Using Microsoft, Russia Suppresses Dissent
IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff wi...
Google buying second Israeli startup: Quiksee
Google is buying its second Israeli startup: Quiksee, based in Or Yehuda. The deal is estimated at $10 million. — Both Google Israel and Quiksee refused to comment. — Quiksee, also known as Mento...
As “Instant” Services Proliferate, Instantise Gives Them All A Home
Yesterday I wrote about how all web services could possibly be more useful with some “Instantization”; Scottish engineer Tam Denholm had the very same idea, and built Instantise to house the recent ou...
Leaked: Acer Laptop with Dual Touchscreens
From one of our sources, we have received pictures of a laptop from Acer that is currently in development. It has two touch screens, one as the laptop's display and one as the keyboard/trackpad. In ...
Go That Way, Really Fast
When it comes to running Stack Overflow, the company, I take all my business advice from one person, and one person alone: Curtis Armstrong. — More specifically, Curtis Armstrong as Charles De Mar f...
Entelligence: Will carriers destroy the Android vision?
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech.
How Google Reader and RSS beat Twitter in some cases
Scoble and myself had another argument a few days ago about reading RSS feeds. Robert argues that no-one should read any feeds anymore outside of Twitter and Facebook, the rest is useless (right?) wh...
Google Arrogance? I've Never Seen Them So Humble
Mike Elgan criticizes Google for being condescending in a recent column on one of the dead tree IT rags. His first point is that Google PR exec Gabriel Stricker started off a recent press conference ...
Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow
BLACK-AND-WHITE movies have their film noir appeal, yet it's glowing color that rules on most consumer displays these days, with one exception: the pages of e-book readers. There, color is still supp...
Is there really any value to 3-year smartphone forecasts?
We get quarterly reports from different analysts for past smartphone performance and then every once in a while we see reports predicting smartphone performance in the future. After looking more clos...
The “Verizon iPhone” Versus “The iPhone On Verizon's Network”
If you think back to 2005, you'll remember that the Motorola RAZR phone was all the rage. Not entirely unlike the iPhone today, it was the sleek phone that everyone wanted. But if you happened to be...
Windows Phone running ZuneHD2 confirmed in Microsoft job post?
Even with all the Windows Phone news around, it seems it is still worth keeping an eye on Microsoft's job board. — it appears the Entertainment and Devices Division is looking for a Hardware Enginee...