9/11: Birth of the Blog
When the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, the web changed with it. — While phone networks and big news sites struggled to cope with heavy traffic, many survivors and spectators turned to online jour...
How Will Apple's Marketing Maestro Marry the Computer and the Home TV?
Has Apple Computer's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV? — With an enticing invitation proclaiming "It's Showtime," Mr. Jobs last week touched off speculation a...
Living a Virtual Life
Is World of Warcraft a game, or is it a harbinger of virtual realities that we all might inhabit? Only a Night Elf knows for sure. — Two years into the history of World of Warcraft-an online game t...
HP board mum on Dunn's fate
Hewlett-Packard's board of directors met for several hours Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of Chairman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign in the wake of a prob...
Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith
Well, the long wait is nearly over. Microsoft's elephantine parturition has produced an heir. Last week the company distributed 'Release Candidate 1' (RC1) of Vista, the new incarnation of Windows, ...
Microsoft Max and You
Important note: If you hate Microsoft, aren't a developer, etc, hit the next blog entry, nothing to see here. — Important note 2: I used to work for Microsoft, good comments, I'm an unpaid shill, ba...
Ben Heckendorn's Xbox 360 laptop: best mod ever?
Every so often a mod comes along that's so intricate, so amazing, so over the top, that words simply don't do it justice (but we'll try anyway). Ben Heckendorn's Xbox 360 laptop is one such mod. Hav...
Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting?
Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he's posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at Netscape. He says recent events a...
Doing it for free
I was reading John Hammond's biography entry, (John discovered Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen and yes, Count Basie) and I noticed that he was independently wealthy. — Woz wasn't looki...
Preview: Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's first quad-core "Kentsfield"
Culver City (CA) - Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press …
An Industry Is Based on a Simple Masquerade
When Patrick Baird, a private detective in Granbury, Tex., was hunting a runaway or helping a husband find out if his wife was cheating, he would often look for clues in telephone records. He bought ...
Germany Trying To Shut Down Anonymous Servers?
Anytime you see someone defending surveillance systems, you know that sooner or later, they'll utter the ridiculous phrase: "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about." Th...