Rupert Murdoch's fantasy
“That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,” Rupert Murdoch told a NewsCorp quarterly conference call this week. The story of Murdoch's...
Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX's Savior
Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse of the Kindle DX, Amazon's upcoming E-book reader that has taken the original Kindle's nearly prohibitive $359 price tag and bumped it up to an even more ex...
T-Mobile to Launch Many Android Devices Later This Year
T-Mobile USA is looking to introduce Android-based devices from three different manufacturers, Cole Brodman, chief technology officer of the company, said in a conversation with me earlier today. And...
Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google
CAN a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what users say they want? These questions surfa...
It's time voice mail threw in the towel.
Since March, I've been using Google Voice, the search company's fantastic Web app that gives you a single number to connect all your phones and lets you make rules about who can call which phone when....
An iPhone App Developer's Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them
The creator of iCombat weighed in with his thoughts on newly-popular piracy of iPhone apps with an interesting conclusion: It's not worth the trouble to police the pirates, and they might even prove h...
The Next Age of Discovery
In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures. — ...
Pirate Bay attorney outlines arguments for appeal
The judge had a conflict of interest—that's one argument that will be used in appealing the Pirate Bay verdict, an attorney of one of the defendants told CNET News on Friday. — Peter Sunde, Gottfrid...
Fights In The Google Monopoly Debate Miss Key Points
The noise about whether Google is a monopoly that needs to be controlled continues to ramp up, with Google itself releasing a “charm offensive” set of slides after its lobbying using those slides was ...
Twitterrific Comes Roaring Back Into The iPhone Twitter App Wars
During the past several months, a war has been brewing between Twitter apps for the iPhone. But it's been largely two-sided. You were either in the Twitterfon camp or the Tweetie camp. And if you w...
Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career
Hell hath no fury like a reporter deleted. — I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. — For more than a decade, as you know, ...
Tech Jobs Still Scarce But Layoffs May Be Slowing Down
April proved to be a dismal month for technology sector jobs and overall employment, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Granted, this morning brought sobering news of the U.S. unemplo...