a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared
Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make all of us stop and think. He wants to remain anonymous so let's call him Bob....
Is Salesforce Worth $75/Share To Oracle?
I'm hearing from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has approached Oracle to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share. That would be almost a 50 per cent premium over Friday's close...
Polaroid shutting 2 Mass. facilities, laying off 150
As company exits film business, plants will close in Norwood, Waltham — Polaroid Corp., the Massachusetts company that gave the world instant film photography, is shutting down its film manufacturin...
Safari is about to get crazy fast
When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konqu...
Facing Free Software, Microsoft Looks to Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a quarter-century ago, the mantra “information wants to be free” heralded an era in which news, entertainment and personal communications would flow at no charge over the Intern...
Pushing Paper Out the Door
CHRIS UHLIK'S children can be found in their home computer lab almost every morning. Nicole is writing a story about her two lizards. Tony is playing an interactive spelling game, while Andy is lear...
Nokia turns people into traffic sensors
UNION CITY, Calif.—On a cool, overcast morning in the parking lot of a Lowe's hardware store, 100 UC Berkeley students lined up in rows ready to jump into a bevy of idling vehicles. — With media and...
Blog, Social Network buzz correlates to better album sales
The amount of online “chatter” about an upcoming album release directly correlates to higher physical album sales, according to two researchers with New York University's Stern business school. Profe...
The Media is Social
How FastCompany.com will alter the digital landscape. — Fast Company is about to shake things up again. — Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is Social.” It be...
Koolwire converts files by e-mail
If you're away from your home computer and need to open a file on a foreign computer that doesn't have the program installed, there are a few options. For one, Gmail converts several file types so th...