Nintendo Wii may be scarce for holidays
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 11 (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) hit Wii video game consoles will still be scarce this holiday season, a senior executive said on Wedne...
Facebook advertising brings poor results
Facebook is the website du jour, but in Reach Students' experience it delivers appalling ad clickthroughs. — We've run four targeted campaigns this year using its flyer ads, and each time the result...
FACEBOOK: $6 BILLION? NAH.
Look. If you're Facebook, why on earth would you sell to Microsoft for $6 billion if you didn't sell to Yahoo for $1 Billion last year? You just wouldn't. You don't NEED anyone right now. Do you? ...
ACCC alleges misleading and deceptive conduct by Trading Post and Google
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted legal proceedings in the Federal Court, Sydney, against Trading Post Australia Pty Ltd, Google Inc, Google Ireland Limited and Google ...
How E3 changes the video game industry each year
As someone who owns an NES, SNES, Genesis, 3D0, every version of the Gameboy, PSP, DS, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Saturn, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox 360 and Wii (phew!), I was...
Court rejects Webcasters' plea for relief
A federal appeals court has declined to grant a petition by Webcasters to delay the onset of new royalty fees that they argue could imperil their offerings. — In a one-page order filed late Wednesda...
FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs
Hot on the heels of last week's much-ballyhooed free FeedBurner for everyone, we are very excited to announce the immediate availability of one-click redirection for Blogger Blogspot blogs (note our f...
Sony BMG sues CD software firm
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is suing a company that developed antipiracy software for CDs, claiming the technology was defective and cost the record company millions of dollars to settle consumer com...
Apple patent involves media data exchange and portable electronic devices
An Apple patent (20070161402) is for media data exchange, transfer or delivery for portable electronic devices. It would seem to indicate wireless data sharing features between iPods, iPhones and per...
China's Online Population Explosion
There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. T...
Thunderstorms and iPods — Not a Good iDea
Not a Good iDea — To the Editor: The potential for permanent hearing loss due to prolonged use of personal stereo equipment, such as portable compact-disk or MP3 players, at high decibel levels has b...
Apple patent applications hint at Wi-Fi iPods, new mice
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has revealed a raft of new patent applications submitted by Apple's lawyers, covering new technologies for iPods, Web pages, and mice. — Macsimum News spotted se...
Leopard, Vista and the iPhone OS X Architecture
A number of people are working to crack open the iPhone in order to use it on alternative mobile networks or to modify its software or install their own. What they are finding is more interesting to ...
Fortune iMeme: Building New Internet Platforms; Facebook Has 1000s Of Third Party Apps
I'm at the opening session of the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton of San Francisco, where the hotel has no parking left. But I am sitting on a cushy Aeron chair - someone from Herman Mil...
Whole Foods Is Hot, Wild Oats a Dud — So Said 'Rahodeb'
So Said 'Rahodeb' — Then Again, Yahoo Poster — Was a Whole Foods Staffer, — The CEO to Be Precise — In January 2005, someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum a...
Google faces landmark lawsuit over sponsored links
A consumer watchdog is taking legal action against Google over the way it sells and displays its sponsored links, in a case that could "send shudders down the industry". — The Australian Competition...
Sony seeks closure on MediaMax DRM fiasco by suing developer
Although Sony's rootkit fiasco was arguably the most harmful bit of DRM to ever come from Big Content, the MediaMax copy protection software deployed on other Sony discs also caused problems for consu...
Why Facebook, why now?
John Battelle asks a compelling question: why Facebook and why now? — Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook's friends definitions are all messed up. — Over on TechM...
Analysis: E3 Conferences and the Status Quo
Nothing really happened at this year's E3. Probably because, as we've been saying ad nauseum, this isn't really E3 at all. We weren't really sure what it was going to be, but as it turns out it's a ...
Mobile Search V2 released - Improved Navigation, Cache, Movie Searching, GPS, Traffic reporting and more!
The Mobile Search team has released V2 of the rich client application for Windows Mobile, as well as a major update to the browser based interface. Whether you have a J2ME (Java) …
May I Suggest...
It works like this: When you do a search on Yahoo!, you'll automatically be given suggestions based on what you have typed - as you're typing. So, not only does this limit …
Logitech MX Air Mouse - Gesture Based Navigation for Notebooks
Logitech is introducing an innovative wireless mouse that works on a desk or in the air. The Logitech MX Air Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse let's users control multimedia playback or any other mouse...
