The Assumptions That Yahoo Mash And Other Social Networks Make About You
Every application needs to make assumptions about its users, and for some people those assumptions will inevitably be wrong. Why is it, though, that so many social networks and other social applicati...
Are You Being Cheated by Digital Cable?
Greetings. If you pay for digital cable television tiers, is the service as "digital" as it's supposed to be? Don't be too sure. As it turns out, cable companies can easily cut corners and "cheat" ...
Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce
The age-old business of breaking up has taken a decidedly Orwellian turn, with digital evidence like e-mail messages, traces of Web site visits and mobile telephone records now permeating many content...
5 Reasons Nobody Will Win the Google Lunar X Prize: Analysis
The Internet giant and the innovation foundation have attached a dramatic reward ($20 million plus) to a still more ambitious goal (land a robot rover on the moon before 2013). But the new X Prize ma...
Is Microsoft Office 2007 outselling Windows Vista?
Might sales of Office 2007 be outpacing sales of Windows Vista? — Since early this year, Microsoft has been issuing periodic sales updates on Windows Vista. The most recent Vista sales pronouncemen...