Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf
The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match? — The guy from Bentonville, Ark., surely isn't on any of Hollywood'...
Net browser promises private surf
A web browser that leaves no trace of a user's online surfing habits on their computer has been released. — Browzar, as it is known, automatically deletes all records of the pages a person has visit...
Social software is not a fad
Ryan Carson says he doesn't have time to use all those social apps like del.icio.us and Flickr and Digg, although he thinks they are cool, and Phil Edwards says that he likes them too but sees the phe...
Breaking: MySpace to Sell Music From 3 Million Bands
In a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes, MySpace has announced its intention to sell songs from the 3 million unsigned bands on MySpace.com. Even more surprising: the songs will be sold as unprotecte...
Firefox 2.0 beta 2 boasts enhanced look, features
Mozilla released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 2 browser for developer review Aug. 31, emphasizing that it is being made available for testing purposes only. The release contains a number of new fea...
Brazil judge orders Google to disclose users' data
Text+SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to disclose the data of users of Google's soci...
America's Most Wired Cities
With most of the U.S. technology industry focused on the East and West coasts, you'd think the best place to get online would be San Francisco, or perhaps New York City. But Atlanta tops Forbes.com's...
Deutsche Telekoms offering
T-Com now offering single-, double-, and triple-play - Price reductions of up to 30 percent - T-Mobile introduces inexpensive minutes and flat-rate packages …
Reports: Apple to hold special event on September 12th
Based on reports from European Apple enthusiast websites and last night's YourMacLife radio broadcast, Apple is in the process of inviting members of the press to a special event for new products, to ...
Samsung YP-K5 MP3 Mini Boombox: First Unboxing, Review, and Video.
Here it is. You might have seen some fuzzy flyby images of this MP3 player with speakers built into its backside. But we've got it in our hands. And we love it. — For a 4GB player, its kinda chun...
Transcript of talk with Richard .M. Stallman on the sidelines of 4th International GPLv3 Conference held at Bangalore
Various governments in the developing world are slowly but surely waking up to the advantages that free software can provide both in terms of monetary savings as well as otherwise.
Over 50-Million Marketplace downloads served
The Xbox PR team just released some interesting data that I think some of you may find interesting. Check these numbers out! — The Xbox Live Marketplace just passed 50 million downloads. That is do...
Google Image Labeler
Google released the Google Image Labeler game. The idea is that you will be labeling images along with a random partner, in real-time. When you both find the same keywords, you score points and adva...
Social Widgets
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the MySpace music player and the YouTube video player. I believe these two "widgets" (if you can call them that) have been very significant parts of the succes...
Paris Hilton hacks voicemail using Asterisk
Celebrities Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan are in a well-known feud that now has entered one of my favorite realms, namely VoIP. According to an InfoWorld article, (which Asterisk VoIP News reminded ...
Language Wars
An old friend emailed me to ask: … Ah, an excellent question, simultaneously impossible to answer and very easy to answer! — Sorry, I should stop speaking in riddles. A while ago I wrote an article...
It's here: the 16GB USB dongle
Toshiba has announced the world's biggest USB dongle - an impressive 16GB. — The TransMemory line of flash memory sticks range from 512MB up to 4GB, but with a special "limited edition" 16GB version...
Pioneer planning BDR-103 HD DVD/Blu-ray combo drive
Samsung got our hopes up and then dashed them. Same with LG. But ever since Ricoh announced its "smart" blue laser diode that can recognize what type of disc has been inserted and adjust the beam ac...
Microsoft executive stock bonuses, by the numbers
Back in 2003, when Microsoft stopped giving employees stock options and instead started granting actual shares, the company also announced a new executive bonus plan called the Shared Performance Stoc...
ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads
The advent of BitTorrent was a cause for celebration for people who wished to share large files very quickly, but Internet Service Providers did not see the technology in quite the same positive light...