Article #475: CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.
In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS. — CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing ter...
My time at Google, by the numbers
I joined Google as part of the Blogger acquisition in February 2003. There were only six of us on the Pyra Labs team and we were Google's first acquisition*. Google was only about 600 employees stro...
Warner streams entire catalog of music for free on imeem
Warner Music Group is offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on imeem, a Web site focused on letting users share music playlists. — The music is currently live on the San Fra...
Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life
Recently Forbes featured a widely-cited article (reg. req.) on marketing in Second Life that was so spectacularly incorrect, it inspired me to whip up this reference guide, as the errors there keep cr...
Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux
Two-year switch to begin in September — ITALY'S parliament is about to undertake Europe's largest governmental migration yet to open sauce. — The IT department of the Italian parliament presented ...
A Sigh of Relief for Blockbuster: Few People Copy DVDs
It turns out that not every new bit of technology is a nightmare for Hollywood. There are more than 50 programs available that people can use to defeat the copy protection on DVDs. So some fear that...
FBI: Expect more spam prosecutions
(InfoWorld) - U.S. Internet users should expect a growing number of prosecutions for sending spam and related activities, such as creating botnets, officials with two U.S. law enforcement organization...
Logitech Introduces the Future of PC Navigation
New MX Air Mouse Works on the Desk and in the Air — The future of PC navigation starts now. Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI), the world's leading manufacturer of computer mice, today introduced ...
No price cut for Euro PS3 console
Sony is not cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 in Europe, but will offer free games and accessories instead. — There is also no word of plans for an 80GB version of the console in Europe. — La...
German iPhone gets 1,000 enquiries daily: report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's biggest Apple (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) retailer is getting 1,000 enquiries every day about buying the new iPhone, which is expected to go on sale towards the ...
Microsoft To Buy Facebook For $6 Billion?
Rumor is that Microsoft is looking to close a deal to buy Facebook for the amazing sum of six billion dollars. Henry Blodget says that while he can't confirm it, he has definitely heard that Steve Ba...
At the races with the Kangaroo TV
Getting the best of both worlds — As anyone who follows racing knows, it can often be a lot harder to follow what's going on when you're actually at the track compared to watching it from the comfor...
Microsoft's 'Cloud OS' takes shape
DENVER—Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying Internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week. — In add...
First Book Ever Written Using Mobile Phone is Published
Italian author Robert Bernocco has amazed the literary world by publishing the world's first book written using a mobile phone. Bernocco published it on Lulu.com, the online marketplace for digital c...
BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes
Exclusive The BBC Trust has asked to meet open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on demand broadband TV service, iPlayer. — The development came less t...
Apple patenting Zune-like sharing, wireless buying
Apple may be ready to not only bring wireless file sharing to the iPhone and iPod but could affect Microsoft's Zune as well, according to the details of a newly publicized patent. The filing would al...
MS update sends PCs 'haywire'
Early reports are suggesting problems after users apply one of the six patches issued by Microsoft on Tuesday. — Applying the MS07-040 patch for the .NET framework, which as luck would have it is pr...
NetSuite and Zimbra join the iPhone parade
The iPhone is becoming the latest check-off item for developers of business applicaitons. NetSuite plans to launch SuitePhone, a version of its on demand, integrated business applications suite for t...
Get set for Apple's Yellow Submarine Beatles iPod
Could there ever be an Apple gadget more desirable than the iPhone? Yep. How about a limited-edition Yellow Submarine iPod, with every single Beatles album preloaded onto it? Oh yes. — There were...
Logitech MX Air: The Review
Logitech announced today the MX Air, its newest play at the home theater PC market. The mouse brings a lot of new elements to the market and I'm happy to say that it performs quite nicely. — The de...
SECURITY THREATS TOOLKIT
Mac OS X with 100 bugs: Still safer than Windows? — Munir Kotadia ZDNet Australia — Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year, but the malware threat to Mac customers i...
Xbox price set to drop in war with Wii console
The move is being planned to see off competition from Sony's newly-reduced PS3 and Nintendo's top-selling Wii — Microsoft is planning to cut the price of its Xbox 360 games console in the US to take...