Wal-Mart prepping a download store, too?
We've heard rumblings for a while — and Wal-Mart's purported intense opposition to the iTunes Movie Store might've had something to do with it as well — but now the rumors are coming hot and heavy in ...
A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta
VIDEO mania is in full swing. Amazon is finally doing movie downloads. Apple is touting a new wireless gizmo to beam movies from laptops to TV screens. NBC is introducing a video syndication servic...
For sale for £1,000: gadget that means you'll never lose at roulette again
Professional gamblers are rushing to buy £1,000 devices that they believe will enable them to win millions of pounds in casinos when the gambling industry is deregulated next year.
The Demise of Radio
In the New York times article about the plight of traditional radio, Richard Siklos sums up the problem in one sentence, while talking about a particular commuter who has tuned out over the air statio...
Why you shouldn't order your Series3 from TiVo.com
If your like us and you just can't wait to get your hands on a Series3, you might want to avoid TiVo.com and try your local big box store instead. We ordered one 15 minutes after the official launch ...
Wikipedia: Resistance is Absent
What happened was, I went to check out the new Microsoft search engine at live.com (it's not bad), and I started by looking for myself. I was kind of surprised when my Wikipedia entry came in ahead o...
Google will flex political muscles
PAC to raise money for causes, candidates; lobbyists on board — Under fire on Capitol Hill, Google Inc. has boosted its political muscle by creating its first political action committee while taking...
Zeroing In on Sources H.P. Used
Prosecutors looking into the internal spying operation at Hewlett-Packard are beginning to link together a chain of investigators from the company down to the detective agencies that may have been inv...
Minox DC1011, now gold-plated for the casino set
Somewhere, we imagine that there has to be a warehouse (or at least a small storeroom) full of gilded inventory, guarded by a very sad man wondering where his business model went wrong. Still, that h...
The only Wii post you'll ever need [update 3]
With the whirlwind of news and announcements swirling around the Wii over the past few days, we thought it might be handy to collect all the newly released information in one place for easy reference....
Sanger forks Wikipedia
The man who invented Wikipedia now wants to bury it. Larry Sanger, the controversial online encyclopedia's cofounder and leading apostate, announced yesterday, at a conference in Berlin, that he is s...