Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children
SAN FRANCISCO — A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian offici...
Magellan and Google buddy up for Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS
The GPS magicians at Magellan and the search wizards at Google have combined their relative (and also fantastical) talents to deliver the Maestro Elite 5340+GPRS, a GPS unit rocking some GPRS cellular...
Erased
OK, forget for a few minutes the debate about who owns your email addresses, birthdays, and name on social networking sites. — Forget for a few minutes about whether or not I was a jerk, stupid, idi...
Data And The Future Of The Web
After I asserted several times that data is the key to the future of the web, Umair Haque gave my head a good spin by asserting that data is in fact a commodity. Umair is half right — we are increasi...
Noontime Web Video Revitalizes Lunch at the Desk
In cubicles across the country, lunchtime has become the new prime time, as workers click aside their spreadsheets to watch videos on YouTube, news highlights on CNN.com or other Web offerings. — Th...
Sony to add Skype Web phone function to PSP: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp plans to add an Internet phone function to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game player in cooperation with eBay unit Skype to stir up demand, the Nikkei business dai...
Why there will never be another GSM
Ofcom squares up to EU over spectrum carve-up — Comment Ofcom is changing the way spectrum is licensed in the UK to remove usage restrictions, but the EU is calling for region-wide harmonisation of ...
Vodafone Roadmap: Palm Drucker!
Been a Palm fan forever but feel you're getting quite shafted lately? We'd agree. So let's see if the Palm Drucker can change any of that! To start it off, the Palm Drucker is going to rock quad-ba...
Porn, Ning, and the Internet
There's been a recent flurry of commentary about Ning and porn. While I appreciate everyone's thoughts on the topic, I wanted to post directly and tell you what we know and what we think. — Let's t...
CES Unveiled: We're here
We're here at CES Unveiled, the pre-pre-pre CES event that debuts some new products before the actual show starts. We're in line and already being hassled by people to get us to view their goods. Th...
What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You
“HACKERS, welcome! Here are detailed circuit diagrams of our products — modify them as you wish." — That's not an announcement you'll find on the Web sites of most consumer electronics manufacturer...
Journalists doing their jobs better is a competitive advantage
In a piece about data portability, John Battelle shifts into a discussion about the difference between a business that competes on price vs. a business that competes on service. He says:
10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News Profile
This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. — Building popularity on Twitter is about gaining followers, and the most fundamental an...