HP MediaSmart Home Server may get some competition from Apple
HP this week updated its MediaSmart home server, which has many services Mac users would love to take advantage of. Centralized iTunes music database for the home, picture sharing, even file sharing ...
Vaja Also Hints at iPhone Nano?
Relatively well-known iPhone case manufacturer Vaja has curiously added an “iPhone Nano” listing to their website. The link simply directs you to a form asking you to sign up for information about “t...
Freemium business model case study: AdultFriendFinder ARPU, churn, and conversion rates
A case study for the Freemium business model — There's been a lot written about the Freemium model over the years, particularly from Fred Wilson at AVC. Here'a couple articles I'll recommend on the...
Questions about Vulnerability Claim in Windows Media Player
Happy holidays to everyone. While it's been a snowy holiday season for us in the Pacific Northwest (some of us are still snowed in), the MSRC never closes and we are always working to help keep custo...
Server makers get Goooogled
Elements of Google's most secretive product—its unique PC server design—is beginning to ripple throughout the rest of the industry. — Like many companies with giant Internet data centers, Google use...
Internet Providers Join Broadband Push
President-elect Barack Obama's call to improve the nation's broadband infrastructure has cable and phone company lobbyists maneuvering to get a leg up. — Lawmakers in Congress want a plan that will ...
It's Not How Many Followers You Have That Counts, It's How Many Times You Get Retweeted
Over the weekend a lot of tech bloggers got into a tizzy over a suggestion that Twitter search should rank Tweets by authority, with Tweets from people who have the most followers coming up first.
CES preview: what to expect at the big, not-so-gloomy tech trade show
THE BIGGEST U.S. TECH TRADE SHOW WILL FEATURE EMERGING MARKET TECHNOLOGY, 3-D GLASSES, AND DIGITAL CONTENT, ACCORDING TO SHOW CHIEF GARY SHAPIRO — The International Consumer Electronics Show coming ...
The Dream iPhone Pro
Here's the new iPhone Pro, something that we don't expect at MacWorld 2009 at all. However, we do expect something like this to come at a later date. Why? Because it just makes sense. — Click on ...
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy
This online business model has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money — It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sw...
With a Digital Stereo, Cisco Systems Is Starting a Push Into Home Electronics
Your plumber would like to take you dancing. — Cisco Systems, the dominant provider of the digital pipes that run the Internet, is making a big play in digital entertainment.
Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player
In Battle of the Game Consoles, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox Widen Leads Over Sony's PlayStation — TOKYO — For most of this year, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 videogame console seemed finally to be...
Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name-The Sequel
BoomTown's been just one week gone and yet another goofy, traffic-generating debate “erupts” in the blogosphere, involving the usual suspects. — (Hey, it's Loïc Le Meur and Michael Arrington again, ...
Samsung i8510 Brings Surprise NAM 3G Support
I really can't begin to explain how exciting this is: a new version of the Samsung i8510 has been found on the FCC's website, this time sporting dual-band UMTS (850/1900MHz) with HSDPA. Yes, that mea...
LG introduces 3G HSDPA wrist phone
Korea-based LG has introduced its latest mobile device, the LG-GD910 wrist-phone featuring support for both 3G and HSDPA technology. The user interface is presented through a 1.43-inch color LCD touc...
Next-gen iMac to include new cooling module?
A new family of iMacs due early next year may include a more sophisticated cooling system, hints the latest reports from sources close to the company's Taiwanese manufacturing facilities. — Backtrac...
Cable Repairs Set Back by Second Undersea Break
Efforts to restore normal communications between Europe and Asia have suffered a setback after an important undersea cable broke for a second time, this time at a much greater depth. — Engineers fro...
High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV
Yahoo's Widget Channel software for TVs and video devices shows a link to Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site, stock prices, and an advertisement. Intel, Yahoo, and several partners will show the techn...
Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest
FROM SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP WIRE REPORTS — Sunday was a confusing day for many AT&T mobile phone users throughout the Midwest after a power failure in Michigan caused many people to lose service for m...
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing. — U.S. patent application number 20080319910, published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft's vision of a situation where a “s...