Humans central in Spinvox patents
The voicemail-to-text service Spinvox has applied for two patents which describe the service as being operated by humans, the BBC has learned. — Spinvox has previously claimed that state-of-the-art ...
Big Content: ludicrous to expect DRMed music to work forever
When Wal-Mart announced in 2008 that it was pulling down the DRM servers behind its (nearly unused) online music store, the Internet suffered a collective aneurysm of outrage, eventually forcing the r...
Mint.com data: Economy may be bouncing back
Economic forecasts? National numbers on consumer spending? Who needs them when we've got user data from personal finance site Mint.com? — Okay, so we're not talking about data that represents the ...
Roger McNamee: Judgment Day
“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” Elevation Partners (which owns a huge portion of Palm) co-founder Roger McNamee told Bl...
World's first tablet PC
Singapore firm launches touchscreen tablet computer — A SINGAPORE company is racing to be the first in the world to bring an almost mythical creature - the touchscreen tablet computer - to the marke...
Send mail from another address without “on behalf of”
Quite a few of you use Gmail's custom “From:” to send messages with one of your other email addresses listed in place of your Gmail address. Since these messages are sent by Gmail's servers but “from...
The New MySpace Mail Quietly Emerges As A Big-Time Email Competitor
We've been covering the new web email project MySpace has been working on in stealth mode for the past several month. Now it's ready to begin a quiet rollout today, in beta, for users around the glob...
Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework
An Orwellian gaffe involving the Kindle e-book reader just won't go down the memory hole for Amazon.com. … On Thursday, a Chicago-based law firm filed a suit in federal court in Seattle against Amazon...