Web 2007 is here ... or somethin!
Damn, I take a few days off of blogging and the New York Times (er, John Markoff) goes and invents Web 3.0. — Huh? — I've done more than 50 interviews in the past three months and collected hundre...
Wii Media Playback Impressions
The Wii is no multimedia device. — That shouldn't come as a great surprise to anyone, but the lack of seemingly basic features is still a bit of a let down. — Photo Channel: The heart of multimedi...
Java Is Free
When I took the job at Sun in early 2004, I had a long talk with John Fowler, about this blog among other things. John said: "You might end up happier if you don't blog about open-sourcing Java." Th...
Waiting for Skype to pay off for eBay
BERLIN: The managers of eBay, the world's largest online auctioneer, had something else in mind in September 2005 when they decided to pay at least $2.6 billion to buy Skype, the pioneer in Internet t...
Customize the Embedded Google Video Player
If you go to Google Video, you can get a code that allows you to embed a video into your site. Although Google doesn't mention that, the Flash player used by Google Video (googleplayer.swf) lets you ...
Shopping Site Offers a Way to Raid a Celebrity's Closet
For fashionistas in lower tax brackets, reproducing the latest hip look from Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton can mean endless clicking through online retail sites and hit-or-miss searches on Google or s...
Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider
The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd. — One of the fundamental differences between the proprietary software world and the free software world is that th...
Nintendo's new Zelda most certainly doesn't fall flat
Don't mind my cranky colleague. His childhood was bleak. Devoid of happiness. Mine was full of sunshine. I played in the woods. I climbed trees. I played Zelda games. — To think one could make...
Vista RTM cracked by pirates before release
Well, so much for closing piracy loopholes! With Windows Vista and Office 2007 only just going Gold, and not even available to Microsoft beta testers, developers or volume licence subscribers, the fi...
Start me up: The sound of Vista
Long process results in short Windows clip you'll hear a million times — SEATTLE - Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect ju...