Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him. He formed a new company, InstaColl, a...
France unveils anti-piracy plan
French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline. — Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body grant...
The 1% Problem
Sabeer Bhatia, of HotMail fame, launched Live Documents, on online office suite today. In the news coverage, this snippet caught my attention: … Here is Guy Kawasaki's The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneu...
Go get your free Halo theme for Guitar Hero 3 on Xbox Live
To celebrate the holiday season Neversoft, Bungie, Activision/RedOctane, and Microsoft have all come together in one big ball of love to give us a free track for Guitar Hero 3, and it is a doozy: the ...
The BIG iPod touch review
A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices. Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. — The iPod touch was for me the first App...
How To Solve Facebook's Beacon Problem
The controversy over Facebook's Beacon program, which publicizes your purchases and activities on other sites to your Facebook friends, isn't going away. It doesn't matter how many Facebook users are...
Facebook takes some hits from MoveOn.org for violating privacy of online purchasers...
As Holiday Shopping Begins, MoveOn Calls On Facebook To Stop Making People's Private Online Purchases Public
Nokia N810: unboxing and first impressions
My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was delivered yesterday. After fondling it for most of the day, I'm relatively impressed. The N810 is a bit smaller than the N800, which makes it more comfort...
Yahoo to launch MyM "social messaging" site [Scoop]
Yahoo has launched, in an invitation-only trial, MyM, a "social messaging" service. How many social networks does one company need? Nowhere are Yahoo's scattershot efforts more evident than in this ...
Will Digg-News Corp. deal include Revision3? [Rumormonger]
Though the timing of Digg's deal with the Wall Street Journal was coincidental, we're told, it has sparked a new wave of whispers that News Corp. might be taking another look at the headline-voting si...
Shady Secrets of Going Viral on YouTube
Remember when we wrote jokingly about how to "Master Viral Video Advertising in 3 Easy Steps," concluding that there wasn't any such simple formula? — Well, a Stanford graduate student named Dan Ack...
Diller Says IAC Will Invest As Much As $100 Million in China
IAC, (NSDQ: IACI) now split into five groups, will invest as much as $100 million in China to build a new Internet business there and will bring in Ask.com, said Barry Diller, speaking to reporters in...
Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately
There's a certain amount of crowing associated with hacking the blog of a security team - which might be why a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team...
Skype "could have saved London numbers"
Internet telephony firm Skype could have kept the London numbers it stripped from customers this week for only a modest fee. — Yesterday, we revealed how the company had angered hundreds of its cust...
Vista's SideShow coming to Windows Mobile devices?
Word on the street (er, internet) is that Microsoft's oft-ignored Vista component, SideShow, could be making its official way to your favorite Windows Mobile-flavored device before long. If you'll re...
ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations
For my birthday, I bought myself an ASUS eeePC. Now, I've been lusting after very-small-form-factor laptops for some time (ever since I saw the Zaurus C series), and this is quite the small one. It ...
OLPC extends "Give One, Get One" program to December 31
When the OLPC Association launched its two-week "Get One, Give One" initiative on November 12, it wasn't clear how the market would respond. Prior to the initiative's launch, the OLPC had been a fasc...
Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked
Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had...
Manage Those Holiday Gift Cards With Leverage
Holiday shopping season starts today, but chances are that you are going to end up with a bunch of gift cards this year that you may never end up using. Gift cards are expected to be the most widely-...
Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing
Daniel Eran Dilger — Last winter, I detailed why Microsoft's iPod Killer would fail miserably. This year, Microsoft will fail again, but for a new set of reasons. It is not obvious that the compan...
France proposes to cut off persistent internet pirates
Internet users in France who download music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by Nicolas S...
Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Videoblogger
Not sure what to get that lonely videoblogger in your life for the upcoming holidays? NewTeeVee has rounded up a collection of goodies the YouTubers of your world probably don't have. — Justin.tv K...
O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem
Exclusive Everyone wants a Wii or an Eee this Christmas. They're the hottest technology items in town, but there's none to be found for love nor money. If you want an iPhone, however, supplies remai...
MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns
The Motion Picture of Association of America is urging some of the nation's largest universities to deploy custom software designed to pinpoint students who may be using the schools' networks to illeg...
Divshare To DeadPool
Divshare, a startup we lightly praised, has apparently put its domain name and service up for sale. — Generally putting your service up for sale on a random domain name forum is one step above just ...
Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit
There has been a lot of news coverage of Google's "openness initiatives" over the past few weeks. The "Open Handset Alliance" promises to break the carriers' appliancization of cell phones. OpenSoci...
Microsoft's Hotmail founder goes for the (wrong) Office jugular with Live Documents
Sabeer Bhatia, one of the co-founders of Hotmail (bought by Microsoft for $400 million ten years ago), is on a mission to lobotomize Microsoft's $20 billion Office business. He has an uphill climb.
Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them?
Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate "Ron Paul" in Facebook Groups yields zero results. Facebook blamed the problem on a bug (unofficially, via comm...
Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs [Recycled Parts]
Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs — Recycled cell phone parts are being used alongside circuit boards to make pocket-sized PCs. A team of engineers at Hokuto System is behi...
IAC To Spend $100 Million In China, Ask.com China Coming As Well
IAC is planning on spending $100 million on new ventures in China and is also looking to launch a Chinese version of Ask.com — According to the Wall Street Journal, IAC CEO Barry Diller said the new...
Skype's Encryption May be Used as an Excuse for Trojan Viruses by German Police [Skype]
Skype's encryption codes are proving a problem for German police, who say that their officers are unable to monitor suspect conversations. One of the country's top cops admitted yesterday …
Schools should teach data security
Here's an interesting fact: the junior official who burnt all that benefit data onto those two infamous CDs was born when the Data Protection Act came into force in Britain - 1984. — If the Tory gov...
Update On One Of Google's Paid Links Info Pages?
From the Google Webmaster Help Center (my emphasis): — "Buying links in order to improve a site's ranking is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking ...
Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic; Ars to Cuban: um, no
In an open letter to Internet service providers published earlier this week, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban calls for telecoms to put an end to peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing. Cuban expresses co...