H.P. Will Pay $14.5 Million to Settle Suit
Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that it would pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the California attorney general over the company's use of private detectives to obtain private phone records of boa...
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft
For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. — Note: I actually meant to push this to the server...
Bringing radio advertising to Google advertisers: an update
There's been a lot of speculation about what we're doing in radio advertising so we thought we'd give you a quick update regarding what we've been working on since the acquisition of dMarc Broadcastin...
BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs
If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping software, available on your set-top box to download high-definition movies from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, yo...
Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog
Mike Cassidy has been writing for the San Jose Mercury News for years. He's a general columnist. I remember reading him back when I read paper. Today he called me and asked for help. Blog help. S...
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006
Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the bro...
Sunnyvale and Mountain View...so close, yet so far
According to Google Maps Sunnyvale and Mountain View California are 3.0 miles apart. Oddly enough according to Yahoo Maps they are 2.9 miles apart. Yet despite the estimated mileage they both claim ...
Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds ?
Our blog has been in existence for over two years now but we always abstained from publishing full content RSS feeds for two selfish reasons (or you can call them fears) outlined below: — 1. Since R...
Linden Lab Mutes Noted Agitator... Again
Another year, another muzzle placed on infamous Second Life celebrity Prokofy Neva by the virtual world's owner-operator Linden Lab. — Last year, Neva was banned from participation in the official S...
The Video Startup That May Never Launch
This is a rumor that just won't die: The major television networks are considering creating a new online video service joint venture to compete with YouTube. — We first heard about this when the Goo...
Citysearch Content Available Through Ask.com's AskCity
Citysearch's Content and Ask.com's Search Technology Create a Comprehensive Local Search Experience — WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Citysearch, an operating business of IAC...
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server
Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware. — Volume Activat...
A Wish List for the iPhone
If you're dreaming of a mobile phone that downloads and shares music, carries your files, and makes movies, why not put all your Apples in one basket — Let me go out on a limb here and say that Appl...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggreg...
First look: A guided tour of Apple's Leopard Server OS
Look for Leopard to be 'an exciting release,' says Yuval Kossovsky — Recently, I had a chance to sit down with a few folks from Apple Computer Inc. who gave me a guided tour of Apple's upcoming serv...
7.2Mbps HSDPA service to hit Cingular next year
There's always thrilling news coming from ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong for those residing overseas, but this time it's the Americans rejoicing. A Qualcomm official has stated that USA's own Cingula...
Google Checkout opens up to other countries
At least half of Google's Checkout service has been opened up to countries other than the United States. Now, regardless of where you live, you can purchase items with Google Checkout — unfortunately...
Download of the Day: New York Times Reader (Windows)
Windows only: The New York Times Reader lets you download full editions of the NYT to your desktop where you can browse the contents offline in a very familiar newsprint format. — On installation, t...
Bringing radio advertising to Google advertisers: an update
There's been a lot of speculation about what we're doing in radio advertising so we thought we'd give you a quick update regarding what we've been working on since the acquisition of dMarc Broadcastin...
Web-based Media Player Lets You Stream Your iTunes To Any Computer
Streampad is a Web-based media player that gives users access to their digital music library from any computer. Similar to Songbird, it streams your personal library from the Internet but it runs com...
Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal?
Now that Yahoo has announced its reorg, many are wondering and speculating as to what the ailing Internet giant might do in terms of M&A. Put another way, will Yahoo rely on acquisitions to fix its pr...
BitTorrent Acquires uTorrent
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform, today announced it has acquired uTorrent, a lightweight and efficient imple...
Time-Shifting Could Cost Broadcast TV $600 Million
The Great Commercial Ratings Debate, Round 6 — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Nielsen Media Research CEO Susan Whiting spearheaded the latest industry get-together on the great commercial-ratings debate yes...
Fiber ... now faster and cheaper
If you live in the US, probably you haven't noticed it. But fiber networks are growing in popularity, luring people with faster speeds, and now lower prices. PointTopic, the company that tracks the ...
GPS, Back In the Day
Today a GPS chip can fit in a cell phone and can cost as little as a dollar. Thirty years ago a GPS device cost tens of thousands of dollars, was bigger than a bread box (see picture) and was used on...
YouTube adds on-the-fly recording
Everyone's favorite embedded video site YouTube has unleashed a new Quick Capture feature that allows users to record video directly from your webcam. — I gave it a try this morning with my MacBook ...
Concern over mobile music-sharing
Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law. — A survey of almost 1,500 eight to 13-year-olds found almost a third shared music v...
Diggers Are Getting Paid — But Not By Kevin Rose
But Not By Kevin Rose — It seems like there is a long running meme in the blogosphere about gaming Digg, and it even made it as an article on CNet the other day (despite a few inaccuracies). Despite...
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006
Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the bro...
McCartney cries 'Help!' on song copyrights
Music copyrights in the UK last only 50 years, so early Beatles songs could be up for grabs by 2012. — LONDON (Reuters) — Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams joined thousands of other performers on T...
1200-year-old problem 'easy'
Schoolchildren in Caversham have become the first in the country to learn about a new number - 'nullity' - which solves maths problems neither Newton nor Pythagoras could conquer. — Dr James Anderso...
A Problem Must Be Solution, Resolved, Or Dissolved
8 questions about the web you always wanted answers to — The most popular 10,000 websites analyzed - 8 Questions & Answers — Last week I had the urge to do some real quantitative data analysis. A...