New version of Gmail being tested
Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, it's soon to undergo a change ...
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails — INTRO / BACKGROUND: — Back in January 2005, I announced on the O'Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PH...
Finishing the fight: Ars reviews Halo 3
The Halo generation — Halo 3 — After a three-year wait and the birth of a brand new console generation, Halo 3 is set to hit stores on September 25. Halo 3 marks the final part of a long-standing...
The 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one)
If you follow the talk over on Twitter you'll see that there are some unwritten "rules" and that I am breaking lots of those rules and pissing lots of people off. — I break the rules so you don't ha...
Breaking: Online Backup Startup Mozy Acquired By EMC For $76 million
Online storage startup Mozy, headquartered in Utah, has been acquired by EMC Corporation, a public storage company with a nearly $40 billion market cap. EMC paid $76 million for the company, accordin...
Corpse-generated content
Now here's something new. The Guardian Unlimited has a story about a site called YouDeparted.com that is a kind of social network for the dead. While you're still alive, you set up a profile page on...
Broadband beyond the grave offers web service for the dead
Fascinating as it may be, the internet is no good to you when you're six feet under. Or that has been the assumption. Yet now a website dedicated to that vast and previously overlooked group, the de...
How Come No One Noticed There Was No Mention of DVD in the New MacBook?
So when we got the news from Cleve and his source about the new laptops, the first thing we asked ourselves was how is Apple going to squeeze all of the laptop internals into such a thin Package? Ba...
The Ultimate con
Even if the Windows Ultimate team has fled to the International Date Line, summer is officially over. Normally I wouldn't care what season it is in the northern hemisphere but today it proves this te...
Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap
VANU BOSE is the son of a fabled engineer, but he garnered no mercy when he presented his big idea at a technical conference in 1996. Mr. Bose's graduate work at M.I.T. involved using software to han...
Early Halo 3 Limited Edition Owners Plagued by Scratched Discs
Shoddy Halo 3 packaging leads to scratched game discs — A lot of people will be buying shiny, new copies of Halo 3 this week, but some of them will get home to find scratched discs straight out of t...
TV Remote Moves Over for a Mouse
Media consumers have said, loudly and repeatedly, that they want to watch what they want, when and where they want it. Last week NBC called that bluff, saying that its prime-time broadcast schedule w...
The year of the social network
As long as I've been involved in the tech industry there's been the concept of The Year of X, where X has been artificial intelligence, personal information managers, local area networks, CD-ROMs, P2P...
Halo 3 (pre)-review
With Halo 3 arriving in reviewers' hands just yesterday (yeah, Saturday) and matchmaking servers yet to be online, Joystiq's review is still pending further analysis of the game. We did get a chance ...
New to British Cellphones: Getting Free Calls for Ads
British cellphone users will get their first look Monday at a new mobile service called Blyk, which will offer subscribers some free calls and text messages in return for their agreeing to accept adve...
Apple drops new Leopard build, may be release candidate
Apple on Friday evening seeded developers with yet another pre-release of its next-generation Leopard operating system, this time a full-blown build that appears as if it could be a candidate for rele...
OLPC Give 1 Get 1 Program: XO-1 Laptop USA Sales!!!
Do you want a XO laptop for Christmas? Clock-stopping hot educational technology for your children, here in America? Then you're gonna love this: as OLPC News predicted, Nichols Negroponte has modif...
THOUGHTS ON MICROSOFT
[A view from the London Microsoft offices, taken earlier today. Westminster Cathedral in the background, McDonald's in the foreground. N.B. I first ate at this McDonald's when I was twelve years old...
Feeling tinfoilish? $5 billion suit against Google over privacy, terrorism
When you think of dark, shadowy entities with far-reaching influence and perhaps a sinister design on the future, you don't normally think of Google. Historically, it has been the NSA, the CIA, Mossa...