As Its Stock Tops $600, Google Faces Growing Risks
Can anything stop the ascent of Google's stock? — When the company's shares pierced $600 for the first time last Monday, Wall Street analysts scrambled to jack up their price targets, most to about ...
'Sneaker Pimps' pimped out NES sneaker
Oh wow. We're looking at what appears to be a working Nintendo Entertainment System built into the bottom of a shoe. This photo was apparently taken last night in New York City at the end of the Sne...
Announcing the NewTeeVee Live Schedule
I apologize to all of you about writing so rarely during the last couple weeks, but I've been spending crazy amounts of time working on our NewTeeVee Live conference, to be held November 14 in San Fra...
The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life
STEVE SAENZ used to run a 10K race in 36 minutes. But last spring — 20 years, 2 children and 50 pounds later — he found himself seriously out of shape. A new Web site from Nike, he says, has brought...
Radiohead: 1.3 Mil Downloads! (But Big Music Not Dead)
Reports are trickling in on the initial results of Radiohead's pay-what-you-like-for-our-music experiment: We hear the current totals are 1.3 million downloads since "In Rainbows" went on "sale" Wedne...
Why TechMeme is great and the haters hate (the *official*, 100% approved, final word on TechMeme)
TechMeme is brilliant. — It takes conversations that are buzzing around in private and surfaces them for everyone to participate in. Is it perfect? No, of course not.
Imitating the Web, for the Busy Reader
AN arm smashes through a magician's hat on the cover of the latest issue of BusinessWeek, highlighting an article about Bear Stearns's inability to conjure a rabbit to fix its hedge funds. The image ...
Anouncing Twype.exe
I've been playing around with posting Twitter Tweets to my Skype Mood. The alpha is just finished and you can download it from here. — It's a small Windows tray program. — Once every 5 minutes it ...
A Site Warhol Would Relish
JUSTIN.TV, a San Francisco start-up that provides live video programming on the Web, wants to make you a star as a "lifecaster." No singing, dancing or storytelling skills are required — only a willi...
UK to look for ever-elusive link between WiFi and health problems
Over the past few years, the spread of wireless network connectivity has done wonders for both laptop sales and the ability of the public to access the Internet without being shackled to a desk by an ...
Patent Troll Fire First Volley at Open Source
The recent lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas by IP Innovation LLC (and Technology Licensing Corporation) against Red Hat and Novell may be the first volley in a patent war against open source s...
Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs
Facebook may be used for professional networking (particularly in Silicon Valley), but it sure isn't set up to be. People's profiles are all about their dating status, pictures, videos and other very...
INNOVATION: Microsoft receives Patent for a new User Interface for Mobile Devices
Just in time to my previous column if the Windows Mobile touchscreen interface is ready for single-hand use, the United States Patent and Trademark Office yesterday unveiled a patent which was given t...
What About a Random Twitter and/or Twitter Gallery?
As it appears that Twitter is staying around for a while, I have a couple ideas on how to improve the ability for each person using Twitter to find new people to follow. Twitter could become a new ne...
Skype Co-Founder Admits Expectations Were Too High
Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's co-founder and former chief executive, told attendees at this week's ETRE technology conference in Hungary that while the Internet telephone services provider was growing at ...
The case for Google
As investors push Google's stock ever higher and Wall Street analysts, those paragons of rationality, dutifully lift their price targets, reasoned assessments of Google's prospects become all the more...
Patent Troll Fire First Volley at Open Source
The recent lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas by IP Innovation LLC (and Technology Licensing Corporation) against Red Hat and Novell may be the first volley in a patent war against open source s...