Web 2.0 and Tim O'Reilly as Marshal Tito
Forward to the (distributed) revolution — Comment As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in...
Court to hear Google-newspaper fight
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A Belgian court on Friday will hear Google Inc.'s defense against local newspaper complaints that it stole content from their Web sites without paying them or asking their permissi...
Google Reaches Copyright Deal With Belgians
Google, the world's most-used Internet search engine, reached a settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists yesterday in a copyright dispute over how Google's news service links to newspaper...
MySpace Store Could Make Billions?
It's Black Friday in the US, and holiday shopping is the hot topic - if you believe The American Marketing Association, MySpace, Facebook and other major social networks are missing out on massive pro...
A Wii Workout: When Videogames Hurt
Nintendo's new system forces players to move their bodies, causing aches for some couch potatoes; a case of 'Wii elbow' — A videogame maker has finally succeeded in getting kids off the couch and mo...
How To Bypass The Zune's WiFi Sharing DRM
We knew it would be done sooner or later, and now that we have the mod to use your Zune as a portable hard drive, a method to bypass the Zune's WiFi sharing DRM is finally here. — First, you need to...
What if Linux does infringe on Microsoft intellectual property?
There have been a lot of words written about the comments made by Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer during a Q&A session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conf...
Alexa is 100% wrong and you can game it with as few as three machines—or so I've been told.
or so I've been told. — Alexa does not work at all and we should not even recognize it as valid anymore from what I've learned. — You can game Alexa with as few as three machines running the Alexa ...
Download Windows Vista Wallpapers
You can download Windows Vista Wallpapers by just right clicking on any of the thumbnail images and choose "Save Target As" to save the large size Vista wallpaper image to your hard disk. — These ar...
Who's Using What for RSS?
A peek inside the RSS kimono — RSS is a funny old thing - once it takes hold in a person's daily routine it becomes as essential as checking ones email or reading the morning newspaper - but as far ...
Congress unlocks US cellphones
But censorware research is illegal, again — The US copyright office will permit mobile phone subscribers to unlock their phones, allowing them to be used by rival network providers. — It's a right...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brands
One day last June, a 29-year-old graduate student in South Dakota had more than 21 conversations as she scurried through her day. She discussed Donald Trump's wealth with her boyfriend and suggested ...