Bill Gates: Vista is so secure it could run life support systems.
While on a visit in Romania, where Bill Gates participated in the celebration of 10 years since the Microsoft branch has been running there, and the launch of Vista, Microsoft's president declared tha...
Zoho's Cool Web-Based Note Taker
One of the most impressive things I saw here at the DEMO conference (which wrapped up this evening) is a Web service that's still in a private alpha version. As such, it has every right to be rough a...
Gawker Media mystery ads appear on YouTube
A YouTube subscriber with an affinity for Web sites owned by Gawker Media has for the past three months been posting copyright videos sandwiched between ads for Gawker-owned properties such as Valleyw...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bill Gates
In his interview with Bill Gates in Newsweek, Steven Levy pointed out that many of the new features in Windows Vista are similar to features already in Mac OS X. Gates's response: … This is fascinatin...
Apple files iPhone/iTMS transactions patent
Apple Files Patent Relating to iPhone/iTMS Transactions — On February 1, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled Configuration of a computing device in a secure ...
Google Video + YouTube = 51% of the Video Market
What does $1.6 billion get you? An additional forty-one percent of the video website market share - just ask Google. Based on the Top 20 Video websites (as determined by U.S. visits) YouTube garnere...
Interarchy Interview: Peter N Lewis and Matthew Drayton
It's not every day that one of the most popular indie Mac apps in history changes hands, but that's what happened today, when Matthew Drayton and his new company, Nolobe, acquired the rights to Intera...
It's 'Squawk Box' Meets 'Saturday Night Live'
A few years ago, a video on the stock performance of Jack in the Box might have involved a sit-down interview with the fast-food restaurant's chief executive, dryly discussing its fundamentals. — To...
YouTimes?
New York Times to post user-generated content. — The New York Times, the gray lady of establishment journalism, plans to begin posting user-generated video in March, an executive said Wednesday. — ...
Google Flatlines Again
This morning it appears that a number of Google services are having problems. We first noticed last night when our Google Analytics account wasn't reporting any new data since 9am yesterday, but Anal...
Evolution of a Search Engine
"You don't need a satellite to see the cosmic microwave background radiation! Turn on your TV to a channel that's not broadcasting: a few percent of the snow on your screen is the Universe talking to...
Top 10 Picks From DEMO 2007
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — DEMO 2007 has just wrapped up from Palm Desert CA. The companies that demonstrated their products covered a wide spectrum: Web apps, social n...
DRM on 9/11 Commission Report
This is nothing new, but it's something that grinds my gears to no end, and that's how the DMCA makes it illegal for me to use works that are completely in the public domain. Researching my previous ...
Jurassic Park 4 Script Leaked onto BitTorrent
Possibly the most popular film of the early nineties, Jurassic Park made more money at the box office than any film before it, and was only topped only by Titanic some years later. This was before th...
Addicted to Achievements?
I don't think anyone could have predicted the popularity of Gamerscore and Achievements on Xbox 360. For me, it has changed the way I play games. No longer is it about just trying to beat the game f...
A Difficult 2007 for Competitive VoIP?
How much worse can things get for competitive voice service providers like Vonage? Quite a bit, especially if you take into account the results of two major cable providers - Comcast and Time Warner ...