Firefox "firefoxurl" URI Handler Registration Vulnerability
Critical: — Highly critical — Impact: — System access — Where: — From remote — Solution Status: — Unpatched — Software: — Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x — A vulnerability has been discovere...
New rules could rock wireless world
NEW YORK - Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it - not have to take what the wireless carrier wants ...
Microsoft's CRM Live: Two versions coming, but not until 2008
Microsoft is expected to try to use cut-rate pricing to compete with Salesforce.com and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) players when it finally launches its Dynamics CRM Live service in 2008.
February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angele...
New Web metric likely to hurt Google, help YouTube
Nielsen/NetRatings to use total time spent by users of a site as its primary measurement metric — In a nod to the success of emerging Web 2. technologies like AJAX and streaming media, one of the co...
Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
This post is to share lessons I have learned about blogging so far, five weeks into this blog. — First, it's hard to believe it's only been five weeks. "Internet time" lives, I can tell you that. ...
Sprint Cuts 1,000+ Customers For Excessive Complaining
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Hundreds of cell phone customers are being given the boot, accused of being too high maintenance. — Sprint-Nextel is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers on grounds the cli...
The promise of open platforms in the upcoming spectrum auction
As I've written before, Google has become increasingly involved in U.S. spectrum policy issues this year. One of our top public policy objectives is to expand the Internet's reach to more Americans.
iPhone
Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question. — Ever wonder what would happen if you stuck a ca...
Old Media Jumping to New Media
People are getting antsy this summer! Sources tell us this afternoon that PC Magazine editor in chief Jim Louderback has left to become the new CEO of Revision3, and CNET host Veronica Belmont has le...
Bay Partners Launches Facebook-Apps-Only Fund
Here's another indication of the importance of the new Facebook platform: Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Fa...
iPhone Hackers: "we have owned the filesystem"
The kooky hacking kids over at IRC channel #iphone claim to have gained full ownership of the iPhone filesystem. In an update titled "How to Escape Jail," they highlight the technical steps required ...
JP Morgan retracts. Now says "No" to near term "Nano" iPhone
JP Morgan has just issued a note retracting Kevin Chang's earlier projection about a near term iPhone Nano. The new report says that the majority of Chang's assumptions appear to have come from a rev...
Bad Sinatra I
I'll have the AppleTV version up on BadSinatra.com in a bit. — iPhone download
Xbox 360 price set to crash?
Receive the day's biggest stories by email, sign up here — Hot on the heels of Sony's recent $100 60GB PS3 price drop, gamers and industry analysts the world over are predicting that Microsoft will ...
TiVo Users Can Get Amazon Movies From TV
ALVISO, Calif. (AP) — Users of TiVo Inc.'s digital video recorders will be able to order movies from Amazon.com Inc. directly from their TVs starting Tuesday. — The two companies partnered in March ...
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-036 - Critical
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936542) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This critical update resolves one publicly disclosed vu...
Pardon Me, But How Do You Say 'WTF?' In Hindi?
In advertising, as in many other creative endeavors, it's difficult to achieve greatness without pushing the envelope. Sony Computer Entertainment, it seems, has a history of obliterating the envelop...
Michael Capellas has landed
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and MCI (formerly Worldcom), has landed at First Data Corp. — First Data Corp. is an e-commerce payment company that you probably run into every day via servic...
Romney Joins Web Ad Buying, Clinton Drops Out, McCain Still Leads
Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may have run more radio and TV spots through the start of June than other commander-in-chief wannabes, but Nielsen reports his opponent John McCain ran more...
Digg iPhone Beta Live!
Last weekend Joe Stump, Daniel Burka, and I sat down and white-boarded the Digg iPhone app. I told Joe if he coded it in 48hrs, I'd buy him an iPhone. Needless to say, he got it done (nice work, Joe...
TASER XREP
Introducing the TASER XREP - the eXtended Range Electronic Projectile. XREP is a self-contained, wireless projectile that fires from a standard 12-gauge shotgun. It delivers the same Neuro-Muscular ...
Google Buys a Manager of E-Mail
Taking further aim at one of Microsoft's core franchises, Google said Monday that it would acquire the e-mail security and management company Postini for $625 million in cash. — The deal underscores...
usability lab
As mentioned here before, the del.icio.us team is presently in the midst of a major project: building a new platform which will speed up the site and help us grow even faster. At the same time we're ...
Direct Amazon Unbox On TiVo Ordering Arrives
Amazon Unbox ordering has finally landed on TiVo. (Never mind that false alarm last month). The TiVoCast Downloads area is listed as "Download TV & Movies" (how exactly does that describe the web vi...
Nokia N93 Review
This post has been a long time coming, and I can't give you one particular reason why. I've been using the Nokia N93 for quite a while now, and I've had a few starts and stops getting a review done. ...
Hello Sidekick Slide
5 comment(s) for this post. — Sweet Even without anything I am still the first to post. I hope people can post actual comments and not some gibberish.
AMD Offers the Ultimate HDTV and DVR Home Theater Experience for Notebook and Desktop PCs
TV Wonder™ 600 USB and TV Wonder™ 650 PCIe allow users to easily turn their PC into a feature-rich home theater — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced two new solutions …
Hynix and Samsung prioritize NAND flash for Apple
With Apple increasing the amount NAND flash ordered from its suppliers, other customers of Hynix Semiconductors and Samsung Electronics are seeing growing difficulties in securing sufficient stock. —...
iPhone Death Star Upgrade Coming
Oh. My. God. — I hope all of this is true. It would just slaughter every other phone that's out there (well, except for you directionless people who need GPS in your frikkin phone!). — I'm clip...
Bad Sinatra I
No, it's not the Gillmor Gang, but who cares. — Dan Farber, Doc Searls, Marc Benioff, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor