Google Earth in 4D
Google skipped right past the third dimension and landed directly in the fourth (time) by offering historical maps on Google Earth. Now you can travel back in time — for example, I am looking at the ...
Asus R2H UMPC Usability InkShow
Here is the second installment of the Asus R2H Ultra Mobile PC InkShows. In this InkShow, I get up close and personal with the R2H, focusing on usability of the UMPC. I give an overview of some of ...
Google CEO: Free cellphones for all, if...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Web search leader Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers …
Zune
I just sent this letter to Microsoft. It was a very difficult thing to do: — Sunday November 11, 2006 — Hey Paul, we are going to back out of the Zune.net promo that is supposed to launch [delete...
Alarm Raised for Critical Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver Flaw
Computer security analysts are raising the alarm for a critical vulnerability in the Broadcom wireless driver embedded in PCs from HP, Dell, Gateway and eMachines. — The vulnerability, which exposed...
WIDGETS LIVE! EVERYWHERE
Widgets Live! was a fabulous day of festivities (November 6, 2006) which attracted the thought leaders of the web, mobile and gadget industries to discuss one of the hottest topics, widgets. Compani...
Let It Be Gang
I'm in Washington for a workshop on attention and gestures. In the cab on the way to the hotel I called in to the Gillmor Gang recording, as did Mike Arrington, Jason Calacanis, Robert Anderson, Hugh...
Critical Broadcom Windows driver exploit released!
The MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) project has released a Metasploit 3.0 kernel-level driver exploit for Broadcom based Wireless LAN devices for Windows 2000 and XP. The flaw was discovered by researche...
Rumor: Apple getting creative on album pricing
del.icio.us Digg this — It's one of the problems of the digital-music era. You buy a couple of songs from an album at 99 cents each. After listening to them a few times, you think you might want...
Enterprise 2.0 and Culture Change
Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School has identified a user segment within organizations that he describes as the 'Empty Quarter'. The context is within the types of us...
ReviewMe Launches Better PayPerPost
Apologies for the low posting this week, I've been too sick to write anything. :-( — When Florida-based PayPerPost launched with the idea of advertisers being able to pay bloggers to write positive ...
Amazon S3: Show me the money
I still have some more Web 2.0 Summit stuff to write up if I get a few minutes today, but let me talk about Amazon's S3 for a minute. At the conference, I was chatting with Michael Arrington of TechC...
Saturday maintenance for AdSense ... and for you, too?
This Saturday, November 11th, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. Although you won't be able to access your account during this time, ads will still be s...
Intel eyes nanotubes for future chip designs
Intel is eyeing carbon nanotubes as a possible replacement for copper wires inside semiconductors, a switch that one day could eliminate some big problems for chipmakers. — The chip giant has manage...
Extensive PS3 Interface Walkthrough
Curious as to what the PS3's hard-to-read user interface looks like? You've come to the right place. Watch the video to see all the submenus (excluding media, that's coming later). — The new syste...
Motorola to acquire Good Technology
Research In Motion shares fall in wake of deal for smaller rival — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Motorola Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Good Technology, a provider of wireless e-mail ser...
Stores selling Zunes early
We don't know exactly how many stores are now accessory to the heinous crime of pre-launch gadget sales, but it looks like Microsoft is one customer closer to overthrowing the nation of iPod courtesy ...