January 2008 Archives
- January 31, 2008 - Skype on the PSP! A working jet pack! Gasoline-powered shoes! WiMAX networks! It's the Future!!! Meanwhile Google's bosses announce they're staying until the future (20 years). And yet another online prank is played on Scientology.
- January 30, 2008 - Yahoo laying off 1000. The EU keeps your ISP on your side. Digg and Firefox are taking over the world.
- January 29, 2008 - A new music company and its imaginary deals with record labels. Are "drastic" lay-off's coming to Yahoo? Lego at fifty. WiFi on trains - in AMERICA! A laser-based flashlight that can start trash fires.
- January 28, 2008 - Hackers attack the Scientologists. Books that make you dumber. The Forbes Midas List, and the odd methodology behind it. Apple sells way, way, way more iPhones than AT&T activates. WSJ to remain a paid site. Spectrum auction rages on.
- January 25, 2008 - The music industry wants to turn your ISP against you. Digg changes it's algorithm. Bill Gates eschews traditional capitalism.
- January 24, 2008 - Last.fm has the last laugh. World of Warcraft reaches record highs. Virgin Galactic wants to take you into space.
- January 23, 2008 - Will Yahoo cut thousands or just hundreds of jobs? Apple releases a pink Nano along with its earnings. Meg Whitman leaves eBay. Windows 7 might come a year early to save us all from Vista
- January 22, 2008 - The biggest selling games and consoles of 2007. Controversy in the gaming blogs. Is Golden Eye: 007 coming to the Xbox Live Arcade?
- January 21, 2008 - Sprint takes a dive. The FBI goes high tech. The Macbook Air gets some competition.
- January 18, 2008 - Scientology's internal Tom Cruise video is exposed. Gawker.com enrages Facebook. 2007's biggest traffic winners & losers. The Library of Congress starts a Flickr Account. Seriously. WSJournal: not to be a free site?
- January 16, 2008 - Round-up of products debuted at MacWorld. Ticketmaster enters the scalping trade. Amazon battles a shockingly dumb French law. InfoWorld seeks to save XP.
- January 14, 2008 - Network Solutions hijacks domain names. Gizmodo hijacks TV's at CES (and gets banned). Polish teens hijacks all the trams in his city with a remote control (seriously!). Sony-BMG FINALLY sells music without DRM.
- January 10, 2008 - All the news from CES. Every beer drinkers fantasy. Get the bandwidth you always dreamed about. Losing a $128 million dollar deposit.
- January 8, 2008 - News from CES: a 150-inch Plasma for your mansion. Microsoft teams up with NBC. CNET is eyed for a takeover.
- January 7, 2008 - Blu-Ray gets Warner Bros. and it's looking ugly for HD-DVD. Trent Reznor gives all details on his experiment with payment-optional music. The FAA thinks the 787 could be hackable by passengers.
- January 4, 2008 - Netflix to download straight to your TV. A laptop with a full terabyte of space. Pick up a lawnmower and spyware on sears.com. Facebook's in trouble - again.
- January 2, 2008 - Australia to filter porn nationally. CD sales down 21%. Movie sales flat, as world ignores hi-def format war. Get these people some tourniquet pants!