Web 3.0, the official definition.
Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0. — Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 tec...
Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records
Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's succes...
RIAA trial verdict is in: jury finds Thomas liable for infringement
Duluth, Minnesota — After just four hours of deliberation and two days of testimony, a jury found that Jammie Thomas was liable for infringing the record labels' copyrights on all 24 the 24 recordings...
In Facebook, Investing in a Theory
The Facebook frenzy is spreading. — Thousands of software developers are creating features for Facebook, the rapidly growing social network, many hoping to strike it rich alongside Facebook's own em...
Introducing the BT FON Community
Yes, you read it correctly: BT stands for British Telecom!!! — Ever since we started building FON, the largest WiFi community in the world, I have been explaining how FON is great for telcos and ISP...
Techmeme is officially a cesspool
It was intriguing for a day or two, but now it's clear that the Leaderboard was the dumbest idea ever, because now more than ever, people are gaming Techmeme so they can climb the list. — Reminds me...
Internet Explorer 7 Update
Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we've seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it...
Feds Accidentally Turn Off California Gov't Websites
Every once in a while you hear stories of companies having problems with their domain names, often because someone forgot to re-register the domain name or possibly because of a routing problem. Howe...
Campus launches YouTube channel
BERKELEY - Further expanding public access to its intellectual riches through the most popular Web destinations, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 3) that it is ...
Apple announcements brewing for late October [updated]
Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. — While sources have requested that we not go ...
Level 3 Slashes CDN Prices
Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) is lowering prices for content delivery network (CDN) services to match the same price customers pay for high-speed IP transport. — By matc...
The Fiction of 20%
It's a "given" in the venture business that in order to compensate a venture firm for all the time and energy they are going to put into a particular investment, they need to own at least 20% of the c...
10 percent of September iPhone sales were for unlocks, claims analyst
No one is exactly sure how many iPhones there are in the wild that have been unlocked. Members of the iPhone Dev Team claim that there could be "several hundred thousand," while analyst Shaw Wu remin...
Will Facebook's Developers Defect to Other Platforms?
Today I wrote about the rush of developers to write for the Facebook platform, and their inflated hopes of dot.com riches. — Facebook is sure to have competition in the business of allowing third pa...
The Next Leap for Linux
LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. — But why ...
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels. — The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alar...
Zucker: NBC 'Ripping Apart' Old Business Models
NBC Universal President Concerned About Digital Piracy — NBC Universal president Jeff Zucker said NBC has been "ripping apart old business models" and trying "radically new" ones as it attempts to h...
The AT&T Tilt, October 5 for $299.99
Bringing all of the HTC Kaiser's joy to AT&T, the Tilt has finally been set for an October 5 launch. Besides the obvious feature of a tilting display — hence the name — the spec sheet reveals a 3 meg...
Report: 10 percent of September iPhones sold to unlocking teams
Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray recently spent more time tracking unit sales at Apple Inc.'s retail stores and reported Thursday that their observations indicate that as many as 10 percent ...
Yahoo!, eBay and PayPal Join Forces to Protect Consumers Against E-mail Fraud and Phishing Scams
Yahoo! Mail First to Protect Consumers by Blocking Fraudulent eBay and PayPal E-mail — SAN JOSE, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct 04, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo!, eBay and PayPal today announced …
The Device that never was: Palm Foleo
Published by Torturous Trevor the Technoholic October 3rd, 2007 in Torturous Trevor the Technoholic, Unboxing and Palm Devices. — Well here ya go, the unboxing of the device that never was: The Palm...
BT Learns to Spell Phone F.O.N.
BT announced today that they have teamed up with WiFi sharing community FON, which means that all BT Total Broadband customers can become part of the FON community. — FON, if you have not come acros...
What would you call this service?
Salesforce.com is considering bringing to market a new service enabling companies to share leads, opportunities and custom objects with each other (assuming both are using salesforce.com). What would...
