Why Lane Hartwell Popped the 'Here Comes Another Bubble' Video
When one of Lane Hartwell's photographs showed up without her permission in a popular viral video, she wasn't flattered. She was frustrated. — Hartwell's frustration quickly morphed into action.
Google Profiles
They're coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your cont...
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone's Fun
So the video that everyone has been talking about is history - the victim of a bullying tactic by a photographer and her lawyer. Once again, a perversion of copyright is being used to destroy art.
Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering...
What other basic form of communication goes down for 12 hours at a time?
Surviving the 2008 recession
Recession is in the air. It isn't here for sure, but, damn, when you pay $50 for two coffees and a tart in Paris you know your economy isn't healthy. Add in the latest energy prices and you see we'r...
Amazon removes the database scaling wall
When Amazon introduced S3 in March 2006 I knew I would use it and I was sure a lot of other developers would. I saw it as a solution to a problem we all have — storage that scales up when needed, and...
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
A CEREBRAL computer-scientist-turned-executive, Eric E. Schmidt has spent much of his career competing uphill against Microsoft, quietly watching it outflank, outmaneuver or simply outgun most of its ...
Hannah Montana Tickets on Sale! Oops, They're Gone
HANNAH MONTANA has made 2007 a very bright year for various business interests, but especially for StubHub, the online ticket exchange site. — Though the year is not yet complete, StubHub announced ...
T-Mobile + Twitter
We've been tracking a missed connection between T-Mobile and Twitter for the past few days. If you're a T-Mobile customer using Twitter in the United States over our shortcode 40404, you may see inte...
The BBC Tinkers With Netvibes-Inspired Homepage
The British Broadcasting Company quietly launched a beta version of their spiffed up new homepage last week. The new page, which the Beeb has dubbed a "lick of paint," draws on a number of so-called ...
Nortel Claims Vonage Violates Internet-Phone Patents
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Nortel Networks Corp., North America's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, claimed Vonage Holdings Corp. is infringing 12 patents covering technology used in managing ...
Upcoming FireWire spec revs things up to 3.2Gbps
USB 3.0 really threw down this September with a theoretical max throughput of 4Gbps, but it looks like FireWire isn't going down without a fight. The latest and greatest FireWire version, dubbed "S32...
Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing
One of 10.5's new features that I use quite often is the built-in screen sharing. You can use screen sharing from iChat, which is great for family tech support, but I'm referring specifically to scre...
Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites. — ...
Google sees own shadow, jumps overboard
Google announces "Knol"... First-order response — Bad news for jason and mahalo! Google declares war on jimmy and wikipedia! — Some context — So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the...
BitTorrent, A Boon To Independent Filmmakers
Today, several of the top movies on BitTorrent sites such as mininova are independent films produced by small movie studios. "The Man from Earth" and "Day Zero" are two recent examples of films that ...
PSP is so last year; Fanboys build "Xbox Live Portable System"
It might not be the sleek cutting-edge portable console that you'd expect when you hear "portable Xbox," but it's definitely guaranteed to turn heads. For better or worse, we guess. Two Xbox fanboys...
Knol
There's much ado about Knol, but I haven't noticed many Wikipedian voices. Well, I'll speak up, and I'm sort of a Wikipedian. Actually, less so recently, which is relevant. — The Target Audience ...
REVIEW: WINDOWS XP
I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. — Look & Feel — Windows XP has q...
Canalys, Symbian: Apple iPhone Already Leads Windows Mobile in US Market Share, Q3 2007
Daniel Eran Dilger — In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft's entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled b...
FIRE FOXES, FIRE EAGLES, FIRE DOGS: MYTH IN A NEW MEDIA WORLD
This morning I found myself thinking about Fire Eagle, the new GPS status casting site coming this fall from Yahoo. What, I wanted to know, is a "fire eagle"? — Then I start thinking about Firefox.
The 2007 Holiday Guide To iCr@p
Warning: Division by zero in /homepages/26/d137921385/htdocs/ podcastingnews/content/wp-content/ plugins/tla_86582.php on line 407 — The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means; it's time...
Snocap melting away
DRM:- Rumors are swirling about about the pending demise of digital music vendor Snocap. — Articles mention a "sale", but more likely it will be a shuttering and quiet bankruptcy. — Snocap represe...
Apple keeps critical security fixes to itself
Apple has released updates for two widely distributed products that harbored a raft of security vulnerabilities, some of which were actively being exploited by miscreants. Unbelievably, the company i...
Google Profiles
They're coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your cont...