All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions
We've been poring over Leopard since getting our copy, and no doubt about it, there's just way too much to say. The number of fixes, updates, and new features in this release is astounding. Granted,...
More Goodies in Apple's New Operating System
In today's Times, I reviewed Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard." I noted that Apple claims to have added over 300 new features. — Trouble is, if I tried to describe them all i...
Apple yanks wireless backup from Leopard last minute
To the dismay of what is sure to be many, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled one of the more compelling features of its Leopard operating system last minute: the ability to use its revolutionary Time M...
YouTube getting a redesign, sunglasses needed
The YouTube team has a surprise in store, a YouTube redesign is in the works. Please get your sunglasses ready though, it tends to be a little hard on the eyes. — YouTube will incorporate user feed...
The Future is Cloudy
When Google this week announced IMAP support for Gmail, it really got me thinking about finally outsourcing my e-mail. At $50 per year per address, Google Apps Premier Edition is pretty compelling. ...
A Cautionary Tale for Old Media
Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming. It's still struggling to survive — On Jan. 19, 1990, Robert D. Ingle, then executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News, wrote a remarkably pr...
Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time
The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, in a trend known as consumer-generated content. Leave it to Apple to — paraphrasing the company'...
Exclusive First Review: Asus Eee PC 701
Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet. — Price: $399 — This past weekend a circular advertised a Vista-powered laptop equipped with a Celeron processor, 14.1-inch display, ...
Mac OSX Leopard: Worth The Wait
The long wait for the latest version of Apple' OSX operating system comes to an end today for millions of Mac fans worldwide. OSX Leopard goes on sale in retail stores at 6pm, although others will re...
Microsoft's 'Halo' effect
The software giant reports strong sales and profit increases thanks to healthy sales of new video game 'Halo 3' as well as Vista and Office; stock surges after-hours — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Micr...
Metrofunk.com, The World's First Invite-Only Social Network Built by Trendsetters FOR Trendsetters ... Are you invited?
New York, NY - October 25, 2007 - Metrofunk announced today that on November 15, 2007 they will launch Metrofunk.com, the world's first invite-only social network devoted entirely …
Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail
Scarcely a week before an existing ban on Internet access taxes is set to expire, the U.S. Senate late on Thursday voted to let it live on for seven more years. — The compromise bill, which was appr...
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
BOiNK will be a little different from OiNK. For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided. The success of BOiNK will mainly...
Facebook: Committed to the sanctity of the social graph
Just 24 hours after Facebook received $240 million from Microsoft for 1.6 percent of the company, Ami Vora, senior platform manager at Facebook, said that investment news (which probably wasn't any su...
Nintendo rules out Wii price cut
TOKYO - Fresh off bumper earnings, Nintendo Co. ruled out a price cut for its smash-hit Wii video game console Friday and announced the company will being selling the Wii in China next year. — Profi...
Facebook sued for mis-sending dirty texts
Facebook has been sued for bombarding the wrong people with intermittently-X-rated mobile text messages. — Earlier this week, an Indiana mommy named Lindsey Abrams filed a federal class action suit ...
Sprint Nextel agrees to unlock phones
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Wireless subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp. may no longer have to buy a new phone if they jump to a new carrier. — As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the Reston, Va.-b...
New phone to be released on 3 network - 3 Skypephone
Sometime next month it is rumored (more than a rumor though...) that 3 Mobile will be releasing the 3 SkypePhone, a new phone that allows people to use Skype just like they would on their home compute...
UBC tracked his 'theft of time'
Use of spyware in firing of web-surfing employee violated his privacy — The University of B.C. wants the right to keep using "spyware" to monitor its employees' Internet use. — And the university ...
Comcast's "We Don't Throttle BitTorrent" Internal Talking Points Memo [Leaks]
A Comcast employee supplied The Consumerist with the following internal email sent out to all the customer service staff at the Maryland call center. It's regarding recent reports that the cable comp...
Russians use Geforce to crack Vista passwords
GPGPU given a new spin — PESKY RUSSIANS have come up with a novel way of using Nvidia's graphics hardware - cracking passwords. — INQ readers will long be familiar with the concept of the GPGPU, a...
