My Project Du Jour: GetaFirstLife.com
Hey you, get a first life, eh? — First off, I am not a Second Life hater. Let me say that again: I am not a Second Life hater. I'm on record as saying that there's something important going on ins...
Nimbus gets Rs 550-cr foreign feed
MUMBAI: A clutch of foreign investors including 3i, Cisco and Oman International Fund (OIF) have invested Rs 552 crore in Nimbus Communications in what could be one of the largest-ever private equity ...
The Big Picture
A review of Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg. — Eyes work using a page fault mechanism. They're so good at it that you don't even notice. — You can only see at a high-resolution in a fairly s...
Nokia and Engin bring VoIP calls in Australia to Nokia's N80 Internet Edition mobile
Nokia's N80 3G phone has offered inbuilt Wi-Fi along with regular 2G/3G features. Now they've teamed up with Australian VoIP company Engin to offer 10c untimed VoIP calls when in range of a connectab...
10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1
Back in December of 2005, I was filling in for Darren Rowse at ProBlogger and I wrote an entry that was very highly read and commented on. The topic was 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.0....
Big Labels Offer Free Music to College Students
In one more attempt to counter music piracy, major music labels have agreed to support a service that will offer free music downloads — with some substantial restrictions — to any college student. — ...
An Insurance Policy for Low Airfares
FARECAST, the Internet start-up that made waves last year by predicting ticket prices for air travelers, is putting its money where its mouth is. — Sort of. — The company planned on Monday to anno...
Wize.com, the search engine that ranks products
Wize.com, a San Mateo start-up, has launched yet another search engine for consumer electronics and other goods. — Wize's promise hangs on a single, skinny thread: Its "Wize Rank" concept. Wize Ran...
In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real
The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. — Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic ...
Wikipedia Finally Makes the Right Decision
It may seem odd coming from someone who practices link building and whose clients require the service, but I'm gald to see that Wikipedia has shifted back to nofollow on all outbound links. What surp...
10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista this morning. — I see his point on some fronts — admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a grea...
I.B.M. to Introduce Workers' Networking Software
And you thought social networking was all about text-messaging among bored teenagers. — I.B.M. has another take on it. Today the company plans to announce a set of social software tools that will b...
Microsoft to use comics in antipiracy campaign
Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. — The online campaign, set to start on Monday, is meant to tell people the benefits of us...
Windows on the Mac changes everything
The kind of software sold by the formidable Parallels is transforming computing and challenging Steve Jobs, says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — The lines between the Mac OS and ...
Next-gen MacBook Pro to shine brighter
A forthcoming update to Apple's MacBook Pro line will usher in a generation of more vibrant and uniformly-colored notebook displays thanks to some new underlying backlight technology, AppleInsider has...
SmugMug: The (Anti) Web 2.0 Company
SmugMug CEO Dan MacAskill, who has said "maybe I just don't get this 'Web 2.0′ term" in the past, is proceeding to teach those of us who claim to know exactly what it means a thing or two. The compan...
Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like I.B.M., Intel an...
Work from bed with the Ergopod
The Ergopod 500 is a clever system for supporting a PC, mouse, keyboard and work-areas, intended for use by heavy computer users, particularly those with special physical needs. One of its many adjus...
Once Given Up for Dead, Comcast Defies Its Obits
THREE years ago, with the cable television industry in the doldrums, the Comcast Corporation's chairman, Brian L. Roberts, approached Mel Karmazin, then the president of Viacom, with a modest proposal...
AmigaOS 4
An exercise in computing, not nostalgia — The Amiga computer has long been the subject of intense nostalgia in the hearts of anyone who owned one. Released in 1985, only a year after the original M...
A new crop of kids: Generation We
When Amy Jo Kim's son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn't mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube. — Gabriel, an intensely curious kid who's about to turn 8, has been fa...
Gambling Subpoenas on Wall St.
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to at least four Wall Street investment banks as part of a widening investigation into the multibillion-dollar online gambling industry, according to people...