| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.05.2009 | Apple Readying Netbook Charge | An Apple netbook makes sense from so many perspectives that it's impossible to believe this isn't the direction Apple is taking.
Netbooks are smaller, lighter and inexpensive versions of laptop notebooks, a trick that is achieved by substit... |
| 20.03.2009 | SAP, Oracle Scrambling For GRC Dollars | SAP and Oracle both announced new components for their growing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology suit in the past 10 days.
GRC applications are typically sold to public and large privately held companies, especially those ope... |
| 08.12.2008 | Mobile to make 2012 Olympics more bloody exciting | Looking to improve upon spectators’ experiences and interactions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, event organizers have joined forces with British Telecom to create a comprehensive mobile strategy for the Games.
Possible applications ... |
| 24.10.2008 | The Flackenhack Awards flogs off IT journalists on eBay | The Flackenhacks, the anti-awards for the UK tech PR and media industry, is taking the unprecedented step of auctioning off the cream -- some of it sour -- of the nation's IT journalistic community on eBay.
The Adopt-A-Hack scheme has two a... |
| 23.10.2008 | Yes, the Toshiba Portégé R600 is really light at 800g | What better way to make your commodity product stand out than by adding some fins? Of course, the laptop equivalent of adding fins is to make them thinner and lighter than the previous generation. That’s just what Toshiba did with its Porté... |
| 13.10.2008 | Roundup: Amazon vs eBay, YouTube search ads, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Amazon is like Apple, eBay is like Microsoft — Or at least that’s the tech-industry analogy that comes to mind when reading this piece about the increasingly competitive battle between the two e-commerce giants.
“B... |
| 12.08.2008 | Roundup: MySpace struggles to find music CEO, feds prosecute hacker network that stole tens of millions of credit card numbers | Here’s the latest action:
MySpace’s search for a new CEO to run its music joint venture is hitting some snags — Current chief Chris DeWolfe is busy dating Paris Hilton. But the Fox-owned company is still looking to hire a new chief as the d... |
| 12.08.2008 | India: Dell to announce subnotebook in Delhi tomorrow | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Dell has been rumored to planning a release of a subnotebook or netbook for a long time now, and a new rumor may be right on th... |
| 26.07.2008 | Week in Storage: Cloud storage fumbles, tape sets records | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The Server Room, Ars Technica's community for IT professionals, is sponsored by Dell's Future of Storage. This article is part ... |
| 17.07.2008 | Is the pay-per-download model dead? | With Amazon Unbox reverting to a streaming video service, is the concept of pay-per-download dead?
Digital Digital wrote an article today discussing how Amazon Unbox is reverting a streaming video service instead of a pay-per-download metho... |
| 01.07.2008 | Tech Companies Indulge in Patent Troll PR | Verizon, Google, Cisco, Telefon AB, Ericsson, and HP are among a group of high tech companies planning to buy important IP before patent trolls snap them up, as the Wall Street Journal reports. But is this a real concern, or corporate spin?... |
| 05.06.2008 | This Just In: People like Facebook and YouTube | Almost 40 percent of 18 to 24 year-old office workers said that they would consider leaving their jobs if their access to Facebook and other popular web sites was blocked from their work computers.
The survey was given to 1,000 office worke... |
| 05.06.2008 | In-game advertisements coming to Sony PS3 | Sony has selected IGA Worldwide as its first partner to provide dynamic in-game advertisements for PlayStation 3 games, with an initial focus on the frequently delayed MMO undertaking called Home.
Within Home, the company says the simulated... |
| 30.04.2008 | Adobe to Publish Flash File Format Specs | Adobe is today announcing the “Open Screen Project” which will seek to create a consistent runtime environment for rich media across a myriad of devices. In other words, Flash on the web, mobile, desktop, television, and other consumer elec... |
| 03.04.2008 | Brain Surgeon Announces That Mobile Phones Cause Cancer… But Without Any New Research | Every so often, somewhere, a research report comes out claiming that mobile phones cause cancer only to be followed a few months later by the latest research report claiming that mobile phones don’t cause cancer. It goes back and forth and ... |
| 07.03.2008 | Norwegian teen wins contest to send MP3s into space | In order to promote its Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the European Space Agency held a contest last summer. The rules were simple; send in a playlist of ten songs to load onto an MP3 player that the un-manned ATV would fly up to astrona... |
| 08.02.2008 | Microsoft offers Outlook BCM without Office | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 31.01.2008 | Security threats are gender-equal, but men think they rock | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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When it comes to online security, everyone thinks they're an expert. Especially
men, it seems, as a new "report" fund... |
| 30.01.2008 | Men Overconfident About How Secure They Are Online | This probably won’t come as much of a surprise, but a new study shows that guys are much more likely than women to overestimate how secure their computers really are. The truth, however, is that both men and women are usually equally vulner... |
| 07.12.2007 | 56.com aims to become YouTube of China, raises $20M | updated
While YouTube ran away with the video-sharing crown in the United States, the race is still heated in China, the world’s second largest Internet market and fastest-growing.
