Latest From Mark McDonnell
Did China’s Great Firewall Cause Web Outage?
GreatFire.org, a group in opposition to China’s censorship that monitor’s the nation’s Internet goings on, has three theories about the Internet outage in China. Two of them are related to Falun Gong, ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — has failed to produce ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
September 25, 2007 10:06AM The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — ...
Patch Tuesday Highlights Web-Based Malware
By Jennifer LeClaire August 15, 2007 9:02AM The number of updates Microsoft issued on August’s Patch Tuesday dwarfs the number of patches released over the past several months and highlights the new ...
Video Site Veoh Sues To Stop Universal
August 10, 2007 10:48AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Faced with a lawsuit from Universal, Veoh has asked a court for declaratory relief, a preemptive defensive move in which the court, if ...
Apple Hit by iPhone Touch-Screen Suit
Apple’s iPhone put touch screens into the spotlight once again, and now the patent hounds have begun to bark, with SP Technologies claiming that the iPhone infringes on an SP Technologies patent, ...
Internet Pioneers Propose Blogger Code of Conduct
April 10, 2007 9:13AM Some of the rules in the new Blogger’s Code of Conduct — proposed by Tim O’Reilly, a technology publisher, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia — include banning ...
Google Opens Gmail Service to Everyone
February 15, 2007 9:31AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Gmail was invitation-only when it launched in April 2004, when Google had hoped to spread the word about Gmail through a viral-marketing strategy ...
Bill Gates Attacks Mac Security, Apple Ads
In an interview, Bill Gates has rejected the view of the PC, or PC users as he puts it, portrayed in Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign. When asked whether he was “bugged” ...
Gartner Predicts the Blogosphere’s Future
December 15, 2006 11:00AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Gartner’s new report about blogging predicts that today’s overexuberance will give way to a steady set of some 30 million bloggers around the ...