Japanese ISPs Agree to Ban Pirates from the Internet
Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down co...
Early St. Patrick's Day easter egg on Google Maps
Street View in Google Maps now shows a tiny leprechaun instead of the classic yellow guy — it's a bit early, but you can only assume this has to do with St. Patrick's Day on Monday. A rainbow follows...
Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy
I was going to title this post “Duncan Riley: Lessons in how to be an a**hole,” but then I thought that would bring me down to the same level as Duncan, and I really don't want to do that. I suppose ...
We'll miss Russell Shaw
One of our tech journalism colleagues, Russell Shaw, passed away on Friday, March 14. He was on a reporting trip in San Jose, traveling from his home base of Portland, Ore. I knew Russell first as a ...
Craigslist cleared on discrimination claims
Craigslist.org can't be held liable for discriminatory ads posted on its site, according to a court ruling made Friday. — A group of Chicago lawyers had sued the online classifieds site over real-es...
iPods rock the Space Shuttle
Eagle-eyed reader Walker was perusing hi-res photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (which is circling the planet at this moment, docked to the International Space Station in low-earth orbit) when he s...
Six degrees of messaging
Study of instant messaging shows worldwide personal links. — Yet more evidence has turned up to show that we are only six steps removed from almost anyone else on the planet. — Eric Horvitz, at Mi...
Robotics start-up Willow Garage believes open source OS will soon put robots in our homes
If Menlo Park-based start-up Willow Garage has its way, in just a few years you'll be able to hire a robot to come and clean your house once a week. — The company is building open-source robots …
Ustream.tv may turn down Microsoft's $50 million
Yahoo's move into live video could have kneecapped startups like Justin.tv and Ustream.tv. Instead, its botched launch just proved that serving up streams is a harder business than it looks — and got...
Revisiting Apple's iPhone strategy
In the post I wrote about Rich Miner of Google saying that the Android mobile software stack will gain more users than the iPhone, several people commented. The general consensus is that Apple is the...
Asus EP20: First look at the Eee PC desktop
Apparently Asus had a bit more up its sleeve at CeBit than the Eee PC 900. The company also showed off the EP20, which appears to be the first desktop computer in the Eee PC lineup. Earlier this yea...
Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet
The nation's four Internet provider organizations have agreed to forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming so...