Talk of the Internet | Voice is back but this time it's on the Internet. Just when the rise of email and text-messaging began eroding traditional phoning, voice communication is staging an online comeback -- in a variety of unlikely ways.
Google Wants to Be Your Best Friend On Your Computer | Google's two newest releases, Google Desktop and Google Talk, are bold, major steps for the company -- and useful programs that have great potential, Walt Mossberg writes.
August 22, 2005
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet. | What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?
August 03, 2005
All The News That Clicks | Newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines are scrambling to boost their Web presence.
July 14, 2005
Finding a Blog in a Haystack | Traffic at blog search engines is soaring. When will Google and Yahoo! join the fray?
June 30, 2005
The Best Product Designs of 2005 | The winners of this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards represent the best of the best, using design to reinvent old product categories, revive tired brands, and simplify complicated products
Yahoo Acquires Blo.gs | I wonder if this means Yahoo Search will start crawling based on pings from blogs.
June 13, 2005
Technorati Beta | A new UI, improved tagging and a lot more...
March 21, 2005
Instant Message-Style News Alerts from WSJ.com | THE ONLINE JOURNAL is now offering desktop alerts that deliver breaking news to your computer screen. You can sign up to receive alerts on major business and world news, the markets and technology.
Alerts notify you within minutes of major news events, such as big mergers, large swings in the stock market or significant world news.
How big will the Mac Mini be? | Needham analyst Charles Wolf said that he now estimates 11 percent of iPod-toting Windows users may buy a Mac now that the Mini is on the market. Before that, he assumed the rate would be closer to 4 percent.
The Online Ad Surge | Brand advertising online has taken off -- and it's shaking up Madison Ave.
The iPod IPO? | Well not quite, but PortalPlayer, whose chip powered the hit IPod is going public sometime this week, selling 6.25 million shares at $11 to $13 a share. This should be a really interesting IPO.
They Made America | Set your TiVos for this PBS documentary (the 'Rebels' episode features Russell Simmons & Ted Turner) -- This four-part series, based on the new book by Harold Evans (The American Century), examines the history of innovation in the United States and its impact around the world. By telling the stories of the inventive men and women who transformed the world, THEY MADE AMERICA explores the political, social, economic and environmental forces that made the United States an incubator for so much radical and far-reaching creativity. Evans provides on-camera commentary.
The Five Seven Digital Disruptions | Om Malik takes a quick look at some major digital disruptions going on in the world. It's probably wise to not be invested in the incumbent companies.
A 472 Hour DVD | See what happens when you stop counting in binary.
September 14, 2004
Out-eBaying eBay | Some interesting thoughts on decentralized e-commerce, with examples of companies that are thriving despite, or maybe even because of eBay
FireFox Toolbar | A customizable toolbar for my favorite browser. This thing is sweet! I may have to replace my beloved Google Toolbar with it.
September 08, 2004
CD Ripping Flowchart | The next time you find yourself wondering whether to rip a CD run your decision through this flowchart.
Want a High Google Ranking? Get a Weblog! | Ernie gives an excellent example of how much Google likes blogs. I'm amazed at how quickly many my own pages jump into the top 10 Google results.
June 15, 2004
Netflix Plans Video-on-Demand in '05 | In its aim to be a one-stop-shop for movie rentals, Netflix talks about its plans to roll out its video-on-demand movie rental service early next year, and why the Starz service isn't a threat.
June 04, 2004
FOAF-a-matic | FOAF-a-matic is a simple Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF (Friend-of-A-Friend) description of yourself.
Will Your Next Computer Be a Phone? | There are 1.5 billion mobile phones in the world today. Already you can use them to browse the Web, take pictures, send e-mail and play games. Soon they could make your PC obsolete.
Treo 500? | I agree that some lower priced Treos are needed, but the author is wrong about dumping the keyboard. A keyboard is a necessity for email and SMS.
Wireless Living | A special section of the New York Times looks at how wireless gadgets are spreading through American homes and businesses.
April 24, 2004
All TiVos are DVRs, but Not All DVRs are TiVOs | If you don't have Season Pass and WishList capabilities your DVR is NOT a TiVo. When you learn what those features are you WILL want to dump your DVR for a REAL TiVo
CNet's March Madness Cell Phone Tournament | This is a pretty cool contest between 16 different cell phones. I don't need to tell you which one won. The choice is clear.
March 18, 2004
Great Deals on Computer Parts | I saw a deal for a $6.99 Microsoft Optical Mouse on The Screen Savers, so I went to the site and found a ton of other great deals. Chek them out.
