F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that ...
Update: Russian hacker gang vanishes day after moving to China
Infamous Russian Business Network may be breaking into smaller bits — The shadowy hacker and malware hosting network that only recently fled Russia to set up operations in China has now pulled the p...
127 million Oracle shares vote for open source at annual shareholders meeting
While seemingly a lot, 127 million shares doesn't add up to much in Oracle's world. 127,717,018 shares only account for 3.58% of Oracle's total share count. Last week ~96.5% of Oracle shareholders v...
Northeastern sues Google over patent
University, Waltham license holder say they own technology — A law firm told patent holder Northeastern and license holder Jarg Corp. that Google was using their technology. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff...
Windows Live wants to build Flickr competitor
It's hard not to have seen this coming, but I have to wonder whether or not the world needs another Flickr or YouTube. — In a Microsoft job advertisement posted yesterday for a program manager posit...
Blogworld
I am watching as the blogging world crucifies me for not attending Blogworld in Las Vegas this week. — Here is why I didn't attend Blogworld in Las Vegas this week: — I never agreed to attend the ...
Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project
Electronic Arts announced yesterday plans to donate the original version of the SimCity computer game to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in deve...
Analyst: DivX Support Coming to Xbox 360
DivX followed up Tuesday night's earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster coyly probed Kevin Hell about whether or not we were about to...
Blist Prepares Easy Web-Based Database Application
I recently had the opportunity to see a demo of a product coming out in early 2008 called Blist (pronounced like "bliss" with a "t" at the end) that will take on DabbleDB and Trackvia by giving users ...
RIM sues LG over phone names, "black" and "berry" apparently not okay
RIM may be better known as a defendant than as a plaintiff in the courtroom, but Waterloo's finest have actually done a brisk business filing lawsuits over the past couple years. In late '06, RIM fil...
Exclusive: NBC Launches TV Downloads Service
NBC Direct, the free service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Heroes and more, has gone live on the NBC site. — Currently in beta, and originally schedul...
Hands-on with HD TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing
It seems as if we've been waiting a lot longer than a year for TiVo to add two of our favorite features to the Series3, and while complications with CableLabs haven't exactly made the process possible...
15 years ago: the first mass-produced GSM phone
Forgotten Tech Fifteen years ago tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, Nokia launched the world's first commercially available GSM digital phone, the Nokia 1011, the model number coming from the launch date...
iPhone Crowds? Don't believe the hype!
As iPhone fever grips the country, we thought we'd bring you pictures of the day as the drama unfolds! The iPhone is of course due to go on sale at 6pm tonight (6.02 if we're being exact, what a clev...
Prince to sue The Pirate Bay
Continuing an aggressive campaign to defend his copyright, rock star Prince is preparing to file lawsuits in three different countries, including the U.S., against The Pirate Bay. — One of the world...
Survey: Intel Ahead of AMD on Server Customer Loyalty
Intel brand server processors enjoy higher levels of loyalty among enterprise x86 customers than rival AMD, although system purchases are largely influenced by vendor brand and other non-processor fac...
Microsoft designs the T-Mobile Shadow home UI
There was a lot of talk last week about the T-Mobile Shadow (a.k.a. HTC Juno) user interface, some couldn't believe it was still Windows Mobile. The Shadow sports a new homescreen codenamed "Neo" des...
Battery firm: iPhone could melt your brain
Exradia has launched a range of replacement batteries for popular models of mobile phone which incorporate its special magic circuit to interfere with the bad RF coming from your handset, but iPhone u...