Apple 'falsified' files on Jobs' options
Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, was handed 7.5m stock options in 2001 without the required authorisation from the company's board of directors, according to people familiar with the mat...
Now Microsoft Wants Its Laptop Back
Microsoft and AMD sent out a pile of very expensive (yet trashy looking) laptops to a number of bloggers over the past week. We were told we could keep them - now after a day of minor outrage by some...
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nyMeetupDec2006 … Note from Sanford Dickert — Wollmann Lounge (at Cooper Union Engineering Building, next to Starbucks on corner of 3rd Ave and Astor Place) — Subway Map — 51 Astor Place, 8th St...
Busy travelers snap up iPods from Hartsfield vending machines
Concourse A machine sold $55,000 worth of electronics in a month — Anita Leopold has a little surprise for anyone who thinks vending machines were created to dispense lightly salted snack food and s...
ProfileLinker Takes Meebo Approach to Social Networking
There are clearly too many social networks, and if you belong to one you likely belong to many. Boston based (soon to be relocated to San Francisco) ProfileLinker's aim is to help you stay organized ...
Games Make You Drive Like an Idiot
FoxTrot Cuts Back to Weekly Reaffirms Love of WoW — FoxTrot cartoonist and World of Warcraft enthusiast Bill Amend recently announced that he would be cutting back from producing his excellent newsp...
Earthquake knocks Asia back to phone age, and beyond
BANGKOK: It was a tsunami for the digital age, a collapse of the virtual world that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan. — Peop...
The Mac OS X font managers review
Introduction — Well it was a long time coming, but I've been through the trenches and come up, sucking chest wound and all, with the Ars review of font management programs. I've also succeeded in n...
Google "disappears" sex blogs? Something's broken.
A number of bloggers who cover topics related to human sexuality say they've suddenly disappeared (or at least been deeply demoted) in Google search results. Popular "indie" blogs that deal with nonf...
The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Always intriguing, often useful, and sometimes surprising, these 20 products showcase some of the best in tech this year. — A PC that's half desktop, half notebook. An operating system that runs en...
PayPerPost In The News Again
PayPerPost, the controversial startup that pays bloggers to write about advertisers' products, will be in the news again tomorrow. They will be announcing the acquisition of blogging tools and servic...
Apple and Nintendo Should Play Together
Hope the festive season has rewarded your hard labors this past year with lots of cool toys. In the Howard house, Santa left a Nintendo Wii, which was quite appreciated and ha nearly been worn out al...
AT&T compromise may get merger approved
WASHINGTON - AT&T Inc. has offered a new set of concessions that are expected to satisfy the two Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission and lead to approval of the company's $85 billion bu...
Gmail Disaster: Reports Of Mass Email Deletions
Just a week after I wrote "Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect" a number of users started complaining that all of their Gmail emails and contacts were auto deleted. — The first message, posted on the Goog...
How we came up with year-end Zeitgeist data
The Zeitgeist is "the spirit of time." This is why when we come up with the lists of top searches on Google.com for 2006, we do not simply retrieve the most frequently-searched terms for the period —...
Yahoo! Answers Captures 96% of Q and A Market Share
Search Engine Land had an interesting post about question and answer sites today that linked to a thorough reviewfrom MIT Technology Review of six of these sites. Yahoo! Answers was the clear winner,...