Low turnout for Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit - do tech companies care about policy?
There was a low turnout at the Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit in San Jose that was attributed to six inches of snow in Washington D.C. which grounded travelers. — But that doesn't explain …
Music executives lament state of industry
NEW YORK—The discussions at a music conference here Tuesday started with an all-around bashing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs before moving to the plethora of issues plaguing the music industry. — Apple, d...
Nokia Tops in 2006 Smartphone Sales
Despite its underperformance in North America, the Finnish tech giant took 48% of market share. RIM came in second — 2006 was the year of the converged device with 80 million smart phones shipped w...
Monitoring Buries At Digg
Earlier this month, I wrote a long article looking at how some people at Digg might bury stories just because they disliked the topic rather than the story content itself. Indeed, many doing buries m...
Google Searches For Government Work
Google, meet Uncle Sam. — The search engine giant showed off its ambition yesterday to expand its business with the federal government, kicking off a two-day sales meeting that attracted nearly 200 ...
Ning - the Latest Sharecropping Network
From out of the bowels of Palo Alto California and the brain of Marc Andressen comes NING! — The latest in a long line of Sharecropper Social Networks built with Individual Created Expressions. — ...
Academy threatens YouTube
Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Aca...
Windows Mobile iPhone Edition: The Movie
If just seeing wasn't believing, here's a video that shows the Windows Mobile iPhone skin in action. — Most of the icons are just shortcuts to the equivalent apps on Windows Mobile, but the most imp...
Fragrant future beckons for web
Within a decade the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report. — The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out wh...
Wikipedia founder hunts for gold
Jimmy Wales built Wikipedia into one of the largest and most collaborative sites on the Internet - but has yet to make his fortune. Here's how he plans to fix that. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Jimm...
New Vulnerability Found In Microsoft's Windows Vista
The privilege escalation bug enables regular users to elevate their status to system-level access. — A security vendor has found vulnerability with a 'medium' security rating in Microsoft's new oper...
A cure for e-mail attention disorder?
Corporate managers concerned about the amount of time employees spend sifting though mountains of unwanted e-mail may soon have World of Warcraft to thank for providing a solution. — That's because ...
Software For Virtual Teams
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — It's 2007 and no longer do startup employees, or even those of medium-size and large companies, need to be located in the same place. Instead...
Google Conducts Study of Advertising across Traditional Media
Reprise Media was recently invited to participate in Google's "Study of Advertising across Traditional Media", a 15 minute survey asking questions like, "Do you use the same advertising/marketing agen...