Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player
Finally, HD DVD users now have the empirical evidence they've been looking for to prove that the universe really is conspiring against them. We figured we'd make ourselves useful over here and give y...
Now AT&T Is Offering An Unlimited Plan For $99
OK we're not even done with the Verizon flat-rate phone plans news announcement and here comes Ma Bell with its own $99-a-month unlimited offer. … By the way, this unlimited plan is for voice only. N...
Owen Van Natta to Leave Facebook
One of the earliest executives at Facebook, Owen Van Natta (pictured here), will be transitioning out of the social-networking company in the next few weeks. — Van Natta played a key role in importa...
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
CNET Changes Quarterbacks: Dan Farber Takes Over As Editor In Chief
Big news at CNET today - editor in chief Jai Singh is out, and Dan Farber, most recently the editor in chief of CNET-owned ZDNet, is taking over. In his new role, Dan will oversee the editorial conte...
Apple taps Linkin Park to perform at “secret” NYC event
Apple has enlisted the services of popular alternative rock band Linkin Park to perform at an unannounced company event due to take place in New York City, AppleInsider has been informed. — Mike Shi...
HandBrake 0.9.2 Released
A new version of HandBrake - the free, open-source DVD to MPEG converter - is now available. — HandBrake 0.9.2 incorporates many changes, including full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest...
Two announcements
At lessig08.org, you can watch a 10 minute video explaining the launching of a Change Congress movement, and the decision I am trying to make about whether to run for Congress. That decision will be ...
Yahoo outlines golden parachutes for employees
Yahoo laid out its golden parachute plans for all of its full-time employees Tuesday, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing outlines two change-in-control severance plan...
Microsoft: Bill Gates Comes To Stanford
Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates is giving a talk at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium this afternoon. The talk is called “On Software, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Giving Back.” The...
Feedburner - Kickin It Old School
It's always fun to get the monthly Feedburner check for advertising they insert into the RSS feed. The actual dollar amount is still next to nothing, but I love the fact that, even with nearly 800,00...
Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses
Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD ...
Verizon to offer flat-fee unlimited wireless plans
NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless (VZ) Tuesday will unveil a plan that offers unlimited domestic calling for a flat fee of $99.99 to $139.99 a month. — Unlimited plans for BlackBerry devices and other sma...
iPod shuffle Now Just $49
New 2GB Model Priced at $69 — Apple® today announced that its iPod® shuffle, the world's most wearable music player, is now even more affordably priced at $49 and that it is introducing a new 2GB mo...
Mozilla Messaging
Today we've announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the entity I've been calling MailCo on this blog. As promised, it's a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused on emai...
Microsoft targets Web with Yahoo or alone: Gates
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company's chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. — Gat...
Scribd's iPaper Plan
Scribd, the San Francisco-based start-up that was dubbed “YouTube of Documents” has finally become worthy of that sobriquet. While I don't care much about community around documents, I love the conce...
Apple updates Xsan
Along with today's server hardware announcement, Apple today also released XSAN 2, a totally revamped version of its high-performance shared disk file system for Mac OS X. — Xsan is an Apple branded...
Google 10K: Warns On Near-Term Revenue
Google's 10K included an alarming nugget about the possible ongoing impact of click-improvement programs on the company's near-term revenue. As you'll recall, one reason Google gave for its light rev...
HP's UMPC 2133 revealed
We've just received these images of HP's rumored UMPC. Honestly, we have no reason to doubt their authenticity. The HP Compaq 2133 “lifestyle accessory” features a big, scratch resistant 8.9-inch 13...
The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office
Online office suites like Google Docs are often criticized because they have a very basic feature set, but the advanced features from software packages like Microsoft Office are rarely used. Jensen H...
Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Students, and Technology
How would you like a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? How about the entire Microsoft Expression Studio? Not enough...... how about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and more? — For once, som...
DVD Jon aims to smash digital Tower of Babel
doubleTwist rolls out media sharing utility — doubleTwist, the firm founded by scourge of DRM manufacturers Jon Lech Johansen (AKA DVD Jon) last March, has released software designed to allow users ...
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that's not al...
Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo
In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. — The move, expected to cost about $20 ...