Archive for August, 2007

Big business is not a big fan of the BitTorrent protocol and its growth. BitTorrent essentially builds upon the P2P architecture but blurs legal lines even more, which has led to bandwidth limitations by ISPs, and legal action (PDF) from the MPAA. With that said, it should come as no surprise that TorrentSpy, a popular [...]

News reports from throughout the tech world are out about Yahoo!’s release of its new Mail application from beta. Problem is, it’s not out of beta. Not yet, at least. Log in to the service (first debuted in September ’06) and you find the ‘Beta’ tag still fit snug right below the logo. Why’s it [...]

Are you familiar with Robert Scoble? Once a “tech evangelist” and uber-popular blogger (Scobleizer) backed by Redmond, he (along with his spouse) is now pulling strings at PodTech, a video podcast startup. He’s a big voice in the Valley. Lots of people listen when he speaks. Problem is, he can be kind of, well, irrational [...]

What is up with China? For quite a while I was railing against Google for being so ethnocentric, and Yahoo! too. Now it seems that China's “Army hackers” are in the news again allegedly infecting German ministries with spy programs. German magazine Der Spiegel reported that German government ministries including Chancellor Angel Merkel's office have been infected [...]

It has only been three short months since the launch of the Facebook Platform, which gave developers an opportunity to integrate other services into the growing social network via widgets, and this first quarter proved quite impressive. Now, there are well over 3000 applications to choose from in the Facebook application directory. Some Facebook apps [...]

Blogger, Google's free blogging service, underwent some updates this week, the first of which involved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites. Publishers who use Blogger had been experiencing trouble performing various editing and posting operations [...]

Following yesterday's post by Michael Garrett in which he called paid online subscriptions "a dying business model", I would like to continue with today's announcement of a new Profy partnership. We have come to expect that all the information available online should be free and it usually is (when was the last time you paid [...]

By now, you’ve likely heard or read about YouTube’s official debut of overlay advertisements, distributed by a system dubbed, appropriately enough, InVideo. If you’ve browsed the site quite a bit in the past few days, chances are you might have already seen one or two or more such spots presented in the new format. If [...]

Remember when SunRocket, that US-based VoIP company, left the market without any advanced notice whatsoever? All those frustrated customers, forced to move to new service providers with nary a grace period in which to do so. Good times, eh? Yeah, right. Well, despite fleeing the scene abruptly in mid-July and failing to offer to do [...]