Justin.tv to get boot from S.F. landlords
(04-27) 18:50 PDT — One San Francisco landlord has decided that the company producing Justin.tv is a crowd. — Complaining of raucous parties and other disruptive behavior, the landlord of the San Fr...
Skype silences Alpha-blogger
Wow. Talk about a chilling effect. — Skype lawyer Seema Sharma emailed blogger Jan Geirnaert Friday afternoon. She told him his popular skype-watch.com and skype-gadgets.com blogs put him in legal...
Virtual Earth API V5 is released
Just in time for your weekend coding pleasure, version 5 of the Virtual Earth Software Development Kit is live today. There's a boatload of new features and enhancements, among my favorites are mouse...
Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood
FOR the last two years, the employees of Vudu Inc. have quietly toiled in a nondescript office in Santa Clara, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. The only hint of the company's plans are black-a...
Gizmodo Exclusive: Exclusive Pics of the Vudu - Video Store In A Box
These are the first pictures of the box, remote control and UI of Vudu, a video store in a box that is going to engage in a battle royale with Apple TV come June. The service will launch with thousan...
Hints at upcoming Gmail features
I've been listed as a translator for the XX-Hacker (known as l33t to the rest of the world) language on Google for quite some time. The great thing about being a translator for Google is that you get...
Exclusive: Outgoing Sony exec Kutaragi already planning PS4
TOKYO — Playstation inventor Ken Kutaragi, who will retire as chairman and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. on June 19, is already thinking ahead to Playstation 4 and beyond. — In an ex...
10 Signs That You May Be a Blog Addict
Blogs exist on just about every variety of subject one can imagine. And more and more blogs come online each and every day. But what does it take to really have an active blog that people will subsc...
Schools say iPods becoming tool for cheaters
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious — students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each...
New spyware legislation a mixed bag
A comprehensive spyware bill recently cleared the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection (it flows trippingly from the tongue, no?) and is busy st...
Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and other Wikis
Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis — There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the ...
Authors@Google
For over the past year, we've invited some of the most prominent and promising thinkers, artists, leaders, and personalities of our time to give talks and have discussions at Google about their recent...
Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat
Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game. — The corpse of the de...
Apple iPhone's Slippery Secret
Just how slippery is Apple's (AAPL) iPhone? — Scattered reports from people who have put their hands on pre-release models say that its main problem is not the rumored battery life shortfall, but th...