Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprised
When former Delta Airlines chief operating officer James Whitehurst takes over as CEO of Red Hat on New Year's Day he'll face the worst kind of doubters-the quiet ones. But Whitehurst could very well...
Exclusive: Apple to adopt Intel's ultra-mobile PC platform
Apple Inc. will form a closer bond with once-rival Intel Corp. early next year when it begins building a new breed of ultra-mobile processors from the chipmaker into a fresh generation of handheld dev...
Perez Hilton Pulls Videos From YouTube
Celebrity gossip queen Perez Hilton said he's unlikely to post videos on YouTube any longer and instead will probably host them on his own site, Perezhilton.com. — The blogger and the biggest video-...
Russian Feds Bust ‘Pinch’ Malware Creation Kit Authors
According to reports out of Russia, two men who allegedly built and distributed the notorious Pinch malware creation kit has been busted and could soon face prosecution. The two men, identified as Er...
Pinch authors pinched
Today Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Federal Security Services, announced the results of the measures taken to combat cyber crime in 2007. — Among other information, it was announced that it had bee...
Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards
The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we're co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. Y...
Apple expected to announce sales of 5 million iPhones at Macworld
Insiders tell us that Apple expects to announce sales of roughly five million iPhones at Macworld 2008 in January. Of these, around one million are expected to come from Europe. Apple is seeing very...
U.S. trade agency to investigate antivirus patent claims
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate claims by Trend Micro of competitors' patent infringement involving antivirus products. — Trend Micro filed a trade complaint N...
Tesla's Chairman and New CEO Talk Transmission Snags and Raising Another $40M
The two people most responsible for helping Tesla get its first car to its customers look and sound a bit overwhelmed. Chairman Elon Musk calls into an interview with Earth2Tech from his home …
Amazon Patents Blurbs; Google Patents Snippets
from the patents-patents-all-the-time dept — theodp writes “On Tuesday, Amazon.com was granted a patent for Personalized Selection and Display of User-Supplied Content to Enhance Browsing of Electro...
The odds on an Apple flash laptop
At next month's Macworld show, will the trendsetter say goodbye to hard drives? … What do you get when you cross an iPod with a Mac? — A super-slim laptop that uses chip-based flash memory in place ...
WTO Gives Antigua Only $21 Million In Sanctions; US Says ‘Not So Fast...’
The battle between the US and Antigua over online gambling is rather long. You can go back here to read a summary of the back and forth — but the quick version is that the US violated its own free tr...
One Million Deaths Per Day On Duels.com
There are a fair number of our readers who admit to being addicts of Duels.com, a World of Warcraft-like game that lets users create characters, add weapons and spells, and duel each other. It's asyn...
Windows SideShow for iPhone
A couple of months ago here at Ikanos Consulting towers we were thinking about cool things we could do with Windows SideShow. We're very keen firm believers in SideShow and already had a few devices ...
Apples For The Army
Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either. — W...
Does Japan Need the iPhone?
The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget — The Japanese fell for the iPod. So why should they not embrace the iPhone, too? It's te...
Users left in lurch by network shutdown
NEW YORK - When Adele Rothman bought her 16-year-old son a car in 2003, she made sure to pick one that had OnStar, the onboard communications and safety system. — What the Scarsdale, N.Y., resident ...
Why all Vista users should upgrade to Windows XP
Now that Microsoft has announced the availability of the RC version of Service Pack 3 for our old friend, XP, I'm delighted to tell you all that not only is this upgrade substantial and extremely help...
Tesla Asks Investors For Another $40 Million To Start Its Engines.
Would you drive a beta? That's not the name of a new car. It's how Elon Musk characterizes the first version of the Tesla electric sports car that is due to come out in the next few months. Musk is...
Antivirus protection worse than a year ago
The effectiveness of antivirus software has fallen off, and more and more pests can now slip past these barriers. This is the sobering conclusion the german computer magazine c't comes to in issue 1/...
Smashing Pumpkins exclusive coming to iTunes
“Eh, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel." — One of the nice things about the iTunes Store is some of the exclusive content we get from various artists. Some of it is good,...
