Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
Last year a Wikipedia visitor edited the entry for the SeaWorld theme parks to change all mentions of "orcas" to "killer whales," insisting that this was a more accurate name for the species. — Ther...
Gaming Remains the Most Popular Online Entertainment Activity
Playing games is still a more popular online activity in the U.S. than watching short video clips or visiting social networking websites, according to Casual Gaming Market Update, a new report from Pa...
Police Target 'Pirate Cinema' Fuelled by Downloaded Movies
A recent post on the organizers website declares: "The best films are free! Pirate Cinema is an autonomous cinema with P2P-downloaded films. Why should you give your money to big corporations? We a...
Earthlink's Wi-Fi delays put project in question
Months after the City Council approved a contract to allow EarthLink Inc. to blanket Houston with a wireless network, the build-out still has not begun. — The delay is prompting concern that the com...
Cellphone Contracts: Hard to Get off the Hook
Fed up with dropped calls and a string of defective cellphones, Corey Taylor said he became irate when he learned he'd have to pay $175 to get out of his long-term contract with Verizon Wireless. So ...
Just kidding?
Far be it from me to defend LA Times editorialists, but I think some critics are missing the attempted irony in their excoriated opinion piece about Google and newspapers — specifically, the new Googl...
Passing the Torch
Our fearless leader is handing over the reigns of PC Mag. — After five years at Ziff Davis Media and nearly 16 years in editorial content—the last two at the helm of this terrific magazine—I've deci...
The words we've all been waiting for
Skype. Take a deep breath — Blog about the latest Skype news, written from the perspective of the people who work at Skype. — The words we've all been waiting for — By Villu Arak on August 1...
Update at midnight GMT
We are pleased to announce that the situation continues to improve. The sign-on problems have been resolved. Skype presence and chat may still take a few more hours to be fully operational. We know...
comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Ranking
Summer Vacation Season Continues to Spur Traffic to — Travel Sites for the Third Consecutive Month
Episode #4: Chat with Real Networks CEO, Rob Glaser
Things are heating up this week, as Om and Joyce tear through another round of Hitlines without mercy. We also sit down with RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a true veteran in the tech world. All th...
EXCLUSIVE: AT&T neuters the BlackBerry 8820 in favor of the iPhone
Wow. I must say, this is probably the biggest piece of news we've ever broken here at BlackBerry Cool — and possibly the one that's made us the angriest. We've just received word from one of our fri...
Google Working on Social Network Aggregator
Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal, who recently left Six Apart for Google has published notes on what he's going to be working on moving forward. It is an interesting read entitled Brad's ...