Months-old dispute over iPod finally settled
WHEATON - It's over. — A settlement in the case of a missing iPod Nano that pitted two 14-year-old girls against each other was reached Thursday in DuPage County Circuit Court, putting to rest the m...
ESA Suffers First Amendment Amnesia, Gets Legalistic on Game Blogs
Get over yourself, ESA. Grow a sense of humor, ESRB. — It's only a t-shirt. — If the ESA believes that a novelty shirt which lampoons the ESRB rating system somehow infringes upon their brand …
Bradley M. Kuhn's Letter to the FOSS Development Community Regarding Microsoft's Patent Promise
Last Thursday, Novell and Microsoft announced a new collaborative effort involving both licensing and technology. The Software Freedom Law Center has been following the situation, and as its CTO …
social network sites: my definition
I would like to offer my working definition of "social network sites" per confusion over my request for a timeline. — A "social network site" is a category of websites with profiles, semi-persistent...
All about flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," describes flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every ...
Motorola to acquire Good Technology
Motorola will buy enterprise mobile-computing software company Good Technology, the companies announced Friday. — "Good Technology's solutions, talent and customers complement Motorola's business an...
Amazon To Sell Xbox 360 for $100?
If you are thinking of buying an Xbox 360 in the next few days, don't. We've gotten information that Amazon may be putting the $300 Xbox 360 bundle on sale for $100 in the next week or so as a promot...
AGGREG8 - HOME FOR IT PROS
Okay.. you're an IT Pro. (If you're not, you're still welcome to keep reading.) And you're tired of feeling alone in the world. But you know that there must be some others out there like you - deal...
Harnessing Collective Intelligence
I've long made the assertion that one of the central differences between the PC era and the Web 2.0 era is that once the internet becomes platform, rather than just an add-on to the PC, you can build ...
New AdWords Algorithm Kicks In; Google Advertisers Upset
Earlier this week, we reported that Google will be launching a new landing page quality score algorithm for AdWords ranking and pricing. It has now been released and Google AdWords advertisers are sp...
Google... the OS for Advertising
Traditional media companies are in a persistent state of confusion when it comes to Google. The question that keeps these media executives up at night is... is Google a friend or a foe? If recent co...
Blog Pimpin
Blogs, uhh, good God, what are they good for..... (sung to the tune of the song War)... Has anyone noticed lately that more blogs posts are about other blogs, which are writing about whats being rep...
"Music Only" for your iTunes playlists
In my MacBreak Weekly capacity as Vice-President in Charge of Digging Pointless Ratholes™, I recently mentioned some tricks that I use to create better playlists in iTunes. One of these tricks — whic...
Oh, the emails you'll get...
Brands Produce Their Own Shows
Marketers have found a new way to try to keep viewers from tuning out: offer them TV shows, movies and online programming created by the marketers themselves, often with help from their advertising ag...
ESA Threatens Kotaku
Last month someone created a genius T-shirt that put a gamer's spin on the age old "yo mamma" bag. The shirt read "Your Mom's Rated E for Everyone." Who wouldn't think that's friggin hilarious. The...
Microsoft's Zune Challenges iPod
Player Could Lure Converts, — But It Makes Compromises — And Is Missing Some Features — Next week, Microsoft Corp. will launch the most serious challenge ever mounted to Apple Computer's iPod an...
Xbox HD DVD hands-on
Well looky looky here, we landed an Xbox HD DVD drive. We're already all well aware of what it can and can't do; we just know you want the pics of the unboxing, it sitting next to the Xbox, and maybe...
The Dress Code Is Relaxed, but the Courting Is Intense
Dozens of the world's biggest media moguls and investment bankers, dressed in perfectly pressed suits, mingled in the lobby of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan yesterday at the annual FourSquare conferen...
Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins
Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we cha...