Sony and Kotaku Make-Up
Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed? — Ain't It Cool News reporter Quint got a chance to speak with actress Laurie Holden—she played police officer Cybil Bennett in the original film—who revealed tha...
Digg Should Sue Wired
Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And be...
Sony Blackballs Kotaku
Earlier today we posted a rumor story on the site about a possible announcement of a new technology coming to Sony's Playstation 3. — The Playstation Home, we reported, would be an intriguing blendi...
Vista Brute Force Keygen
Thanks to Computer User to report this way and to Snooza to prepare the pack! This method is a brute force attempt at determining a usable key. — This has been reported to work!......look at the fo...
Wizzard Media acquires Libsyn
An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers. The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Li...
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm
Sales of Apple Inc.'s Mac line of personal computers saw year-over-year growth accelerate over 100 percent during the month of January, with revenue growth rising even further, according to Pacific Cr...
The i'm Initiative and new secret emoticon
The i'm Initiative is the most exciting piece of news I have had to share with Messenger users since I started working on Messenger over 3 years ago and there has been tons of exciting news over the l...
Beginner Developer Learning Center launched
Today, we launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) - a centralized learning environment specifically targeted at beginning programmers. — Since we released the Microsoft Visual Studio ...
AMD tips quad-core performance
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known ...
Startups squint into the daylight at first OpenCoffee
Katie, manager of the Starbucks inside the Esprit shop London's Regent Street, had something of a shock today as almost 100 technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, journalists ...
On Buries and Blocking
Hi All - — Just wanted to post real quick about some stories I've seen in the blogosphere regarding an alleged 'bury brigade' on Digg and on the Digg site blocking process. — For the same reason t...
Citysearch snaps up Insider Pages in local search race
Citysearch, the division of IAC focuses on local reviews of restaurants and other services, has acquired the struggling local review start-up, Insider Pages. — The purchase (amount undisclosed) come...
Invalid Clicks - Google's Overall Numbers
Over the past year, we've been working hard to share more information about how we protect you against click fraud. Last July, the invalid clicks report was released to provide you with the number of...
AT&T slows 'Lightspeed' release goals
New year, new target. — AT&T (T) won't reach 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" broadband network, after all. Instead, it will reach less than half the original target: 8 million. — ...
RIAA slams FAIR USE Act
Although the FAIR USE Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will have little more than a symbolic effect on the DMCA, that isn't stopping the Recording In...
I Bought Votes on Digg
It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping. A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough digg...
Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call'
Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than sim...
First look: BitTorrent video download store
BitTorrent joined the masses of legal video download services yesterday with offerings from five movie studios and a handful of TV networks. The service offers movie rentals for $2.99 to $3.99 and TV...
More on what constitutes an open source company
So, now Alison has chimed in on what constitutes an open source company, taking the position that EnterpriseDB is emphatically so: … Let's be clear: EnterpriseDB's business is in selling proprietary e...
If I were the Oscars (or Viacom)
If I had the Oscars or Viacom — both of whom pulled their clips off YouTube — here's what I'd do to deal with — no, to exploit and profit from — the inevitable trend toward your audience promoting and...
Morfik's Ajax Platform Set To Challenge Google, Adobe, Microsoft
There's been lots of talk recently about desktop/web platforms. Last week we mentioned more News Reader desktop apps powered by Microsoft's WPF platform, and of course this week Adobe has featured tw...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - PHIL HARRISON ON BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
Yet again, a seemingly innocent press release from Sony - detailing the specification of the PAL territory PlayStation 3 - has been met with the reception you'd expect if the sky started falling in.
Social Networks Can Drive Traffic - Case Study of ASOS and TopShop
TopShop.co.uk and ASOS.com last week received more than twice as much traffic from MySpace than from MSN and Yahoo! Search combined. Our column in this week's Technology Guardian (sorry our Siteseein...
Oracle Deal for Hyperion Is Expected
Oracle is near a deal to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes software that allows corporations to analyze and track their performance, for more than $3.1 billion, according to people briefed on th...
TextMate
Pages: — ISBN: — 0-9787392-3-X — Resources: — Code — Errata and Feedback — Post link to: — Purchase — Buy paper book — Buy PDF now (PDF FAQ) — Buy book + PDF combo now — Table Of...
Why Dell and other major hardware vendors won't do desktop Linux preinstallation
Dell's recent IdeaStorm experiment reveals increasing demand for Linux and open-source software on the desktop. Since that time, Dell has said that it is still not committed to selling laptops and de...
CompUSA to shutter more than half its stores
CompUSA will close more than half of its retail computer and electronics stores in the next two to three months. — In a statement Tuesday, CompUSA said it would shutter 126 stores — it currently ope...