Steve Jobs, Motivational Speaker For Yahoo
Guess who stopped by to give Yahooligans a little pep talk? Steve Jobs! He told the gathering of 300-odd Yahoo (YHOO) vice presidents that they can do anything. The company with one of the largest ...
Facebook's Killer Feature Coming Soon
Back in August I suggested that if Facebook allowed you to place your friends in specific groups (e.g. professional, social, family, etc) and assign custom privacy settings, LinkedIn would be doomed. ...
Altered iPhones Freeze Up
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 — Since the iPhone hit the market in June, tech-savvy owners of the phone have been busy messing with its insides, figuring out how to add unauthorized software and even "unloc...
YouTube offer Publishers AdSense Embedded Video Players
I've had a number of readers email me in the last 24 hours to let me know that they're seeing options to monetize sites using YouTube custom video players with AdSense units in them. — Perhaps this ...
iPhone 1.1.1 "bug" unleashes music over Bluetooth
The iPhone 1.1.1 update has a hidden little surprise for y'all: Bluetooth audio streaming is now available off of your iPhone for whatever you darn please, meaning you can finally listen to music from...
Demonoid Trackers Back Online, Site Still Down
The demonoid downtime caused quite some controversy, especially after the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reported that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was responsible for the downtim...
Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the type of discs system manufactur...
Payloads for Twitter
Back in 2001, I wrote a document called Payloads for RSS that explained how you could attach something to a RSS item. I didn't explain how a RSS app would display or play one of these things, that wo...
"Rock Band" PS3/Xbox360 Price Set, PS2 Release Moved Up To 2007
The many arms of the Multiplayer blog reach many sectors of MTV. Today we've got some inside scoop on the pricing info for "Rock Band," a game that many people are expecting, but that so many people ...
Bain Capital to Acquire 3Com for $2.2B
The $2.2 billion deal gives Huawei Technologies a minority share in 3Com. — Beleaguered 3Com announced on Sept. 28 that it has struck a deal to be taken private by Bain Capital and former Chinese pa...
The Unsung Heroes Who Move Products Forward
AT first blush, the iPhone from Apple, the new microprocessor family from Intel and the ubiquitous Google search engine have nothing in common. One is a gadget, one is an electronic part and one is a...
Google's vehicle used for its Street View service sighted in London
If you see this vehicle around London be sure to run after it. Google is using it to make the 'Street View' of London. That way you can guarantee that you will appear in as many pictures as possible...
iPhone's Bluetooth bug under the hacker microscope
(InfoWorld) - Almost lost in the hubbub over Thursday's iPhone firmware update and whether it would "brick" unlocked phones was the fact that Apple patched 10 vulnerabilities — twice the number of fix...
Verizon's Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager get outed
Apparently due to launch in a couple of weeks, Verizon is prepping a phone blitz of fairly epic proportions. The new Samsung Juke, BlackBerry Pearl, LG Venus and LG Voyager are due for simultaneous a...