About a Chap
Once upon a time, there was a chap who liked computers, databases, and cool little widgets that can be displayed in a web browser. He started writing about it, gave it yet-another-two-dot-zero-name t...
you snooze, you win
z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z... But seriously, folks, you owe it to yourself to check out this hot new — and hysterical — Web 2.0 parody site, The New New Internet. I was Rolling on the Floor Laughing My F**k***...
Wasabi
I think some people thought I was joking earlier today when I said that we have our own compiler, Wasabi, for FogBugz. — Yes, Wasabi is real. Because FogBugz is sold to customers who run it on thei...
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. ...
Alcatel buys Nortel 3G unit
Alcatel is continuing its rollup of North American telecom equipment assets. The French telecom equipment giant, which is in the process of buying U.S. telecom gear leader Lucent Technologies, said T...
Google Archive Search
The first thing I thought of when I saw domains like google-archivesearch.com (registered Friday) was the WayBackMachine. If my gut instinct is correct, it won't be long before Google launches a simi...
Netflix Presents
An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch
When I play poker, I will occasionally place or call bets that I expect to lose. Sometimes it's a simple matter of pot odds — a bet that's a mathematically sound long shot. Occasionally, though, I'l...
Office Depot to offer $99 PC with $99 shipping
The bargain season for back-to-school shopping begins next week, but read the fine print. — Office Depot will sell a Hewlett-Packard desktop PC complete with a CRT monitor and printer for $99. The ...
CrunchGear's Back to School Cheat Sheet
September is here and maybe you or someone in your household-you know, the kid upstairs with the headphones who listens to that demon hippity-hop music?-might be in the market for some back to school ...
Partystrands aims to be Last.fm + Digg for the jukebox
Partystrands is a music service launching next month that will bring together aggregated recommendations, voting and photos synchronized on location by mobile phone. Created by the Corvallis, Oregon ...
Jobs might deliver a keynote, updated MacBook Pros on September 12th?
Egads, the rumor engine has caught on fire and September 12th is to blame: HardMac cites anonymous sources (i.e. - take it with a grain of salt) that Steve Jobs still won't be present in Paris for the...
Hackers crack Apple, Microsoft music codes
In the continuation of a long-running arms race, both Apple Computer and Microsoft have seen their music protection technologies come under fire in recent days. — In the past month, separate program...
Hands-on with the Sony Mylo
Holy hot damn, we got us a Mylo up in this piece. Yes, unfortunately it's only a late prototype (we haven't actually heard of anyone getting a final production unit yet) but here she is, Sony's ever-...
RIAA Still Feels Entitled To Scour Everyone's Hard Drives
from the a-neutral-expert-might-not-find-what- we-want dept — Ever since the RIAA started taking on file sharing, it's always acted as if it were entitled to all sorts of things it isn't: access to ...
VentureBeat is back
We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day. — We've learned some lessons....
Google Modifies Navigational Search Results
I reported this morning that Google has changed the way they handle navigational like searches. For example, if you do a search on a site's name (i.e. navigational) you now get a different type of re...
Make your own "official" seal
Web site Says-It's Official Seal Generator lets you design your very own seal with customized text. — I'm really not sure how "official" you can consider your completed seal (I guess it's official i...
Windows Vista RC1 Released
Windows Vista RC1 was just posted on Microsoft Connect. (~2:45 EST) — x86 — vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x86fre_ client-LR1CFRE_EN_DVD.iso — x64 — vista_5600.16384.060829-2230_x64fre_ client-...
Samsung's 4G
Fourth-generation wireless technology (4G) was in the news this week as Samsung demonstrated 100 Mbps while moving in a bus. NTT DoCoMo, the giant Japanese-based telecommunications company and Korean...
Meet Zazoox, a new Internet café gaming kiosk
You know, if you could use proper names in Scrabble, Zazoox would be a good one to play. We hadn't heard of them until today, when we read in the trade publication Kiosk Marketplace that Zazoox is a ...
Windows Live QnA beta goes public!
In addition to the testing we're doing you may have seen the news we launched Windows Live QnA beta this week! A link to it is also showing up in the search bar on our recent testing. — For all of ...
Trailfire: Building Vannevar's Memex
There are a plethora of bookmarking sites out there and only a few of them have become very successful - del.icio.us and Stumbleupon are two that spring to mind. Trailfire is a bit different from you...