The Wizards of Buzz
A new kind of Web site is turning ordinary people into hidden influencers, shaping what we read, watch and buy. — This winter, many parents across the country are sitting on the floor with slabs of ...
Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
VP of development hints at possible features, code name for Microsoft's next client OS — With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating sys...
Wikipedia's got 3-4 months to live?!?! (and Wikipedia's technological blocking of consensus)
Very strange stuff going on in the Wikipedia world... first I get beat down by all kinds of Wikipedia folks for suggesting that Wikipedia place an OPT-OUT advertisement on the Wikipedia …
Wikipeda could shut within 3-4 months: Wikimedia
In a rather extraordinary example of begging for money, Florence Devouard, Chairwoman of the Wikimedia foundation has told an audience at the Lift07 conference that Wikipedia has the financial resourc...
Parallels: "We won't virtualize OS X until Apple says so"
When the news came out that Parallels was actually owned by enterprise software maker SWSoft about a month ago, there was a not-so-tiny detail from Forbes article that drew a lot of interest. That de...
Price of cybercrime tools shrinks
SAN FRANCISCO—It's becoming cheaper and easier to get hold of the tools needed to launch a cybercrime attack, according to security company RSA. — Jens Hinrichsen, the company's product marketing ma...
The slow death of DRM
Column The DRM walls are crumbling. Earlier this week, Steve Jobs called on the major record labels to allow online music sales unfettered by digital rights management restrictions. — Today, the Wa...
Apple Embraces Casual Gaming
The consumer electronics maker is rolling out games for the iPod and is in talks with EA about games for the forthcoming iPhone — As iconic as Apple may be in consumer electronics—from personal comp...
Debunk: Microsoft files for Zune phone with FCC — probably not
probably not — There's some buzz going around right now about a "Zune phone" filed with the FCC — we did a little extra digging, and we're not really convinced that's what's at hand. We know a Zune ...
The Future of Cable TV in an Open World
The race is on to turn your TV into an open content platform. This will bring more programming to your set and much of it won't come from the traditional networks. Conspicuously absent from the game...