WordPress 2.5
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file ...
Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
Tiny projectors may soon cast big images on walls, or even on train seatbacks. At left, a prototype from Iljin DSP, hooked up to a cellphone. At right, the Samsung MBP-100. — TIRED of hearing othe...
Asus Eee PC Desktop, Eee Box Unveiled
The scoop wire was running late tonight and these shots of Asus' upcoming Eee Desktop made their way to our inbox just now, so we thought we'd give you the digital relay on the skinny... literally. T...
Newspapers are f'ed
Newspaper ad revenues have taken their worst drop in almost 60 years - worse even than 2001. E&P reports: … Is that called whistling in the wind? Or pissing in it? Man, that's denial. — Yes, some...
Ex-Googlers Launching Startups To Attack Mother Ship
Wired is compiling a list of ex-Googler exploits, many of which appear to be targeting the former-upstart-turned-industry- incumbent. No one else in the industry has been able to compete with Google ...
Yahoo's New Rock Star Retention Program
Yahoo, in the midst of a fight to remain independent, is granting “golden handcuff” stock options to key employees. The stock options are given to “key contributors” among the rank and file - senior ...
Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users. — The...
Where My Traffic Comes From
Every once in a while I like to show some analytics about this blog. — I get the sense that the sources of traffic to this blog have been changing recently. Let's start by comparing the high level ...
If the news is important it will find me
I first read this statement on techmeme, which took me to Mathew Ingrams Blog, which revealed that the line came from a college student who was part of an Intelligence Group focus group. The words ha...
Is Facebook Headed For China?
Is Facebook headed for China? — Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has increased his personal investment in the popular social-networking site to more than $100 million in hopes of creating new servi...
Adobe AIR Desktop App For FriendFeed Coming
FriendFeed released their API just a few days ago, but third party developers are already scrambling to build on top of the service. — We just heard that Howard/Baines will be releasing an Adobe AIR...
How To Hack Facebook In 51 Seconds
So Byron Ng isn't a real Facebook hacker. But apparently it isn't hard to become one, if you've got any technical skills at all. Hacking Facebook is a cottage industry, with hundreds or thousands of...
I Don't Know...
Why is it so hard for people (including both entrepreneurs and VCs) to say these three words? — This past week I had two distinctly different meetings with entrepreneurs. They both were successful ...
Is VON Creator PulverMedia Dot Gone?
Pulver Media, the New York-based company well known for VON, the trade shows for the VoIP industry and a magazine with the same name might be shutting down, joining the dot.gone club, according to sou...
Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years
“The industry is fundamentally driven by technology.
Black Hat Europe, Day 2: The day that wasn't and Black Hat Europe, Day 3: Begin the presentations
So, for those of you looking forward to a Black Hat Day 2 update with some more from the training sessions... I'm afraid it didn't happen. I had intended to hook up with Adam Laurie for a discussion ...
Decline Of US Newspapers Accelerating
Figures released by the Newspaper Association of America show that the decline of newspapers is more rapid than previously thought, with total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunging 9.4% to $42 bi...
PWN to OWN: Final Day (and another winner!)
The third and final day of the PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest security conference begins today, March 28th at 12:30pm local time (PST) in Vancouver. Yesterday, on day two of the contest, the Ma...
AT&T Readies MediaFLO Mobile TV
AT&T will launch live mobile TV over the MediaFLO network in May, the carrier announced as the U.S. mobile industry prepared for a CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas next week that is likely to put...