Performancing Deal is Off
After much discussion and heartache we have decided to walk away from the Performancing deal. We listened to our Posties and other Metrics users, dug into the Metrics platform and regretfully found t...
New Disc May Sway DVD Wars
Consumers wary of buying new high-definition DVD players because of a technology war reminiscent of the days of Betamax versus VHS will soon have a new kind of DVD that might make the decision less da...
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven. — The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Goo...
Google Calendar Up Threefold Since June
As you resolve to get your schedule more organized in the new year, do what more and more people are doing - use Google Calendar. A few weeks ago, Google Calendar overtook MSN Calendar in market shar...
When PDFs Attack!
We have received reports of a significant problem relating to Adobe Acrobat files and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). A weakness was discovered in the way that the Adobe Reader browser plugin can be made...
Amazon boss shows off spacecraft
The billionaire founder of Amazon.com has released the first images of the launch of a private spacecraft that could bring space travel to the masses. — A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle sh...
SAMSUNG Develops First Truly Double-sided LCD
Seoul, Korea - January 4, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels announced today that it has created the fir...
Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac
Adobe will announce on Thursday that it will revive a Mac version of Premiere, the software maker's video program aimed at professional editors. The new Mac version will only run on Intel-based Macs ...
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting
A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-...
What Jobs told me on the iPhone
Will Apple's chief executive unveil a tablet Mac or an 'iPhone' at Macworld next week? Former sales boss David Sobotta describes the meeting which explained key thinking — Next week, Steve Jobs wil...
Sandisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops
Sandisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable. — The switch, however, will cost you a few hundred dollar...
Vista laptops for bloggers furor misses the real story
I've been reading the classic blogger tempest in a teapot about Microsoft's PR agency of record, Edelman, sending out about 90 fancy Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to high-profile blogge...
OpenID vs the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google and MSN
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — You may've heard of OpenID - it's a distributed identity management system, a.k.a. a decentralized single sign-on platform. We prepared a sc...
Best Blogfights of 2006
If bloggers know how to do one thing really well, it's fight. — Blogging is driven largely by raw emotion. When a blogger goes on an opinionated tirade about one topic or another, it's often an hon...
Fewer Excuses for Not Doing a PC Backup
If there's one New Year's resolution even more likely to fail than "I vow to lose weight," it's "I vow to start backing up my computer." — After all, setting up and remembering to use a backup syste...