A an industry group made of dozens of high-profile technology companies including Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, announced "significant progress" on its recommendations on how the Internet should be regulated.It will be interesting to see in what ways how the recommendations from the Information Technology Industry Council will differ from the...
You can watch a live stream of Apple's fall event tomorrow, the company has announced - but only if you're using an Apple device.Apple will broadcast the event using its internally-developed HTTP Live Streaming Protocol, which requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6, an iPhone...
Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn't been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It's creeping across generations, replacing things like the phone book and introducing tools the masses had no idea they needed. It's also indoctrinating the world...
As news breaks this morning about the Intuit/Mophie partnership that aims to bring a complete credit card solution to the iPhone, the focus has been how this new product - an attachment that snaps onto the bottom of the phone - competes directly with the startup Square, co-founded by Twitter's...
YouTube Channels, Mobile Apps and Barcoded Pages In partnership with Entertainment Weekly, YouTube just announced the launch of a specialized site for getting a sneak peek at the new television season which includes "bite-sized previews of programs, reality TV, comedies, dramas and more." The site, which is essentially just an...
Five years ago, "social" was the next great paradigm, and sure enough, today social is everywhere and everything is social. Facebook's most recent announcements capitalize on this ubiquity and position the company as the hub of a system with an almost infinite number of spokes.We are today with virtual personal...
Personalized news recommendations on the go - that's the dream of many an online news nerd and the startups that would serve them. One strong entrant into this field is My6Sense, a well-designed, venture-backed, Israeli company that uses implicit behavioral data from users to recommend the most relevant content in...
Free streaming music recommendation service Pandora Radio will turn 5 years old this week, and it's hard to think of very many social web technologies that have touched more peoples' lives. On August 29th, 2005, Pandora opened from private beta to the public with a feature-set much like what it...
Last month, we wrote about a well-designed but overbuilt and slightly confusing microblogging site that had elements of Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader. Miio had some nifty features and an inviting design, but we thought it was trying too hard to be everything. Apparently users agreed, and today Miio revealed...
Last month Hans Rosling, the Swedish global health professor, statician and sword swallower released a desktop version of Gapminder World, his mesmerizing data visualization tool. Named one of Foreign Policy's top 100 global thinkers in 2009, the information design visionary co-founded Gapminder.org with his son and daughter-in-law aiming to make...
Much of the chatter over the past two days about the Intel/McAfee deal has been about whyIntel decided to acquire McAfee. But what does the deal mean for enterprise security managers? We asked a few experts at other security vendors to for their take on the news.It's Time to Give...
Freelancing is a tough life, no matter what your skills are. Writers, developers, and consultants all have to scout work, sell themselves, manage their own time and then shake down clients to collect their fees. Work is never steady and coffee keeps getting more expensive.OneThing.com is a new directory for...
Over-reaction is endemic to discussions of the Web. Over-enthusiastic proponents - Millennialists - seem to be convinced that every burp in online tech, every new tool, every momentary trend, every relocation of a dialog box on a popular site, hails the onset of a Brave New World. On the other...
This is the latest in an occasional series on people who have passed away, folks who have contributed in some way to the development of, or the way we look at, the Internet and Web.Ted Stevens, Senator, Internet PhilosopherA powerful GOP senator, Stevens died last week in a plane crash...
Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren't just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook's recent acquisition Hot Potato, which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books and other activities, have been part of the fuel behind...
For many new Internet companies these days, "freemium" business models that hook users with free services and offer extra functionality at a price have become very popular. Today, presentation sharing service SlideShare is the latest to switch to this type of model with the announcement of its tiered PRO plans...
It's an old idea by now that writers can influence technology. How many astronauts and inventors have left orbit or cobbled together a world-beating doodad because of one too many Star Trek episodes?How has speculative fiction, whether in film, television, book or graphic novel form influenced not just what we...
Google and Verizon announced a proposal for internet network transparency. It included FCC enforcement with fines of up to $2 for network providers that engage in anti-competitive measures. Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg said this was not a sweetheart deal. (Net neutrality is the practice of equal delivery speed for content...
It not as bad as it sounds. U.S.-based footwear retailer Journeys has jumped into the location-based social networking arena by allowing its customers to check-in via their mobile phones and complete challenges in order to receive discounts on their next purchase from any Journeys store. But don't worry, early adopters,...
Your choice in Web browser is about to get more interesting as all three of the top browsers on the market today - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome - prepare and launch updated beta versions, each offering compelling, and in some cases unique, new features. Although IE's...
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