Rick Rolled to child porn = you're a pedophile, says FBI
Everyone has had it happen to them: a “friend” sends you a link in IM or over IRC that purports to be something like a cat in an awkward position with a hilarious caption. Soon, however, you discover...
A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites
Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google's search results and refine the search features of their own Web sites to help users once they arrive. Now, Goo...
Evidence mounting: Windows 7 going modular, subscription
When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most “modular” yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS ...
Three Internet Careers That Soon Won't Exist
Earlier this year the New York Times detailed how careers in medicine and law - formerly bankable lifetime gigs - have lost their luster. College grads instead are pouring their resources into trying...
2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur
Consider this response that I just received (identifying information removed) from a venture capitalist I emailed to discuss a new investment: … I remember the days before email. For those of you who...
Google Distorting Info on 20% Time?
Commercials lie, including the ones by Google, as a statement by Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit would suggest. Here's the quote from the commercial by (now ex-Google employee) Joseph O'S.: — So innov...
Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone
SAN FRANCISCO — Shoppers are discovering an upside to the down economy. They are getting price breaks by reviving an age-old retail strategy: haggling. — A bargaining culture once confined largely ...
Reporting live from a cellphone near you ...
The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web. In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed? — GET ready for your close-up.
Are these the first screenshots of the iPhone AppStore?
One of our readers sent us in some screenshots of his iPhone showing what appears to be the anticipated iTunes AppStore. Could these pictures be the AppStore, or could it be some type of hack? It de...
Replacing Wire With Laser, Sun Tries to Speed Up Data
Sun Microsystems is trying to do for computing what all the king's horses and men failed to do for Humpty Dumpty. For decades, the semiconductor industry has broken silicon wafers into smaller chips ...
Reality, antitrust concerns dog Apple subscription rumors
For instant rumor action, combine “Apple” with just about anything, add water, shake, and serve up on the Internet. The power of Apple rumors was on display again this week as word of a listen-till-y...
Question to Mozilla CEO: what do you fear?
The kerfuffle over Apple's decision to include the Safari 3.1 ‘update’ with an iTunes update installer for Windows made me smile. John Lilly, CEO Mozilla Foundation seems outraged at Apple's decision...
Startup camp for entrepreneurs
Perhaps my favorite thing to do outside of building companies is help other folks build companies. I was a major outsider in this business and had to fight my way inside over a decade. It sucked at ...
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking
Left, I.B.M. employees with a z10 mainframe, part of the latest generation of the computers and designed for new tasks. Right, an older iteration of the mainframe, I.B.M.'s System/360. In the 1960s,...
Today's Whiny MacMeme Is...
I like how the speaker is
I like how the speaker is rising up like a tower on the middle. Looks kinda steampunk, like if it would be a steam powered tank. — I still don't understand how you got away without servos though. ...