Singapore to Wi-Fi. Windows Vista on schedule? More MS Office competitors. Advice to protect your search.

August 29, 2006

Not to be outdone by a search engine’s blanketing a city with Wi-Fi, the island of Singapore has decided it’s going to canvas its entire nation with a Wi-Fi signal. And it’s only going to cost them $3.2 billion. And you thought your cable bill was high. And despite warnings from many critics including former […]

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eBay finally capitalizes on Skype. Google goes after MS Office. Beware of AOL 9.0

August 28, 2006

Today’s Spark Minute is all about finally getting around to what we knew they were going to do. Last year eBay bought the cheap-to-free voice calling program Skype for $2.6 billion and everyone knew they were going to eventually add a click-to-call feature that would allow buyers to speak directly with sellers. Well, they’ve finally […]

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Zune’s mobile DJs. 4500-mile neighborhood watch program. Microsoft ventures into teledildonics

August 28, 2006

Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released and hopeful iPod killer, the Zune player, is set to turn users into mobile DJs. The new media player with built-in Wi-Fi will let users stream music to up to four people. This is not yet confirmed, but Microsoft has confirmed that Toshiba, the manufacturer of the device, has filed a license to […]

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AT&T protecting your privacy? Apple settles with Creative. More battery recalls. Watch TV at work

August 24, 2006

You know what I love about AT&T? They always leave me guessing. Currently, they’re suing 25 data brokers who they claim posed as customers and fraudulently accessed private phone records. Wasn’t it just four months ago that we discovered they’d been volunteering this information to the NSA without questioning the legality of it? And to […]

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Sony buys Grouper. No Segway in UK. One Click Sex Offender Reporting. Polls are open at Business Week

August 24, 2006

Sony has purchased video sharing site Grouper for $65 million. Based in Sausalito, Grouper has a whopping 1% of the market which is actually pretty impressive when you take YouTube out of the mix and realize that in the video sharing space they have about 240 competitors. Sony will use Grouper to distribute and promote […]

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YouTube finds the money. Anheuser Busch Films. Microsoft accepts open source?

August 23, 2006

A month ago I heard the CEO of YouTube say he wasn’t going to put pre-roll ads on user-posted videos. And he didn’t. Instead, he’s letting advertisers create their own YouTube spaces just like any user. Plus he’s letting these advertisers sell ads on their own sites. Yes, ads with ads. How will this work? […]

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Friendster to become Sue-ster? Search AOL CTO "canned." Snakes on a Waste of Eight Months.

August 22, 2006

Remember Friendster? Well, they just made another $10 million in VC funding. But it doesn’t look like that money is going to go into building a better Friendster, but probably a better Lawsuit-ster. You see Friendster was just awarded a patent for their social networking technology. And the buzz in the market now is the […]

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The Public Interest for 8/17/06

August 17, 2006

This is the game I play every week on the Will and Willie show. It’s all about people’s behavior searching online. See how well you do. Scroll down afterwards to see the answers. 1. For searchers, what’s more important, the white pages or the yellow pages? (Source: Google Zeitgeist, June, 2006) 2. Put the following […]

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Cool tools for runners and cyclists.

August 17, 2006

Today’s SparkMinute is for the runners and cyclists, looking towards technology and the Web to help them with their workout. Turn your cell phone into a training device. Bones in Motion’s BiM Active is a virtual coach on your cell phone. Using the GPS chip in your phone, the program measures your speed, distance, and […]

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Cool IM Tools

August 17, 2006

Today’s SparkMinute is for those of you obsessed with instant messaging, also known as IM. Yahoo! and MSN have agreed to eventually integrate their instant messaging platforms. But you don’t have to wait. Install Trillian, a single IM application that lets you communicate with AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ instant messaging programs. If you’re on […]

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