechCrunch August Capital Party
Like a canary in the coal mine breathing its final breath, some are insisting that the gigantic, buzz-engorged TechCrunch August Capital Party that I hosted this past Friday is a sure harbinger of Bub...
Recycled cell phones help drive Third World wireless boom
DEXTER, Mich. - With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a crucial role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing ...
Archos officially announces all five Generation 4 devices
Not too many surprises here — after all, we've already seen a full review of one of these new models — but now PMP pioneer Archos has officially taken the wraps off of all the so-called Generation 4 d...
What does your browser reveal about you?
I often tend to judge people based on the type of browser they use. Believe it or not, the choice of your favorite browser reveals a lot about your personality. — IE 5.0: — You only use your comp...