There, two leaders are fighting it out, Tudou.com and 56.co... |
| 03.12.2007 | Facebook Loses Attempt To Remove Court Documents From The Web | Last week, Facebook got slammed as people realized that its “Beacon” advertising solution was a lot more intrusive in terms of revealing private info than had been previously believed — leading some partners like Coca-Cola and Overstock to ... |
| 16.11.2007 | Forget Apple: Microsoft is Vista's own worst enemy | According to Forrester Research, Vista’s biggest obsticle to adoption isn’t Linux or even OS X, it’s Windows XP. And they’re right.
Vista still isn’t ready for desktops. Or servers. Or, well, anything. It’s a bloated OS, there’s no doubt ab... |
| 09.10.2007 | Microsoft Can't Resist: Ramps Up FUD On Linux Patent Pressure Again | Apparently, Microsoft’s new strategy against open source is to keep repeating over and over again that open source software violates patents. This is a practice the company started years ago, and repeated earlier this year, with Microsoft e... |
| 28.09.2007 | Q&A: Google’s Andy Tian on China’s mobile market | China has 516 million mobile subscribers, the most in the world. It dwarfs India’s 201 million.
We recently spoke with Andy Tian (pictured), who is in charge of Google’s strategic mobile partnerships in China.
Google has decided to do busin... |
| 27.09.2007 | NLPC Continues Bogus Campaign Against Google Video | Back in July, the National Legal and Policy Council put out a headline grabbing report about how (gasp!) there was copyrighted content on Google Video. We blasted the study for a variety of points that the folks at NLPC either didn’t unders... |
| 25.09.2007 | Amazon Finally Launches MP3 Download Store; Pricing Still Wrong | It’s been rumored for ages, but Amazon has finally launched its MP3 download store, hyping up the fact that it’s DRM-free. Amazon had gone back and forth on this idea for a while, at one point apparently considering teaming up with Apple on... |
| 03.09.2007 | More Next-Gen iPod Details | A “reliable” source has just notified vnunet.com that Wednesday’s iPod’s are expected to have digital radio and the ability to purchase songs directly from iTunes via WiFi. Being able to buy tracks as you hear them is a welcomed improvement... |
| 31.08.2007 | Social networks struggle for ads… VoIP too insecure… Nokia takes on iTunes | Social networks struggle for ads
VoIP too insecure
Nokia takes on iTunes
Quote of the day Social networkers struggle for ads
Despite their rapidly growing popularity, many social networking sites are still taking baby steps when it comes to... |
| 28.08.2007 | Unlocked iPhones highlight DMCA absurdities | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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As of late 2006, cell phone unlocking became legal in the US, but don't tell that to AT&T; the company has unleashed the la... |
| 24.08.2007 | No Linux For You: Pirate Must Get Comfy With Windows | Five months in prison for downloading Star Wars Episode III — that seems a little harsh, doesn’t it? Scott McCausland got just that plus he was ordered to replace his Ubuntu Linux operating system with a Windows-based system to ensure compa... |
| 16.08.2007 | Where's The Beef? EA Delays OS X Titles | Months after EA and Jobs made love on the WWDC stage, consumers have yet to see any of the games that EA promised. Titles like Madden ’08 and Battlefield 2142 are supposed to be coming to OS X, but have yet to surface. Now things are gettin... |
| 02.08.2007 | Two Airlines Move Ahead With In-Flight Internet Plans | One of the many modern tech myths seems to be the idea that in-flight internet access is guaranteed to be a success, even though this has proven not to be the case. The supposed demand for the service among travelers hasn’t been enough to o... |
| 30.07.2007 | Gartner Predicts Mobile E-mail Will Overtake SMS by 2010 | By 2010 a fifth of all e-mail could be wireless. So says a study by analyst firm Gartner, which predicts that 20% of all e-mail will be accessed wirelessly. This rise will see e-mail take over from other messaging services including text me... |
| 18.07.2007 | How Strategic Acquisitions Go Awry | The software space has seen quite a bit of consolidation over the last few years, with Oracle’s aggressive acquisition spree standing out. Just today it announced the purchase of yet another company, this time in the security space. IBM has... |
