How to avoid sounding like an monkey
A few weeks ago a well-respected developer wrote a blog post about something he called the "social graph." A graph, to most people, is a diagram like the one on the right, which plots the value of a ...
New Streamlined Download Process Now Available
Based on feedback from the community, we have implemented an new option to download Lotus Symphony without creating an IBMID. Please select the option to "Proceed without an IBMID" from the sign in p...
MediaDefender's Decoy Effectiveness on BitTorrent Sites
MediaDefender determines the effectiveness of their spoofs and decoys by analyzing the top search results for the file in question, mostly movies and music albums. If 2 out of 10 top search results a...
Sony PSP Vaults Past Nintendo DS in Japan
This is why Sony may yet rule the console-verse in spite of all its missteps and bungled first-gen games and cynical press. Because pretty much out of the blue, a game like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy...
Symantec issues bogus warning of full-scale Internet meltdown
False alarm result of 'product testing,' says company an hour later — Symantec Corp.'s early warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare late Friday when it erroneously sent an alert ...
Micro-USB Mobile Phone Charging Standard Announced
Relief from the tangled mess that is the cell phone charger market today is finally in sight — Last week a group of power players in the mobile phone manufacturing industry gathered to discuss the f...
Google Could Trip Over the Mortgage Mess
IS GOOGLE TRULY IMMUNE TO THE SUBPRIME-MORTGAGE MORASS? — Ever since Google (ticker: GOOG) whiffed on its second-quarter earnings, fans and critics alike have been entertaining this critical questio...
Google Very Well Could Achieve Social Network Domination
Today, TechCrunch reports on some secret meeting where Google has something "really really big" in the works to take Facebook on head to head. Sounds kinda sneaky and strange (and a little Dr. Evil) ...
Techmeme and Google Shared Stuff: WTF?
Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests has mentioned this too, but I'm not sure whether the problem is Techmeme's or something that has gone squirrely with Google's Shared Reader. A post entitled "Full Vid...
Facebook's Impact on the Widget Economy
Last night I attended a technology event, Refresh DC. Refresh DC provides local companies with the opportunity to speak for an hour about a topic of their choice. Last night's event was sponsored by...
Know Your Rights: How does fair use work?
Know Your Rights is Engadget's new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you sta...
Open Source Is the Big Disruptor
Continued acceptance will drive down prices and force proprietary software vendors to change their business model. — Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry...