Exclusive: Belkin's Development Rep is Hiring People to Write Fake Positive Amazon Reviews
(Update: Welcome to Slashdot, Digg, Engadget, Gizmodo readers! The latest is, I've heard from Belkin's public relations department and I am expecting a formal comment to come out from them relatively...
Napster Warns Subscribers That Best Buy Will Have Access To All Data Unless They Cancel By Feb. 17
Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) subscribers using the service after Feb. 17 will be giving the gift of data to Best Buy. In an “important announcement” sent to subscribers this morning …
Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys?
Danny asks a very good question here: … Well, my answer is simple: Competition. — The reason there is not a “Twitter search” from Yahoo or Google is because both companies want to own Twitter, or at...
Boxee, Used to View Web on TV, Generates Buzz
Piping Internet video into a television seems as if it should be simple — after all, a screen is a screen. But consumer electronics and media companies have been moving toward that combination with p...
Tricky Windows Worm Wallops Millions
A sneaky computer worm that uses a virtual Swiss army knife of attack techniques has infected millions of Microsoft Windows PCs, and appears to be spreading at a fairly rapid pace, security experts wa...
Hulu CEO: “We screwed up royally”
Great apology note from Hulu's CEO [via DF]: … Mistakes happen. It's how you handle them that really matters.
Intel's Barrett on Paranoia, the Core Craze and the End of Gigahertz
At first, Intel chairman Craig Barrett struck me as a testy old dude. — This would be fair, considering his company was about to announce a sudden 90% plunge in profits. So it's understandable that...
RIAA Scared of Court Case Webcast
RIAA court cases are few and far between. The cost of attorneys usually makes hiring one a costly alternative in comparison to the settlement money that they ask from alleged infringers. Thus far, o...
Inauguration
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office, history will be unfolding. If you are one of the millions attending the inauguration, you can help document those seconds of history through our special iR...
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bit security
In addition to the benefits detailed in previous articles in this series, the move to 64-bits in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will enhance Apple's efforts to secure its operating system. — Over the la...
Netscape Enterprise Server, Now Open Source
Last year when Sun acquired MySQL I did a tour of a few of the campuses meeting different engineers to see what they did with Sun. At some point last year I met up with a group in Menlo Park who had ...