MYSPACE LOVE$ FACEBOOK VALUE
If Facebook is worth $15 billion, then MySpace is worth $65 billion. — That's the take of RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank, who applied the $357 Microsoft ascribed to each of Facebook's 42 mil...
Accused speeder to cops: My GPS proves your radar gun is wrong
GPS-based tracking devices don't just help you figure out where you are and where you're going, they might also help you avoid a speeding ticket. Shaun Malone of California is contesting a speeding t...
WDS update revision follow - up
Hi Folks - — I wanted to get back to you with more information and guidance around the Windows Desktop Search (WDS) issue and the results of our investigation today. — As you know, Windows Desktop...
AdSense Disallowed On URLs Containing "Google", Google Says
Google informed me that they banned showing AdSense from my account on Google.blogoscoped.cn (a site which I don't run, but they are nice enough to rotate my AdSense code every couple of times as they...
Meetro Working to Make Forum Creation Dead Simple
We've been informed that Meetro - provider of a location-based instant messaging service - is working on a stealth project that aims to make forum setup, customization, and moderation as easy as blogg...
Yahoo!?
The exclamation mark at the end of Yahoo's official name is beginning to feel ironic. As Google and Microsoft roll up property rights across the web, Yahoo, writes the Economist, "now looks really fo...
Ad Infuse, for highly targeted mobile advertising
Ad Infuse is ready to serve you targeted ads on your cellphone — and may surprise you with how much it knows. — The company can pinpoint a user's age, gender, income level, and location, among other...
Google's SearchMash Adds Snap Shot Previews. But Why Is It In Flash?
Google's Web 2.0 search playpen, SearchMash, now has a Flash version. When you mouse over a search result, you get a Snap Shot preview of the Web page in a pane on the right. The Snap Shots are powe...
Office and Vista: Can't we give Microsoft some props?
Microsoft posts its best fiscal first quarter in years and Wall Street cheers. But the angst goes on. — Derrick Shields at SeekingAlpha asks how can Microsoft stay competitive. The common refrain: ...
Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time
The idea that you do not have to be a professional to create a good commercial is becoming widespread, in a trend known as consumer-generated content. Leave it to Apple to — paraphrasing the company'...
AT&T Wants $300 From Wildfire Victim - They didn't think to grab their Dish network receiver...
Fastest Growing Facebook Group Now Has A Million Members
Unfortunately, the fastest growing Facebook group ever is not a very spontaneous affair; it's part of a US presidential candidate's campaign. However, the results are quite astonishing. — Respondin...
'Naughty' Facebook App Throws Real-World Parties
It turned the real-life sex-toy trade into a popular virtual diversion; now it's turning it back again. Naughty Gifts, one of the most used Facebook applications, is throwing a series of adult partie...
Oracle calls BEA's price 'impossibly high'
Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share, calling it "impossibly high" for Oracle or any other company to pay. — In a letter to BEA's board dated Oct. 25, Oracle aga...
Microsoft now takes blame for WSUS update error
It changes story and apologizes, but angry admins say trust is broken — On the same day it tried to refute reports that enterprise customers' PCs were being force-fed the Windows XP desktop search t...
SearchMash, Now in Flash
SearchMash, Google's experimental site launched last year to test new user interfaces for search results, has a Flash version (requires IE/Firefox and Flash 9). The site uses tabs to let you seamless...
Merrill's Chief Is Said to Consider a Bid to Merge
Facing billions of dollars in losses from the subprime mortgage crisis, Merrill Lynch chairman and chief executive, E. Stanley O'Neal, floated the idea of a merger with a large bank, a foray that ange...
Omniture To Buy Visual Sciences; Sees Q3 Results Above Old Guidance; Both Stocks Jump
Omniture (OMTR) late yesterday announced that it will buy Visual Sciences (VSCN), one of its primary rivals in the online business optimization business. Omniture will pay $2.39 a share in cash and 0...
Sprint unlocking settlement may pressure others to follow
Sprint has decided to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the company was engaging in anticompetitive practices by locking mobile handsets sold through the carrier. The company has agreed to p...