Brittany Murphy's Death & Google's Real Time Search Results
The death of actress Brittany Murphy is probably the first test for Google's new real time search results. Earlier this year, when Michael Jackson died, it took several minutes for the news to make i...
Exclusive: Justin.tv to Launch Pay-Per-View Service
Justin.tv, the big live Web video site, which says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire net...
RSS Reader Market in Disarray, Continues to Decline
One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. I fo...
Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL ‘Weekend Update’ joke status
“It was reported this week that Google would soon launch its own cellphone as a challenge to the iPhone. Also a challenge to the iPhone? Making phone calls.” — Cue uproarious applause. — Update:...
To Deal With Obsession, Some Defriend Facebook
Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, cl...
How James Cameron's Innovative New 3D Tech Created Avatar
Director James Cameron is known for his innovations in movie technology and ambitions to make CG look and feel real. His next film, Avatar, will put his reputation to the test. Can Cameron make blue...
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha leaks: Windows 7 integration, per-tab private browsing
While version 10.5 has not been released yet by Opera officially, there's a pre-alpha build that has been turned loose by someone. It seems legit enough: help -> about reports that the browser is ver...
In the E-mail Era, Who Owns the Interview?
Some time ago I was interviewed via e-mail for an article and, as I often do, after providing answers to the nine questions, I asked the following: “Mind if I republish these answers in full on my blo...
The World Has Changed. Is Jigsaw Still Evil?
In 2006 I was horrified by Jigsaw, a website that encouraged users to upload people's contact information (often from business cards) for money - $1 per contact. Other people then bought that contact...
Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release....
O2 to buy Israel's Jajah for $200 mln -report
Israeli start-up Jajah, which allows users to make international phone calls via the Internet, will be sold to Telefonica's (TEF.MC) mobile phone unit O2 this week, TheMarker financial news website sa...
How to Get Free Inflight Wi-Fi This Holiday Season
Holiday travel can be a tiresome experience. If you want to relax with a little Wi-Fi on the plane, MyMoneyBlog.com has compiled a list of the codes you can use to get free internet access during you...
As the Going Gets Tough, Nokia Brings Out Its Legal Guns
BERLIN — When Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, sued Apple, Samsung, LG and eight other competitors within six weeks beginning in October, the Finnish technology giant said it was conduct...
Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone
(This isn't a product review, it's a big-picture overview brought to you from the universe of “Halting State”.) — It shouldn't be news to anyone that smartphones — as a category — really took off in...
New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
Growing up in the '70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to the collar. — “I was constantly...
Store set to be apple of master's eye
In 2007 Steve Jobs launched the iPhone with a fanfare of fiery rhetoric. — The iPhone, Apple's chief executive claimed, was three “revolutionary” devices in one. Combining a touch-controlled iPod m...