Research Findings Put PS3 Way Ahead
New research has shown massive consumer belief in the PlayStation 3, and waning interest in Xbox 360. — According to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret, 8.9 million U.S consumers 'are prepared...
Google "Docs & Spreadsheets" Launches
Google just launched Docs & Spreadsheets at docs.google.com. It integrates the previously separate Writely and Spreadsheet product silos into a single control panel and admin area (the previous sites...
Merlin's top 5 super-obvious, "no-duh" ways to immediately improve your life
How to get organized and stay that way — When I was up in Toronto last week, I was interviewed by Samantha Grice from the National Post about 43 Folders, productivity stuff, and the sad sorry state ...
Yahoo Feels Breath on Neck
As Google whips out its fat wallet to buy the video site YouTube, it is making Yahoo look even more out of step with the fast-changing Internet advertising market. — Yahoo itself tried to buy YouTub...
Warning over 'broken up' internet
The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. — Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)...
After YouTube: The beginning of the end?
Now that Google has snatched up the leading online video site, will rivals shell out big bucks, or will the competition dry up for smaller sites? — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Has the online video sha...
A BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH EFF'S FRED VON LOHMANN ON YOUTUBE, COPYRIGHT, GOOGLE, AND MORE
My first go to guy on all things DMCA, copyright, and digital law and policy is the EFF's Fred von Lohmann. I started an email interview with him prior to the GooTube deal, and it only seems more sal...
False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads
YouTubers Ponder Google
On YouTube, where members are encouraged to express themselves through amateur video, it took only a few hours before they started chiming in on Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular onlin...
Protect DVD-Video prevents discs from playing on your PC
Here's something that opponents of restrictive DRM implementations aren't going to be too happy with: ZDNet is reporting that new copy-protection software for DVD publishers from a company called Prot...
History repeats itself
Marc Benioff calls it "the most important announcement Salesforce has ever made."
U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren
The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying ma...
Sprint Nextel trials Qualcomm's MediaFLO as 'Vue'
Verizon Wireless to launch MediaFLO by the fist quarter of next year — OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Qualcomm Inc.'s highly anticipated MediaFLO mobile TV service is gaining momentum as Sprint Nextel Corp. co...
Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software
There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. I called part of it Web Office. Ismael Ghalimi called it Office 2.0. Ross Mayfield calls it Social Software in t...
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 With GPS Locator Helps Consumers Take the Tension out of Travel
Updated trip-planning software and more powerful GPS receiver team up to resolve the battle for the driver's seat. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft® Streets & Trips 20...
The Web According to Ballmer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer chats with BusinessWeek editors about Web 2.0's sky-high valuations and the new competition the company faces — Even the people running the richest tech companies are awe...
AOL to provide co-branded audience services
Carphone Warehouse and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) have reached agreement for Carphone Warehouse to acquire AOL's Internet access business in the UK …
The Secret Failures of Microsoft
Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes examined Microsoft's past success in software development, and demonstrated why its past practices won't be of any help in expanding into the consumer electroni...