Wii game system rolls out on Nov. 19
The final pieces of this fall's video game battle fall into position today as Nintendo announces that its new Wii home system will sell for $250 — half the price of Sony's cheapest PlayStation 3 — and...
Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up
Public hindsight about startups' missteps generally comes after a good amount of "traveling in Europe with my fiancée" or whatever it is that failed CEOs do. However, Evan Williams just gave a refres...
Mo' money to build a bigger Dogster niche
A year ago (give or take 10 days) I wrote about Dogster Inc. - the maker of the highly popular dogster.com and catster.com - turning profitable, an unusual fate among Web 2.0 companies. It was still ...
The Missing Sony Exhibit
The Canadian Sony rootkit class action settlement heads to court next week amid mounting questions about the deal. The EFF calls attention to a number of missing provisions, including no security rev...
News Corp.: Entertainment going mobile
LOS ANGELES—A day after his company bought a controlling stake in ring tone giant Jamba, News Corp.'s president and chief operating officer said the time for partnering with the mobile industry to dis...
Princeton professor raises alarm over electronic voting, hacks test machine
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that...
Smartpox - Create and Share Mobile Codes
Smartpox, which is currently in beta, is a social site that allows users to share URLs, email addresses and phone numbers in the real world. The data is converted into a "smartpox code" (aka QR code)...
Showtime: The Big Picture
Apple came into yesterday's "Showtime" special event with an awfully high set of expectations to meet. First, the entire show pretty much had to be about movies — adding major motion pictures to the ...
Mattcuttsarama: 21 Great SEO Tips From Google's Matt Cutts
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO — This is a compilation of stuff Matt Cutts has said historically, minus some of the more recent stuff here, here, and here. I decided I'd dig backwards a...
Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox
There is nothing more frustrating for Macintosh users or those who use the Firefox browser than going to a video site and hitting a wall demanding Windows and the Internet Explorer browser. But when ...
Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual
The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. ...
Yahoo! Mail Beta Release - Exclusive Podcast With Ethan Diamond
Today Yahoo is releasing the new Ajax-powered version of Yahoo Mail to all users in the US and across 18 international markets. Previously Yahoo Mail Beta (as it is known) was only available to a rel...
Ten Must-Read Details on the New iPods
Last Update: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 — We've already received dozens of questions regarding Apple's all-new lineup of iPods - the "enhanced fifth-generation" iPod (with video), the "second-gener...