Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank
Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. — A big part of Google's rise to search engine leadership was an algorith...
San Francisco DA discloses city's network passwords
In its bid to protect the city from one computer security risk, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office may very well have created another. — The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamal...
Bomb Blasts Hit Bangalore, Impact to Be Felt in Silicon Valley
Updated at the bottom: Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportat...
Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling
Once FCC Chair Kevin Martin announced his support for sanctions against Comcast, penalties looked inevitable. The two Democrats on the Commission, long supportive of network neutrality, seemed set to...
Android Is For The Masses, iPhone For The Rich
Our network blog last100 has an interesting interview with Nicolas Gramlich, founder of anddev.org - an online community for Android developers. As editor Steve O'Hear notes in his intro, there have ...
Microsoft pledges love and money to open source
OSCON After years of hostility towards Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing (here and here) Microsoft has announced the first in a series of PHP patches - and it's using an FSF license. — Micros...
Italian Prosecutors To Charge Google Execs Over Third-Party Content
Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charg...
Doom'ing The iPhone
While he's best known for creating graphics engines that push systems to their limits, game designer John Carmack is spending a lot of time with mobile gaming these days. — The co-founder of id Soft...
Yahoo: Burn Your DRMed Tracks to CD Now
Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)...
Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. — As James Utzschneider, General Manager of Marketing...
Missing ‘spam king’ kills self, family
BENNETT — Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, “Spam King” Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself. — Sher...
Netflix Announces Q2 2008 Financial Results
Subscribers - 8.4 million Revenue - $337.6 million GAAP Net Income - $26.6 million GAAP EPS - $0.42 per diluted share — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the second quar...
Amazon To Power Upcoming MySpace Music Downloads
The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we've heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the business...
Google's Begun Growing Very Fast
I have just seen a press release (in Russian) issued by Begun, the Russian contextual advertising company recently acquired by Google from Rambler. The ad company reports on the revenue it has receiv...
Speculation over back door in Skype
According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives ...
Celebrity Meter
Are You Internet Famous? Use the Wired Celebrity Meter to find out how big a deal you really are. Our algorithm will dig through your personal pages to find out how many fans are following your onli...
Users OK with ads in streaming TV, not on YouTube uploads
Consumers generally welcome advertising in online video if it will stay free, but they are more receptive to ads in certain types of video than others. The latest data comes from Ipsos MediaCT's ongo...
Users can automatically encrypt Gmail traffic
Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications e-mail by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. — Users already could encrypt communications...