End of Support for Netscape web browsers
› tags: AOL, Mozilla, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, NetscapeNavigator, Web Browsers, WebBrowsers — AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people onlin...
Bhutto Assassination: JavaScripted
Cybercriminals wasted no time riding on the tragic and shocking news of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, as Websense discovered a number of malicious Web sites that came ...
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly fa...
Optimus Tactus Touch Keyboard Should Be Called Optimus Retardus
While we love touch surfaces, as people who type hundreds of thousands a word each week we know that there is a limit to them: keyboards. Like this Optimus Tactus, an extruded shape/touch surface/key...
Apple seeks patent for wireless order processing for cafes
Apple is seeking to patent a system that would make it possible for a person to use a wireless gadget to place an order at a cafe or fast-food restaurant and pickup the order without waiting in line.
The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now. — ...
Kindle Easter Eggs: We have GPS!
[click on image for high resolution version] — Yes - The Kindle has GPS (mind you, not the real GPS but rather CDMA location based) and even more Easter egg goodness: — Google Maps, show current lo...
A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
SAN FRANCISCO — Chris Sacca had a plum job as the Wi-Fi guru at Google. But with his stock options fully vested, he left the Internet search company this month for a new career as a venture capitalis...
Intel's newest gaming platform, Skulltrail
Intel seems like it's going to be making a bigger push at gamers with the launch of Penryn, and HotHardware managed to score some deets on the company's upcoming “Skulltrail” platform, which is built-...
Will The iPod Kill Blockbuster?
Forget the cavernous big box stores that laid waste to the retail landscape a decade ago. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era...
GPS baby Jesus stolen again, found across the street
Maybe next year they can just spring for an RFID baby Jesus. The folks in Florida noticed that their GPS-equipped baby Jesus we mentioned the other day was missing from his nativity, and fired up the...
Letterman Makes Deal With Writers
David Letterman has secured a deal with the striking Writers Guild of America that will allow him to resume his late-night show on CBS next Wednesday with his team of writers on board, executives of s...
How to copyright Michelangelo
Some of the world's greatest artworks are turning into copyrighted properties.Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Today, those images are copyrighted. How can an...
Amazon's Best of 2007 Is Part Duh, Part Huh?
When you read Amazon's Best of 2007 sales, ratings and wishlist figures straight down the line, they look pretty plain, but when you compare, say, Bestselling with Most Loved, though, you learn some f...
NTV Predictions: Video Advertising
Among the questions we've asked our panel of experts was this one: Which online video ad format will become dominant in 2008? — Selections from their responses are below. We'd love to hear your tak...
Sex Offenders Are Barred From Internet by New Jersey
EWING, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey enacted legislation on Thursday banning some convicted sex offenders from using the Internet. — In signing the restrictions into law, Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey, who ...
Apple readying HD Radio push for Macworld
iLounge has learned that Apple plans a push for iTunes Tagging-ready, HD Radio-equipped boomboxes with iPod docks during the mid-January Macworld Expo event in San Francisco, California. Announced in...
Baggage Ban on Batteries Begins
WASHINGTON (AP) — To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday....
Google in 2000
What search engine did you use in 2000? It's very likely that the answer is not Google. Three months before Google became the default search provider for Yahoo, Google's search results looked slight...
More Americans Creating Content Online
Thirty-Two Percent Call Themselves Broadcasters — Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones for entertainment and 45 percent are creating ...
Web icon set to be discontinued
The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. — Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the...
Leaner and Meaner Still
Last May I wrote a column titled “Lean and Mean” (it's in this week's links) that was all about the deteriorating situation at IBM Global Services where contracts were being lost for poor performance,...
The v2 extender has landed!
DHL dropped off my Linksys DMA2100 Media Center Extender yesterday, and I had it completely set up within 30 minutes. — My first impression was, “Wow, this is small." The v1 extenders were the size...
Benazir Bhutto assassinated: Twitter's utility
If anyone needed convincing of Twitter's business utility, today is that day. — As I write this post, the Twittersphere is going nuts over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto which occurred around 5...
Here Comes Trouble: The Thin Edge of SIP
Vint Cerf's Facebook profile includes a picture of him wearing his favorite t-shirt: it reads “IP on Everything." Cerf co-authored the 1973 paper that led to TCP/IP being used as a means to interconn...
How to add internal 3G HSDPA to Asus Eee PC
Mobility means also mobile connectivity to me. That's why this had to be done.. — I needed to cut 3mm of plastic away here. — and about 3 mm slice from this thin plastic wall. — This is ZadaCOM...
Vote for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007
The nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 have been compiled and we're ready to have you vote for your favorite Search Blogs, Communities and other search related categories for 2007. — Th...
Before Google There Was BackRub
Google's precursor in 1996 was called “BackRub,” a search engine research project headed by Larry Page at the computer science department at Stanford. BackRub might have been a reference to the under...
Scorecard: What Came True, What Didn't in 2007
Starry-eyed companies and CEOs made big promises to rollout new gadgets and told consumers to prepare for big trends in 2007. Who was right? And who was wrong? — Martyn Williams, IDGNS — Recomme...