Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children
Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites. — Senator Conroy says it w...
Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
The Australian Government has announced that they will be joining China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the internet. — The Labor Party's policy was announced prior to the A...
BlackBerry 9000 revealed, major disappointment?
It appears the rumored touchscreen BB is just a myth if you believe what first time poster Cooper over at BB Forums has to say. This photo was purportedly taken in Waterloo at the RIM campus. The 9x...
Yahoo Exec Souders To Google; Yahoo to Zero?
Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo, is jumping to Google as of Jan. 7. From the outside, hard to see this as anything other than yet another long-term exec (2000) fleeing a sinking ship. Any ins...
LG preps 52, 84-inch multi-touch LCDs, more
LG Phillips LCD has today revealed some of its first multi-touch displays and is targeting them at users who want to bring the technology to large rooms and public spaces. At 52 and 84 inches, the tw...
What is Jakob Lodwick up to? Tumblr acquisition?
Last night I posted the Vimeo “Flagpole Sitta” video. The relation to Vimeo made me want to check out what Jakob Lodwick has been up to since his infamous canning from IAC. Little did I know, it wou...
Internet Access Is Only Prerequisite For More and More College Classes
Berkeley's on YouTube. American University's hoping to get on iTunes. George Mason professors have created an online research tool, a virtual filing cabinet for scholars. And with a few clicks on Y...
Vonage shakes off patent disputes
Annus horribilis ends with Nortel agreement — Vonage and Nortel have agreed to settle their patent differences with an exchange of licenses, and no money changing hands, ending a year of litigation ...
High Definition DVD Formats Going Nowhere Fast
Despite the fact that prices have plummeted for next-generation high-definition DVD players, the two systems — Blu-ray, developed by Sony, and HD DVD, from Toshiba, have sold only about one million st...
The Sears “Community” Installation of ComScore
Late last month, Benjamin Googins (a senior researcher in the Anti-Spyware unit at Computer Associates) critiqued a ComScore installation performed by Sears' “Sears Holdings Community” ("My SHC Commun...
Does Vista's stunted growth hint at the death of the desktop?
Is the desktop metaphor dead, replaced by web services like Google and Facebook? Or is Vista so bad that it's not worth buying? — New data points to the latter suggestion, leaving Microsoft with tw...
Js/snz.a - likely false positive in eTrust / Vet Anti-Virus
It appears that CA's eTrust Anti-Virus product (also known as Vet Anti-Virus, often bundled with other security applications such as ZoneAlarm) is coming up with a false positive for js/snz.a for seve...
Mobile phone you can use in the shower
Soon there really will be no escape from mobile phones. They can be used on the world's highest mountains, on planes and even underground, but phone manufacturers now want customers to use their prod...
Public and private spaces, and why YouTube comments are so awful
Why do Reddit and YouTube comment areas suck so bad? — Have any of you guys read YouTube comments lately? They are just really awful - just click through to the YouTube site and read them.
Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?
Just after 10 am on June 7, 2007, Ryan Sit glanced at his Gmail inbox and saw the message he had been waiting nine months to receive. Sit, a 29-year-old software developer from San Diego, is the foun...
Five Ways You Can Fall in Love With Tagging Again
Tagging content online is something that doesn't seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to. — Is it too complicated for widespread adoption? Is it too arbitrary to have the impact t...
Bloggers question the way reporters are paid
If newspapers are no longer able to keep pace with the big players for salaries, then maybe we'll have to start offering a new way of paying reporters and columnists. Pay extra based on the number of...
$20 AT&T Naked DSL Arrives - Merger condition required it before year's end....
iPhone firmware 1.1.3 video walkthrough posted
It seems pretty clear by now that the images and videos floating around of an iPhone running firmware 1.1.3 are legit, but if you still have doubts as to their veracity, a new walkthrough that's been ...
Broadcom wins major injunction against Qualcomm
In the latest major twist in this epic battle between wireless chipmakers, a US District Judge has slapped a permanent injunction on any products containing those Qualcomm 3G chips ruled to be infring...
Vonage, Nortel settle patent dispute
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Vonage Holdings Inc. and Nortel Networks Corp. have settled their patent litigation, allowing for cross-licensing of the telecom companies' technology. — The agreement does not c...
Global Market for Cellphone Ring Tones Is Shrinking
After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo, according to a variety of measures. — In some parts of the world, ring tone sa...
Cloudy visions of the future
Regular commentator Bill Thompson looks forward to cheap net access and cloud computing. — If you're ever asked to forecast the way computing will develop, offer to look three to five years ahead. ...
Video games make history in 2007
The last 12 months have been one of the best years in video game history, both critically and commercially. — Gamers have been able to revel in some of the most exhilarating interactive experiences ...
US bans spare lithium batteries from checked bags
New rules will go into effect on Jan. 1 that prohibit air passengers in the U.S. from carrying spare lithium batteries in their checked baggage. — The new rules, announced Friday by the U.S. Departm...
Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games
Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device. — Up to now develo...
Open Media Web: Online Music
An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay, acquired by Ya...
24C3: Barcode systems susceptible to serious hacker attacks
Experts say that the Barcodes our highly automated business world could now hardly do without, often display serious security holes. In particular, one- or two-dimensional systems of barcodes and mat...
P2i's Ion-Mask coating could make waterproof phones an everyday occurrence
Plenty of waterproof phones and other small weatherproof devices have made it off the assembly lines and into our clumsy clutches, but P2i, a small spinoff company using tech originated within the Def...
iPod Touch does VoIP
There you have it, the first VoIP call made on the Touch. Software should be out tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled for our very own hands on video.
Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas
To some music lovers, the fact that Josh Groban's Noel was the highest-selling album of 2007 is all the proof they need that major-label music is dying. To shareholders and label execs, though, the n...
Vonage, Nortel settle patent dispute
Internet-based calling company Vonage said it has agreed to settle a patent dispute with Nortel Networks with no payment of damages, sending its share up more than 8 percent. — The settlement would ...
Online Holiday Spending Through December 27 Nears $28 Billion,
Up 19 Percent Versus Year Ago — Period Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Experiences 21-Percent Gain — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an up...