| 17.07.2007 | EU to Announce Standard for Mobile TV | One of the upsides for bringing all the nations of Europe under a single banner is that we’ve managed to see a (mostly) continental-wide currency, easier access between countries and more consistent standards when it comes to technology. OK... |
| 05.07.2007 | Belgium Says ISPs Must Protect Copyright | A court in Belgium has ruled that an Internet Service Provider bears the responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. Although the ruling was made in Belgium, it relies on the E.U. copyright directive and may set precede... |
| 05.07.2007 | Another day, another European iPhone carrier | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Friday there was a story that Vodafone, T-Mobile, and Carphone Warehouse would distribute the iPhone in the UK, and that this w... |
| 29.05.2007 | Nissan Warns Drivers: Don't Put Mobile Phones Near Our Keys | Nissan is going around warning a bunch of US drivers of either the Nissan Altima or the Infiniti G35 to be careful with their mobile phones. However, it’s not, as you might expect, about driving while using those mobile phones. Nope. It’s a... |
| 03.05.2007 | English software pirate forced to take out ?name and shame? ad | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Thanks to the European Union's Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive, an English software counterfeiter has been forced t... |
| 02.05.2007 | Microsoft: Security was priority for Office 2007 | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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One of Microsoft's goals for Office 2007 was to increase and enhance security. In the past, the Office product line has been a ... |
| 10.04.2007 | Maybe You Should Back Up Your Own Email; Google, AOL, Yahoo All Losing Emails | Web-based email has made quite the comeback in the past few years thanks to massive increases in email storage offerings, as well as revamped user interfaces. However, it appears that all of the big players have run into some problems actua... |
| 14.03.2007 | Microsoft confirms it will buy voice-recognition co., Tellme | See story here.
VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data technologies and s... |
| 15.02.2007 | Latest Threat To Your Corporate Network: Smoking Bans? | It’s amazing what kinds of things people will try to warn you about these days when it comes to computer systems. Following the warning about bird flu potentially taking down the internet now we apparently need to be aware that smoking bans... |
| 07.02.2007 | BBC Slammed By Open-Source Community | If a bunch of open-source supporting nerds start yelling at a bunch of Brits, guess who it’s over? Yerp, Microsoft. The Open Source Consortium has come down hard against the BBC’s plans to force online TV viewers into Microsoft products. Ne... |
| 07.02.2007 | First Person Shooters Still Good For Improving Vision | Three and a half years ago we had a post about a study claiming that video gaming was good for your vision. This was one of many recent studies that points out some of the positive aspects of playing video games. However, it looks like the ... |
| 07.02.2007 | The Vista “clean install” workaround will live on | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 27.12.2006 | Botnets still a force to be reckoned with in 2007 | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 18.12.2006 | Apple + Orange = MacBooks and broadband in France | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Apple has partnered up with Orange to offer a new way to bring French consumers broadband Internet access. According to UK news... |
| 22.11.2006 | A Bad Week For WiMax | News of ‘WiMAX deployments’ are coming out fast and furious these days, although with very little connection to reality. We have never been boosters here, we admit, but we simply try to separate the fact from the rampant fiction of the spin... |
| 22.11.2006 | While We Were Busy Patting Ourselves On The Back For Beating Viruses, Somebody Stole All Our Passwords | While the folks at Kaspersky are celebrating their supposed triumph over “virus” authors, the rest of the world is still dealing with all the other security headaches malware authors are creating. The company’s claim that viruses are dying ... |
| 26.10.2006 | BT buys network security company Counterpane | BT Group has bought privately-held network security firm Counterpane for an undisclosed sum, though reports put it at $40 million or less.
