U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt
BERKELEY _ When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't co...
Alexa Overhauls Ranking System
Everyone's favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures. — The biggest change is Alexa's decision to drop exclusive reliance on the Al...
How To Put Google Street View To Practical Use
Google Street View can scope out real estate, travel destinations, and even save you from your next parking ticket — all from your desktop, laptop, or smartphone browser. — Google Street View is the...
A new reason to hate Comcast
As long as I've been a customer of Comcast I've been writing how much I wish they'd sell their Internet business to a company that doesn't hate its customers so much. But sometimes you forget, when t...
Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News
As a part of its Rome release, Microsoft's Live Search team has launched Live Search News, a direct competitor to Google News. — At this time, Live Search News looks like a simplified version of Goo...
Asus Eee PC 900
Few could argue that Asus created something special when it launched the Eee PC last year. The idea of making a truly mobile, yet very affordable mobile computer was welcomed by the Press and consume...
Google's paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter?
Google's paid click rate for March grew 2.7 percent in March, a tally that was deemed “anemic” by analysts. — Google's paid clicks have been the most overanalyzed metric of the first quarter, but we...
Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops
This computer rivalry has been elevated to a cultural divide on par with Pepsi versus Coke. Taking it beyond personal taste, PM crunches the numbers—with some surprising results (and detailed benchma...
UK music industry demands an iPod tax (and the law is still an ass)
Out-Law.com reports that: “The UK music industry has rejected the Government's proposal to legalise the transfer of music from CDs to MP3 players without a levy. It has asked for a tax on devices lik...
Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing
SAN FRANCISCO — An e-mail scam aimed squarely at the nation's top executives is raising new alarms about the ease with which people and companies can be deceived by online criminals. — Thousands of ...
Tungle launches meeting time broker
Tungle, launching today, may be the meeting coordination utility to beat. Like TimeBridge, Jiffle, and other products in this new category, it lets you block off a bunch of times for a meeting you wa...
It's Unofficial: Google's a Monopoly (Googolopoly)
We've had our fair share of fun with Google, so we thought you should too. — The best original linkbait we've seen in a while can be found on the Box.net blog. Box.net is a web-based service that l...
PluggedIn Wants to be Hulu For Music Videos
At first glance, music might seem to be a saturated market on the web. Sites like Last.fm have music suggestions, artists profile, and communities covered, the iTunes and Amazon music stores make pur...
Marshall University fails to block RIAA's P2P subpoenas
The music industry's legal campaign against campus P2P activity marked its one-year anniversary in late February, and the RIAA is still at it. The group has sent off another 569 prelitigation settlem...
Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon
A look at Six Apart's Blog It, a tool that lets you manage both blogging accounts and messaging services from a single page. — (Credit: Six Apart) — The Web might have just gotten one step closer ...
Movie rentals still shy of 1,000
There's nothing like an Apple TV software update that compels me to wonder just how that whole iTunes Store rental thing is going. As you may recall, Apple missed its 1,000-rentals-by-the-end-of- Feb...