Breaking: Sony Won't Charge $50 To Remove Bloatware
Responding to a tidal wave of outrage, Sony has reversed a plan to charge $50 to remove all the pre-installed applications — often derided as “bloatware” or “craplets” — from its high-end TZ-series no...
Apple Software Update
What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad — not just for Apple, but ...
Verizon Licks its Cheap Megahertz Pops
Here's the telecom geek quiz of the day: What's a megahertz pop? … Yes, in fact, the answer is C. Megahertz pop is the name of a telecommunications industry measurement. It refers to one megahertz of...
Eating our words: Apple's Mac mini to rock on
Apple Inc.'s Mac mini, a tiny desktop system previously pegged for extinction, won't fade into the distance after all, at least not yet. — Last Memorial Day, AppleInsider cited sources in reporting ...
LinkedIn Company Detail Shows Silicon Valley Carousel
How Select Tech Titans Stack Up (Click for larger image) — Last night, LinkedIn rolled out a major upgrade to the professionally-oriented social network and career/recruiting database, adding new co...
Google's Design Guidelines
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the...
Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal?
Forget statistics and pageviews; marriage proposals, folks, are what really cements a web service as a part of our everyday life. Now, we've seen Twitter on CSI, but I don't remember seeing anyone pr...
Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?
The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems...
For Bloggers, Legit News Photos For Free
PicApp, a San Francisco-based company is offering copyright news and stock photos from large photo banks like Getty Images and Corbis for free. The company is likely to announce availability of its p...
Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to build your laptop crapware-free
Sony has quite the history of crippling excellent, beautiful hardware with horrible, useless software. The company's UX UMPC bluescreened on us the first time we turned it on, and crashed the first t...
The Wall Street Journal's Web site is already (secretly) free
Late in January, Rupert Murdoch put an end to speculation that he would set free the Wall Street Journal's subscription-only Web site. — While he planned to “expand” the site's free offerings, “the ...
LinkedIn, Now For Companies
LinkedIn, the boring social network that won't find you a date but may land you a job, is expanding beyond people profiles. — On Friday morning they will launch company profile pages that partly ser...
Apple pushing Safari downloads on Windows users
In an apparent bid to rapidly gain share of the online browser market dominated by rival Microsoft, Apple is leveraging its vast iTunes install base to recommend that Windows users also download and i...
Gibson turns volume up to 11 with new ‘Guitar Hero’ lawsuit
Legendary guitar manufacturer Gibson Guitar has sued six major retailers—Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Amazon.com, Gamestop, and Toys-R-Us—for selling Activision's Guitar Hero video game series, MarketWat...
Mozilla CEO says Apple's Safari auto-update ‘wrong’
A lot of people appear to be bent out of shape about Apple using its auto-update service to distribute the Safari Web browser on Windows. The CEO of Mozilla, which makes the rival Firefox browser, ca...
Breaking: FCC Confirms that Big Winner in Spectrum Auction is Verizon. So Why Is Google Smiling?
The big winner of the FCC's $19.6 billion auction of wireless spectrum that ended yesterday is Verizon. That was pretty much everyone's guess. — At a press conference today …
Q&A: Battelle talks blog roll-ups, Google, and Federated Media's future
John Battelle knows tech booms and busts. He's been at the forefront of them for nearly two decades. — In 1993, he co-founded Wired, a print magazine that set a standard in technology coverage and ...
Google's Design Guidelines
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the...
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Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets ‘Wikipedia’ Approach Will Transform Congress
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig plans to use collaborative software to change Congress. — Courtesy Larry Lessig — A prominent Stanford law professor on Thursday launched an ambitious project …
Little old lady suing Sony, Samsung, Nokia and everyone else for infringing on her laser patents
Oh sure, she looks friendly enough. But don't let her matronly, argyle looks fool you. Retired Columbia University Professor, Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, is looking to extract some cold …
Do you have to be in every conversation?
Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has a good post about how the conversation is leaving blogs and going to Twitter, FriendFeed and other services. More importantly, she touches on a big question: How do yo...
Don't turn off the life support just yet: Joost coming to the browser
Joost (last100 review) is planning to let viewers access its Internet TV service via a Web browser, rather than requiring them to download and install the current Mac/Windows application, according to...
AT&T to pay FCC $1.3B down payment
NEW YORK - AT&T says it will pay an initial down payment of $1.3 billion to the Federal Communications Commission for its portion of wireless spectrum licenses it won in a government airwaves auction....
Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow—Like AOL?
Like AOL? — For now, Facebook continues to take over the world. Its global traffic is about to blow past MySpace's, its image (and Mark Zuckerberg's) has recovered from the Beacon fiasco, and it has...
Report: 95% of Internet video stuck looking longingly at TV
Video content online may be growing in popularity, but the vast majority isn't getting anywhere near a TV screen. New survey results from Macrovision (commissioned by Harris Interactive) say that onl...