'$100 laptop' sparks war of words
Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. — He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price lapt...
Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth
Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its...
Equity Firms to Buy Alltel in $27.5 Billion Deal
Alltel, the wireless phone company, agreed last night to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion, marking the largest buyout ever in the telecommunications industry. — The ...
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details
Technical Details — Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. — A...
Success for Everest mobile effort
A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. — In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain's north ridge. — In...
Panasonic gooses megapixels, zoom
Panasonic announced a new Lumix camera Monday that squeezes a wide-angle lens, a 12.2-megapixel sensor and a novel way of extending zoom lens range into a compact camera. — The Lumix DMC-FX100 is eq...
Prof. wants FCC spectrum auction winners to support "wireless network neutrality"
Columbia professor Tim Wu has a proposal for the FCC when it auctions off the prime 700MHz spectrum vacated by analog TV in 2009: require that anyone who wins in the auction establish a "neutral" netw...
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 : Panasonic announce a new addition to the Lumix family of high-performance digital cameras. The new Lumix DMC-FX100 combines 1/1.72-inch large 12.2-megapixel image recordin...
Computers accidentally "attacked" by Norton AntiVirus
www.chinaview.cn 2007-05-20 14:22:04 — An error occurring in the update of Norton's virus database on Friday has caused millions of PCs and computers to crash-a heavy blow to people's daily work a...
Who Will Buy Facebook?
Last week billions of dollars changed hands in online related acquisitions. Anything that is worth buying is being bought. — The rumors that Yahoo is in talks to acquire Bebo for $1billion may have...
Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven'
Scientists have said there is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of wi-fi and damage to health. — BBC programme Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to thr...
UK to get even more Big Brother with hovering drones
With literally hundreds of thousands of cameras — some sporting speakers and microphones — trained on its poor citizens from the moment they step out of the house in the morning until their hasty retr...
Link By Link: Firefox and the Anxiety of Growing Pains
IF the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers — the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, p...
Virtual World Population: 50 million by 2011
When technology analyst group Gartner recently asserted that "80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a 'second life', but not necessarily in Second Life" by 2011, a ...
Wi-Fi: a warning signal
Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks. — The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe,...
How Does Windows Vista Rate?
Introducing Google's online security efforts
Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic and we've been looking for a way to foster discussion on the ...
BREAKING: Is XM down?
Seems like there's a massive outage going on with XM right now. Reports have been coming in like crazy, and I myself in NYC haven't been able to get signal since about 12-noon. — UPDATE: Reportedly...
Avis to offer wireless Internet gear
NEW YORK - Avis Rent A Car System is offering customers a wireless Internet service to use in its rented cars, hotel rooms and other places a traveler might go. — The new Avis Connect service, price...
Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance
SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google...
Google To Shut Down AdSense Arbitrageurs
A WebmasterWorld thread that I have been tracking for a few days now has been getting a lot of attention over the weekend. In short, there are rumors that Google will be shutting down AdSense arbitra...
Google Coop Embeds Gadgets in Search Results
Google Coop has quietly expanded and now can embed data from gadgets (i.e. widgets) as subscribed links. In English, as opposed to Googlese, what this means is that you can opt-in to have important l...
Spyware Still Cheating Merchants and Legitimate Affiliates
Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their images. For example, Zango settled a FTC investigation, then last week sued PC Tools for detecting and removing Zango software. Meanwhile, Integrated Sea...
MyPunchbowl: The Algorithm Schedules Your Event
eVite has been a target of several startups over the past year. Sites like Skobee or Renkoo have differentiated themselves by helping plan the casual outings for drinks or dinner. Socializr is takin...
Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK
We've heard from a good source in the mobile industry that Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK in the next few weeks. If our source is accurate, Google will bec...
LG Electronics to stop making plasma panels at 1 of 4 South Korean plants
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - LG Electronics Inc., South Korea's largest consumer appliance manufacturer, said Friday it is closing a plant that makes plasma display panels to cut costs and rejuvenate its...
Next New Networks Building Micro Television Networks
Next New Networks is an online media company with big plans for "micro television networks". — The New York based company launched in January with $8 million in funding from Spark Capital. — The t...
Death knell tolls for 17-inch iMac
Apple's pending iMac update will spell the end of the day for the 17-inch iMac, the most affordable computer in the line. The refreshed iMac, currently on track to arrive by the end of June according...
Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft
Internet giant Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., a pioneer in online services for businesses, are discussing an alliance that could help them compete more effectively with Microsoft Corp., accordin...
Microsoft is not the real threat
Much has been written about Microsoft's allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I'm sure they mean GNU/Linux ). I don't think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Micros...
Woz on the magic of electronics and computers
SAN MATEO, Calif.—If there's one person who perfectly personifies Maker Faire, it could well be Steve Wozniak. — That's why a standing-room-only crowd had gathered to see him speak at the event Satu...
IBM's POWER6 flies the coop at 4.7GHz
Ah, if only Apple would've stuck with PowerPC, maybe it could've skipped the magical 3GHz mark and jumped straight to 4.7GHz. Okay, that's really just a cheap shot, but I couldn't resist, given today...
Software Notebook: How does Gates shape up as a seer?
Bill Gates has recently been prognosticating all over the place, offering his thoughts on the future of newspapers, television, advertising, communications, telephones and many other areas of business...
Music giant EMI agrees takeover
UK music business EMI Group has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2bn including debt. — The group, whose artists include Robbie Williams and the Beatles, has been the sub...
Post-winHEC Post
WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well. UMPC exposure was pretty-decent. Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote. I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled 'UMPC Ecosystem' - I'll...
Rootly relaunches... new UI, new features... a real news start page
Over the past few weeks I have been testing a new version of Rootly. When I reviewed Rootly in December 2006, I defined it as, "Rootly is a news aggregator at its most basic definition."
Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up
When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today o...
Amazingly bad APIs
I actually don't hate the Java language (at least it's killing off c++), but every time I use it I'm blown away by how hostile the APIs are. — For example, let's say that we want to scale an image f...
Don't look now, but Tablet PCs are on the rise
Derided by some and purchased by even fewer, the Tablet PC concept has had a rough go of it since its formal blessing by Microsoft in the form of Windows XP Tablet Edition in 2002. Pen-based computin...
Google Denies New UK News Search Deal
Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a deal with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals ...
Slippery Slope: Is Google Now Paying More Newspapers To Link To Them?
We were surprised last month to hear that Google had backed down in its dispute with news agency AFP, agreeing to pay up in order to link to AFP articles in Google News. As has been explained repeate...
Going Private: Alltel for $27.5 billion
Updated: Alltel, one of the smaller mobile carriers has decided to go private in a deal that values the company at $27.5 billion ($71.50 a share in cash), a 23% premium over Alltel's closing price on ...
No plans to bring 80GB PS3 to Europe, says Sony
Information on Korean site confirmed — A Sony spokesperson has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that an 80GB PlayStation 3 is to go on sale in Korea - but said there are currently no plans to launch t...
Cathedral & Bazaar on All Time Best Business Book List
I was pleased to see that The Cathedral and the Bazaar was on U.S. News and World Report's list of the Best Business Books of All Time, courtesy of Jim Buckmaster. — Let's leave aside the pretentiou...
Amazingly bad APIs
I actually don't hate the Java language (at least it's killing off c++), but every time I use it I'm blown away by how hostile the APIs are. — For example, let's say that we want to scale an image f...