According to Vnunet:
Counterpane specialises in providing outsourced security services for monitoring... |
| 13.10.2006 | Will Google's Expansion Invite Antitrust Action? | This week saw Google make more moves to extend beyond its core search business. The big thing was the much-discussed acquisition of YouTube, a move that automatically vaults the company to the top of the online video heap. Getting less atte... |
| 19.09.2006 | Napster retains UBS to look for sale | Napster, the former Silicon Valley music sharing site, has hired investment bank UBS to help it look for a sale.
Napster, now based in Los Angeles and pursuing a legal music download site after having had an outlawed past, is making decent ... |
| 15.09.2006 | If At First Your DRM Doesn't Succeed, Try, Try Again | The world’s largest DVD manufacturer is bragging that a new RFID-based solution for DVDs will stop piracy and copying — ignoring the fact that the list of DRM technologies people haven’t been able to break or circumvent is pretty short. The... |
| 11.09.2006 | BT toss Vodafone a broadband bone | It seems the expected merger of BT and Vodafone has taken another step forward. Currently BT have an MVNO agreement with Vodafone to provide BT Mobile and today Vodafone announced it has signed a deal with BT Wholesale to sell the telco’s f... |
| 31.08.2006 | YouTube Joins Beer Bongs In College Students' Tube Collections | One of the key differences between MySpace and Facebook is that the former is a totally open network, whereas the latter is geared towards building several smaller networks, primarily centered around universities. There’s obviously merit in... |
| 21.08.2006 | Pretty Much Everybody Is Losing Laptops With Personal Data | If you thought you’d been seeing a lot of stories about companies losing laptops containing personal information, here’s why: more than 80 percent of companies have lost a laptop with “sensitive data” on it in the past year, according to a ... |
| 09.08.2006 | Judge Says Blogs Are Guilty Of, Well, Just Guilty Dammit! | It’s not totally clear what’s going on with this story, but it’s worth passing along anyway. An article on a tech news site reports how Edward Fadeley, a retired Oregon judge, “has launched a blistering attack on the blogosphere”, saying it... |
| 09.08.2006 | AOL Gets Into User Generated Domain Name Speculation | Now that AOL has dropped its subscription costs, it’s moving to roll out new free features in hopes of stemming its rapid customer losses. Yesterday it announced it would freely distribute anti-virus software to anyone who wanted at. Today ... |
| 04.08.2006 | Surprise: Widely Owned Cell Phones Are Most Likely To Be Stolen | Keeping a list of the most stolen cars makes a lot of sense. It lets consumers know which ones they might want to avoid, or at least buy a LoJack for. But keeping a list of the most stolen phones doesn’t do a whole lot of good. All phones a... |
| 03.08.2006 | McAfee Says Mobile Viruses Happening Now!! | We keep hearing research from mobile virus firms about how we need to start worrying about viruses and attacks on our mobile devices. (Here’s some examples, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) But now virus protection firm McAfee has put some numbers to the iss... |
| 26.07.2006 | India Says No Thanks To The $100 Laptop | One of the most common retorts to the often-tried idea of creating ultracheap laptops for the world’s poor is that they have more pressing needs than the ability to surf the internet. The Indian government apparently believes this, as it ha... |
| 21.07.2006 | Waiting For A Digital Disaster | There’s no question that the current model of law enforcement isn’t adequate to deal with cyber-crime, with all its complexity. While there are occasionally high-profile cases, it’s a lot harder to patrol an area and prevent day-to-day crim... |
| 17.05.2006 | Academic Corruption Undermines China's Technological Success | Earlier this week, a top Chinese researcher resigned when it was revealed that he had faked research, and that a breakthrough chip of his was a fraud. This coincides with the results of a new study showing rampant research fraud among the r... |
| 09.05.2006 | Email Embarrassment Hits Execs As Well | There have been plenty of stories over the past few years concerning people who wrote embarrassing emails related to their job, that eventually got passed around, causing some people to lose their jobs. Of course, in most of the well known ... |