March 13, 2004
FlipStart | This is a sweet ultra-ultraportable PC by Paul Allen's new company.
One in Six Silicon Valley Tech Jobs Ripe for Offshoring | I still can't get over the irony off how outsourcing has turned the tables on the white collar workers who used to tell the outsourced blue collar workers to just go get retrained.
March 09, 2004
Optical Drives: Simplified DVD Labeling | This is niiice, real nice: Looking for a way to label your multitude of CDs and DVDs neatly and efficiently? HP has come up with an elegant answer: Use the same laser that already burned the data to make a label on the flip side of the disc.
iPod - More Than Just a Pretty Interface | If you thought you liked the iPod because of its looks, think again. It could, according to one academic, be a way of regaining your personal space.
Video Turntable Allows DJ to Scratch Videos | Pioneer Electronics Wednesday introduced a digital video turntable that lets night club disc jockeys spin, scratch, loop and queue music videos just like they do with audio tracks.
December 18, 2003
MfOP2 | Mfop2 (MoBlogging for Other People Too) allows you to moblog without setting up any special scripts on your own mail server.
CellUpdate.com | CellUpdate.com helps you sort through the many new plans, changing rates, and special features. They provide the latest news articles and critical information from around the country plus valuable insight on selecting a cell plan, types of plans, tips for lowering your bill, charges in the fine print, taxes and fees, other frequently asked questions, information on the new cell phone portability act that begins November 24th and help on finding the best cell plan for you.
NumberPortability.com | America’s fully independent and carrier-neutral experts on how to save money and get better cell phone service.
November 03, 2003
BusinessWeek's Tech Buyer's Guide | Laptops fit on palms. Handhelds play games. Game consoles make phone calls. Phones take pictures. TVs and stereos network with PCs. Just what the heck is going on? Join our writers and CNET's reviewers for our annual tour of the hot new stuff coming out of the bit-by-bit coupling of computing and consumer electronics.
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 Reviewed | They're getting there, but I'll still stick with my TiVo rather than risk having to deal with viruses & other Windows issues when I'm trying to watch TV.
September 24, 2003
Kazaa Flips the Script | Kazaa's suing record labels for copyright infringement. Gotta love it! :-)
MP3 Goes Hi-Fi | Ever wished you could listen to the hundreds of MP3 tracks on your PC on your stereo? A range of digital music players are springing up that let you listen to songs on a hard drive on a hi-fi.
Coinless Slot Machines | An interesting look at the reasons behind the switch away from using coins in slot machines.
How Robots Will Steal Your Job | Talk about the rise of the machines! This article says that 'humanoid robots will be widely available by the year 2030, and able to replace jobs currently filled by people in areas such as fast-food service, housecleaning and retail. Unless ways are found to compensate for these lost jobs more than half of Americans could be unemployed by 2055.'
July 24, 2003
Snapster??? | One Possible Future for a Music Business That Must Inevitably Change
July 19, 2003
The RIAA's Jihad | The Recording Industry Association of America's attack on US culture has escalated at an alarming pace this week.
On Friday the lobby group that works on behalf of the large, mostly foreign-owned, music conglomerates that own the music copyrights and distribution channels confirmed that it was serving subpoenas at the rate of 75 a day on US citizens for the crime of sharing the music they love.
XML vs. EDI | Tight IT budgets make it tough for managers to stay at the cutting edge of technology, but in one area they may not have to bother. For now, electronic data interchange (EDI), the old system for exchanging business documents electronically, is at least as useful as its likely successor, and cheaper as well. Over the next five years, businesses would do well to hone their old systems while also preparing themselves for the new ones.
July 17, 2003
Computer Program Detects Author Gender | A new computer program can tell whether a book was written by a man or a woman. The simple scan of key words and syntax is around 80% accurate on both fiction and non-fiction
Will Wi-Fi Revolutionize the Phone? | As Wi-Fi grows to envelop cities, 'Voice over Hot Spots' could replace cell services—and their profits.
Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE | Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren't over.
July 10, 2003
The New Card Shark | The NY Times takes a look at how online gaming is changing the face of real-world poker tournaments. -- While the Las Vegas hype machine focused on the rags-to-riches tale of a man who parlayed a $40 entrance fee into a huge pot, many poker players recognized that the amateur's success signaled the arrival of a new age in the game. Mr. Moneymaker may never have been in the same room as other players in a tournament of Texas Hold'em poker, but he had played extensively online, where the game is faster but the money is just as real. He was as much a rookie as Ichiro Suzuki, who joined the Seattle Mariners after nine years in the Japanese major leagues.
