Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill
It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. — A bill that critics say would have given the government...
iPad ‘newspaper’ created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch
Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download — Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, a...
Windows Phone 7 hitting Verizon stores ‘this holiday season,’ according to Microsoft tweet (update)
Looks like Microsoft took Big Red's challenge and decided to respond in kind, as the official Windows Phone Twitter feed claims that Windows Phone 7 devices are finally headed to Verizon.
Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy
I've been playing with a Samsung Tab from Verizon Wireless since November 11th. I will share my impressions of the device in the coming days but in the interim, I wanted to let the world know about h...
Windows @ 25
Today marks the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, since the first version of the product was launched on this day in 1985. (To put this in perspective, I graduated from high school in 1985.) Li...
Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers
Something is up on the Facebook vs. Google data reciprocity front. It looks like Facebook is removing Gmail from the list of third party email providers on “Find Friends”, whereas we were seeing dir...
Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole
See Updates at bottom of post. — Facebook would probably just consider this a feature, but the rest of us will definitely consider this a big security hole. The creator of http://guntada.blogspot.c...
The anti-bubble of 2001-2004
Us old timers remember 2001-2004 when anything related to the internet was ridiculed as a ponzi scheme. The conventional wisdom was no internet company would ever make money and all the ideas of the ...
New Twitter Now Showing Full Conversations In The Side Pane
A couple days ago, we noted that Twitter was back on the new feature charge with the new People area they're testing out. Well, make it two-for-two, as yesterday they rolled out another new feature —...