Calendar for mobile devices
Posted by Devesh Parekh, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team — We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everyw...
EU data-privacy officials probing Google
BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the Unit...
Google may be violating EU privacy laws on user search data
Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, may be violating the European Union's privacy laws by storing information on customer queries for as long as two years, advisers to EU reg...
SharePoint and Popfly integration — yes, really!
yes, really! — Since Microsoft Popfly was announced about a week ago, the buzz about it has continued to grow. In fact, Popfly got a huge boost from being part of the Facebook Platform announcement ...
Nudity the Cause for Halo 2 Vista Delay
UPDATE - Microsoft reps have told Next-Gen the real reason for the Halo 2 Vista delay: partial nudity—specifically someone's backside in the game's map editor, the Entertainment Software Rating Board ...
MyBlogLog Gets Into Tagging
MyBlogLog, a distributed social network which was acquired by Yahoo earlier this year, will launch a tagging feature later this evening that will allow users to add descriptive tags to the people and ...
All About Tags
By now you've seen our newest feature, tagging, on MyBlogLog. We have had FAR too much fun this week tagging each other, so I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as we have. — Some people have ...
Top 5 (or 6) reasons PR doesn't work. if you're a geek.
DISCLAIMER 1: some of my best friends work in PR. really. me too. — DISCLAIMER 2: i started out as an engineer, then an entrepreneur, then an internet marketer. i probably still suck at all of th...
Wi-fi and RFID used for tracking
Wireless tracking systems could be used to protect patients in hospitals and students on campuses, backers of the technology said. — The combination of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and...
Because paper is scarce. And so is time.
Andy Kessler has an excellent piece in today's Wall Street Journal titled A Future For Newspapers. (In case that last link leads you to a paywall, Andy has the whole thing on his blog as well. That ...
Sony sued over Blu-ray
Given its global position as an electronics giant, Sony is quite familiar with patent law and the potential penalties for infringement. — Barely three months ago, Sony paid $97 million in damages an...
A Future for Newspapers
New technology is mucking up the media, and newspapers seem to be taking the brunt of it. Craigslist and eBay took away classified ad sales, direct advertisers are allocating budgets to search engine...
The Final Days of Google
Back in the 1990s Bill Gates said the company that would eventually beat Microsoft probably had yet to be founded, by which he meant that Microsoft was in such a strong position that only something tr...
The Facebook Platform: Analysis
Update: Please see additional notes and criticism of the Facebook Platform in this post. — I've spent the morning reading the endless coverage of the recently-launched Facebook Platform. In case yo...
Advisory board finale
Every so often I get an email asking what's up with the RSS Advisory Board. — Here's what I thought in May 2004: "This group is not a standards organization. It does not own RSS, or the spec, it ha...
MyBlogLog a Bunch of Schmoes?
MyBlogLog has introduced a new tagging feature which will allow uses to add their own keywords to blogs and profiles. On the surface, a welcomed addition. — However, in true "big search engine" sty...
Dell goes Ubuntu; "Windows tax" is $50 according to pricing
When Dell put up its IdeaStorm community-feedback site, the company was surprised by the strong response in favor of shipping personal computers with Linux. The PC company then announced that it woul...
comScore Releases April U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In April 2007, Google Sites captured 49.7 percent of the ...
Apple confirms MySpace ban in retail stores
In New York City, you can go to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in midtown 24 hours a day, seven days a week and browse the Web from the Macs on display. But due to a new Apple regulation, you can no...
Legalized Blu-ray, HD DVD Copying Coming Soon
Managed copy in the works for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc — One of the biggest arguments against digital rights management (DRM) is that it restricts users from doing what they wish with the media for w...
Google-Proof PR?
Sue Scheff's business, Parents Universal Resource Experts, places troubled teens in reform schools—and generates a lot of controversy. Disgruntled clients have accused Scheff's company of sending kid...
Advertising's Brave New World
Different Lineup of Players — Emerges With Online's Rise — For decades, advertising has been a relatively simple process dominated by a clubby world. Long-established advertising and media-buying...
Star Wars Rewired: Interviews, Galleries and More
Star Wars. It's the backbone of geek DNA, even more essential than an intricate knowledge of Linux or the inability to get a date. And now, 30 years after an independent filmmaker blew us away with ...
Exclusive Pix+Vid: New NETGEAR Skype Wifi Phone
As I've written before, (guest) blogging has its priveleges. While at NETGEAR's HQ last week interviewing employees for the blog, the company's CEO, Patrick Lo, walked in and pulled from his pocket t...
Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs "ineffective"
Below is the press release we sent and here's more detailed analysis of the case and its potential implications. — Helsinki May 25, 2007 — Turre Legal — Free for publication immediately — Finn...
Facebook Opens Up Its 'Platform' To Everyone
"Facebook is the anti-MySpace" and "Facebook is a new type of "Web 2.0" portal" are some of the things that were and are being said yesterday and today about the social network's new "Facebook Platfor...
Make room for new video ad formats
This week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of click-to-play video ads. To that end, we thought it'd be fitting to introduce three new members of our click-to-play video ads family: the 7...
Calendar for mobile devices
Posted by Devesh Parekh, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team — We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everyw...
Here Comes Zonbox - the $99 Zero-Emission, Linux Computer That's "as simple to use as a Mac"
The revolutionary Zonbox - the $99, ultra low-power, zero-emission Linux computer from Zonbu, is sure to be all the rage when it's launched next month. The computer is a fanless 1.2MHz platform …
OLPC Seeks Educational Games for XO Laptop
"Game Jam" contest on June 8 will challenge developers to produce fun, educational software for the OLPC. — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-so...
Microsoft sues alleged stock scammers
(InfoWorld) - Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networ...
Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a Refutation
Some say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but that's only for those who forget that a good rebuttal - or attempted rebuttal - is quite flattering as well. Jason Wood, a fellow Enterprise Ir...
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs set for historic conversation
Commentary: Archrivals' first public, face-to-face discussion one for the ages — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — For more than two decades, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Ch...
Malicious Web site / Malicious Code: Better Business Bureau Scam
Websense® Security Labs™ has received reports of a new email spam variant similar to an attack launched early this year. The spoofed email purports to be from the Better Business Bureau (BBB).