| 21.04.2006 | Microsoft takes the free software train to Japan | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 14.04.2006 | Next You'll Have To Register Every Time You View A Website In China | The “Great Firewall” of China and the issues concerning internet censorship are well known — including the fact that for all the resources they’ve put into blocking “bad” content, the filters don’t work very well. However, what’s interestin... |
| 04.04.2006 | Singapore Decides That Only The Professionals Should Discuss Politics | If there’s one thing Singapore knows well, it’s “rules.” The country, famously described as Disneyland with the Death Penalty by William Gibson many years ago is known for being… a bit of a stickler when it comes to rules. That includes rul... |
| 07.03.2006 | Intel Says Wi-Max Cards Available This Year | Intel has said that it expects to “move up” from 2007 to 2006 the roll-out of WiMAX client cards such as PCMCIA and mini-PCMCIA. These cards would enable a subscriber to connect to a WiMAX network, should one of these also be deployed by th... |
| 24.02.2006 | Go To China To Hear A Reasonable Take On The Entertainment Industry | Nearly a year ago, we wrote about how Chinese musicians had learned to adopt to a world where most people got their music for free. And, contrary to the claims of the recording industry, the music industry hadn’t died out — it had thrived. ... |
| 21.02.2006 | Reading The Tea Leaves To Figure Out Security Risks For Mac And Linux | For years, every time we run a story about some virus or spyware related story, someone has to pop up in the comments acting as if they’re brilliant saying “just get a Mac” or “just get Linux” as if that solves everyone’s problems. The real... |
| 03.02.2006 | Shorter, Faster Patents? | The folks at the IEEE are trying to come up with a compromise on the issue of software patents in the US — something many feel shouldn’t receive patent protection at all. Instead of doing away with software patents completely (something tha... |
| 02.02.2006 | IE7, bugs, and betas | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Vnunet.com is reporting that the new Internet Explorer 7 beta has been keeping the Internet Explorer (IE) team busy with bug re... |
| 01.02.2006 | The Science Of Analyst Predictions | A new analyst report is out, saying that the uptake of 3G will drive demand for mobile portals, a reasonable enough assertion. It’s got the usual quantitative prediction, saying there will be 74 million mobile portal users in Europe in 2010... |
| 26.01.2006 | Congressman Wants Government To Make Sure iPod Won't Hurt His Hearing | It’s been nearly a year since we first reported that some doctors were warning that iPods can make you go deaf. No one paid much attention to it until a few weeks ago when The Who’s guitarist Pete Townsend warned iPod users that they’d soon... |
| 25.01.2006 | Robotic Dogs Just As Comforting As Real Dogs? | New research is apparently claiming that robotic dogs, like the Aibo, have the same beneficial impacts on human caretakers as live dogs. It’s not clear how accurate the study is, though. It seems to be based solely on how the owners of the ... |
| 20.01.2006 | Bluetooth SIG Shrugs Off UWB Split | As predicted, the IEEE’s task group on ultra-wideband decided to disband this week, unable to come to an accord on which of two competing standard proposals to back. In addition to the inevitable customer confusion it will cause, the split ... |
| 17.01.2006 | Apple May Offshore iTunes To Duck Taxes | theodp writes “Taking a page from other retailers, Apple has reportedly confirmed that it is investigating the possibility of setting up an online iTunes store in the Channel Islands so its UK customers can avoid having to pay VAT thanks to... |
| 15.12.2005 | Starbucks Might Be Brewing Up Some Downloads | Starbucks’ CEO says the company “might consider providing download facilities” for music at its stores, according to VNUnet. The story, though, based on another article from The Financial Times, isn’t clear about what those facilities might... |
| 07.12.2005 | Now It's The iPod That Will Destroy Your Digits | What is it with doctors trying to jump on some new technology as a way to build up business? We’ve covered how doctors have been warning us about being “addicted” to just about every new technology, when it’s clear that they’re just looking... |
| 29.11.2005 | Watch Jack Ma | We’ve been doing the rounds in Shanghai this week, and hope to post more about the trip.
