Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo
The most powerful feature of Wikipedia is that anyone can edit any page at any time. This feature has allowed everyone to get involved, even if their contribution is bad. The brilliance of this move...
Phoenix to Earthlings: I've Landed! Awesome!
@infoholic Yup, I can dig into frozen ground as hard as concrete. The scoop has special blades and a powered “rasp” to scrape ice. Cool! — Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at so...
Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend?
IF you reach me on my cellphone when I'm home, I always ask, “Can I call you back on my landline?” Then we enjoy a crystal-clear connection, and I say to myself, “Nothing matches POTS,” or Plain Old ...
Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies
The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years: — Multicore and hybrid processors — Virtualization an...
Google To Launch Large Scale Geo-Services
Our sister publication Techcrunch UK noticed that a Location services API had been added to Google Gears. The developers behind Gears have been plotting out future API additions for a while, and thos...
Teens say they were banned from Apple stores for life, company denies it
Four Palo Alto teenagers raised in the heart of Silicon Valley got the scare of their lives when they thought they might be banished from all Apple stores worldwide, for life. — Their crime, the tee...
Understanding Amazon Web Services
There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a trad...
Billboards That Look Back
In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything — how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Interne...
Clerical error exposes Google as anonymous eBay critic
Screen grab of the submission to the ACCC showing Google's “fingerprints”. — The Australian competition watchdog has accidentally revealed Google as the anonymous source of a submission that is high...
From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All
SAN DIEGO — Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated. The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murd...
Subnotebook vs. UMPC vs. Netbook: WTF Is the Difference?
When Blam broke the news on Dell's mini Inspiron, there was one he was stuck on: How to categorize it. Is it a subnotebook? A UMPC? A netbook? (Knowing the specs might have helped, but probably no...
Radiohead to Prince: Unblock ‘Creep’ cover videos
Radiohead tells Prince to unblock videos of his ‘Creep’ cover from Coachella — NEW YORK (Associated Press) - After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's “Creep” at Coachella, the tens of thous...
Motorola Adventure V750 is rugged
Motorola V750 is one of the two new devices planned to be launched this summer along with the introduction of Verizon's new PTT service. We pretty much already knew all the specs and have images of t...
Bell Canada hit with class-action throttling lawsuit
Bell Canada is facing a class-action lawsuit as a result of its Internet access policies, an announcement reveals. A Quebec group called L'Union des consommateurs, along with Bell customer Myrna Raph...