Street View Images for Dallas, Detroit and Other 6 Cities
Every two or three months Google adds new cities to Street View. This time Google included eight new cities from the US: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and ...
RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still "unauthorized"
Those MP3 and AAC files that you've ripped from your CD collection are still "unauthorized copies" in the eyes of the recording industry. In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 f...
In Test, Canadian ISP Splices Itself Into Google Homepage
A screen shot posted to the web over the weekend seems to show that Canada's largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution technique that lets it add it...
Why I Stopped Using Twitter
There's a lot of Twitter hype in the blogosphere today, and I've contributed plenty of my own Twitter hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived fr...
NBCU: SanDisk Fanfare = Our New iTunes Store
On the heels of NBC U's download deal with SanDisk, we spoke to NBC U president of digital distribution, Jean-Briac "JB" Perrette about what SanDisk offered that iTunes wouldn't and the prevailing vie...
Microsoft Offers Free Copy of Windows Vista Ultimate if you Surrender Privacy
Need a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate? Are you incredibly trusting of big corporations? Well I have the deal for you, with a new program through Microsoft called the Windows Feedback Program.
Latitude XT Details
Lots of folks have been waiting for us to release more details on the Latitude XT Tablet PC. My first brief post about it has received more than 400 comments and has gone on to become the #1 most vie...
Amazon.com Enhances Payment Options with Bill Me Later
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced it has signed an agreement with Bill Me Later, Inc., a leading provider of alternative payment technologies, to make the Bill Me...
Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter
Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days...there's something happening there. — I've also noticed and increase of ne...
NBC Jumps Into SanDisk's Fanfare TV Download Service [Digital Downloads]
NBC Jumps Into SanDisk's Fanfare TV Download Service — Though you can no longer buy episodes of "The Office," "Heroes" or "30 Rock" on iTunes, you will be able to purchase them in January from SanDi...
"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
BOSTON (Reuters) - "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. — Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster ...
Penthouse Buys Group of Social-Networking Sites
While the influx of free and low-cost video has hurt the sale of pornographic videos, the chief executive of the Penthouse Media Group remains so bullish on the sex-related entertainment industry that...
Porn Company Vivid Sues Its Own Customer Over Copyright
One of the world's largest adult film creators, Vivid Entertainment Group, has had enough of free porn site, PornoTube.com and is taking legal action against it. Filed in the U.S. District Court for ...
His Royal Steveness a Late Entry for 2007's Best-Dressed Lists [Nobel Steve]
Dear Steve, I knew you could do it— get away from that zen-inspired "one single look means one minute in the closet" sartorial philosophy. But a shirt and tie? Oh, my son, you look positively ravish...
Smut vid outfit sues PornoTube
The Register Desktop Support Seminar - Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — A major producer of adult videos yesterday filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against YouTube clone PornoTub...
Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Arrives Early
Micosoft cuts testing short, a sign to some that there aren't enough users to do the testing. — The Office team beat its own deadline of early 2008 and will release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Dec. 1...
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy
Will privacy sell? — Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to make their searches more private. — As...
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas
Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Sprint officials said today. The soft launch will extend only to Sprint employees and is intended ...
15 Billion dollars, Apple? Someone is doing some Christmas shopping
So it came out last week that Apple had been saving a bit of money. They are likely going to buy something and the internet blew up with ideas on what that should be. Ars came up with Adobe, Tivo, N...
The Internet. The TV.
Here's how to finally bring them together. — Millions of people love watching Internet video on their PCs. So why can't the technology industry figure out how to get them to watch Internet video on...
Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home
BELLEVUE, Washington — Tom Van Baak's spare upstairs bedroom looks like a cross between the control center of a remote polar outpost and the inner sanctum of a Victorian mad scientist. In reality, it...
Deserting real life
The appeal of online virtual worlds such as Second Life is such that it may trigger an exodus of people seeking to "disappear from reality," an expert on large-scale online games has said. — Virtual...
'Here Comes Another Bubble' Takedown!
So, it turns out YouTube actually can protect copyright! — In this case, that's too bad, since the video-sharing service just took down the very popular music video parody called "Here Comes Another...
Rice and laptops
Criticism of plans to get technology into the developing world is misplaced, says Bill Thompson. — One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is...
Future-safe archives
I just woke up in Paris, it's 5:34AM here, but back in California, it still never ceases to amaze me, the day hasn't yet flipped. You guys haven't even gone to bed yet! Now that's amazing to me. Wh...
Plaxo Offers Pulse Plugin For Outlook
Plaxo has announced a new plugin that brings Plaxo Pulse to Microsoft Outlook. — Plaxo is claiming the new service is "historic;" its an extremely long stretch but this isn't to say that the functio...
mobile messenger goes live
After the recent release of our Live ID creation and the new Windows Live services we have just released an updated version of Windows Live Messenger for mobile that will work on pretty much all phone...
Control Pro Tools with an iPhone or iPod Touch
Alex le Lievre has built what looks like an insane custom controller for Pro Tools LE using an iPhone. He seems to have mimicked the look and feel of Pro Tools so successfully that some called the re...
Chambers: Older workers, don't despair
Social networking is coming to enterprises, but that doesn't mean the twentysomethings are taking over, Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday. — Kicking off the company's annual ...
Edgeio Bids Start At $250,000
The assets of classified listing service Edgeio, a company co-founded by TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington that joined the Deadpool last week, are on the market. — Interested parties can register ...
The Second Stage Of The Radiohead Experiment
Certainly an awful lot has been written about Radiohead's experiments with new business models, but it's starting to crank up again, as the band gets ready to release the new album on CD. While some ...
Office 2007 sp1 ready for download today
Today sp1 ships. hurray. It's not up there yet but should be later today. Also the kb articles for each patch don't seem to be live at this moment but should also appear later on today. — Looking ...
His Royal Steveness a Late Entry for 2007's Best-Dressed Lists [Nobel Steve]
Dear Steve, I knew you could do it— get away from that zen-inspired "one single look means one minute in the closet" sartorial philosophy. But a shirt and tie? Oh, my son, you look positively ravish...
Tiny, fake iPod Touch for $109
Want an iPod Touch without all that pesky multi-touch? Want what is essentially a low-end PDA stuck in a case that kind of looks cool and has a 1.3-megapixel camera? Want something that will inevita...
Kosmix riases $10M more for search sites in health, autos, more
Kosmix, the Silicon Valley search engine company that focuses on specific topics, such as health, has raised $10 million more in backing. — Kosmix is run by co-founders (including Venky Harinarayan,...