Microsoft to Add Video Sharing to Zune, Ballmer Says (Update1)
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. plans to add a video-sharing feature to its Zune player and will eventually sell a model that combines the device with a phone, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ball...
It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista
I really couldn't believe the tip a reader sent in earlier this month that Microsoft's Zune MP3 player would be incompatible with Windows Vista. — I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zu...
Dell To Make Announcement In Second Life
This new trend of announcing news in Second Life is generally pissing off journalists, who don't have a lot of time to waste. But Dell is apparently going ahead with plans to host an invite-only pres...
Startup hits the money with biz wiki
Ray King hasn't had a home run yet. But investors in his newest venture, AboutUs Inc., think King could be building the next Google. — King's Portland company has just closed a $1 million initial f...
Coming Soon via Your TiVo: Internet Video on Television
TiVo plans to introduce features that will allow people to use its digital video recorders to watch some video programming from the Internet on their televisions. — Until now, TiVo has not been able...
From Rocketboom to ABC
Video blogger Amanda Congdon is the latest "cewebrity" to jump to mainstream media; an industry is forming to help others follow her lead — Internet celebrity Amanda Congdon just finished broadcasti...
Court Shuts Down Media Motor Spyware Operation
Trojan Program Downloaded Spyware, Adware, Porno Pop-Ups to Consumers' Computers — A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, in...
Study finds Web isn't teeming with sex
ANALYSIS SHOWS ABOUT 1 PERCENT OF ALL PAGES HAVE ADULT CONTENT — A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft's giant Internet i...
I shot the picture above
In many ways it was a frustrating camera to use.
Cable's cellphone service gets in gear
More than one year after announcing plans to jump into the cellphone game, the USA's biggest cable TV operators, in partnership with Sprint, finally are starting to launch service. — Comcast, the No...
Q&A with Amanda Congdon
The video blogger has parlayed her success into deals with ABC and HBO. Here's what she has to say about hitting the big time — Being un-boomed may be one of the best things to happen to Amanda Con...
Report: Firefox 2.0 Trumps IE7 In Phish-Fighting
The newly released Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers both include new technology to help flag and block phishing sites — those authentic-looking Web sites set up by sc...
With a Dish, Broadband Goes Rural
The town of Rindge, N.H., is just 70 miles from Boston, but to telephone and cable companies it might as well be at the end of the earth. Many of the town's 5,500 residents cannot get broadband Inter...
NBC News launches video podcasts
Full episodes of NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press will be available starting tomorrow as video podcasts via MSNBC.com, iTunes and the new Microsoft Zune download service. It just so happens that M...