Florida Judge Declines to Ban 'Bully'
According to reporters for the blog Destructoid attending a hearing in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, Judge Ronald Freeman sampled for two hours the soon-to-be-released Rockstar game for PlayStation 2, Bul...
Google Gdrive Client Leaked
I've been able to get hold of Google's internal Gdrive client, named "Platypus"* (information on the project leaked a while ago). Please note that Gdrive, from what it looks like, is not a product fo...
Cisco's Triple Threat
5:00 PM — From The Philter's They Can Patent Anything file, I present to you hard proof that Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) owns the triple play. — Patent 7075919, awarded to Cisc...
Former Facebook Engineer Spills Beans, Moralizes
What's a guy to do after vesting his options and leaving a hot startup? Tell all! Well, kinda. — I was laid up in bed sick this week, and had the time to read Karel Baloun's Inside Facebook: Life,...
The best of Office 2.0
[Editor's note. We attended the Office 2.0 conference this week, and noted a lot of interesting innovation happening with interactive applications for office workers. We asked Jeff Nolan, a former v...
Google faces copyright fight over YouTube
Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com...
Help! YouTube is killing my business!
An Ohio company's sales get 'killed' as YouTube surfers cripple utube.com, a pipe equipment seller's web site. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — One place where YouTube's success isn't being celebrated is...
Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition
Portion of Proceeds Contributed to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS — Apple® today announced the iPod® nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. (RED) was created by U2 lead singer, Bono and Bobby Shriver t...
Introducing multiple custom channels
As of today, it is now possible to assign multiple custom channels to a single ad unit. This feature enables you to track your ad performance with greater flexibility and view more granular informati...
Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use
Microsoft has released licenses for the Windows Vista operating system that dramatically differ from those for Windows XP in that they limit the number of times that retail editions can be transferred...
Palm Announces Low-End Treo 680
As expected, Palm has just announced the low-end Treo 680 for GSM markets sold unlocked in four colors: crimson, copper, arctic and graphite. In non-marketing speak, that's red, orange, white and sil...
The PayPerPost Virus Spreads
Two new services that are similar to the controversial PayPerPost have announced their launch in the last few days: ReviewMe and CreamAid. PayPerPost, a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to...
How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?
If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the ...
EC boosts open source
Sets up consortium for software pooling — The European Commission has taken steps to promote the use of open source systems and software in the public sector. — It has selected a consortium led by...
Internet Explorer 7 is coming ... Are you ready?
The final release of Internet Explorer 7 is fast approaching ... and I mean really fast ......and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it's available for download. ...
The ECA, a consumer advocacy group for gamers
In addition to having a great alliterative name, Hal Halpin likes to start things with acronyms. He started the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) which merged with the Video Soft...
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster?
A French IT consultant says yes, but productivity experts disagree — October 10, 2006 (Computerworld) — Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies w...
Looking Sharp
How many startups show me their stuff, and I think: Maybe that's interesting, but I'll never use it. (Answer: Most of them.) — It was almost unsettling, then, when Sharpcast CEO Gibu Thomas put me ...