Blackberry reveals failure cause
The maker of the Blackberry wireless e-mail device says an insufficiently tested software upgrade was the cause of this week's network failure. — Blackberry's US and North American users lost their ...
U.S. Database Exposes Social Security Numbers
The Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of people who received loans or other financial assistance from two Agriculture Department programs were disclosed for years in a publicly available da...
Social Networking Dethroning Sex in Terms of Online Traffic
The Economist (subscription required) has an interesting piece on sex and the Internet, which revolves around the graph pictured to the right. While the online porn industry was valued at $1 billion ...
PODCASTING: Battle over — and Apple won
and Apple won — Can we officially declare the end of the podcasting boom? Sure, internet users will continue to subscribe to audio files, the experience will become ever more like interactive radio,...
Amazon Sues Alexaholic...Everyone Loses
Alan Graham published a great account of my discussion with Jeff Bezos about Alexaholic (now Statsaholic at the Web 2.0 Expo on Monday. Entitled Amazon sues Alexaholic...Everyone Loses, Alan's blog e...
Seeing through walls
Have you considered that someone could be reading what's on your monitor from a few rooms away? It's unlikely, but possible, as work by Cambridge University computer security researcher Markus Kuhn s...
Target stores to pick up Apple TV
Big-box retailer Target is poised to become the next third-party retailer to market Apple Inc.'s new Apple TV device at its brick-and-mortar retail stores, AppleInsider has learned. — The bullseye-t...
Southwest reaching for Wi-Fi in sky
Southwest Airlines is exploring how to put Wi-Fi Internet service on its airplanes, as the no-frills carrier seeks to add some frills. — Southwest plans to outfit a few planes with in-cabin wireless...
Google draws privacy complaint to FTC
Three public-interest groups are expected to file a joint complaint on Friday with the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into the potential threat to consumer privacy posed by Goog...
Users force Dell to resurrect XP
Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them. — The decision reverses a policy begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating ...
Podcast Advertising Firm PodBridge Raises $8.5M More
By most accounts podcast advertising has been very disappointing. There is just not enough podcast listeners for advertisers to scale as they can with Adsense or other buys. But a couple of research...
Collaborating with Marratech
As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration. So we're excited about acquiring Marratech's video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participatio...
MySpace News...Kinda Sucks
Update: Ironically, I just saw this post at the top of MySpace News. Feel free to vote for it. — Mashable was the first blog to announce the imminent launch of MySpace News on Wednesday evening, bu...
Fear and anger erupt over $3 Microsoft Suite
By now, most people have heard that Microsoft will be selling a $3 version of Windows XP Starters Edition along with Office and some other educational software to students in the third world, but fear...
Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced!
Many of you have been asking about the Digg API and I'm happy to announce that it is now publicly available at services.digg.com along with a Flash application toolkit. This will be a great tool for ...
Big Money in Little Screens
Searching the Web on a mobile phone has been a lot like getting online via dial-up modem circa 1995: slow, tedious and not terribly useful. Typing on tiny buttons, squinting at a list of links and cl...
Most frequently visited websites - not what you'd expect
March's Comscore numbers just came out. I took a look at the top 2000 web domains, but this time I ranked them by number of visits per month. The results were a little surprising. Here are the 41 s...
The Wal-Mart $299 HD DVD player on the way
Get ready to get your cheap HD on kids. Wal-Mart just threw down some serious green for a batch of Chinese-made HD DVD players. Just as they brought DVD players down to near-disposable status, their...
Lots of new stuff just added to Spaces
Some new stuff and some interesting numbers from Spaces: it's now available in 51 countries in 25 languages, there have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 mill...
Google AJAX Feed API
Google this week announced the release of the Google AJAX Feed API. What is it? It's a JavaScript library that lets you mashup RSS and Atom feeds entirely on the client, thus no need for server-side...
Random Page Redirect For Wordpress Blogs
This morning we wrote about StumbleUpon's site specific stumbling and Rafe Needleman's idea of having a button on blogs that pulls up a random article. I pinged Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg (Tech...