News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo
The rumors keep on rolling around the surprise semi-hostile Microsoft bid for Yahoo this morning. Sillicon Alley Insider says they've heard that a couple of hedge funds were already preparing their o...
Sweden Warns Kids Against The Pirate Bay
The majority of Swedish children between the ages of 8 and 14, admit that they download copyrighted music and videos on a regular basis. “Lilla Aktuellt” - a kids news show on Swedish national televi...
Data Visualization Google Gadgets
Last year, Google acquired a data visualization technology from Gapminder, a Swedish non-profit organization. Gapminder's technology, Trendalyzer, was used to visualize data from United Nations Commo...
In pictures: Mobile design competition
Royal College of Art students were set the challenge of designing a mobile phone to “outperform, outsmart, and outmanoeuvre everything on the market”. — One of three winners in the competition, spon...
Every User Lies
Heidi Adkisson notes that features sell products, but the people buying those products often don't use the very features they bought the product for in the first place. … It's interesting that Heidi u...
Deal to End Writers' Strike May Be Near
LOS ANGELES — Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's striking writers and production companies have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, which could lead to a tentative ag...
The internet is the social network
Google has released a social-graph API, which in theory — though, unfortunately, not in practice — is what the internet is all about: relationships and connections. — I've said it before: … So with ...
Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?
While the tech world waits to see whether Yahoo will accept Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid, Microsoft and Yahoo employees sleep restlessly at the prospect of massive staff cuts if the takeover...
iPhone takes on semi, lives to tell the tale
We though we'd seen it all when it came to creative device destruction — iPod with a bullet: check, exploding laptops: check, everything in a blender: double check — but we've never seen anything spen...
Bullish About the Web
ONLINE ADS: WINNERS AND LOSERS — Perhaps because a Jan. 2 report (pdf) by JPMorgan Chase on Internet stocks ran 312 pages, it took a while for many bloggers to digest it. “Nothing but Net,” written...
“Interesting, but of no commercial value”: The problem with emerging social media tools: A Saturday Evening Post
I can remember a time when people thought e-mail was a complete waste of time. I can remember a time when spreadsheets and storyboarding software were similarly disdained.
First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4
Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 was officially released today and is now available for testing. This alpha offers an early look at some of the features that will be included in the final 8.04 release, which is s...
Better Than Free
The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of th...
The peanut butter jar is empty
I was rooting for Jerry Yang. Tech founder returns to helm to take over. That's a story I have to get behind. — But it never seemed to me like he was fully in charge. I wonder how many stakeholde...
Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
[With apologies in advance to Martin Nisenholtz, who I believe is genuinely fighting the good fight, and who will no doubt end up with a great job at some fine Internet company.] — The hiring of Bil...
Hulu to Stream Super Bowl Commercials After Game
With the Super Bowl fast approaching, the big question lingering on (most) everyone's mind isn't who will win, but rather, what will be this year's must-see rewindable moment, a la Janet Jackson's inf...
BBC's iPlayer adds support for Firefox
Rumors have been swirling for months that the BBC was going to allow users of their iPlayer service to access the popular player on a computer or platform other than Internet Explorer for Windows. We...
An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots
HOW often have you wasted time searching through page after page of e-mail messages, Web sites, notes, news feeds and YouTube videos on your computer, trying to find an important item? — If the answ...
Data Visualization Google Gadgets
Last year, Google acquired a data visualization technology from Gapminder, a Swedish non-profit organization. Gapminder's technology, Trendalyzer, was used to visualize data from United Nations Commo...
FAQ: What's next for Microsoft's Yahoo bid?
Microsoft faces several financial and legal hurdles on its way to wooing Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion buyout bid. — Here's a brief FAQ explaining some of the reasoning behind Microsoft's action...