Deal for Beatles on iTunes in works
The worldwide Beatles grapevine is buzzing over the distinct possibility that the long-awaited remastering of the Fab Four's United Kingdom CD back catalogue will finally see the light of day — by Jun...
AdSense Competitive Ads and Services Policy just got a lot tighter for publishers
Publishers have often complained about the rigidness of the AdSense policy that prevents publishers from running AdSense on the same page as another contextual ad program. So running AdSense & Yahoo ...
Tim Draper IMs Meebo
Meebo, a web based instant messaging service has raised $9 million in series B funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and existing investors Sequoia Capital. The company had previously raised $3.5 mill...
Some Bling for Your Blog
PASTOR BOB HYATT acknowledges that his widget fixation may be getting a little out of control. — On his Web log, Pastor Hyatt, the leader of the Evergreen Community in Portland, Ore., has woven in w...
Multiple announcments today
Good news arrives today on several Windows Vista-related fronts, my friends ... read on. — Windows Anytime Upgrade — Today we're announcing further detail on how Windows Anytime Upgrade works. Co...
Don't Like the Dancing Cowboys? Results Say You Do
Most online advertisements are becoming less obtrusive and more tailored to the interests of individual Web users. Among the stubborn holdouts are the two-stepping cowboys, frisky rooftop dancers and...
Review: Six Rootkit Detectors Protect Your System
While many security suites have a basic level of detection, these standalone tools will do a search-and-destroy on the rootkits that may be hiding in your system. — In October 2005, Windows expert M...
The Google Switch: an iPhone killer?
Color us skeptics on this one, but we've got a tipster claiming to have the scoop on Google Switch. This version of the mythical Googlephone is said to be the result of a collaboration between Samsun...
Fuse with me
MacFUSE is the new hotness from Google's Mac genius, Amit Singh. It allows developers to quickly implement their own filesystems into Mac OS X. FUSE itself is a cross platform software package. The ...
Watching Netflix' 'Watch Now'
I was an early subscriber to Netflix back in the day, and recently signed back up. In the interest of confirming some details of their new 'Watch Now' service, like what client-side software they wer...
Apple to charge for faster Wi-Fi
Some MacBook Pro and MacBook customers have the faster 802.11n Wi-Fi chip already sitting in their systems, but it will cost $2 to light it up. — Apple on Thursday confirmed reports that it plans to...
LG's KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha?
Check it Apple, LG just went official with their iPhone look-a-like LG KE850 Prada phone which they proudly tout as the world's "first completely touch screen mobile phone." Er, unless you consider t...
Vista: Worthy, Largely Unexciting
XP Successor Doesn't Break — New Ground on Ease of Use, — But It's Best Windows Yet — A new version of Microsoft Windows, the world's most popular and important computer operating system, will f...
Tech Start-Ups Have Money to Burn, But Choose Thrift
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen launched two technology companies in the late 1990s dot-com boom — Seven Networks and Onebox — they each went through about $2 million a month. The start-...
Open source gets European boost
The European Commission has added its voice to the debate about the use of open source software. — A report funded by the Commission concludes that the software could offer considerable savings to o...
Trendwatching - Wired Or Tired In The Blogosphere
Last week Apple's iPhone made a stunning debut. There are very few people who were not blown away by what Steve Jobs showed to the world, from the stage of MacWorld 2007. The irony was that beforeha...