iPhone Details from AT&T's Sales Training Workbook
We've gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple's iPhone. Thanks to cindynjgirl79 for providing the scans. … The trainin...
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by repeatedly defending the company both in the United States a...
TorrentSpy Ordered By Federal Judge to Become MPAA Spy
On May 29, TorrentSpy - one of the web's most famous .torrent dump sites was told by federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian in the Central District of California that despite the site's privacy policy whi...
Palm Gandolf in Living Color!!!
Okay all of you non believers. The Palm Gondolf is a reality and here is a picture in living color. This device will be available sometime in the 4th quarter and will be targeted to the youth market...
Watchdog group slams Google on privacy
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader...
Cathedral row over video war game
The Church of England is considering legal action against entertainment firm Sony for featuring Manchester Cathedral in a violent PlayStation video game. — The Church says Sony did not obtain permis...
A Patent Lie
WHAT a difference 16 years makes. Last month, the technology world was abuzz over an interview in Fortune magazine in which Bradford Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, accused users and developers o...
flickr considered harmful
I started using the photo sharing service Flickr last November as the request of my sweetheart; I started really maximizing my use of the site as I enjoyed its social networking features, and at the u...
Xing May Be In Talks To Acquire Plaxo
We are hearing a LOT of chatter about a possible Xing-Plaxo merger in the $250 million range. The deal makes some sense - newly public Xing is headquartered in Germany and hasn't gotten much traction...
Flickr not even flickering in China
Internet photo site says service is being blocked and hopes it's only temporary — The popular Internet photo site Flickr said that its service is being blocked in China, although the Yahoo subsidiar...
Web 2.0 at the European Parliament
Ajit Jaokar wrote in to tell us about the talk he gave about Web 2.0 at the European parliament's EIF foundation. He notes, "The EIF foundation is a subgroup within the European parliament concerned ...
Joost v. Babelgum
Babelgum has pushed itself public yesterday. On the surface it looks very similar to its more famous competitor, Joost. Both are P2P IPTV applications that let you flip through channels and shows st...
WWDC 2007 keynote bingo
It's that time again. For a refresher course on keynote bingo, see the explanation accompanying the Macworld 2007 bingo card. For WWDC 2007, it's the same deal: one card, no easy wins. As usual, so...
Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention: The War On Flow
Linda Stone has an odd way of responding to the comments I made recently about Continuous Partial Attention in my Reboot talk, Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Flow. I guess she must have a goo...
Language lessons
For a while now I've been uncomfortable with the words user and content, and with the phrase user-generated content. But although produced or created are almost certainly better generic terms than ge...
Spectrum Warriors
Think Apple's iPhone is cool? You haven't seen anything yet, tech entrepreneurs promise—that is, if the phone companies would just get out of their way. And they're asking the Feds to help them out....
How to Build Your Personal Brand Through Your Blog
Bob (no url provided) asks - "I want to know how blogging can be used in personal branding. … Glad to hear you're wanting to use your blog in this way Bob, you're not alone as more and more people are...
First Full Length Film on YouTube
Four Eyed Monsters, a movie developed out of a video blog, has debuted on YouTube in what is believed to be the first full length feature film on the Google owned mega-site. — According to Marshall ...
10 WAYS TO BE PRODUCTIVE WITH YOUR HANDHELD, SMARTPHONE, OR PDA
These days, many web workers are upgrading to more powerful handheld mobile devices — PDA, smartphone, Internet tablet, ultra-mobile PC — and they never seem to stop fiddling with them. From checking...
Microsoft Adds Xbox Games, May Cut Price to Woo Moms (Update2)
Microsoft Corp. has won over 20-year- old gamers, who spend hours a day launching rockets and firing plasma guns on the company's Xbox 360. Now it wants their moms. — To lure them, the world's larg...
A Patent Lie
WHAT a difference 16 years makes. Last month, the technology world was abuzz over an interview in Fortune magazine in which Bradford Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, accused users and developers o...
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Online Map Craze Helps People Visualize Data
BY JENNIFER WOODARD MADERAZO, 4:11PM — It's not often that you find an Internet trend based on something ancient. But that's what's happening with maps. Google Maps has gone from innovative to ind...
"For sale by owner" web sites can generate higher prices than Realtors
Three economists decided to investigate whether using a for sale by owner (FSBO) web site could actually make homeowners more money compared to selling a house with a traditional real estate agent.