A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope
JUST now, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley — minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors — is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site. — Kevin Rose, the co-founder a...
SILVERLIGHT 1.0 RC1 IS HERE!
As indicated in a previous post, we're homing in on the launch of Silverlight 1.0, and today marks another milestone with the launch of the first release candidate. Since the beta we released at MIX,...
Sanity check: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software
Who remembers Red Flag Linux? Born during the dot-com boom and officially financed and adopted by the Chinese government, Red Flag Linux was supposed to be China's answer …
Video Game Matches to Be Televised on CBS
The magic of television has already transformed everything from motorcycle acrobatics to poker into living-room spectator sports, not to mention turning competitive singing into a national obsession. ...
In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down
USER-GENERATED content — from Wikipedia to YouTube to open-source software — is generating waves of excitement. But the opening of innovation to wider numbers of people obscures another trend: many o...
New Rockstar Games Franchise Exclusive to the PS3
This is Michael Shorrock. I'm the Director of 3rd Party Relations at SCEA. As you may have seen this morning/last night on GameHead with Geoff Keighley, we are announcing that a new franchise from R...
iFuntastic 2.0 released with added features
bitSplit, the man that brought you iFuntastic, has released version 2.0, which improves functionality and adds some new features. If you've been living under a rock lately, the iPhone Dev Wiki hacker...
Telstra iPhone SIM hack video
Although the voiceover on this YouTube video was almost too soothing to listen to, the demo being explained definitely got our excitable attention. We're not sure about this hack's details, but the u...
For YouTube, a System to Halt Copyright-Infringing Videos
Google hopes technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyright-infringing videos on its YouTube site, a company lawyer told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits yesterday.
Geek To Live: Manage your life via SMS
The command line's making a comeback, but the terminal window, keyword launcher and search box aren't the only textual command interfaces—your cell phone has joined the party. More and more modern we...
Xbox overtakes Wii As Most Searched for Console
The Xbox 360 has overtaken the Nintendo Wii as the most searched for gaming console based on share of US Internet searches for the first time since the Wii's launch in November 2006. The Xbox 360 is ...