Macworld Expo Predictions
Predictions and advance commentary for tomorrow's Macworld keynote, some based on consensus rumors, some based on no more than wishful thinking on the part of yours truly. This is all conjecture and ...
Sophomoric Pranks Do Not a Journalist Make
Last week gadget blog Gizmodo admitted to pulling a prank at CES 2008 in which they used a device to turn off TVs on the exhibit floor and during company presentations. In their post about the prank ...
MySpace to Let Parents Block Their Kids From Joining
Representatives from MySpace and the attorneys general of 49 states are announcing a new partnership to fight sexual predators and clean up social networks. — Among the dozens of measures MySpace ha...
Breaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details
An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when clos...
Macworld2008: Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked?
Apple CEO's stage notes appear on Wikipedia — We're used to seeing the online tech world go crazy with rumours and speculation in the days before Macworld, but this year a new element has been intro...
Facebook buying Plaxo?
Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we've just heard from a source. — This follows a rumor previously published by Valleywag asserting that such a deal is underway. — While these types...
The ocean as watercooler: floating data centers stay cool
A new Silicon Valley startup called International Data Security (IDS) has sent some big waves through the data storage industry by announcing (PDF) its intent to set up a fleet of data-serving cargo s...
Ohloh ranks the world's coders, and helps them advertise too
Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation's top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams. — It's the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA com...
Facebook Is No Kingmaker
Yesterday's “60 Minutes” feature on Mark Zuckerberg, cheif executive of Facebook, hit all the logical bases: privacy, business model, the Beacon miscues and his youth. Only one section struck me as o...
Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Of all the iPhone's features, none had reviewers gushing more than its Internet browser. It was the first cellphone browser that promised something resembling the experience o...
Facebook: The Entire “60 Minutes” Segment
For those who missed it, here is the entire video of the piece CBS' “60 Minutes” aired on Facebook last night, helmed by veteran correspondent Lesley Stahl. — It is not exactly the big wet kiss I wa...
Lecturer bans students from using Google and Wikipedia
A lecturer has criticised students for relying on websites like Google and Wikipedia to do their thinking for them. — Professor Tara Brabazon, from the University of Brighton, said too many young pe...
Music Industry, Souring on Apple, Embraces Amazon Service
LOS ANGELES — At the Super Bowl next month, the music industry will be switching teams — from Apple to Amazon.com. — The major record labels lined up with Pepsi-Cola and Apple four years ago to give...
Toshiba drops prices on HD DVD players
Forget holiday shopping deals, many Toshiba HD DVD players are now selling for under $200 anyway. The HD-A3 and HD-A30 are going for $134.98 and $174.98 on Amazon, respectively. You'll still get two...
Coghead on AWS: The SaaS Ecosystem Expands
Coghead, like DabbleDB and Zoho Creator, allows you to quickly create a hosted database-backed web application without programming. But unlike DabbleDB and Zoho Creator, Coghead wants to create a pla...
European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probe
European antitrust regulators are kicking off two new Microsoft antitrust investigations, one of which involves products and technologies for which Microsoft allegedly is withholding interoperability ...
Macworld 2008: How can Steve Jobs top the iPhone?
The Macworld Conference & Expo, Silicon Valley's largest technology trade show, opens Monday. But the moment everyone is waiting for comes Tuesday morning, when Steve Jobs makes his annual keynote ad...
One million viewers use iPlayer
More than 3.5 million programmes have been watched by more than a million people using the BBC's online video service iPlayer since 25 December. — On average, 250,000 programmes were either streamed...
Zagat Family Is Putting Guide Empire on Market
A “clever and sharp” restaurant guide company with “telling” rankings and “a penchant for quote marks” from its thousands of “in-the-know” reviewers is “on the block." — Zagat Survey, the guide empi...
“Our enemy has no intellectual capital to bring to the battle”
In this special interview Rick Falkvinge, the founder and the leader of Swedish Pirate Party, gives his own views on the wildly heated political filesharing debate in Sweden, evaluates the political a...
Near-final Vista SP1 goes public
Microsoft has made Vista's Service Pack 1 near-final “release candidate” available for download to the general public, after initially choosing to restrict it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted la...
More Google Queries Get Google Maps
The share of Google searches that result in visits to Google Maps has skyrocketed since last year, according to the online traffic-measurement firm Hitwise. Over the week ending Jan. 6, 2007, 0.22 pe...
DroboShare Drobo NAS mini-review
So we snagged a DroboShare to hook our lonesome, directly-attached Drobo into. At $200 for what's essentially a USB network adapter we had some pretty high expectations, but thankfully we've been pre...