Comcast and DirecTV Settle HDTV Lawsuit
Cable Operator Allowed to Continue Citing Survey Disputed by DirecTV — DirecTV and Comcast have agreed to call off their high-definition lawyers. — The parties have settled all claims and counterc...
Microsoft Year-End Report Card: B
Well, Redmond, it's been a funny year, hasn't it? Even if you ignore those Apple commercials, it's hard to ignore the fact that Vista was probably one of the main reasons people switched to the Mac O...
comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for November
Retail Sites See Surge in Traffic as Holiday Season Kicks Off — Black Friday Ad Site Ranks as Top-Gaining Property for the Month — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital ...
Kaspersky inadvertently quarantines Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer, one of the most crucial components of Microsoft's operating system, was quarantined earlier this week after being falsely identified as malicious code by an antivirus company. — Us...
Apple shuts down rumours website
Apple has settled a legal row with tip site Think Secret that will see the website shut down. — The legal battle between Apple and the site blew up in January 2005 when Think Secret revealed details...
Edgeio Assets Acquired By LookSmart
The auction of Edgeio's assets is complete, and Looksmart is the winning bidder. They've acquired most of the assets of the company for $280,000. — I spoke to Patrick Chapman, LookSmart's director ...
Study: Wii gaming no substitute for exercise
Younger gamers looking to con a Wii out of parents this year by selling them on the physical benefits of “active” gaming, it's time to dream up a new strategy. A UK study entitled “Energy expenditure...
Air France Makes In-Flight Calling Possible, Gallic Shrugs All Round
Air France is to let passengers loose on their cell phones by turning on its in-flight mobile data and voice system. An initial three-month trial period will only allow SMS and mobile emails, with vo...
FTC Online Ad Targeting Guidelines: Industry Breathes A Sigh Of Relief
The Federal Trade Commission's new online ad guidelines appear to offer a laissez faire approach, which the Interactive Advertising Bureau and AOL (NYSE: TWX) have treated as an early Christmas presen...
First DIRECTV Tuner Details?
DIRECTV and even Sky TV support appear to be picking up speed. Like many of you, I've been awaiting the DIRECTV tuner for Media Center since it was announced. Microsoft and DIRECTV have been quiet o...
Plunging player prices to reveal Blu-ray vs HD DVD winner?
A clear leader in the battle to be the top next-generation optical disc format could emerge next year as player prices plummet and take of the cost of entry out of the equation, market watcher Underst...
Mysto from Helio drops today, sort of
Not to toot our own horn or anything, but we're going to have to on this particular occasion. The Mysto from Helio, which is keeping up with surf-related theme (I obviously dig that. Mysto is a ultr...
Former Blognation Editor Tris Hussey Joins b5media
I've just received word that former Blognation Canada Editor Tris Hussey has joined b5media as Training Manager. In a chat with Tris, he noted that he will be handling blogger and channel editor trai...
The Google Monopoly Begins
8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die
Recently, I have met with many people including top executives from most of the largest studios as well as people from some of the top internet companies that are building studios, top investors in th...
New Update for N-Gage First Access
We know all of you are eager to get started with N-Gage First Access, and we are just as eager to get it into your hands and start hearing your feedback. We have teams of people around the world, lit...
Amazon Patents Blurbs; Google Patents Snippets
from the patents-patents-all-the-time dept — theodp writes “On Tuesday, Amazon.com was granted a patent for Personalized Selection and Display of User-Supplied Content to Enhance Browsing of Electro...
Is Pownce Going To The DeadPool?
Uncov has a very funny post on the demise of Kevin-Rose-founded-Twitter-clone Pownce, noting that their traffic seems to have fallen to the point that “Even TechCrunch can't save you now." The image ...
The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
I've been doing a good deal of speaking recently. And in one of my talks, I tell an anecdote about a lesson I learned from my own readers. — It was early in 2005, and a little hackware program call...
Mustek's PF-i700 digiframe rocks an iPod dock
Granted, you may have assumed that an iPod wouldn't be caught dead snuggling with a digital photo frame, but strange though it may be, that assumption has just been proven wrong. Mustek's PF-i700 ine...