MIT profs create autonomous UAVs
Creating a robot that can manage to fly around a room on its own without hitting a wall is a mean feat to pull off, but that's exactly what a team of professors at MIT have managed to do. Their multi...
Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work
If you want a glimpse of the future of work in the broadband age, you can find it, of all places, on MTV's website. To my knowledge, their recent gaming news segment, "Is Mining Virtual Gold Exploita...
Mistakes Made On The Road To Innovation
Led by CEO Antonio M. Perez, Kodak is struggling to reinvent its business model. It's not alone — When Eastman Kodak (EK ) vowed in 2000 to become a leader in digital cameras, the idea seemed ludic...
After YouTube and MySpace, what next?
The people spilling out of Ritual Coffee Roasters on to the San Francisco sidewalk scent more than coffee beans.
Archive.org Founder Criticizes Google Book Scanning (Video)
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive criticizes the Google library digitizing project [WMV] in an interview with Mario Sixtus of the German Elektrischer Reporter. — [This video by Handelsblatt/ Ma...
Web site hikes pay for fledgling video directors
Text+LOS ANGELES, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Break.com, one of the rising number of Web sites offering user-generated videos to rival the likes of YouTube, said on Sunday it would nearly double the amount of ...
A Natural HatTrick: SitoFono, iotum and Grand Central
To be upfront, my agency represents iotum and GrandCentral and I have spent a lot of time figuring out how they are different, and they are. Not only are they different, they are so complimentary tha...
Fake chinese electronics selling better than the originals!
It's a funny old world. Chinese manufacturers are copying the circuit boards and designs of products from Japan and Korea, and they're doing it so fast that by the time the originals arrive in the ma...
Resistance = 17.75GB of garbage? [Update 1]
Resistance: Fall of Man was billed to be the defining game for why Blu-ray exists in the first place. Resistance developers Insomniac stated that the game took up 22GB of space and that all those bit...
Seeking Executive to Tame the Digital Future
In the last few weeks, there has been a stampede of change involving the top Internet executives at big media companies.
Can shopping work with social networks?
Looks like the American Marketing Association has its eye on social networks like MySpace as the shopping malls of the Web era. The AMA came out with a survey on Friday that said 47 per cent of peopl...
Store 256GB on an A4 sheet
How much information can you store on an A4 sheet? Well, according to some new technology designed by an Indian engineering student, an extraordinary 256GB. — New "rainbow technology", devised by S...
Marshal Tito?
Continuing the Web 2.0 contra-Revolution ("you say you want a revolution, oh yeah"), though I agree with Mike and Ora, I disagree with Bill Thompson of the Register. In an article titled, Web 2.0 and...
Is BlogHerald On The Chopping Block? Matt Craven Goes On The Record
BlogMedia, the parent company of BlogHerald, a blog that I also blog at (ah, using "blog" as a noun and a verb leads to all kinds of grammatical fun) is currently under a repositioning effort that has...
I just saw a Zune, and guess what? Its a piece of s**t.
Imagine your son waking up on Christmas (if you're into Christmas) morning and rushing to open his presents in breathless anticipation of getting a shiny new iPod, only to find out he's got a Zune, wh...
Forbes Video Interview With Digg CEO
Michele Steele at Forbes Video Network interviewed Digg CEO Jay Adelson to discuss site usage and acquisition rumors. The video was posted on November 22, 2006. — Steele asked Adelson about the siz...
Nintendo Wii Wii Component Cable
Click the image for more photos (1) — Related Items of Nintendo Wii Wii Component Cable — Product Features of Nintendo Wii Wii Component Cable — Multiple HD modes: 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i — M...
Smart homes a reality in S Korea
More than 100 homes offering smart technology have just been built in South Korea and another 30,000 are planned. — Mi Yung Kim and her 10-month-old son Jae Won recently moved into their new smart f...
Will the OLPC interface ruin computing for millions of kids?
If you've been following the development of the One Laptop Per Child project, you know that a lot of unconventional thinking has gone into it. The goal is to help bridge the digital divide by produci...
Can Mel Put Sirius Back on Top?
CEO: Mel Karmazin, Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) — IT'S MONDAY MORNING, and Mel Karmazin bursts into a glass-enclosed conference room on the 36th floor of Sirius Satellite Radio's Rockefeller Center...
IAdware Trojan aims for Macs
Online fraudsters may be ready to put Mac users in their sights. — On Thursday, antivirus firm F-Secure published a brief analysis of a proof-of-concept adware program for the Mac OS X that could th...