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Any stereotypes those outside the scientific community had envisioned about science bloggers being toe-the-line, straight-laced, pocket-protector-wearing nerds are being smashed as the science...
The MPAA is hoping to circumnavigate a key FCC ruling protecting time and space-shifting for television programming and movies. It's the latest controversial attempt by the Hollywood lobbying group...
The scoop: Pinnacle Video Transfer, by Pinnacle, about US$130. What it is: This handheld device allows you to connect any video source with composite inputs (or an S-Video connection) and transfer...
Proving that you can't keep a good rumor down, news reports swirled yet again this week about a possible marriage of inconvenience between the House of Redmond and the House of Dulles. Though my gut...
A bit of a debate has broken out in an Industry Standard comment thread after my profile of Peter Shankman's "Help a Reporter Out" service. Help a Reporter Out is a 16,000-strong mailing...
One day after a security company accidentally posted details of a serious flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), hackers are saying that software that exploits this flaw is sure to pop up...
Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple has done in this space and aired a vision of software changing the world. Shuttleworth, speaking at...
"I wasn't at E3 to be stimulated and entertained. I went to see the latest and greatest games that the industry had to offer and to connect with the people that make them. I might not have...
Twenty-eight-year-old "Spam King" Robert Soloway was sentenced today to 47 months in prison and a $700,004 restitution payment for profits that he made as a spammer by U.S. District Court...
Brocade Communications Systems' planned US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks is a major strategic move in a brewing war over the future of data-center connectivity, industry analysts said...
The unexpected about-face in the e-gold money laundering trial prompted a wave of online discussion about the guilty pleas and e-gold's pledge to clean up the Web currency service and submit to U.S....
So Brocade's agreement to buy Foundry Networks is "a move that could challenge Cisco's dominance in the network equipment market" (San Jose Mercury News), packs the "potential of making Brocade a...
He's only three months into the job, but a passion for education is what led Nick Hutton to his role as CEO of U21 Global, an educational institution focusing on graduate studies that operates on a...
When skydiving PR guy Peter Shankman started the "Help a Reporter" group on Facebook last November, he thought his project could connect a few reporters up with sources for their articles....
The AP reports that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has ruled that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional. The law, passed in 1998 and signed into law by President...
Online video hosting service Vimeo has created what may become a public relations nightmare with a new rule governing content rolled out yesterday via the Vimeo blog. In the post, Vimeo Community...
The SCO Group got bad news in court last week. Not an unusual event for this company, but I wish the need for such events would finally go away for good. I've now been writing about SCO for five...
An experienced blogger like Intel's Gregory Ofili should know that sometimes it's a good idea to take a step back and count to ten before hitting "publish." But sometimes that doesn't...
Entertainment industry rag Variety ran a column by Brian Lowry who wonders what will happen to the local TV and radio news channels with the local newspaper industry in tatters. Lowry notes:...
When Apple initially rolled out its MobileMe service for synchronizing e-mail, contacts and calendars among computing devices, its tagline-"Exchange for the rest of us"-suggested that businesses...
In the last few decades, the ports of Hong Kong and Singapore have dominated the top two slots in the global league table of busiest container ports. Except for three years (1990, 1991 and 1998, when...
TiVo and Amazon will expand their partnership with an advertising deal that will allow TiVo owners to directly purchase products advertised and promoted on TV shows from Amazon, the New York Times...
"Tech blogging has become way too controlled by PR agents. You might not realize it, but the top blogs are contacted by PR folks dozens of times per day. This is why you’ll see 15 stories all...
The key to our placeless office: Web applications that let us chat, collaborate, and do all the other things that regular, in-the-same-place work teams do, and that let us do it from our home...
...isn't it about time that Apple put those iLife "Shop For" commands to good use? You know the ones I'm talking about. Shop for GarageBand Products, Shop for iMovie Products, Shop for iPhoto...
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