Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups
The following is reprinted from Jason's List, Jason Calacanis's email newsletter. Sign up here. — (The) Startup Depression — Since stock market gyrations and the elections seem to be making every...
Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server
only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans — Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repayin...
My Blackberry As A Bomb Sniffer?
Expensive radiation detectors may not be as effective as widely distributed chips in cell phones. — From the magazine issue dated Oct 6, 2008 — What do bananas, smoke alarms, toilets and large gra...
Rumor: Is the Apple TV being replaced?
We just got an e-mail from an anonymous Apple reseller, stating that they received an e-mail from Apple with instructions to remove all Apple TV displays and literature and to destroy them (which I as...
The Google Hive Mind
As Google turns 10 years old, that important birthday sees the company more powerful than ever before. With its competitors in disarray, the Big G seems likely to grow even further. The secret to it...
CONGRESSIONAL EMERGENCY!!!
Listeners we need your help... NOW! — After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, artists and record companies are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and ...
IP bill passes Senate, no civil enforcement power for DoJ
The PRO-IP Act, which would ramp up enforcement of intellectual property laws and stiffen penalties for infringers, won approval by unanimous consent in the Senate Friday—but only after legislators st...
The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List
This is my hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding. All of these point to FriendFeed. If you know someone who deserves to be on this list...
Lenovo IdeaPad S10 dissected
When some people get a new computer, the first thing they do is install their favorite applications, tweak the operating system, or even replace Windows with Linux or OS X. Others? They rip it apart ...
Hands-on with the Asus N10 gaming netbook
We posted a short piece about Asus' new N-Series laptops yesterday, along with a short video showing the N20 Centrino 2 model. To recap, this is a low-cost range of four models (at the moment) produc...
Oops: WSJ.com Ad Calls McCain Win Before Debate
Journal blames clerical error — This morning, before Senator John McCain even agreed to attend tonight's debate, a Web ad paid for by the McCain campaign appeared alongside a Wall Street Journal art...
Myth-busting and the Yahoo!-Google agreement
There's been a lot of speculation swirling around about the Yahoo!-Google agreement. We hear everything from the claim that Yahoo! and Google will be fixing prices to the prediction that the agreemen...
AT&T's Pantech Matrix gets viewed and spec'd
Hated the Pantech Duo but loved the form-factor? Well, AT&Tizzle is looking to grab you as a potential customer with the Pantech Matrix. It uses the same dual-slide mechanism as the Duo, but sadly r...
New clickjacking affects all browsers; cause remains unknown
Jeremiah Grossman and Robert “Rsnake” Hansen initially planned to reveal details on a new browser-agnostic clickjacking exploit at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) in New York City th...