Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100; 2.6GHz MacBook Pro
As rumored, Apple has quietly updated the MacBook tonight to the Santa Rosa architecture with mild speed bumps and the GMA X3100 integrated video. — White 13.3" — $1099.00 2.0GHz/1GB RAM/80GB/Comb...
Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)
Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. — MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google's OpenSocial initiative.
An open letter to Steve Ballmer
Hi, this is François, from Mandriva. — I'm sure we're way too small for you to know me. You know, we're one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux...
The New York Times' Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer?
A Techmeme Killer? — Last night, the New York Times quietly launched Blogrunner on the technology section of its main site. Blogrunner was one of many techmeme copycat sites, until the New York Time...
HD DVD players hit $99 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy
Earlier this week it was big news that HD DVD broke the $200 price barrier. Well, in the same week it looks like HD DVD has broken the $100 price barrier as well. As previously reported, Wal-Mart is...
A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft
Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax, because you have no choice but to pay for Windows. New versions ...
The UN, Google and Cisco Unveil Online Resource in the Fight to Decrease Global Poverty
MDG Monitor Tracks Progress to Development Goals — United Nations, 1 November — The United Nations, Google and Cisco today unveiled a pioneering online site that tracks progress towards decreasing g...
AdSense Integrated with FeedBurner Site Ads
There's really nothing spookier than hollow, empty ad spaces rattling around your blog and/or web site, putting no cash in your pocket nor any extra hob- in your goblin. Before you banish these under...
A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google
The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously thought. Mozilla essentially owns Firefox, and it proved so whenit flexed its muscles last year in forcing Debian to rename its browser Ice...
First Pics of Bug Labs Open-Source Hardware
I keep hearing more and more buzz about open-source hardware. One of the most ambitious open-source hardware startups is Bug Labs. The company is creating a Lego-like hardware platform that tinkerer...
Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere
Just as in earlier times a man was only as good as his family name, today we are defined by the social networks we belong to. So imagine my horror when I learned that I have become a virtual bastard....
Invention Of the Year: The iPhone
Stop. I mean, don't stop reading this, but stop thinking what you're about to think. Or, O.K., I'll think it for you:
New Release: Tumblr 3.0 & Interview with Founder on Read/WriteTalk
For the most recent episode of Read/WriteTalk I sat down with David Karp, the founder of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that makes it easy to create Tumblelogs - which Wikipedia defines as: … Tumblr is...
Bankrate Announces Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
Total Revenue of $24.9 Million, Up 28% Over Third Quarter 2006 — Net Income Increased by 332% — Adjusted EBITDA Increased 86% to $11.5 Million — Bankrate, Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE - News), today repor...
Is Apple's Leopard still in beta?
Mac users are hitting problems galore in Mac OS X 10.5 — Even a casual glance across the Mac web in the last few days will reveal a litany of problems faced by users upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopa...
Open Social: screencast and screenshots
In yesterday's post, I described the new Open Social API, sponsored by Google and supported by a wide range of Internet companies including my company Ning. — In this post, I present a screencast an...
DNS changer Trojan for Mac (!) in the wild
We received some reports of various companies (http://www.intego.com/news/ ism0705.asp) reporting about a Mac DNS changer Trojan in the wild. As I happened to receive a sample of it, I decided to ana...
Google's worst nightmare [Brad Fitzpatrick]
Google's worst nightmare — Our spy cameras have penetrated the inner sanctum of the Googleplex! Sneaking up on Brad Fitzpatrick from behind, we caught a picture of his "epic" Halloween costume. "H...
Book Review - Google SketchUp for Dummies
Chopra, Aidan, Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, 2007 — Remember when your high school English teacher explained that every word in the sentences you write needs to carry some meaning? While the rest ...
Nissan Builds Internal MySpace While Sun Builds Internal Second Life
from the social-media-inside-the-enterprise dept — There's been a lot of talk over the last couple years about "enterprise 2.0" efforts to bring the types of applications in the "web 2.0" world into...
Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere
Just as in earlier times a man was only as good as his family name, today we are defined by the social networks we belong to. So imagine my horror when I learned that I have become a virtual bastard....
Phishing trojan targets OS X
Security vendor Intego claims to have found a new trojan attack that targets Apple's OS X operating system. — The OSX.RSPlug.A trojan allegedly disguises itself as a video codec that would provided ...
Nearly 150,000 installs of AppSnapp (iPhone 3rd party app/jailbreak tool) in 3 days
The demand for unofficial third-party applications on iPhones is, by at least one account, staggering. AppSnapp, a Web-based script that jailbreaks (allows read-write access to the filesystem) …
FTC urged to regulate Internet user 'tracking'
Updated at 3:22 a.m. PDT: Two public-interest groups are asking the U.S. government to target what they claim are "invasive" online marketing schemes—especially those involving social-networking Web s...
BlockBuster (BBI) Q3: Underperforming Low Expectations
Wall Street didn't expect much out of Blockbuster's (BBI) 3Q this morning, and the company delivered even less: Revenues of $1.24 billion (down 2% from Q2, down 5.7% y/y) and a 20 cent-per share loss ...
Hakia Adds Social Networking - But Does Search Need Social Networking Features?
Semantic search engine Hakia has just released a new social networking feature, called Meet Others (MO). The basic idea is to "meet others" who asked the same query. This is something I've never see...
AOL Spreads Its Privacy Education Program
AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting. — The company estimated it can r...
FUTURE READING
Digitization and its discontents. … In 1938, Alfred Kazin began work on his first book, "On Native Grounds." The child of poor Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, he had studied at City College. Somehow,...
Verizon Wireless Revamps Price Plans To Integrate Mobile Web, Per-MB Data Charges [Cellphones]
Up until now, Verizon Wireless has charged people with any America's Choice plan $5 per month extra to use the Mobile Web for any reason, and has charged airtime minutes while you use it.
Rule Jostles Runners Who Race to Their Own Tune
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the year's biggest races set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to do with hitting the wall at Mile 20: ...
Scenes From Next Week . . .?
Value of Content Distributed Via Net, — Phone Is Big Issue as Writers' Strike Looms — As a possible strike by film and TV writers looms, one of the most contentious points is how much writers shou...