But first a note first about Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba, the Chinese Web site that matches buyers and sellers, and which is taking on eBay, an... |
| 23.11.2005 | Nokia Basically Shutters The N-Gage | The N-Gage never took-off like Nokia had hoped, or like later devices such as the Nintendo DS. The reasons for N-Gage’s failure are an amalgam of bad pricing decisions, poor market channels, a weak developer community, and possibly a device... |
| 03.11.2005 | Samsung: What Music Store? | All that stuff on Monday about Samsung wanting to open an “iTunes for Asia”? A bunch of malarkey, apparently. Even though the head of the company’s digital media business said the company was planning such a service — and the company later ... |
| 20.10.2005 | Forget Voting Machines, Open The Code For Breathalyzers | As electronic voting machines have become popular, there’s been a big call for the companies that make them to release their code for public scrutiny. The most notorious vendor, Diebold, continues to resist, but the clamor for opening the c... |
| 12.10.2005 | That Photo Is Way Too Hot For You | Apparently, most of the major digital camera makers are all issuing warnings that their cameras have faulty CCDs leading to either blurred pictures or a failure to store the image completely. They claim it only impacts a small number of cam... |
| 07.10.2005 | Lazy Friday Microsoft links | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Symantec winced yesterday when Microsoft announced their Client Protection program , a tool that protects desktops, laptops and... |
| 30.09.2005 | Used Computers Booming, How Come Computer Makers Don't Whine? | Yesterday we wrote about how the used book market was booming and one of the highlighted issues was how some believe this must be damaging to authors and publishers (something we disagreed with for a variety of reasons). Yet, today, there’s... |
| 27.09.2005 | Mobile Video… No Interest, No Capacity… But It's A Killer App? | We keep hearing analyst firms claim that mobile TV is going to be the killer app for mobile data, even as there have been plenty of questions as to whether or not anyone actually wants to watch broadcast videos on their mobile phones. Plent... |
| 27.09.2005 | Can Flash Crash The Hard Drive Business? | While Apple may have eaten up some huge percentage of the world’s flash memory market in building the ever-so-delicate iPod Nano, it’s got some wondering whether or not flash drives can eventually replace hard drives. That, not surprisingly... |
| 07.09.2005 | Data On My Phone? But Why? | There’s been this absolute certainty by some in the wireless industry that “wireless data” was clearly the next big thing. However, it still seems like there’s as lot of wishful thinking going on. We’ve pointed out that users tend to want p... |
| 01.09.2005 | Forget The Digital Home, Give Us An Internet Connection That Works | What is it about tech companies that cause them to focus on “the next big thing” before they get “the thing we currently have” to work right? It almost always seems to be the case. Companies rush out a product before it’s ready, because you... |
| 19.08.2005 | Podcasting? That's For Old Folks | With the hype around podcasting reaching stratospheric levels, it seems that a new study might put a damper on the space. It found that fewer than expected people are listening to podcasts, and the hotly targeted “youth market” is barely li... |
| 03.08.2005 | Recording Industry Thick Headedness Not Limited To The US Alone | Mark Cuban recently wrote a rant about how the recording industry’s unwavering belief that suing their customers would solve their problems, despite plenty of evidence that (1) their problems weren’t caused by file sharing and (2) the lawsu... |
| 26.07.2005 | Microsoft Virtual Earth A GPS Killer? | While it probably wasn’t the exact kind of publicity Microsoft was looking for, its Virtual Earth product was in the news yesterday for “erasing” Apple HQ from its satellite views. That’s blown over, but today, it’s being billed as a “GPS k... |
| 21.07.2005 | Microsoft licenses security software from Finjan Software | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 14.07.2005 | FAA Says Throttle Back On In-Flight Cellular | Despite the mounting public interest in using mobile phones onboard commercial aircraft and the changing attitudes of some countries, the FAA says a US ban will stay in place regardless of the outcome of FCC proceedings on the matter. Even ... |
| 28.06.2005 | Should There Be A Common Infrastructure For Mobile Technologies? | With all of the questions over line sharing recently, as well as yesterday’s Brand X ruling, people are once again looking to figure out what’s the best way to encourage and build next generation networks for broadband. While it looks like ... |
| 09.06.2005 | Internet TV moves yet another step forward | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 20.05.2005 | What's So Special About WiFi In The Supermarket? | The obvious take on the story that UK supermarkets are now selling WiFi routers is to talk about just how mainstream WiFi has obviously become. However, a bigger question, in my mind, is why Linksys needed to make a “special” line of WiFi r... |
| 03.05.2005 | SC Says Entertainment Industry Can Shut Down Sites Without Checking Content | The Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case concerning how far the entertainment industry needs to go to prove they believed a site was infringing on their copyrights before sending out a takedown notice to an ISP. There are plenty of ... |