A Virtual World but Real Money
It has a population of a million. The "people" there make friends, build homes and run businesses. They also play sports, watch movies and do a lot of other familiar things. They even have their ow...
Sony claims Xbox 360 requires HD DVD, etc., thus costs $700
Ok, here's a new one: with Sony's announcements today they've issued a titled "Next-generation Console Comparison Fact Sheet," (downloadable here [DOC]) so let's see some facts. First up, were you aw...
San Francisco Local Politics Derail Free WiFi Project
San Francisco land of the nuts and fruits. I can only say that because I live here and consider many of them my close friends, but if you were a fly on the wall at last night's EarthLink Google WiFi ...
Google Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Kim Jabal - Director of Investor Relations — Larry Page - Founder and President of Products — Sergey Brin - Founder and President of Technology — Jonathan Rosenberg - Senior Vice ...
Music Companies Grab a Share of the YouTube Sale
YouTube's young founders may have been the biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65 billion deal with Google, but they have some unexpected bedfellows — old-line media companies that had been consid...
Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008
Windows XP Service Pack (SP 3), which Microsoft officials said in January to expect in the latter half of 2007, now has slipped into 2008. — Microsoft delivered the last service pack update for XP, ...
Allchin: Vista won't RTM next week
The Microsoft countdown clock was wrong. (Yeah, maybe it's running Windows Vista and blue screened. Teehee.) — Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, according to Jim...
FORBIDDING VISTAS: WINDOWS LICENSING DISSERVES THE USER
Reading the Windows Vista license is a bit like preparing for breakfast with Lewis Carroll's Red Queen: You should be ready to believe at least six impossible things about what users want from softwar...
YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever!
Jay Meattle of the web statistics firm compete has done an interesting analysis of the growth rates of MySpace vs YouTube. He concludes that YouTube's rate of growth exceeds that of MySpace - i.e. es...
Flash Player 9 for Linux Beta 1
To quote someone well known, 'hell froze over' and we finally released a beta of the GNU/Linux version of the Adobe Flash Player 9 (look for the "Linux version" download link). It did take more to ge...
Apple's share of U.S. PC market jumps to 6.1 percent
First on AI: Sales of Apple's Macintosh computers over the past twelve month's have grown faster than any other major PC manufacturer, boosting the company's share of the U.S. PC market to 6.1 percent...
Amazon launches answers site
Today I received an invite to join a new community at Amazon called Askville: … This site will compete with Yahoo! Answers and Microsoft Q&A in the free question-answering space except that it might b...
Moscow Music Site Defends Free Downloads
A Web site based in Moscow that the United States Commerce Department has branded as the world's highest-volume online seller of pirated music plans to release hundreds of thousands of albums free, th...
GAMING'S TOP 50 JOURNALISTS
Who are the 50 most influential journalists in the U.S games industry? We decided to find a freelancer crazy enough to compile and write up an actual list. Be warned, some of the pictures within are...
David Isenberg: Moyers on The Net at Risk
Guest review by David Isenberg. — David spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications ...