Microsoft takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fort...
MyBlogLog to Rebrand and Make Significant Changes
At SOBcon yesterday in Chicago, Robyn Tippins, who was recently hired as the MyBlogLog community manager, spoke about several major upcoming changes with MyBlogLog. — There are several changes in th...
We need better statistics...
Tilting at a Digital Future
IN Rupert Murdoch's world, two things are certain: the sun never sets on the kingdom, and a TV is always on in the background. — On the evening of April 26, several large television monitors adorned...
Flash! Vermont Legislature Passes E-State Bill
An hour or so ago the Vermont House and Senate both gave final approval to a bill designed to make Vermont the nation's first e-state. As defined in Vermont, e-stateness means cellular and adequate b...
Why Does Wikipedia Suck on Science?
Wikipedia is, by all measures, one of the great accomplishments of the Internet Age. I'm willing to say it stands alongside Google, eBay, GoogleMaps, IMDB and Wired.com as among the greatest resource...
AllFreeCalls Back From DeadPool, Now Called Yak4Ever
AllFreeCalls Back From DeadPool, Free Calls Are Here Again — When AllFreeCalls shut down in February as a result of litigation, most people thought it was gone for good. The service, which allows p...
Give Hammer a break
The collective response to Michael Arrington including MC Hammer on his TechCrunch 20 review panel is pretty lame, IMO. — Commenters should keep in mind that this is a real guy they're talking about...
Apple snags 10 percent of U.S. retail notebook sales in March
Apple Inc.'s line of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks combined for nearly 10 percent of all notebook sales at U.S.-based retail stores during the month of March, while sales of iMacs also helped the ...
Offshoring journalism: A job list
Note: A draft of this post has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, but in light of even more journalism offshoring news, I thought I'd polish this up and hit the publish button. — This inte...
Wedding Announcements: Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki
Since nobody else has posted an announcement, it falls to Valleywag: Sergey Brin, the Google founder and the richest eligible bachelor in the US, and Anne Wojcicki, the down-to-earth biotech specialis...
SuperMoviesDownload: The YouTube Virus
YouTube users can't have failed to notice that the Most Viewed list is consistently dominated by videos branded by a site called SuperMoviesDownload. How did they get so many views? Cheating, of cou...
Apple's website traffic skyrockets, but why?
According to comScore, traffic to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) website rose sharply from March to April. Unique visitors rose from 27.3 million to 38.8 million, a fairly stunning rise for such a large webs...
Mashup litmus test for Web 2.0 start-ups
Social music darling Last.fm announced this week that they are going to start a video service any minute now. Some folks apparently couldn't wait and just developed their own mashups in the mean time...
Found Footage: AT&T's Stan Sigman gifts iPhone at West Texas A&M
As noted earlier tonight, there seems to be at least one iPhone in the wild. TUAW is pleased to bring you this exclusive video from our agent-on-the-spot Mikal. Today, Stan Sigman, CEO of AT&T Wirel...
We did it, Yak4ever goes live
Its been a long time coming. This guy had us on a deathwatch and Mike even put us in the "deadpool" — We said we would be back and we knew we would be back it just took a lot longer than we had eve...
Thriving Office for the Non-Thriving Office
The Internet and Web 2.0 may finally be delivering the promise of telecommuting. Working in pure, golden silence, aside from the occasional twittering bird for me has always been one of my favorite t...
Bruce Willis: iChat user, forum troll
What do you when you've got millions of dollars, no steady day job, and plenty of vocal critics that do their best to berate you knowing full well that they could never do your job if given the chance...
Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion?
Apple has one. So does the Java community, Oracle, IBM, and Google. Lord knows anyone who uses Linux or free and open source software is dedicated to spreading the gospel of St. Linus Torvalds and S...
Tilting at a Digital Future
IN Rupert Murdoch's world, two things are certain: the sun never sets on the kingdom, and a TV is always on in the background. — On the evening of April 26, several large television monitors adorned...