Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat
By Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google is engaged in a frantic round of negotiations aimed at persuading traditional media companies to supply ...
Sorting Through the MothersClick Mess
The MothersClick mess is slowly sorting itself out. The founder emailed today and apologized. I apologized back. — Tonight I came across a post by their PR firm that is infinitely interesting to m...
MSN Music presses mute on downloads
Two years after opening its MSN Music store to compete with Apple Computer's iTunes, Microsoft plans to stop selling downloads from the site, CNET News.com has learned. — Beginning, Nov. 14, MSN's m...
RANT: THE COMCAST HD DVR IS SIMPLY, TERRIBLY AWFUL
This has been boiling in me for a long, long time, and I need to get it out. Why? Well, last night the power went out at my house, not uncommon here in Marin, where the homes are old and the weather...
Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet
Amazon's CEO wants to run your business with the technology behind his Web site. But Wall street wants him to mind the store — It was one of the Web's typical flash frenzies, a gaggle of geeks seek...
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review: Quad Core is here!
Since the release of Intel's Conroe micro-architecture, the company has been making waves, massive waves. In terms of performance, Intel washed away main competitor AMD, and they have continued to do...
Friday's question: why does an iTunes upgrade need a full install?
I don't know why I never thought to ask this question before, and I'm sure it's been asked somewhere before but: when there's a new Apple iTunes version available, why does it require a full download ...
Geek to Live: Make a ringtone from any MP3
Everyone in your office jump when you hear that tired old Nokia ringtone? Most modern cell phones support custom ringtones that can alert you when it's your phone that's got an incoming call. — Goo...
Gmail Offers to Open XLS in Spreadsheets
Caleb sent in a screenshot showing how Gmail suggests to open attached XLS (Microsoft Excel) files in Google Spreadsheets. I'm not sure if everyone can see this feature yet. — I guess we can expect...
Q&A: Web science
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said he wants to set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web's development. — BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh talked...
YouTube, Coming Soon to Your Cell Phone
We've been hearing about the possibilities of YouTube pushing mobile for awhile. A few people we have talked with in the mobile industry have said that the company has been burning the midnight oil w...
TinyPodcast: A week with a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC
TinyPodcast: A week with a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC: Play Now | I wrote a teaser post a few days ago in ink, about a new device that I got to play with for a week. To top off that week in grand st...
Why Not Have The Government Tax Google To Pay For Next Generation Networks?
from the because-it's-idiotic? dept — For all of the bad arguments we see against network neutrality legislation, at the very least they come from a basic (if skewed) free market rationale.
VMWare's Fusion begins private beta
Some beta testers that we won't name for their own protection have let us know that VMWare is now ready to take Parallels to task in the desktop virtualization market with Fusion. — What is Fusion? ...
SEO Salaries - How Much Should You Make
This is going to be a tough and contentious issue and one that isn't easy for me to write about. Along with the obvious internal conflicts of interest in disclosing salary numbers, there's bound to b...
Podcast math: we don't know what we don't know
Managing Editor — Lost Remote — Ze Frank calls it the Nerd Fight. He is disputing Rocketboom's assertions that they have 350,000 viewers a day. At the center of this dispute is what we decide a ...
Zune: First Full Review
Microsoft was kind enough to get us some hands-on time with the Zune, not batting an eye as we eagerly slided the player down our pants, enjoying the material it was made out of. Our thoughts first, ...