Shooting to Software Stardom on the iPhone
MITCHELL WAITE could think of only one reason that Apple's legal department would leave a voice message last February asking him to call back: he was about to be sued. Mr. Waite has a tiny software c...
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla'...
Video: Sony's PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go
Look up there, folks. That's the future of Sony's hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector. With just hours to go before the company's official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces ar...
Detailed Notes From CEO Armstrong's All-Hands Meeting for AOL Staff Today
After officially announcing that AOL was going to be spun off yesterday, Tim Armstrong, the CEO of the Time (TWX) Warner online unit, held an all-hands meeting for employees today.
Finding New Employees, via Social Networks
ALAN KENNEDY, 54, had never used social networking sites until he was laid off from his job as an engineer last November. Then he did what many job seekers are now advised to do: he set up profiles o...
Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters
Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engi...
In San Francisco, Homeless Stay Wired
Mr. Pitts Lacks a Mailing Address But He's Got a Computer and a Web Forum — SAN FRANCISCO — Like most San Franciscans, Charles Pitts is wired. Mr. Pitts, who is 37 years old, has accounts on Facebo...
Lights! Camera! Inaction!
Anyone who has followed fantasy football or an eBay auction at the office — and gotten away with it — knows that many of our everyday activities now look like work. Typing and scrolling and peering a...
Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for the United States
MELBOURNE, Fla. — The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. — The exotic nature of the ...
The NAA's secret meeting
Newspaper execs gathered in Chicago this week in a not-so-secret meeting to discuss their mutual problem — a collective southbound bottom line. Staci Kramer has an excellent summary including informa...
Live: Wordcamp 2009
The following is a live blog. Beware of spelling errors, and lots of photos. Enjoy. — Wordcamp is a conference about blogging and developing the future of the best blogging platform. Wordpress fo...
Are we NUTS?
We've had lots of questions about our numbers for email advertising — $12 billion - being wildly higher than other tracking companies' numbers. For instance, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, throu...
Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain
Today, the Criminal Court of Pamplona ruled that a man didn't break any laws by downloading thousands of movies and an undetermined number of songs. The defendant was acquitted of copyright infringem...
Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days
Beating Spore's download rate so far — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — So much for Electronic Arts' open palm approach to video game piracy. The game maker nixed its draconic...
EU may mandate multiple browser bundling with new PCs
According to The Wall Street Journal, the EU is considering forcing Windows users to choose a browser to download and install before they can first browse the Internet. — The Wall Street Journal (su...
Yahoo adds Google Suggest developer to labs
Yahoo has snagged a Googler, adding Yoelle Maarek from Google's Haifa Engineering Center to its ranks. — The company announced Friday that Maarek would be joining Yahoo Labs as co-leader of Yahoo's ...