Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can't Grasp
One day last summer, Google's search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may s...
Everyone Loves Google, Until It's Too Big
THE popularity of Google's search engine in the United States just grows and grows. In the past three years, its market share gains have even been accelerating, making some people wonder whether the ...
Report: Steve Jobs has logged off
It takes him nine paragraphs to get to it, but there's a nugget of Apple (AAPL) news in Robert X. Cringely's latest column, “Where's Steve?,” published Saturday. — Cringely, the pen name of former I...
Microsoft hopes to train 2 million in basic tech skills
Microsoft Corp. said Sunday that in response to the economic crisis it would sponsor an initiative to help train up to two million people in basic technology skills. — Pamela Passman, Microsoft's co...
CBS, Last.fm Deny Passing User Data To RIAA; Some Users Delete Accounts
The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a “giant dump” of user data to the RIAA. The music org was sai...
Andreessen in realtime
At a time when many people are saying innovation is dead along with the economy as we knew it, I can't help but feel the hot breath of a surge in the power of the network. As Marc Andreessen reminds ...
The AP's “hot news” lawsuit lives on; are scoops “quasi-property?”
A New York federal judge ruled Tuesday that The Associated Press can sue its competitors not merely for copyright infringement, but for a “quasi property” right in the news known as the “hot news” doc...
Of course worms can enter the net, that's the whole point
Many years ago, a friend who was then a Times foreign correspondent was assigned to a domestic story - the arrest of the Chief Constable of Brighton on charges of corruption. As with most such storie...