Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Devoid Android
Google’s Android mobile platform will become commercially available before year end, just as the company promised. But with one caveat: It will lack some of the features Google first intended. Seems that in order to get Android out the door in time for the holiday shopping season, the company has been forced to defeature it.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The Captain Has Turned Off the “No Streaming” Sign
Airline passengers will soon have a new option for getting wired at 30,000 feet. This morning, Delta Air Lines said it will offer wireless Internet access across its entire domestic fleet by mid-2009. Provided by Aircell’s Gogo, Delta’s in-flight broadband will offer 3.1Mbps connectivity for $9.95 on flights three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Embrace. Extend …. What Comes Next, Again?
In February, Microsoft surprised industry watchers and embraced the idea of data portability, throwing its support behind OpenID, a decentralized digital-identity protocol. This morning came the inevitable extension of that idea, the announcement of a partnership with five social networks on a new data-portability strategy.
Monday, February 4, 2008
It’s Really a Choice Between the Lesser of Two ‘Don’t Be Evils’
Oh, it’s on now, boy. It’s on.
Google has finally made an official comment on Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo and, as one might imagine, it’s not a ringing endorsement. In a statement yesterday posted to the company’s blog, Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, argued that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger “raises troubling questions” and [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Web 2.0 Summit: Revolution Money’s Ted Leonsis and Jason Hogg
Now that Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL and president of its “fast-growing” Audience business, has retired from his active management role, he’s got plenty of time to shill for his “Web 2.0 payment platform,” Revolution Money. It’s “PayPal meets MasterCard without the high fees,” says Leonsis, who claims Revolution will completely overhaul the online [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007
Yahoo Announces Next Gmail Feature
Yahoo finally beat Google to something. It brought its email client out of beta before Gmail.
This morning Yahoo officially relaunched Yahoo Mail, ending a two-year public test of the Web-based email service that began in September 2005. Its overhaul completed, Yahoo Mail is no longer just a Webmail client, it’s a “social communication” tool. “Our [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
