In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors
Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors — REDMOND, Wash. — April 5, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Direc...
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over
In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service. ...
Quake 3 for iPod Touch / iPhone
The time has finally come. Games like Quake 3 are hitting the iPhone platform. It is particularly cool to see the accelerometers being used to control the action. — Bonus points for controlling 2 ...
The Phorm “Webwise” System
Last week I spent several hours at Phorm learning how their advertising system works — this is the system that is to be deployed by the UK's largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to ...
Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks
San Francisco based Powerset will be publicly launching a long-awaited beta version of the service in the coming weeks, the company told me yesterday. They are working on a new kind of search engine ...
Coming soon: superfast internet
THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. — At speeds about 1...
Kinder, Gentler C&Ds Please
I'm getting some well-deserved flak for a ham-handed cease-and-desist email I sent to a blogger recently. The dialogue had remained cordial until he revealed his business model - running deceptive te...
Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV...and 3G iPhone in 2 months!
Walt Mossberg talks about how the US cable companies and DSL providers are screwing the US over with tricks and slow speeds.... (Yah, you know you can get 100Mb Fiber in France for €50/month?)