Archive for November, 2007

The latest bits of news to emerge from the mess surrounding P2P file sharing are quite incredible. So much so that we simply couldn’t resist sharing them with you. One involves a surprising play by an anti-Net-neutrality party against a particular ISP’s unsavory actions. Another has to do with the RIAA and its seriously disturbing [...]

Hey everybody, Microsoft’s putting together a Flickr competitor! Yes, it’s true. Haven’t you heard? Shocking it is that the world has so far failed to take notice of this revelation. Much notice, anyway. As reported in CNET’s Webware publication – and not many news outlets elsewhere – Redmond has let known its intentions (via a [...]

Just a week or so following its first official acknowledgement of plans to deliver (through the newly founded Open Handset Alliance) its much-hyped mobile platform, Google today released its Android software developer kit (SDK). The company is inviting Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu Linux users/developers alike to participate and build applications for distribution through [...]

Last week, Sprint and Clearwire, two companies in the US that have, amid widespread skepticism, managed for a long while to remain steadfast and continue their drive for widespread deployment of WiMAX services in America, declared their separation. According to a Reuters report on the matter, Sprint “ended its WiMAX partnership with Clearwire and was [...]

Just last week, I covered an innovative image search engine, known as Imagery, that introduces some very welcome features to make the process of searching for images on the web easier. Even though less clicking is involved and there is no need to visit external sites with Imagery, the basic searching functions the same as [...]

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place – the place where it gets mega rich, [...]

I am really pleased to announce today that we are now able to provide our readers with a mobile reading experience. I know for sure that a good number of our readers are heavy mobile users and we have been approached a number of times by some of the readers asking to launch some mobile-friendly [...]

Recently I discovered a mobile web service called Mobango. I found them searching for ring tones for my new cell phone, and decided to stick around and explore their site.  When I saw that they offered games and other fun things as well as ring tones, plus a "friend" feature, I got excited. I'm always [...]

A guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do. Call it a crowdsourcing success; call it a nifty (and perhaps very lucky) use of Net-tastic technology. When 21-year-old Patrick Moberg (an employee of the Web video company, Vimeo, no less) spotted someone who he thought was his love-to-be on a crowded New York City subway [...]