Archives: 2008 May

Gillmor Gang podcast features special guests Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor, the creators of FriendFeed. Steve Gillmor tries to persuade them to clone Twitter.

The information age has a split personality. Technology improves ever more quickly and we’re online everywhere, easily connecting with people around the world. Yet time and money is consumed traveling from place to place by burning the diminishing remains of dinosaurs. Even worse, with gasoline at…

The future of magazine publishing increasingly is appearing on a digital display — not just a newsstand. Advancements in software and hardware are making it easier for a growing faction of consumers — including coveted younger readers called “screen-agers” — to read their favorite publications on the Internet or download and read them later offline. […]

Lori Jantulovich stands in the middle of Best Buy’s computer section, flagging down a sales clerk. She’s trying to buy a laptop for her nephew. “I have no clue,” she says. Jantulovich, 51, is surrounded by displays touting the merits of dozens of similar-looking PCs. “Superior performance with 3 GB of system memory,” one says. […]

Those of us who carry laptops have different tastes and needs, of course, so it’s unlikely computer makers will ever agree on the ideal compact. It always comes down to a balancing act over size, weight, price, features and ease of use. That’s evident in the four subnotebooks I’ve been testing — the Asus Eee […]

A planned federal hearing on penalties that cellphone users pay for canceling their contracts early may be expanded to include a discussion on similar fees for ending cable and Internet services ahead of schedule, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in an interview yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.

Sidney Harman said yesterday he will retire in July as chairman of Harman International Industries, ending a five-decade tenure as the head of the high-end sound equipment maker he founded here.

At Google's I/O developer conference in San Francisco this week, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi met with Jonathan Rochelle, product manager of Google Docs, to discuss the Web-based collaborative office suite.

Revision3, an entertainment network for the Web, had planned to release its two most popular shows last Friday evening in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Instead, chaos struck, and the Web 2.0 company found itself unable distribute videos or advertising or respond to clients’ requests. Even its internal e-mail servers were brought down. The […]