New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes
I'm seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that's ho...
Is Wonderwall Gonna Be the One That Saves MSN?
In an interesting and innovative move compared to what has typically been less-than-hip online programming over the years, Microsoft's MSN service is debuting a slick new celebrity site called Wonderw...
Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios
On the day last July when “The Dark Knight” arrived in theaters, Warner Brothers was ready with an ambitious antipiracy campaign that involved months of planning and steps to monitor each physical cop...
New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes
I'm seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that's ho...
China's Lenovo Fires American CEO
Chinese computer-maker Lenovo will replace its American CEO William J. Amelio as his three-year contract expires. Chairman Yang Yuanqing will take the CEO seat and Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi will re...
Recreating the button
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we've been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other cust...
‘We simply have to suffer,’ says Sony
For a man whose employer has just recorded its worst Christmas in years, David Reeves seems surprisingly calm. Indeed, speaking last Thursday, the day Sony announced third-quarter losses of Y18bn (£1...
UAC Feedback and Follow-Up
When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious. The unease is because at some point we knew we would mess up. We weren't sure if we would mess u...
Malware Scam Parks Itself on Cars
We've heard a lot about savvy attackers marrying both physical and online tactics as part of their efforts to increase the levels of social engineering going into their nefarious schemes. — Now some...
Woz goes enterprise storage; Becomes chief scientist at Fusion-io
Steve Wozniak, best known for creating Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, has a new gig now: Chief scientist at Fusion-io, an enterprise storage company. Wozniak had been an advisor to the company.
Google Latitude shows what's wrong with Nokia's social location (SoLo) strategy
If the next frontier is mobile, a key battle ground is going to be location-based services. And, drilling down further, location-based social networking, such as the ability to share your current loc...
Shush! Samsung Acme i8910 is Leaked
Be the first to hear it here, as we have exclusive leaked photos sent to Gaj-It showing Samsungs latest addition to their eclectic portfolio of mobile phones. This new, but very ‘hush hush’ arrival i...
Time to move on
I have now departed from Sun and joined my own company, Monty Program Ab. — There were a lot of rumors around me resigning in August/September last year. I didn't back then want to comment on the r...
Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market
Last week, a commercial Twitter spamming tool (tweettornado.com) pitching itself as a “fully automated advertising software for Twitter” hit the market, potentially empowering phishers, spammers, mal...
Netflix movie downloads are a success on Xbox 360
Microsoft said today that more than a million Xbox 360 users have downloaded the Netflix application via Xbox Live since the alliance was launched in November. — In less than three months, Xbox Live...
Mobile Restaurant Ordering (Finally) Hits The App Store
In the last week, a pair of new iPhone applications have appeared on the App Store that put the menus of hundreds of restaurants at users' fingertips. Dubbed GrubHub and CityMint, both applications a...
Letting Google Take Your Pulse
Search giant rolls out service allowing Web surfers to remotely monitor medical devices. — Google is the Web's king of data collection, aggregating details from users' search queries, e-mail, even p...
IBM's Palmisano: Tech's slumdog millionaire
IBM's cruel layoff options: Take a job in the Third World and lose your severance, move within the United States at your expense, or lose both your job and severance — Meet Sam Palmisano, bozo of th...
YouTube: ‘Popular’ no longer means the thing everyone's watching
In the latest in a series of moves away from its early, freewheeling roots, YouTube has quietly changed the default filter on its highly trafficked main video page from “Most Viewed” to something call...
Video Chats Overcome Clunkiness
When AT&T demonstrated its video telephone at the 1964 World's Fair, everyone — including AT&T — pretty much figured that it would be the future. People wouldn't just hear each other over the phone —...
The case for supporting and using Mono
Novell's open-source .Net clone is alive and well, and it's turning up in surprising, useful places. — You may remember Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net platform spearheaded ...
Mozilla Phone developer seeks your input
Designer/editor Billy May has been working with Mozilla Labs on developing “a conceptual ‘Mozilla Phone,’” he writes. “I thought it would be interesting to work this project out in the open and thoug...
Ars Technica's tech policy “People to Watch” 2009
With a new, tech-savvy US administration in power, Ars Technica and Tech Policy Central team up to profile the top names in tech policy for 2009. — With Barack Obama in the White House, the US has a...
Android: One Multitasking Operating System
Former Apple designer Mark Hamblin is tinkering with Google and partners' Android so it can work in a slew of gadgets other than wireless phones — When Google (GOOG) and its partners first unveiled ...