Craigslist founder: No plans to shut down Erotic Services
In the wake of the murder of Craigslist-advertising masseuse Julissa Brisman, and the arrest of Philip Markoff, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist gave interviews Friday to Martin Bashir o...
Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
On March 18, 2008, Steve Jobs was deposed by the SEC during its investigation of Apple's stock option backdating scandal. The deposition was never made public until Forbes published it on Friday, aft...
‘World of Warcraft’ on an iPhone... For Real?
Most of you have probably seen World of Warcraft-on-iPhone claims/videos/mock-ups before, but this time it looks like it might actually be true. — Someone posted this YouTube video of World of Warcr...
Microsoft: Pre-Mature WDDM 1.1 Drivers Restricting Win 7
If you've missed, the top buzz around Windows 7's leaked RC (build 7100) is on the XP Mode & gaming performance. ZDNet did an article where the charts clearly show that there's hardly any difference ...
Customer Service? Ask a Volunteer
HERE'S the job description: You spend a few hours a day, up to 20 a week, at your computer, supplying answers online to customer questions about technical matters like how to set up an Internet home n...
Why there will be many Twitters
Yesterday I wrote about the Lotus 1-2-3 of twitters, but it may not be obvious why there will be more than one network of networks — so let me explain. — 1. Twitter is growing fast. — 2. Its use a...
Why Email Clients Need to Change
My inbox is broken. — Not in an I-can't-check-my-messages kind of way, but in a fundamental, inboxes-will-never-be-the-same- again kind of way. — With every birthday reminder, bill confirmation, n...
3 of UK Marries Itself to Skype; Shakes Up the Mobile Market
Ever since Skype's iPhone client enabled Skype-to-Skype calls (and send IMs) for free over Wi-Fi, I've been wondering what the next step towards the mobilization of Skype would be. The answer came to...
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones May Become No. 2 At MySpace
One thing MySpace has is a lot of holes in the executive ranks. Founding CEO Chris DeWolfe has been hurriedly replaced by Owen Van Natta (our thoughts on that are well known). But cofounder Tom Ande...
How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style
Last Friday was a hot day in Sebastopol, California. Eran Hammer-Lahav rolled into town hours after finding out that there was a security hole in his pet project for the last few months, a new way to...
Raising Bill Gates
SEATTLE — Spend time with the family of Bill Gates, and eventually someone will mention the water incident. — The future software mogul was a headstrong 12-year-old and was having a particularly nas...
It's time to move beyond those squiggly letter tests that Web sites use to weed out spam.
If only someone had listened to computer scientist Moni Naor in 1996, proving that you're human on the Internet would have been so much more interesting. Naor was among the first to propose …
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground
Twitter's elevation into the mainstream has, predictably, spawned a backlash against the service. To paraphrase the great Yogi Berra, “Nobody uses Twitter anymore; there are too many people using it....
Journalists: Where do you add value?
Every day, with everything they do, the key question for journalists and news organizations in these tight - that is, more efficient - times must be: Are you adding value? And if you're not, why are ...
The full text of Steve Jobs' deposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
On March 18, 2008, attorneys for the Securities and Exchange Commission grilled Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs over issues of backdating of stock options. Forbes obtained the 119-page sworn deposition …