Apple developing full-fledged digital lifestyle fitness companion
Electronics maker Apple Inc. is developing a digital fitness companion system based around its iPhone and iPod touch players aimed a helping americans, and folks in general, live a healthier and more ...
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. — He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest sec...
M'SOFT NOT YET ON BOARD
NO NAMES LINED UP YET FOR YAHOO! — Microsoft has been so cagey about the candidates it plans to nominate to Yahoo!'s board that speculation is mounting that the software giant actually doesn't have ...
Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview
To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or import...
High Performance AMD Phenom™ X4 Processors Lead the Charge to HD Desktop Gaming and Video
Four new AMD Phenom™ X4 processors pair with AMD enthusiast platform to propel the Ultimate Visual Experience — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced immediate availability of four …
Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?
It takes more than an army of trained chefs and free lunch to keep Googlers happy. As a new wave of web darlings (such as Facebook) beef up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joi...
The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out
Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed to start asking the “BIG S” question for our growing B2B medi...
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they ha...
MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy
Former BitTorrent champ throws in the towel — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — The operators of TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent tracker, have been forced to perma...
“If the news is important, it will find me”
Brian Stelter has a great piece in the New York Times that I urge anyone interested in the media business to go and read right now — I'll wait — and that includes reporters, editors and (most of all) ...
Hong Kong tycoon Li raises personal Facebook investment above $100 mln
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more...
Craigslist gets heat for prostitution ads
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today threatened legal action against Craigslist if it does not curb prostitutes from advertising their services on its Web site. — In a letter to Cra...
Fee for All
Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to...
Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 2
Apple released on Thursday a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple's development tools that lets developers create the interf...
Google: Web sites slow to fix serious Flash flaws
Two months after Adobe Systems patched a serious flaw in its Flash development software, there are still hundreds of thousands of Web pages serving up buggy Shockwave Flash (.swf) files that could be ...
Ma.gnolia: OpenID to Save Anti-Spam, Anti-Spam to Save OpenID
OpenID is wildly convenient for users, which is good for vendors, but is that motivation enough to really spur its adoption? Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user...
Watch Out - Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire
The blogosphere was abuzz today with the launch of Adobe's online photo-editing and storage platform, Adobe Photoshop Express. The new tool isn't so much of a web-based version of Photoshop as people...
Insight into YouTube videos
I remember the first time a video I posted to YouTube cracked 100 views. I wasn't so much surprised as curious: Who were these people? How did they find this video? Where did they come from? — To...
Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality
Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol. The ISP and BitTorrent Inc. will work together on findi...
Review: Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe's VP of Hosted and Consumer Services refers to Photoshop Express as “the on-ramp to the Adobe digital-imaging franchise.” Next exit Photoshop Elements? Construction delays? Slippery pavement ...
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review
On 6th September the Prime Minister asked me to conduct an independent review, looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in vi...
WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build
UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet). See the bottom of the post for details. — UPDATE The Windows nightly is now available for...
Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project
Chris Pirillo has announced a new, large scale open source CMS project that aims to “de-geekify” website tools (announcement video above). — The project will be built on the open source Drupal frame...
New EC2 Features: Static IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels
We just added three important new features to Amazon EC2: Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. The documentation, the WSDL, the AMI tools, and the command line tools...
JANA Partners Comments on CNET Reorganization
NEW YORK, March 27 /PRNewswire/ — Following an announcement by CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET - News) that it has assembled a “task force” to evaluate fundamental operating issues, JANA Partners LL...
Safari for Windows: Only for ‘Apple-labeled’ computers?
Apple, it seems, hasn't totally gotten used to making browsers for this Windows thing. — The license terms for the company's Safari Web browser on Windows include a curious restriction: “The softwar...
What I learned from OSBC 2008
Having had a day to ruminate about the Open Source Business Conference 2008, a few key takeaways suggest themselves. It was by far the best OSBC yet, with a far more diverse audience and speaking fac...