Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti
The secret life of Dr Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour. — Her identity has been one of the gr...
Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
There's been a swine flu of stupidity spreading about the Murdoch meme of blocking Google from indexing a site's content (to which Google always replies that you've always been able to do that with ro...
Android 2.0 source released, already ported to the G1
While Android 2.0 has been floating around on Motorola DROIDs for over a week now, one important chunk of it has been under lock-and-key: the source. Even amongst manufacturing partners, we're told, ...
The growing value of URLs you can easily spell out in dead bodies
Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I've seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.You see, it's quite hard, in-game, to spam people with commercial me...
Core i7-Based 27" iMac Benchmarks Show Significant Improvements
The delivery of the Core i7-based iMacs have generated the usual discussion threads about unboxing, impressions and benchmarks. The performance of the high-end iMacs have been of particular interest ...
Blogging moms wooed by food firms
As food makers lavish trips and goodies on parenting bloggers, critics see a shrewd marketing ploy. — Andrea Deckard, a stay-at-home mom in Monroe, Ohio, points to a post on her Mommy Snacks blog. ...
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington.
I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about t...
Verizon Won't Offer Free Tethering But Droid Hackers Might (Updated)
Updated 8 p.m. EDT: Google has released the source code for Android 2.0, according to Android developer Cyanogen. — In TV ads, Verizon is trying to sell its new Google-powered phone by highlighting ...
DNS Problem Linked to DDoS Attacks Gets Worse
Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet's DNS (domain name system), making it easier for hackers to launch distribute...
Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?
HERE'S a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies' labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Econom...
Droid experiencing external speaker problems, could be a software issue?
It's no reason to panic just yet, but apparently a good amount of people are having trouble with the external speaker on their Motorola Droid cutting out for no reason. It seems to be software-relate...
Ballad of a Windows 7 fanboy
Most kids in talent shows dance or play instruments. Fifth-grader Will Smith made a musical pitch for Windows 7 instead. — After seeing this video on YouTube yesterday afternoon, I almost didn't be...
Microsoft's Loss, Google's Gain. Don Dodge Gets A New Job
It was just 11 days ago that Microsoft's “ambassador to startups” Don Dodge was laid off as part of a broader workforce reduction. Last week he showed up in Silicon Valley to “see friends” as he put ...
Brightcove Intros Entry-Level Pricing With Latest Platform Update
Brightcove is releasing the latest version of its software today with a slew of new features, such as support for live video streaming and mobile distribution, improved encoding and analytics.