Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children
Won't somebody, please, think of the children? Three weeks ago I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. "I've just had to ask a BBC Panorama film crew not to film in my sch...
Exclusive: The Intel Mobile Metro
No, not the subway, though you'll blend in just fine when using this laptop as opposed to whipping out my goliath Dell E1705. The Intel Mobile Metro, demoed off in the IDF in mid April, has been the ...
Why 1% of search market share is worth over $1 Billion
ComScore released their April 2007 search market share numbers showing that Google increased its market share lead to about 50%. Yahoo has about 27%, Microsoft 10%, AOL 5%, and Ask.com has 5%. That ...
Intel's Metro laptop concept in the real world
The marketing shots of Intel's 0.7-inch thin Metro laptop prototype caused quite a stir, so we'd imagine the real, physical, meatspace shots of an actual working prototype would be even more intriguin...
Novelties: A High-End Remote for a High-Tech Life
COUCH potatoes who don't like the clutter of four or five remote controls can buy a single version to rule the television, cable box, DVD player, stereo and even the lighting system. Most of these de...
The High Price of Creating Free Ads
From an advertiser's perspective, it sounds so easy: invite the public to create commercials for your brand, hold a contest to pick the best one and sit back while average Americans do the creative wo...
Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store
A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco's downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs. — I've placed some photos here. I'm p...
Google Maps "Street View" to be launched at Where 2.0?
Yesterday Google registered several variations of the domain "googlestreetview.com" — normally I would think the feature would be months away, but given Where 2.0 starts on Tuesday, it will likely be ...
Web 2.0 Button Generator
The stripe generator may have helped out those who are unable to place lines side by side, but that left a huge market gap: all those developers and designers who can't figure out how to make a button...
What's Online: CBS Has a Crush on Wallstrip
WHY would CBS want to buy the stocks-oriented video blog Wallstrip? After all, the network exited the online-business-news business when Dow Jones purchased MarketWatch.com in 2004. Is this just a c...
register.com customers' credit cards compromised
Notebook stolen — BIG HOSTING and domain name firm register.com sent an email to its customers saying a notebook containing credit card information was stolen. — The firm said that around two per ...
iPhone Used to Browse MacRumors.com?
It looks like someone at Apple has started more openly testing the Apple iPhone across web sites, including MacRumors.com. — One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identif...
Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page
The major Internet portals like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Google, etc. do not place links on their home page that go anywhere except deeper into the properties. Advertising is generally the only exception. —...
Last.FM Too Slow: Users Create Their Own Facebook Application
Last.fm is a seriously popular music service (we've dubbed it a viral machine). So users are wondering why they are yet to release a Facebook application - competitors like iLike and MOG are the firs...
Images: What 'Star Wars' tech is real?
Droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are not merely movie stars: they've been inducted into the real-life Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University. They're also, for trivia buffs, the only characters to ap...
MedSignals' digital pill box charts your dosage
As the field of devices that let caregivers step away and give the elderly more independence expands, it was just a matter of time before digital pill boxes hit the mainstream. The aptly-dubbed med-m...
Winners - 2007
ESPN.com was the only multiple winner in the 12th Annual EPpy Awards competition when the results were announced today at an awards luncheon that concluded the Interactive Newspaper Conference and Tra...
Japanese government urges Internet regulation change
TOKYO — Seeking to promote Internet distribution of TV content, a government panel has recommended that regs be changed to allow webcasts without first getting permissions from all rights holders. — ...