Shameless Self-Promotion: Bob's Disk Drive
For nine years and 492 columns I have described new companies and new technologies always with the qualification that I own no shares and have no financial stake in them. This statement is for two re...
Reinventing Television
Wake up, television executives of America: Jon Stewart - the wiseacre host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show - knows more about your business than you do. Sure, The Daily Show may just seem like a s...
Opinion: Why Sony Won't Lose the Next-Gen War
No console maker has ever dominated three consecutive platform generations. Will Sony pull it off? We think so. Here's why the PlayStation 3 will assume the PS2's throne in the next few years... L...
FBI returns to "Fake Boarding Pass" guy's home, seizes computers
(Story background here). Christopher Soghoian today blogs that the FBI returned to his home last night in his absence with a search warrant, and seized computers and other belongings. The 24-year ol...
Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire Web
For years, there have been a handful of companies trying to figure out how to erect a toll booth on the Web, if not the Internet altogether. In other words, they've been looking for some way to ensur...
NPR Sick Of Howard Stern Butting In; Wants FCC To Recall FM Modulators
from the interference-problems dept — A few years back, the UK decided to ban certain FM modulators such as the "iTrip" device that would let you broadcast your iPod a short distance at a low freque...
Bookmarking and social sharing trends
The ability to save a URL has been around since Mosaic 0.2 but is currently experiencing a transformation as we learn more about the pages and content behind the pointers and share our findings with o...
A New Advertising Engine
Google Expands Its Web Reach to Madison Avenue — NEW YORK — At Google Inc.'s new office near the Hudson River, Volvo's top U.S. advertising manager has just flown in from California to talk about ne...
Get Applecare Executive Customer Service
Here's how to obtain the highest levels of Apple Executive Customer Service. These people are empowered to perform magic, like replacing your machine or free out-of-warranty repairs. — Use but do n...
If You Dislike Microsoft's Windows Antipiracy Checks, Look Out
Next up: Microsoft Office joins the software validation program. — If you don't like the mandatory antipiracy checks that Microsoft now enforces for Windows, brace yourself. The Microsoft Office pr...
Skype founders plan to launch Web TV service: paper
FRANKFURT/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The founders of file-swapping service KaZaA and Internet calling program Skype plan to launch advertising-supported Internet television shortly, Skype co-founder Janus ...
Palm Treo 680 and Cingular 8525 price and release!
Ah yes, this is what we've been so eagerly awaiting. Enough pussyfooting around with the Palm Treo 680 and HTC Hermes / 8525 coming to Cingular — we know they're due. We need prices, we need dates. ...
Cryptos gather for 30th anniversary of public-key cryptography
Some of the world's top crypto minds shared the stage at the Thirty Years of Public-Key Cryptography anniversary event at the Computer History Museum last night. NYT reporter John Markoff, who has co...
Taking Wi-Fi power to the people
The Spanish start-up FON wants you to help it unwire San Francisco and other cities around the globe by providing ubiquitous Wi-Fi access. — On Friday, the company will give away its Wi-Fi routers, ...