Apple iTV availability to escape Macworld Expo
Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs should have more to say about the company's forthcoming iTV set-top media hub at next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, but the launch party may have to ...
Net neutrality advocates cheer AT&T concessions
Company offers net neutrality sweetner to help telecom merger go down — Net neutrality advocates celebrated this week after AT&T said it would pledge to maintain a "neutral network" in exchange for ...
1.2.07: Apple probe focuses on Anderson, GC Heinen
While Apple has taken pains to clear Steve Jobs of any wrong-doing in its option backdating troubles, the company's internal investigation focused on two unnamed executives who may have fraudulently a...
$100 laptop project launches 2007
The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. — The scheme is hoping to put low-cost computers into the hands of people in developing c...
QuickTime zero-day bug threatens Macs, PCs
update A newly disclosed security vulnerability in Apple Computer's QuickTime software could put both Macs and Windows PCs at risk of cyberattacks, experts have warned. — The publication on Monday o...
Is it a bargain or obsolete?
It's getting harder to know when to buy — The day after Christmas, prices on big-screen TVs went down and Raul Axtle pounced. — Axtle and his 16-year-old son, Shaheen, headed to a Best Buy electro...
GOT OPTIMISM?
THE WORLD'S LEADING THINKERS SEE GOOD NEWS AHEAD — While conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse, scientists and the science-minded among us see good news in the coming ye...
Ailing music biz set to relax digital restrictions
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The anti-digital rights management (DRM) bandwagon is getting more crowded by the day. Even some major-label executives are pushing for the right to sell digital downloads a...
RSS wasn't invented
In the dustup over Microsoft's RSS patents, some of the mainstream press brought up, once again, the issue of Who Invented RSS. But RSS doesn't have an inventor. It wasn't invented. Something else ...
'Gears of War' breaks out for Xbox
In what is expected to be another record-breaking year for the more than $10-billion-a-year video game industry, the breakout hit is a science-fiction action game called Gears of War. — The game did...
Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting
After two years of hesitancy, the music industry is finally taking its first steps toward embracing podcasting. — When podcasts attained prominence in 2004, amateurs and advertisers alike heralded t...
Download of the Day: Software for Starving Students (Win/Mac)
Windows and Mac only: Software for Starving Students has released a 2007 edition of its collection of freeware and open-source software. — The collection includes well-known gems like 7-Zip, Audacit...
Useful HTML Tricks for Bloggers - Add a Touch of Style
What do you need to write a blog ? Some good ideas and the ability to convey your message effectively to the audience. That's it. — Though knowledge of HTML or CSS is not essential to writing a bl...
Calling all psychics: It's contest time again
Consider how strange this year will be in media. — Homer Simpson will go belly-to-belly with Shrek. YouTube's audience will continue to soar higher than a Diet Coke and Mentos fountain. AT&T will ...
Washington Post shoots for closer Web, print ties
The Washington Post Co. plans to have its veteran editors help shape the way stories appear on the Web in the latest example of how top U.S. publishers are retooling news operations for the Internet. ...
Google plugs Gmail data leak flaw
Google has fixed a security hole in several of its services that exposed the address books of Gmail users, the company said Tuesday. — An attacker could create a malicious Web site that would copy a...
The Year in Mac Development
It's risky to write a "year in review" story since there are just so many of them, but I'm going to carve out my niche and look back at the stories that mattered to Mac developers in 2006. — Intel ...
Google Under Fire; May Rule Forever Nonetheless
The press/blogosphere pendulum, rarely stable, is swinging to an extreme anti-Google position as we start the new year. The discovery of another contact-list hack inside GMail has led to the usual co...
Wi-Fi Is Hitting the Road in Cars From Avis, but Technical and Legal Bumps Lie Ahead
Try connecting to a high-speed wireless network from a car, and you are pretty much limited to one method: rigging your laptop computer with a special modem and subscribing to a costly, and sometimes ...
2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
A year ago I wrote a post called "Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without" and listed thirteen startups who's products made a real impact in my life. Those were the products that I loved, and used ...
Using Web Cams but Few Inhibitions, the Young Turn to Risky Social Sites
Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their sites can see and do by cracking down on piracy and depictions of nudit...
GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking
Affordable Hosting — Using a form of cross scripting, it becomes easy to steal a GMail user's contact list if they visit a certain type of website. The only condition is you have to be logged in to...
Preliminary: Xbox 360 wins holiday sales battle
The console sales horse race is more of a marathon than a sprint, but a Register report shows Microsoft edging out the competition in the all important holiday season. The report quotes preliminary N...
The Race to Beat Google
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — In an article in the January 1st 2007 issue of NYTimes, reporter Miguel Helft writes about the race in Silicon Valley to beat Google. Certain...
14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points Since 2001
Earlier I wrote how Google seems to have had a bad week, with some recent negative publicity making it seem like the tipping point of Google becoming the big bad company they don't want to be happenin...
Google, Apple, Yahoo boost valley market in real estate
Commercial real estate in Silicon Valley turned a corner in 2006 that it had been approaching for three years, thanks largely to property purchased by high-tech behemoths Google, Apple Computer and Ya...
The unedited voice of a person
People use blogs primarily to discuss one question — what is a blog? The discussion will continue as long as there are blogs. — It's no different from other media, all they ever talk about is what ...
P-to-P goes Hollywood
BitTorrent co-founder talks up business plans and death of DRM — With all the legal disputes arising from P-to-P (peer to peer) file sharing networks such as Napster, Gnutella, and KaZaa in recent y...
Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!
A zero-day Apple QuickTime flaw for Mac OS X has officially kicked off the MoAB (Month of Apple Bugs). The exploit has been "100% reliable for a current up-to-date x86-based OS X system". Anyone wis...
Costly Gift From Microsoft Is an Invitation to Blog
In Microsoft's latest attempt to reach out to bloggers, the company recently gave away expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system. But the gifts generated controversy as wel...
Apple trying to avoid a train wreck
Like many companies are under the gun in the ongoing stock options trading scandal Apple is playing a dangerous game Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. attorney corps. Many companies, wh...
Placeblogger, local blog/comunity aggregator, goes live
My friend Lisa Williams has just launched Placeblogger, a (long-awaited) web service that aggregates and highlights content and feeds hyperlocal sites—not only news sites, but community sites, enhance...
Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker
Just before Christmas, Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg published some introductory posts on his blog about where Mozilla is headed with microformats. Quick background: Mozilla is of course the develope...
Six Improvements to Your Blog
I've done a lot of blog surfing lately, in search of new (best) blogs. What I found often, however, was that there are things people could do to improve the relationship and interaction value of thei...
Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke
Juice Wireless, the New York mobile video-sharing start-up, is still on hunt for financing, raising questions about its prospects amid a retrenchment hitting the video sharing industry in the new year...