Microsoft's Alex Kochis has blogged an explanation of the glitch behind last weekend's Windows Genuine Advantage screwup that left users being told their copies of Windows were pirated, and Vista users having features like Aero and ReadyBoost disable...
It had to happen sooner or later, and it has: The identity of Fake Steve Jobs--the proprietor of the hottest, funniest blog in technology--is no longer a well-guarded secret. Fake Steve isn't Andy Ihnatko or Leander Kahney or Harry Shearer or any of ...
Dust-up in the blogosphere! A Microsoft <a href="http://www.peoplereadybusiness.federatedmedia.net/" target="_blank">microsite</a> created by blog ad network <a href="http://www.federatedmedia.net/" target="_blank">Federated Media</a> features a numb...
The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference is winding down, and one of the last major components is Walt Mossberg's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
The browser-based IM service known as Meebo has long been one of our favourite Web-based services. Until now, we've liked Meebo because it felt so much like a desktop application that happened to live entirely on the Net. But with its latest feature,...
I blog to you today from Google, where the company is holding a workshop on personalization. The first speaker is Marissa Mayer, the company's VP of search products and user experience.
It's one of personal technology's eternal verities: New stuff that creeps into your world under the pretence of simplifying your life usually ends up complicating it. That unavoidable fact of life has never been truer than with today's ever-expanding...
My knowledge of astronomy is...well, it's absolutely pitiful. But I have a vested interest in the news that solar flares could cripple GPS systems here on planet earth.
When I think of Google, I think of a site with a relentlessly consistent--and ultimately mundane--look and feel. Which is why a fairly minor new Google feature--dynamic themes (aka skins) for the Google Personalized Homepage--is worthy of comment her...
I'm sitting here doing something I haven't done in a long time--watch an episode of The Flintstones. But it's all in the interest of my readers, since I downloaded it onto my PC as a test of BitTorrent's new paid, copyright owner-approved TV and movi...
Office Killer. That's what some folks are calling Google's new Google Apps service, which wraps together Gmail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and other services into a business-oriented package with features like the abi...
Big BitTorrent news in the offing: The peer-to-peer file distribution service's site is down at the moment, and when it returns, it'll apparently offer The BitTorrent Entertainment Network, which--in partnership with Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, P...
Yahoo has announced that it's beginning to roll out what looks like a useful update to the beta version of its Yahoo Mail Webmail client--one with integrated instant messaging via the company's Yahoo Messenger. I first blogged about this when it demo...
I'm back for the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, and one of the first sessions this morning spotlights Yahoo. Yahoo Mail, specifically--which the company says has 250 million active users, making it one of the most populous communities on the planet.
Corel's painter graphics program has always been about using technology to blur the line between art and reality. Its digital tools simulate real art supplies, from oil paints to felt-tip pens, and it can turn photos into gorgeous paintings. I tried ...
