Android on netbooks is BIG money for Google
The guys at VentureBeat succeeded (after only a couple hours) in getting Google's Android operating system to work on an Asus EEEPC 1000H. During their experiment, they stumbled across some interesti...
Top 10 Macworld rumors for 2009
Apple's (AAPL) last Macworld Conference and Expo opens Monday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, but the real action starts Tuesday at 9 a.m. PT (12 noon ET) with senior vice president Phil Schiller's...
Putting The Band Back Together
One of the great things about being in business with serial entrepreneurs is that they have a wealth of talented people they've worked with in past startups to tap into as the company grows. — Some ...
Fewer Bars in More Places: AT&T Network Upgrades Degrade Service for 2G Phones
In an act affecting owners of 2G cell phones on AT&T Mobility's network, including the highly visible, and originally highly expensive first generation iPhone, Open for Business has learned that AT&T ...
Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy
Spotify is a music service that gives users access to a huge library of music, through a lightweight application that looks like a mashup of the best parts of iTunes and Last.fm. Music is streamed, p...
Now for My Next Trick, I'll Turn Brand into Cash
Back in May 2008, I was on top of the world. Viewers were soaring for my newly launched Yahoo show, TechTicker, my book was about to come out and was boasting a beautifully low three-digit Amazon ran...
CatholicGoogle: Your Search Engine For All Things Catholic
CatholicGoogle, a new site based on Google's custom search, is “striving to provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism and provide a safer way for good Catholics...
The Alternative to the iPhone Pro
Knowing that it is very hard that Apple would ever release an iPhone Pro with physical keyboard, Mat Brady from planetmat has sent me another image of a potential accessory. It looks great. — Mat s...
Twitter and the Password Anti-Pattern
I've written about the password anti-pattern before, and have, with regards to Twitter, advocated for the adoption of some form of delegated authentication solution for some while. — It's not as if ...
What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users
That I like FriendFeed and so does Robert Scoble and so do a few thousand other Web-addicted Silicon Valley-centric people doesn't matter very much. That thousands more have signed up to the service ...
The death of Lively and some lessons about complexity
Google's Lively presents us with an interesting scenario. It was literally a checklist of what critics have been saying that virtual environments such as Linden Lab's Second Life absolutely must have...
The Alternative to the iPhone Pro
Knowing that it is very hard that Apple would ever release an iPhone Pro with physical keyboard, Mat Brady from planetmat has sent me another image of a potential accessory. It looks great. — Mat s...
The Secret Origins of Clippy: Microsoft's Bizarre Animated Character Patents
Of all the peculiar ideas that Microsoft has pursued over its almost 34 years in business, I can't think of many that are more inexplicable than its long-standing interest in using animated characters...
Will economy dent Amazon's hiring spree?
Will Amazon.com prove immune to the layoffs gripping the rest of the tech industry? A lot of the speculation at the moment is focused on the Seattle area's other tech giant, Microsoft, which is rumor...
Fisher-Price Kiddie Camera Comes With Fun And A Computer Virus
Jeff says his kid's new toy, a working camera from Fisher-Price, tried to give his computer a virus when he plugged it in! … Well you wouldn't take the leaded paint or the melamine, Jeff. China has t...
Tech Pundits Put Their 2009 Predictions On the Line
The beginning of any year seems to be the best time to make any predictions. — At first glance, it seems like there's no harm in putting out a little list among the glut of year-ends and year-to-com...
JournalSpace blogging platform dies: why you must keep your own backups
It may not have been the largest free blogging platform available, but for anyone who used JournalSpace for their blog the events of the last week were catastrophically significant. — Three days ago...
An FAQ about those Android netbooks
Since our post yesterday about Google's Android platform running on netbooks, we've been asked a lot of questions. Here are the most frequent questions, along with our answers. — Do you think Andro...
The year in IPv4 addresses: almost 200 million served
One of the first things I do every year on the first of January is have a look at what happened with the IP address stockpile during the previous year. We started 2008 with 1,122.85 million unused ad...
Reinventing conservatism, one tweet at a time
Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Much of th...
The Facebook Breastfeeding Debate Continues
Earlier this week we posted about Facebook's ban on breast feeding. The debate has gained a lot of coverage in the media. So much that the CBS early morning show recorded the following segment on th...