That's Not How You Do It Obama
I had high hopes for Barack Obama's net savvy. But today his campaign blew it. I heard that he announced his candidacy for President today in Springfield, IL, where Lincoln did the same thing almost...
In India, the Golden Age of Television Is Now
GHANSHYAM P. SHAH, an 82-year-old widower, spends up to eight hours a day in front of his television watching prayer services, soap operas and financial news. But one afternoon last December, he was ...
The Rapid Transformation Of Publishing Economics
The death of print publishing is coming, it's just a matter of whether it happens in 5 years, 10 years, or 15 years. I'm betting it happens sooner than anyone expects. Colin Crawford, the SVP of onl...
Universal Near Deal With Video Site on Royalties
Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music. — Universal, the country's largest music labe...
VMWare video hints at full DirectX virtualization in OS X
Mac users, listen up: a video has appeared on YouTube that shows an internal beta version of VMWare running Windows games at full speed from within Mac OS X. Accompanying this intriguing video is a bl...
Vista successor "Vienna" planned for late 2009
Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to [the] wow [starts now] us by revealing that it plans to have its next majo...
The Next Big Language
There seems to be a long period of initial obscurity for any new language. Then after that comes a long period of semi-obscurity, followed by total obscurity. —Paul Bissex — People are always aski...
Comcast Customer Uses "Unlimited Service" Excessively, Gets Disconnected For A Year
Comcast asked Frank to cut back his unlimited internet usage. Frank was confused. He thought unlimited meant, well, unlimited. Frank was wrong. Very wrong. — Comcast replaced Frank's faulty cabl...
Google Encounters Hurdles in Selling Radio Advertising
When Google acquired dMarc Broadcasting, a company whose software allows marketers to place ads on radio stations, for up to $1.24 billion early last year, it was seen as a clear sign of Google's ambi...
RIM applies for triangular keyboard layout patent
Big, tactile, and fast QWERTY keyboards are the Blackberry's defining characteristic: why then is RIM showing signs that it's going to mess with their tried and tested formula? In the second patent a...
Google can I please pay you $20 a month for GMAIL!?
I've been using GMAIL for a couple of years now and for the past year I've been over 90% in my mailbox usage. Every week or two it fills up and I go on a hunt to kill attachments, delete spam, etc. ...
Walmart in bed with Microsoft? Walmart says NO to Firefox
Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, "WTF" when th...
Mega hands-on: Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment
Not-yet-airborne Virgin America invited us to check out the way-decked Airbus A320 with Red prototype in-flight entertainment system that's parked at SFO right now. (Naw, we didn't get to take it up ...