Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won't start now
My former boss, Jim Fawcette, used to say that if you asked a group of Porsche owners what they wanted they'd tell you things like “smoother ride, more trunk space, more leg room, etc.” He'd then say ...
My name is not a URL
Arrington has a post that claims that Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start - users love vanity URLs. — I don't buy it. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the omission o...
For Palm, Some Tough Acts to Follow
COMEBACK stories are irresistibly appealing, in business as well as in sports. But recovering from some strategic mistakes is awfully hard. A case in point is Palm's failure to anticipate the threat...
Hey! Get Off My Name. Username disputes are the domain squatting of the future.
On the heels of WIPO's announcement that domain disputes increased to a record 2,329 cases in 2008 (8% increase from 2007) a much more interesting question is starting to be raised.
Windows Vista Exec's Solo Album Almost As Good As Vista
Former Microsoft (MSFT) Windows executive Jim Allchin, who left the company in early 2007, has had enough time on his hands to release a solo guitar-and-vocals album, “Enigma.” — It hit iTunes on Tu...
Kodak Gallery Joins Parade of Free with Payment Services
My wife's United Airlines frequent flyer miles disappeared one day without us noticing. The equivalent of several hundred dollars of miles went poof because she hadn't flown on the airline or its par...
Smartphones 1, Hackers 0
There were several $10,000 prizes at stake — as well as some free mobile phones — but at the end of the three-day Pwn2Own smartphone hacking contest at the big CamSecWest conference in Vancouver, Brit...
The coming censorship wars
If you thought the most serious threat from internet censorship comes from countries such as China, Pakistan and Iran, you could be in for a shock. — In February last year, Pakistan Telecom began ro...
How Barclays Ensured That Everyone Would See Their Confidential Tax Avoidance Documents
The lawyers never seem to get the fact that some things just aren't that interesting until they try to force people not to talk about them. And that's certainly the case with London headquartered Bar...