Online video 'eroding TV viewing'
The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests. — Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at le...
The Air Is Free, and Sometimes So Are the Phone Calls That Borrow It
Gary Schaffer looked out his window here last week to discover a reporter standing on his lawn, pirating his wireless Internet access to test a new mobile phone. — The phone, made by Belkin, is one ...
Apple Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In 07
Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac tablet PC and three Companies in Taiwan are now costing a product for a potential launch in mid 2007. — Sources in Taiwan have said tha...
Beatles: only on iPod?
After years of refusing to make the move to MP3, the Beatles may give Steve Jobs' iTunes an exclusive, reports Fortune's Tim Arango. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Click on the iTunes music store and punch ...
The Ten Best Internet Acquisitions Ever
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: After reading the Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever (my commentary) and Part 2, I could not help but come up with this list and offer you the following ten "best" Int...
More-Savvy Web Retailers Expect More Holiday Profits
NEARLY a decade into the e-commerce era, the growth in online holiday shopping has shown few signs of slowing down, executives and analysts said. Fueled by Web searches for iPods, Elmos, gift cards a...
Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword
Many people hate the phrase "Web 2.0" even more than they hate what they believe it represents. No, that's not quite right... many people hate the phrase precisely because they think it represents no...
Shoveling on Digg
As much as I like the idea of Digg—a site where a community chooses the most interesting or relevant news—I must confess that I just don't use it that much. The reason became obvious once I started u...
Time to Rename the Cell Phone?
They're not just for making calls, and they don't have a lot to do with cells. Maybe it's time to name the ubiquitous gadget something else — You see them everywhere. The minute the plane hits the...
Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or "hactivists," have created the latest, and some say most advan...
Size matters
DisplaySearch forecasts that the plasma TV market will start shrinking in 2009 after hitting $24 billion in 2008, while it sees LCD TV demand reaching $75 billion in 2008 and $93 billion in 2010 - a t...
SaaS adoption set to explode
Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that 61% of No...
THE RISE OF "FREECONOMICS"
It's a big day for Moore's Law. I'm not sure anyone else has noticed this, but by my calculations we have in the past few months reached the penny-per-MIPS* milestone. Intel's Core Duo running at 2....
Media group to release grip on PR Newswire
THE private-equity group Apax is planning a bid for PR Newswire (PRN), the highly profitable press-release distribution business that constitutes one of the biggest parts of United Business Media (UBM...