F.C.C. to Look at Complaints Comcast Interferes With Net
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, the commission's...
NewsGator's RSS clients are now free!
We've got a lot of big news today at NewsGator. — First, we've got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobi...
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
The demo was not going well. — Again. — It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple's top engineers with creating the iPhone.
Former OLPC C.T.O. Aims to Create $75 Laptop
A laptop under US$100 could reach desks if a new venture formed by former chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child, Mary Lou Jepsen, can deliver on its promises. — A “spin-out” from OLPC, th...
Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations
Following a post on the DomainState forum today, a number news and blogs have criticized Network Solutions for front running domain names that customers try to register. (See for instance today's rep...
Ten Reasons We're Doomed: CES Edition
Oh, CES. You are a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible. Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible. Sure, to you fine readers it might look like it's ...
Google processes over 20 petabytes of data per day
Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters. The average MapReduce job ran across approximat...
Google Maps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest
I took a look at traffic to Maps websites after hearing repeatedly over the holidays that people didn't need directions as they would use Mapquest, Google Maps or GPS. With the rise of GPS, I wondere...
Google, IBM and VeriSign in talks to join OpenID
Google, IBM and VeriSign are all in talks with the OpenID foundation with a view to joining imminently, according to a highly-placed source. Digg, Technorati, Microsoft, AOL, Plaxo and WikiPedia have...
Wizzard Media: 1 Billion Downloads in 2007, Podcasting Far from Dead
Wizzard Media, owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. While online media consumption numbers are notori...
Apple cuts UK iTunes costs, but baits the labels
It's good news for UK music buyers - the cost of downloading music on the iTunes will be reduced to match that across nearly the whole of the rest of the EU. — But Apple's press release today reads ...
Sources say Universal and Paramount are both going Blu
Rumors just won't stop about the future of HD DVD, and while we try not to post all of them, some seem too believable to pass up. Our friend Bill Hunt, at the Digital Bits, — still waiting on those p...
Time Warner invests in teen virtual world Gaia Online
Gaia Online, the virtual world for teens, tells us that media conglomerate Time Warner has invested an undisclosed amount in the company. — San Jose, Calif.-based Gaia says it has nearly three milli...
OpenFrame: ‘The iPhone of home phones’
With data integration in mobile handsets, it's no wonder home telephones haven't been able to keep up. But what happens when you're using a service like Verizon's FiOS and all of a sudden that boring...
Amazon Consolidates in Growing Area of Seattle
Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, will soon finally have one place to call home. — The company is moving all of its administrative employees, who are now scattered in offices around S...
Best Buy wants Macs in more of its stores
Apple's store-within-a-store partnership with Best Buy is going to expand this year, according to Best Buy executives. — So says UBS analyst Ben Reitzes, who met with Best Buy during the Consumer El...
French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank
This is probably the biggest hoax in the history of Facebook. It happened in France and is one of the most discussed stories in the French blogosphere right now. It all started a few weeks ago with ...
CES: Podcasting Coming To TiVo
CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recordi...
CES: Dude, Where's My Driverless Car?
So General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company expects to have driverless cars on the road by 2018. — Now, I know the autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that GM developed with Carnegie...
Gondry's Rewind is Infectious in Enthusiasm for Creativity
Michel Gondry stopped by the Union Square Apple Store in San Francisco on Monday to answer questions from SF360's Susan Gerhard, part of a promotional event put on by indieWire for the upcoming film B...
Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods
For those of us who dwell in cities neighborhoods are an incredibly useful convention that is usually only known by locals. They break a city up geographically or architecturally or socially. Until ...
The OpenID Train Steams Ahead: Google, IBM and Verisign Said To Be Joining
TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher is reporting that Google, IBM and Verisign are in late stage discussions with the OpenID Foundation. This news comes on the same day that Google, Facebook and Plaxo joine...
Microsoft releases another Vista SP1 refresh to 15,000 testers
Microsoft made availble to testers on January 9 yet another refresh of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 Release Candidate (RC) test build. — Microsoft's statement: … Microsoft released a publicly a...
Penguinistas hack Android onto real hardware
Several actual hardware devices have been hacked to run Google's Java-based Android software stack, according to blogs and forum posts around the Internet. Although Google's preview release last fall...
Social.im: The Instant Messaging Service For Facebook Junkies
If you don't mind installing one more instant messaging client on your computer, and you happen to be a heavy Facebook user, check out social.im. This isn't yet another instant messaging application ...
Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the “feed”
Facebook news feed has been a hit with users because it automatically displays the latest photos, newest friends, and other updates from your Facebook friends. — The problem, though, is that most pe...
Microsoft dealmaker Bruce Jaffe going startup
While Microsoft has yet to come up with a search engine that wows consumers, it has successfully wooed Wall Street with its push into online advertising. Alas for Microsoft, it's losing a key dealmak...
Yahoo Tech Ticker: More Details And A Screenshot
Yahoo's new technology business video show, TechTicker, is set to go live soon (officially, in the next few weeks, but I'm hearing that some early stuff may come out as soon as next week). — The sho...
Apple to Standardize iTunes Music Prices Throughout Europe
Apple® today announced that within six months it will lower the prices it charges for music on its UK iTunes® Store to match the already standardized pricing on iTunes across Europe in Austria, Belgiu...
Our primary colors
A few days ago, we announced that Google Maps would be presenting real-time U.S. presidential nomination results for the Iowa caucuses. The map was so popular that we've decided to do it again, this ...
MS: no iPhone rival in works
Microsoft will not be producing an in-house attempt at replicating the iPhone, soon to be retired company CEO Bill Gates has told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (registration required for fu...
Sign Of The Times: Web 2.0 Outsourcing Humor
Something that you don't often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work. Digg for example was originally designed by Kevin Rose outsourcin...
Iomega's Zip Drive is back with a vengeance
Everyone remembers the Iomega Zip Drive - we all had one, it's okay to say it. I'd lost track of the company for a while, but they're striking back with a new version of the device, which probably wi...
FCC to investigate Comcast's alleged traffic shaping
The FCC didn't buy Comcast's explanation, either. — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate Comcast over alleged traffic interference (and at the same time reveal its attitude toward ...
Verizon FIOS GPON in Nine States - New installs in those states now all GPON
Verizon has long told us they'll eventually migrate their FiOS network from BPON to GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) fiber technology. Their current BPON technology splits 622Mbps downstream an...
Yahoo tests support for OpenID
Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites. — Yahoo controls a domain m...
Hey, Isn't That . . .
The pug in the corner of the Saints-Eagles football telecast on Fox looked familiar to Tracey Gaughran-Perez. — Not in the slobber-smile way that all pugs look familiar …
Sony Stops Licensing Of Digital Streams As It Allows DRM-Free Music
The timing on this one may be something of a coincidence, but it's worth noting that at just about the same time that Sony is getting a ton of press for finally realizing that DRM doesn't make sense …