Updates from Your Gmail Contacts
One of the reasons why the chat box can no longer be disabled in the new version of Gmail is that it will include some new features: updates from your contacts. Yes, they are the same contacts you ba...
RIAA's Target In 2008: You
The RIAA has lodged documents in the ongoing case of the Record Industry vs Jeffrey Howell that argues that ripping music from legally purchased CD's is illegal. — If the Judge rules that the RIAA i...
Question of the Day: Watch or Cellphone For Telling Time?
Our last phone poll discovered that an astonishing 28% of our readers used iPhones—go ahead, see for yourself—which brings us to this question. Do you wear a wristwatch, or do you tell time using you...
WordPress 2.3.2
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your databas...
Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader
In this era of data smog, the knowledge worker who can act like an agile ninja by consuming vast quantities of information, synthesizing it and getting it in the hands of the right people at the right...
New security rules for batteries on planes
If you don't want to lose your spare lithium batteries for your camera, notebook or cell phone, you might want to pack carefully for your next flight. — New rules from the Transportation and Securit...
Maine law students vs the RIAA
RIAA News:- One of the most important, but as yet largely unrecognized, Big Music stories to break this year centres on a small university legal clinic in Maine. — And, it's about to cause a revolut...
Fox, Apple to sign iTunes deal
Service will make movies available for rent — Apple is set to break new ground with iTunes, offering movie rentals in a bid to rejuvenate that sluggish part of the otherwise boffo service. — Fox a...
The Wii, officially “hacked"?
Nintendo-Scene.com is reporting of an interesting presentation that took place at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) right now; it would appear that a fully hacked Wii capable of runn...
What AOL (and Mozilla) Should Do With Netscape
Now that AOL (TWX) has officially killed the already dead Netscape browser, here's what the company should do with the brand and portal that remain: Sell them to Mozilla/Firefox. Mozilla should then ...
Frostwire: Limewire's open source cousin
Limewire is one of the most popular Peer to Peer file sharing applications around, and it's easy to see why. With its simple but powerful interface, it's the next best thing to old school Napster. O...
Jack Thompson: Games Industry Colluding With Department Of Defense
In a press release sent out yesterday, controversial attorney Jack Thompson claims he has found a correlation between the gaming industry and the US Department of Defense, who, he adds, are using vide...
Who's Ready for the Digital Transition?
In a throwback to the Y2K transition, a number of Web sites are running countdown clocks that, presently, read “426 days, 8 hours, 39 minutes, 31 seconds." That is the time remaining until Feb. 17, 2...
Subvert And Profit Unapologetically Targets YouTube
Subvert And Profit is a service that lets users pay to get their sites on Digg (and more recently StumbleUpon). — Unlike Pay Per Post, the company doesn't waste a lot of time trying to spin their bu...
sega brain checker asks just how stupid are you?
If you haven't gotten a chance to play either of the Brain Age games on the Nintendo DS, you might want to check out this gadget from Japan's SegaToys. Thanks to my limited knowledge of the Japanese ...
Opinion: The 25 most innovative products of the year
PC World staff Today's Top Stories or Other Networking and Internet Stories — Make no mistake, the Web is taking over. Applications are moving to browsers en masse, and technology to take We...
Updates from Your Gmail Contacts
One of the reasons why the chat box can no longer be disabled in the new version of Gmail is that it will include some new features: updates from your contacts. Yes, they are the same contacts you ba...