JEFF ZUCKER IS AN AT&T PUPPET
How do I say it more clearly? Honestly, folks, we need better leadership than this in the seats of media power, and until that happens, we'll just continue to miss the point, over and over and over a...
Live Search Maps: the best is yet to come
We haven't talked much about the changes coming to Live Search Maps, for a couple of reasons. The first and foremost, of course, is that its not live yet, and it's kind of hard to talk about the chan...
Research In Motion Reports Second Quarter Results
Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NasdaqGS:RIMM - News)(Toronto:RIM.TO - News), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today reported second quarter results for the three months ended Sep...
Introducing the BT FON Community, Wi-Fi everywhere in the U.K.
FON and BT have partnered to create the BT FON Community to cover the entire U.K. with hundreds of thousands of BT FON hotspots. — You already know who we are, the world's largest Wi-Fi Community, a...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 4, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: October 9, 2007 — This is an advance notification of seven security bulletins ...
New iMacs plagued by interface freezing issues
A growing number of users have reported that Apple's aluminum all-in-one computers suffer from a flaw that locks up the interface, rendering the system all but inert until a reboot. — Customers part...
The Future of Web Startups
There's something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. — There's a pattern that we see over and over in tec...
Google attacks Verizon's attempt to water down 700MHz "open access" rules
What is going on at the FCC? The agency established the rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction back in August, but it turns out that these were not so much "rules" as "suggestions for discuss...
News Corp warns Google over copyright
By Aline van Duyn and Joshua Chaffin in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google 'could do a better job' at preventing illegally copied video from appearing on its YouTube site, Peter C...
Federal 'fix' knocks ca.gov for a loop
Even the government shudders when someone says they're from the government and they're here to help. — Case in point: A hacker's diversion of traffic from a California county government Web site to ...
Gears of War PC Release Date Set; Details and Exclusive Screenshots
Have you been holding out to play Epic's latest Xbox 360 "exclusive" on the PC? Get out your calendar: Gears of War for Windows makes its way to stores on November 6th. — The game will feature five...
Battle to beat fake Ebay e-mails
Fake Ebay and Paypal e-mails which are used to con users out of money are being targeted by a secure mail system. — The online auction site and web pay service are working with Yahoo to use the firm...
The Cheap Revolution
Poor Steve Jobs. First he apologizes for dropping the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399 after just 10 weeks on the market and offers Apple customers a $100 rebate. Now he's being slapped with a ...
Halo 3: Does Success Push Bungie Out Of The Game?
So staggering in fact that the game title alone might be enough to push Microsoft's — [MSFT Loading... (%) ] Xbox 360 into the black for the first time in its history, a neat trick considering...
Leopard 'Notes' to sync with iPhone
New evidence suggests that a more significant software update for Apple's iPhone handset will arrive following the release of the company's Mac OS X Leopard operating system, adding features such as N...
Video Game Exec Wants DMCA Everywhere
from the some-people-are-never-satisfied dept — CNET is reporting that Entertainment Software Association president Mike Gallagher argued in a recent speech that "very few countries follow the path ...
HP bolsters digital video library
HP is building out its digital library for its turnkey on-demand video services. — Back in February HP announced an effort called Video Merchant Services and signed Wal-Mart up as its first customer...
Video game czar: More countries need a DMCA
WASHINGTON—The controversial U.S. law that generally bars people from tampering with copy-protection features drew accolades on Wednesday from the video game industry's chief executive. — Mike Galla...
Relevance, Relevance, Relevance!
In building 88 on Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, WA there is a small, but growing group of us that think about relevance constantly. We eat, live and breathe ideas and technology that makes our ...
Feds Accidentally Turn Off California Gov't Websites
Every once in a while you hear stories of companies having problems with their domain names, often because someone forgot to re-register the domain name or possibly because of a routing problem. Howe...
News Corp warns Google over copyright
By Aline van Duyn and Joshua Chaffin in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google 'could do a better job' at preventing illegally copied video from appearing on its YouTube site, Peter C...