Google Patents SMS Payment System
A new patent application published by Google gives a unique insight into a possible mobile version of Google Checkout. — The Text Message Payment patent, filed on February 28th 2006, details how tex...
Google and the wires torpedo newspapers
A fascinating announcement from Google about an arrangement with four of the world's major wire services that will see their content featured more prominently on Google News. As far as I can tell, th...
A Man & His 100 Mbps Fiber Connected Life
Swedish grannies are connecting to the net at 40 gigabits per second life; 100 megabit per seconds are becoming common place in Japan and Korea; and even French are dreaming of an ultra-fast fiber fut...
Multi-Day Paypal Subscription Outage
PayPal users are reporting the widespread failure of the PayPal subscription service. — According to user reports, the subscription service stopped working August 30 and remains down. PayPal subscr...
What's Going On With PayPal? Is eBay Communications Clueless?
Yesterday I logged into PayPal and attempted to "accept" a payment. When I click accept, it goes to a page that has an html title of "page not found" and a link to "try again". I waited 24 hours and...
Are You Getting Quechup Spammed?
One controversial issue among social networks is how hard they should push for user acquisition. Most social networks these days let you to import your email address book in some way (Twitter is the ...
Art of chatting face to face dying
Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — THE introduction of e-mail, text messaging and iPods is causing a worldwide epidemic of shyness. — Psychologist, Harvard Business School researcher and et...
nsa@home (diy shared fpga cracker)
[skylark] converted a pair of defective hdtv processing boards into his very own fpga sha-1 hash cracker. after two months of evening work, he ended up with 15 virtex-ii pro fpgas and 5 spartan-ii fp...
Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make Office an International Standard
Sunday is an important date for Microsoft's future. — It's the deadline for votes on whether Microsoft's office document format, Office OpenXML, will be approved as an international standard by the ...
Another Sony rootkit worms its way to the surface
Sony can't catch a break after their infamous rootkit scandal back in 2005. In fact, we know from talking to security researchers and black hats alike that Sony is under the careful eye of many as a ...
NBC 'DISAPPOINTED' IN NOT NEGOTIATING NEW ITUNES PACT
We are also disappointed in not being able to successfully negotiate a new iTunes agreement with Apple. We're hopeful that we can reach a resolution before the existing contract expires. However, we...
Nippon Airways working on wireless flight check-in
This could do wonders to reduce those aggravating waits at the airport. Japanese airline Nippon Airways has announced that they will be allowing travelers to check in by way of a wireless microchip b...
Introducing the Google Phone
The Internet is buzzing about it, but only a privileged few know what it looks like, what it will do, or when it will hit the streets — Cambridge has a chocolate factory, and a Willy Wonka. The cho...
Death of a Streamcaster: Web Radio Prepares for the Worst
Even after compromises from SoundExchange and the CRB, web radio broadcasters are not optimistic about the future — The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board's new rates "would bankrupt us," says Tim Westerg...