Dash Express finally shipping
I've been following the Dash Express — the "flocking" GPS device that tells other Dash devices in its vicinity about traffic problems and can connect to WiFi to look up addresses — for over a year now...
Verizon Wireless and Palm Announce the Arrival of the Treo 755p Smartphone
Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 755p smartphone online and through business sales channels in exclusive deep blue-green.
There is no lawsuit against the Richter Scales.
As previously mentioned, I will soon be releasing a statement in regard to the Here Comes Another Bubble video created by The Richter Scales. I've said very little publicly regarding the matter out o...
Ribbit debuts as "Silicon Valley's phone company"
I met with the top executives at Ribbit last week and found their strategy to be eye-opening. The Mountain View company, which bills itself as "Silicon Valley's phone company," is making it easy to e...
MacWorld rumblings: Expect a 11- to 13-inch screen on Apple ultra-portable
With Apple expected to deliver a new ultra-portable Mac at its Macworld conference Jan. 15 prognosticators are busy handicapping the device's features. — In a research note Monday, Piper Jaffray ana...
Google Android Prototype In the Wild
Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK em...
Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency
Mary Madden Susannah Fox Aaron Smith Jessica Vitak — Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% fi...
NPD: Leopard Apple's best OS launch yet
The release of Mac OS X Leopard in late October was both Apple's strongest operating system release to date and evidence that the company may have a greater understanding of how to launch such softwar...
Lane Hartwell: Still wrong on fair use
It's nice to hear that photographer Lane Hartwell is working things out with the band Richter Scales, after filing a DMCA takedown notice and having their video removed from YouTube because a photo of...
Can Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together?
For a long time, I had this belief that the worlds of web and voice would converge, unleashing upon us a whole new class of voice-web mashups. Instead all we got were some marginal ideas and rarely-u...
Source: Digg hires bank, hoping to sell for $300 million or more
It's been a little more than a month since the last rumors surfaced about social news site Digg trying to sell itself for at least $300 million. — A reliable source just confirmed the company's plan...
With disappointments like these, who needs successes?
Will someone please page the lithesome yet strong-handed nymphs whose job it is to massage the furry one's scalp right between the antlers? The Macalope's got a headache again. — What's causing it ...
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data
Each day about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, thes...
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. — Recommend this story? — Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? — It's no...
Facebook suing Ontario porn firm
Alleges firm hacked into its system to get personal data — A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website...
A Familiar Editor for Gawker
Nick Denton, the entrepreneur who has built Gawker Media into a formidable blog brand, said two weeks ago that he wanted the new editor of his flagship site, Gawker.com, to oversee its evolution towar...
Can Blogs Do Journalism?
On the face of it, the question of whether blogs can do journalism is absurd — like asking whether sites published on Vignette can do journalism. A blog, after all, is just a content management syste...
Dash Express beta hands-on
We recently got to take a Dash Express beta unit for a spin, and while they're still gluing all the software together behind the scenes in anticipation of launch, we did spot the makings of a few obvi...
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups
MOVING TO NEW MEDIA: Aaron Mendelsohn, a Writers Guild board member known for the "Air Bud" franchise, is in a group that plans to produce programming for the Internet independently of Hollywood studi...
IDEELI: IT'S WOOT.COM MEETS 'THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA'
If you read that chick-lit classic Bergdorf Blondes (I'm proud to admit that I did), you'll probably recall the scene in which the shopaholic female protagonists hold a military-style planning session...
A Few Thoughts On Google Knol
News of Google most recent project, Knol, came out late last Thursday without, as far as I can tell, much in the way of press pre-briefings. All the major publications were late to the story. Blogs ...
Microsoft security update cripples IE
Last week's MS07-069 update crashes IE6, IE7 on Windows XP, Vista for some — Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it is investigating reports that a security update for Internet Explorer issued last...
Help Wanted: A Vacancy In Google's Top Ranks
Everyone wants to work at Google. It's a money machine with a stock price bouncing around $700. The employees are brilliant and free organic meals are served every day. — But there is one job the ...
Go Ahead Google Yourself, Everyone is
(PC World contributor Scott Nichols looked into a study that says people are increasingly turning to Google to find out about themselves. Here is what he found.) — Have you Googled yourself lately?...
Start-Up to Create Market For Trade of Virtual Goods
A start-up plans to help game companies get a grip on the booming illicit market for virtual goods, including everything from currencies to magical swords that help players advance in online games. —...
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts
The word "weblog" celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. — The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web pag...
Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust
REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the "software spiral" — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software t...
QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update
At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt),] It's not FUD, we want to caution Inuit's QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups - especial...
Long tail evolution
I recently gave a presentation on the evolution of the long tail, concluding that the long tail is getting longer, but the 'head' is getting bigger. The reasons for the increasing length of the long ...
New URL features can make your e-mail productive again
Alt: Link to your e-mail from external apps, get productive again — One of the incredibly useful things about Mac OS X in general is the potential for integration between applications. Type the nam...
Summize: A Sentiment Engine For The "Reviewosphere"
Sometimes reading online product reviews can be a real time sink. There are so many opinions out there—from CNet to Amazon to blogs. It can take a long time and a lot of sifting to figure out what p...
Google's Vint Cerf Interviewed
Google vice president and chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf was interviewed by Suisse publication Das Magazin in Zurich in late November. Here are some of his statements (my translation): — Asked ...
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger
Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term "weblog" Dec. 17, 1997 — 10 years ago Monday — to describe the daily list of links that "logged" his travels across the web. — In the decade hence, Barger...
Woz Wants YOU to Play Segway Polo
We tuned in for Woz's grand Segway polo match today. Aside from the simultaneously eerie and warm feeling we got from Steve Wozniak's shirt bearing a striking resemblance to our old high school's ban...
Xbox 360 HD DVD holds one-third of market
The Inquirer today writes that the 360 makes up one-third of the HD DVD player market. A recently released report speculates that 750,000 HD DVD players are currently in homes and that 269,000 of the...
Can You Outbid Microsoft For The Microsoft Name In Portugal?
Microsoft is reasonably protective of its name — even to ridiculous levels at times. However, it surprised us to find out that a company other than the Redmond giant happens to have the trademark on ...
Sys admin admits trying to axe California power grid
A sys admin last week pleaded guilty to attempting to disrupt the power grid in California by shutting down a data centre that managed the state's electrical supply. — Lonnie Charles Denison, 33, of...
GOOG-411 isn't what you think
Google's free 411 service (1-800-GOOG-411) lets you find and call local businesses, but the service isn't exactly as it seems. On the surface, it looks pretty straight forward, but spending lots of m...
12-17-07 Facebook
Today, Lindsay gets poked into Facebook. … 26 RESPONSES SO FAR ↓ — You summed up perfectly why I've stayed off sites like FaceBook and MySpace - the stalker factor! — [...] Today, Lindsay pokes ar...
Google Android Prototype In the Wild
Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK em...
Palm Treo 755p goes live (at last) on Verizon, costs more
Here's a special present to those Palm diehards out there that've been sticking with their Verizon service for the past months, hoping against hope that Palm will notice them hanging out over on the l...
Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed
CINCINNATI — All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 ...
From Microsoft To The BBC
It has been six months since I joined the BBC as Group Controller in Future Media and Technology and while flying back from Rome to London, I figured that this was a good time to join the conversation...
PS3 2.1 update leak shows DivX, Final Profile Blu-ray
Sony is about to update the PS3 with its promised DivX playback and other features, according to information posted on Sony's PlayStation Spain website. The version 2.1 upgrade will bring native supp...