Microsoft, Novell Reach Accord on Linux
Microsoft Corp. reached a rapprochement with a major seller of the Linux operating system, a deal that makes a kind of peace between two opposing camps in the software industry. — The deal with Nove...
Open Letter to Kevin Rose
Please sign in the comments with your name (and user name) if you agree with the contents of this letter. — An open letter to Kevin Rose — By Muhammad Saleem & Mark Johnson — November 4, 2006 —...
Gannett to Crowdsource News
The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to America to get its news. — According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of U...
Netscape To Move From Tech/Politics Focus
Netscape, the five month-old Digg-clone experiment, is testing out two alternate home page designs with users in an attempt to increase the popularity of little-used topical categories. — I spoke wi...
Zango reaches settlement with FTC
Adware manufacturer Zango has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission in response to charges that it breached federal law by deceptively installing advertising software on consumers' PC...
Blogging is great
People have, since it started, complained about the fact that there is junk on the web. And as a universal medium, of course, it is important that the web itself doesn't try to decide what is publish...
Google Gets Orkut Users Talking
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board) will soon announce that its Google Talk instant messaging and VOIP service will be built into its social networking site Orkut, Google's version of MySpace. — T...
Mark Jung Leaves FIM/IGN; No Immediate Replacement As COO
Now I really wish I'd started a pool when Mark Jung, co-founder of IGN and CEO when it was acquired by News Corp., took the job as COO of Fox Interactive Media. Roughly eight months into his tenure, ...
Windows XP Zune theme
The new Windows XP Zune theme is here, and it is hot. You might mentally compare this theme to Royale Noir, it does look a bit like it, but it's not. This theme is of course to commemorate the launc...
Hands-on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
10 hours in, is this the best Zelda game ever made? Matt's impressions inside. — IGN Wii's editor-in-chief, Matt Casamassina, recently journeyed to Nintendo of America's Seattle headquarters for an...
Why I do long videos and tell mass audiences to go elsewhere
Andrew Bourland notices that the way to build an audience is to do short videos. Beet.TV is kicking my a&&. — But, as Kathy Sierra teaches us, it's not all about size of audience. I used to get th...
Off to the Web 2.0 Summit (formally known as Web 2.0 Conference)
Tomorrow morning I'm traveling to San Francisco for next week's Web 2.0 Conference, which is to be re-named the Web 2.0 Summit on opening day next Tuesday. In an email to media explaining the name ch...
The $200 Billion Lunch: We're switching to IPv6, dontcha know, and it might be worth it.
Remember Y2K? If you worked in Information Technology in the waning days of the last millennium, you probably remember Y2K as a combination of Christmas and the hardest workday of your life.
Rich Sherlund is Leaving the Microsoft Building
There are lots of ways to read the news that Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund, historically the "axe" on Microsoft, is leaving the firm and looking to get into money management (read: hedge funds)....
TiVo with a Twist: Ways to Enhance the TiVo Experience
If you've read any of my posts since I started writing for the site, it's no secret I love TiVo. Over the course of the last 42 months the company has milked $543.90 in subscription fees out of me an...
Voxilla On Fonality's IP PBX Play
Little did I know this morning that I was onto something when it came to Fonality having more up their sleeve than has been announced. — If I read between the lines of Marcelo's post today there is ...
Greasemonkey Script: Gmail and Reader Integrator
GMAIL AND READER INTEGRATOR — I wrote a Greasemonkey script that integrates Gmail with Google Reader. — Features — Spilt-window view of Gmail and Reader on a single page — Links to collapse| ex...
Tom Evslin: "The Internet may need citizen journalists to keep it open and useful."
Back in August, when Tom Evslin of Fractals of Change proposed a possible project for NewAssignment.Net, it was informed by intimate knowledge of how the Internet works. Jeff Jarvis wrote …
Spacewear fashion show: looking fly in zero-g
A spacewear fashion show featuring clothing designed for travel in weightless conditions was held at the University of Tokyo's Hongo campus on November 2. — The show was held by Rocketplane Kistler ...