Vodafone's Social Connections
The wireless giant is in talks to give its customers access to social-networking services with their phones — Wireless-phone giant Vodafone (VOD) will let customers use their mobile phones to gain a...
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights
NEW YORK - Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday. — Other copyright e...
Top ten girl geeks
Charles Babbage may have invented the programmable computer, but it was Ada Byron (later Ada Lovelace) who is widely credited with writing the first real program for it. She translated Luigi Menabrea...
Investing time and money in virtual worlds: Caveat Emptor
[We asked Raph Koster, an expert on virtual worlds, to comment on the recent controversy at Second Life. He writes a popular blog at http://www.raphkoster.com] — In the last month something happene...
Google Integrating Blog Posts Into Search Results
Google have been so busy releasing beta after beta for the last while that their raft of services are far from integrated. Try logging into your AdSense account, dow't work.nload an advanced report a...
Folding laptop filmed!
Video exclusive: Fujitsu let us finger their super-swish folding laptop. — Taking the Origami principle to heart, Fujitsu reckon they've got the ultimate UMPC licked, with this swish design for a la...
1000100101 Watch from TokyoFlash
Man and his machine have a unique bond. I mean the more complicated the machine is the more attracted the men are to it. Take a look at the 1000100101 Watch from TokyoFlash. It's an interesting wat...
CIS Finds Flaws in Firefox v2 Password Manager
Chapin Information Services (CIS) has discovered a new flaw in the Mozilla Firefox web browser that exposes saved passwords to clever attackers. — Given the new nature of this type of attack, CIS ha...
365 Days Later, Xbox 360 Unveils First Wave of TV Shows and Movies on Xbox Live
Xbox 360 offers the latest in entertainment options for everyone, from a library of 160 high- definition games expected by holiday to downloadable standard and high-definition TV shows and movies.
Filling Pantries Without a Middleman
A few years back, the online grocery business was just about the perfect symbol of the dot-com bust. — A company called Webvan had gone public in 1999, promising to reinvent the $500 billion superma...
Breaching the Cellcos' Garden Wall
Bob Lucky likes to complain that his mobile phone (a) won't play self-generated ringtones (you have to buy them from the phone company), (b) won't upload pictures directly (you have to send them over ...
Dead Plagiarists Society
WILL GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH UNCOVER LONG-BURIED LITERARY CRIMES? — Listen to an interview with the author here, or sign up for Slate's free daily podcast on iTunes. — Amir Aczel knew just whom to blam...
Mozilla's Firefox 2
Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin, the flaw lets hackers compromise users' passwords and usernames by presenting them with a fake login form.
XBox 360 Video Store FAQ: How Long to Download a Movie?
Our FAQ for the Xbox 360's video download service keeps growing. — How Long Does it Take to DL a Movie? — I'm in SF, on Comcast's 6Mbit cable modem service. I started downloading Akira Kurosawa's...
Remote Control Mail: Check Your Postal Mail on the Web
Kirkland, Washington based company Document Command Inc. has launched its consumer facing web interface for postal mail called Remote Control Mail. The service provides an alternative to PO Boxes, ma...
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DMCA Exemptions Announced; Nothing Much For Consumers
from the keep-on-trying dept — Every few years, the Copyright Office/Library of Congress is supposed to look at requested "exemptions" from the DMCA anti-circumvention rule, where people have presen...
MacBook Marionette
Most puppets scare me. Horrid little creatures, only coming alive when controlled by some being of perceived omnipotence manipulating every aspect of their pathetic little lives. But enough about my...
Podcast Downloading
Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% r...
okay, so maybe youtube is the best thing ever
Sundance Winner 'The Corporation' Released for Free on BitTorrent
The award winning Canadian documentary 'The Corporation' has been released on BitTorrent for free. Filmmaker Mark Achbar just released an updated "official" torrent of it. Everyone is free to downlo...
Search Engine Thanksgiving Logos 2006
Google, Yahoo and Ask are showing off special Thanksgiving Day logos in the US today; Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November, often with an accompanying Thanksgiving feast with a t...