Polite Hackers Kick It in Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — The first international hacker conference held in this most wired of nations would never be confused with its Western forebears. Instead of jeans and T-shirts with clever slogans...
The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto'
An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Full text of the document is below....
AMD designs prototype PC for the living room
Advanced Micro Devices has created a prototype PC designed to go in the living room, a place where several companies have tried to go before but almost none has succeeded. — Resembling a stereo comp...
Question of the Week: Are Games Industry Professionals Buying PlayStation 3 or Wii?
Gamasutra's latest Question of the Week asked our esteemed audience of game industry professionals, educators and students for feedback on which next-gen hardware is actually being bought by game prof...
Patent troll going after AMD for infringement
"Those who can, do; those who can't, sue." Although the original version of this phrase is (unfairly) used to describe teachers, we think that it does a nice job summing up the current state of the c...
Not Always Full Speed Ahead
What is a megabit worth? And what the heck is a megabit anyway? These questions are hard to avoid for consumers trying to make sense of the fast-growing menu of options for high-speed Internet acces...
Apple proposes 'blank' iPod/phone/MacBook just add buttons
The Ultimate Customisable iPod/MacBook/Tablet- add the controls and software and make it a phone or what ever you want. — Apple has just filed a new patent application for the adding of physical con...
Gates praises iPod, labels Zune a "modest" competitor
When we report on the sayings and sound bites of higher ups at technology companies, we tend to cover them from a negative angle because, as you well know, execs are pretty fond of belittling their op...
MPAA Sues Firm For Loading Legally Owned DVDs Onto iPods
from the come-again? dept — It really was just a few days ago that the entertainment industry folks were claiming that it was the consumer electronics industry that was trying to pervert "fair use,...
Universal Music Sues MySpace for Copyright Infringement
The Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit yesterday against MySpace, the popular social networking Web site, for allowing users to upload and...
3's conversion to the Internet faith.... No IMS... but also no wVoIP...
Add Snap Previews to Any Site For Free
One thing people really like about the Snap search engine is that it gives a large preview screen of every search result. The idea is that users can save time by seeing the site before they click to ...