After months of promoting its “Mashup Debate” with Slate and The Huffington Post, Yahoo decided to pull the plug on the “mashup” part of the debate at the last minute. This version of a Democratic Presidential debate was supposed to straddle the line between the staid […] Read more »
I am sad to report that Sally and I are no longer an item. As happens in many relationships, Sally has recently been requiring more and more of my attention and the only thing that made her happy was to throw ever increasing amounts of money […] Read more »
Recently, Google rolled out a new look for its Google Docs & Spreadsheets software application … not exactly a major upgrade, as the tools themselves remain the same, but it’s still a new interface for organizing your documents. Google Docs is beginning to emerge as a […] Read more »
EMI today becomes the last major label to partner with YouTube to share audio and video recordings. Warner, Universal, and Sony BMG had taken equity stakes in YouTube last fall just prior to it being bought by Google, alongside similar partnerships with the video-sharing site. The […] Read more »
Earlier this year, I made some predictions based on new technologies that could change the face of video. One of them has already come true to a degree — while it’s not multitouch, this touch-screen interface for live multimedia editing can only be described at “totally […] Read more »
As with all major live Apple events, The Apple Blog will be having (we hope) live coverage of Macworld. The Steve Jobs Keynote will be on Tuesday, January 9 from 9:00AM to 11:00AM PST. We’ve got some of “our people” that will be there and hopefully […] Read more »
I was traipsing around the Windows Mobile web site this morning and stumbled across some hilarious ads that Microsoft has posted as part of their "Work Anywhere" campaign. The ads feature a guy using his Windows Mobile device while wearing a suit covered with bacon (think […] Read more »
Music industry wants stronger DRM. Carlo thinks they have got it backwards, and don’t realize that it is DRM which is slowly strangling their business. Read more »
You can get as much information about the Chinese telecom boom as you want, but world’s second hottest market is going unnoticed and as a result, I am introducing a new once-a-week column by Dr. Abhishek Puri, who will send us the buzz about broadband from […] Read more »
Heroin withdrawal. Cocaine withdrawal. Caffeine withdrawal. And now there’s Internet withdrawal. Bluetooth will get you laid MSN TV lives, will be reborn on October 5, 2004 Nortel’s South Korea connection. More like a Joint Venture with LG VoIP for barbie Location based services, over-hyped or under […] Read more »
AOL is finally getting its VoIP act together, and is about to start beta testing its VoIP services, powered by Level 3. A poster on DSLReports forum posted this introductory email: “Thanks and congratulations! You have been successfully registered as an AOL VoIP Trial Enabled by […] Read more »
Mississippi State University students are getting really addicted to wireless Internet, according to this report from the campus paper. Thank god, WorldCon has nothing to do with it. Read more »
Silicon Valley has to construct a monument in honor of Steve Jobs, the Apple hero. The influence of this man is enormous – he has taught the industry about elements of style, has given them pointers about how to make the consumers happy, and if that […] Read more »