July 09, 2003
MRAM, Finally | This is long overdue - With both Motorola and IBM firmly lined up behind a single contender, the five-year search for a "universal RAM" technology offering a combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access appears to be all but over. According to Motorola, samples of the new magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM, chips will be distributed to developers by the end of 2003, and cell phones and PDAs incorporating MRAM should be on sale by mid-2004...
Microsoft brains take on Google brawn | Microsoft has hired top scientists in its quest for search algorithms that will allow it to compete directly with Google. Microsoft is actively working on new search algorithms it will use to power its own search engine and enter into competition with Google...
July 03, 2003
Hack Attack | Will hackers attack 6,000 Web sites in 6 hours on July 6? The government and private technology experts warned Wednesday that hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely coordinated "contest" that could disrupt Internet traffic.
U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System | The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
July 02, 2003
Internet Explorer Revolt? | Microsoft may have unwittingly started a revolt against its Internet Explorer (IE) browser by discontinuing it as a standalone product and blurring the future of the current version, IE 6.
June 20, 2003
Access Your Computer From Anywhere | TightVNC is a free, open-source program. At the essence of virtual network computing (VNC) is a remote display system. This system allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet.
The MP3 Economy | How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar.
Hydrogen to the Rescue | A rising star at Accenture is advising Big Oil and the auto industry that they can revitalize the economy, mint profits, and save the planet -- if they'll just learn to stop worrying and love hydrogen.
Enron's Vaporware? | For all the seemingly black-and-white fraud allegations that have roiled Enron, the charges involving technology deception may present far more gray.
Confidential Apple music details leaked | An insight into the success of Apple's online music service has been provided by leaked details from a meeting with representatives from the independent record industry.
June 07, 2003
DigitalConsumer.org | An organization aimed at protecting digital media fair-use rights. Check out their proposed Consumer Technology Bill of Rights that will positively assert a consumer's rights to fair use.
June 04, 2003
Why You Should Switch to Mozilla Firebird | Mozilla Firebird empowers you to accomplish things online faster and more efficiently than any other browser, period. Offering the industry's best implementations of features such as Tab-Browsing and popup blocking, as well as a horde of other seamless innovation, Firebird stands out ahead of every other web browser
Unlock Mozilla Firebird's Myriad Features | Mozilla Firebird has loads of features that often go unnoticed or unused. Some of these features are Mozilla Firebird exclusive. Features like popup blocking and tabbed browsing will greatly improve your web experience. This site tells you how to take full advantage of Firebird's power.
Vivísimo Document Clustering | A powerful web searching tool. It clusters the results in a way that makes it very easy to get to your desired result. Try it out!
Fixing Venture Capital | An excellent analysis of what's wrong with the current venture capital model.
June 03, 2003
The FCC, Weblogs, and Inequality | from the point of view of analyzing the FCC ruling, the lesson of weblog popularity is clear: inequality can arise in systems where users are free to make choices among a large set of options, even in the absence of central control or manipulation
Better, Faster Internet Searching | I've been using this tool for over a month now & highly recommend it. It allows you to launch searches, on any number of search engines (google by default), without first opening a browser. If you use Google's toolbar you'll love this.
Speed Windoze StartUp | Here is an awesome tool that should have been integrated into Windoze. Stop all those little rouge, resource-robbing programs from loading during Windows startup.
Newly Digital | A distributed anthology of early computing experience.
May 30, 2003
GameFly | The NetFlix concept applied to video games. Rent PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube games online.
Blogs: The Next Big Thing | Comments (2)
| John C. Dvorak on why the blogging phenomenon will become the next big computer fad if it hasn't already.
May 29, 2003
Home Schooling in Cyberspace | Because of increasing dissatisfaction with conventional schools and increasing acceptance of so-called distance learning at the high school and college levels, the number of virtual elementary and middle schools is expected to grow substantially in the next five years.
2 Labels Embrace MP3s | While the record industry sweats over how to prevent consumers from transferring music from commercial CD's to digital files and swapping copyrighted material online, two labels are exploring a different approach to the format battle
Net Boom, Act II | the effects of the Internet are only just beginning to be felt and will reach much further into our daily lives than the PC revolution did a decade ago.
May 28, 2003
Hacking the X-Box | A new book about Reverse Engineering. - Xbox Security Secrets - Hardware Mod Tutorials - Interviews with Master Hackers - The Chilling Effects of the DMCA - **enter coupon code 'techtv' for a 20% discount**
