SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Can IM morph into 'instant music'? Published: September 22, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com As Internet giants step into the crowded online music arena, some are banking on a new weapon to help attack market leader Apple Computer: instant messaging. Yahoo last week acquired digital music service Musicmatch for $160 million in cash in a move that adds a multimedia player, a digital music store and a subscription service ...
SOURCE: FORBES 2004 E-Gang Shifting Places Elizabeth Corcoran, 09.06.04 Sitting in a Starbucks in San Mateo, Calif., Blake Krikorian performs an Internet magic trick. He fires up an iPAQ handheld and, with a few clicks on a menu, pulls up live television. The screen is small, but the Fox channel's Judge Hatchett is smooth; no delays, no frozen frames. Krikorian switches to his laptop, and moments later Clifford the Big Red Dog is nosing around at a birthday party, courtesy of PBS. He...
SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com AOL prepares its own browser Published: October 8, 2004, 11:32 AM PDT By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com America Online is planning to release its own stand-alone Web browser based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer technology, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. AOL Browser, as it's called, will be available as a separate download for Web users. The software will be based on a stripped-down version of IE and will be brand...
SOURCE: NEWS.com Reheated Bagle smokes out antivirus defenses Published: October 29, 2004, 8:21 AM PDT By Dawn Kawamoto Staff Writer, CNET News.com A new version of the fast-spreading Bagle mass-mailing worm was discovered Friday, with its threat level quickly rising to a moderate level, according to security experts. Bagle.BB, also known as W32/Bagle.bb@MM, was raised to a medium risk assessment by security company McAfee. The virus had triggered more than 100 rep...
I have read only a few articles on it, but the numbers seem astonishing. 1/3 of all internet traffic is BitTorrent users? I am just wondering how people feel about this program. Is it the same as the other peer to peer programs using the internet to download stuff? Do you guys ever think Cable channels or movie distibutors like NetFlix will ise something like BitTorrent to let people see movies or TV shows? What about the infristruction that was built to show all these movies through cab...
SOURCE: LA Times No More Internet for Them By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer - January 14, 2005 Stephen Seemayer had the first Pong video game system on his block. A decade later, the Echo Park artist was the first in his neighborhood to get a personal computer. And in 1996, he was so inspired by the World Wide Web that he created a series of small paintings for viewing over the Internet. Now the 50-year-old Seemayer is once again on the cutting edge: Sick of spam clogg...
SOURCE: BBSpot Microsoft's AntiSpyware Tool Removes Internet Explorer By Brian Briggs - Wednesday, January 19 12:00 AM ET Many Microsoft Windows users who downloaded the recently released AntiSpyware program from Microsoft, or had it installed through an automatic Windows update, woke up to a surprise. Unintentionally, the heuristics of the software detected Internet Explorer as spyware, and removed the program from their systems. Microsoft has pulled the program from its ...
OK, I read the story on BetaNews.com and the commenters so far are ripping the toolbar as redundant. Firstly I would like to say that I currently can't find a way to search for multiple words on ONE page at a time. The toobar does that. If you have a user page on yahoo, now you can assess it and its subpages from the toolbar, you can add favorites and save them on-line, check you email, add buttons that are yahoo specific... in other words. there are uses. instead of saying that FireF...
Support Modblog A Blog Report Interview Another blog on Modblog that makes my day (or week depending on my mood). You can go to Supports's blog and find the most interesting news on tech life. I think someone like Linux... hmmmm... Recent articles/blogs include stories on the EU Software Patents Law and Oracles Take Over Of PeopleSoft . Another nice find is the RSS feeds on the site. I would have never guessed that there is a news feed for virus outbreaks. You guys should a...
This newsletter will have the looks of a blog.... hmmmm... does this mean I should make this a blog or just a blog post?) but instead it will have some of the hottest debated topics on JoeUser (whether it be a blog or in the forums... but mostly it will be blogs). I thought of this while reading some of the things that go on here at JoeUser. There are so many interesting blogs and the forums are very active indeed. I think this is something worth developing. I think I might even do a ba...
SOURCE: BetaNews.com Report: Internet Usage Flattening By David Worthington, BetaNews March 18, 2005, 9:56 PM Analysis of major Internet markets has revealed that the time netizens spend online at home has come close to hitting a plateau in many major markets. Nielsen//NetRatings, a syndicated rating system for Internet audience measurement, measured markets in Brazil, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and found them to be maturing. In ...
omg!! GOOGLE now allows you to upload videos!!! You can show them, sell them... and search for them! Anybody heard of this yet?This is cray! Its like Google is trying to take over the planet
If you haven't heard, Indeed is a job search engine that checs multiple site on the net for you. You can also get and RSS feed of the job title and subject your looking for. Indeed weeds out job listing that are older than 30 days. So check it out.
Anybody here ever use A9? The more I sue it the more I like it. No worst than Yahoo (even though I prefer it). A9 works wonders if you have a Amazon account, of course.
A( has been working on this for a while. Now they have street views of areas so you can see just waht is there at eye level on a map. Not exactly etter than Google, but you have to admit, if you REALLY want to see the shop your going to, after using Google, you should take a look on A9 to see if an image at eye level is there. Here is a list of some places: * New York, NY * Los Angeles, CA * Dallas, TX * San Francisco, CA * San Jose, CA * Boston, MA * ...