Twitter: All Trivia, All The Time
The service's followers love its quotidian tidbits. Others cry: Enough already! — If you haven't taken a stance on the raging Twitter debate, don't feel bad. The free, fledgling Web service counts...
Dear Clown Co.: Name This Thing Fast Before Its Too Late
For the last twenty-four hours we've been reporting a nearly non-stop stream of facts (and some speculation) about the new, unamed News Corp./NBC Universal joint venture to launch later this year. Fi...
How-to: Upgrade the drive in your Apple TV
While millions thousands of people were enjoying their Apple TVs last night, we decided to take ours apart for some pictures and to upgrade the drive. Seriously, 40 GB is smaller than our iPod and we...
PlayStation 3 launched in Europe
Sony has launched its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in Europe and Australia, hoping to retake its gaming crown. — The company trails Microsoft and Nintendo in sales of next generation consoles and the...
Test Drive: Verizon Wireless Puts Customers In The Driver's Seat
Customers Can Test Drive The Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network for 30 Days — Media Contact Info — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — In an industry first, Verizon Wireless is putting customers in the drive...
Chief Says F.C.C. Is Against Cellphone Use on Airliners
The Federal Communications Commission will give up on the idea of allowing cellphone use on airplanes, the chairman said on Thursday, because it is not clear whether the network on the ground can hand...
Malicious Website / Malicious Code: New Warezov spreading via Skype
Websense Security LabsTM has discovered a new set of the Warezov/Stration malicious code. This new code is currently spreading through the Skype network. Although the code itself is not self-propaga...
Are CIOs "dead weight"?
In my commentary on the latest Financial Times Digital Business podcast, I look at Chris Anderson's charge that chief information officers are turning into "dead weight." In case you missed it, Ander...
Google Testing New Navigation Links
Benjamin emailed me this screenshot of his Google search results page: — It shows what appears to be yet another user interface test, this time moving the usual search option links from just above t...
Joyent Slingshot [22]
Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work the same online and offline (with synchronization) and with drag into and out of the application just like a standard desktop ...
RUMORMONGER: Infoworld to fold
InfoWorld, the long-standing weekly magazine to which enterprise technology startups made a dutiful pilgrimage, is to shut down, according to a newsletter report. The title, owned by the IDG publishi...
Xbox Crashes French PS3 Launch
At the PLAYSTATION 3 launch event in Paris, Microsoft found an opportunity to do a little guerilla marketing by sending French gamers queueing up for a PS3 a kind reminder via boat. You can check the...
Newsmaker: The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake
newsmaker To many, Caterina Fake is one of the heroes of the Web 2.0 era. As a co-founder of Flickr, she has a lifetime of cred among the geek set. — In 2005, Fake and Stewart Butterfield, her husb...
Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year
The audience for podcasts has grown 18% in the last year, according to an upcoming report from Edison Media Research. Awareness of podcasting has grown even more, jumping from 22% in 2006 to 37% in 2...
Apple TV Dissection
Here is the first of a series of photos that I will be posting over the next few minutes, showing the intimate underthings of the Apple TV...click here to see more photos!
Current Mashup and API Trends
Web 2.0 has brought us a flock of APIs and the wonderful new concept of a Web mashup. Thanks to apps like Google Maps, del.icio.us and Flickr, we have started to think a lot about remixing the web. ...