February 2008 Archives
- February 28, 2008 - The TED conference is on! I share some of my favorite talks about our oceans.
- February 27, 2008 - Damn the torpedoes; Yahoo keeps cranking out new products. The CD is dying in interesting ways. The PS3 - a TV piracy power tool? Google's stock plummets yet again. Plants learn to Twitter.
- February 26, 2008 - Pakistan takes down YouTube...by accident. EA takes on Take Two. Rumors of a new Macbook Pro fly across the Internet.
- February 25, 2008 - Friendster declining? Japan's broadband Deathstar satellite. Renegade Elmo doll mutters about bumping off his owner. Google's health records service launches. Yahoo sued by shareholders.
- February 21, 2008 - Ted speakers use statistics to look at our world in a whole new way.
- February 20, 2008 - The Conference of Technology, Entertainment, and Design, or TED, brings fascinating talks on how we can take the lessons of evolution and design robots and tools for our future.
- February 19, 2008 - The eBay boycott is on. Wisconsin beware: Michigan brandishes the world's most powerful laser. 400,000 unlocked iPhones in China. HD-DVD is gone, Daddy, gone.
- February 14, 2008 - MySpace gets its own business incubator. Just like Facebook. Bebo sells for a b-b-billion. Yahoo's exits are mobbed - but who's bailing & who's getting axed? Firefox 3 & Apple TV 2 get big thumbs-up.
- February 13, 2008 - The hacker attack on Scientology spreads to in-person protests. Hot or Not sells for lotsa cold cash. UK file sharers to be banned from the Net? The many faces of the Google logo.
- February 12, 2008 - Dueling press releases from Microsoft and Yahoo. Google's phone debuts to yawwwns. Email to your coffee mug. Hollywood writers win less than a tenth of their lost wages in concessions.
- February 11, 2008 - Yahoo says Microsoft's bid amounts to theft. A gallery of ancient logos. Google News launches local news, which sucks. Yahoo launches a live video service, which dies. 10 billion videos served in December.
- February 7, 2008 - Google Glad to Lose Auction. A glow-in-the-dark bicycle. Online video pioneer: for sale...cheap!
- February 6, 2008 - Internet cables are getting cut all over the Middle East. Record labels are filing suits all over China. Apple market share hits records highs. So does podcasting, and folding@home user counts. Flickr protests Microsofts move on Yahoo.
- February 5, 2008 - Google and Microsoft squabble over who's the bigger, badder monopolist. None of this is likely to save Yahoo from Microsoft's clutches. Rhapsody takes over Yahoo's music retail business. The PS3 stages a comeback, and the Tesla Roadster ships
- February 4, 2008 - Microsoft bids for Yahoo - everyone wants to get on the bandwagon. Should Amazon buy TiVo? How ship anchors can cut the Internet to an entire region.
