Sep 3, 2007 | broadband, business, wireless
In January, Google and Earthlink signed a contract to set up free high-speed wireless Internet access for the entire city of San Francisco. The deal provided that EarthLink would pay the city $2 million for the right to build, install and run a free Wi-Fi network that...
Aug 30, 2007 | audio, business, DRM
Sony is killing ATRAC, its proprietary format for music files. Here’s a brief news article about today’s death notice.This isn’t important – no one every downloaded any files from Sony’s store in the ATRAC format. (The store is being...
Aug 27, 2007 | Apple, business, computers
Acer, the third largest PC manufacturer globally, announced that it is acquiring Gateway and the eMachines brand purchased by Gateway a few years ago.I’m nostalgic about Gateway after all the years of buying computers in the famous cow-spotted boxes, but...
Aug 20, 2007 | business, law
Another attempt is being made to bypass West and Lexis-Nexis and make court rulings available online for free – and it’s coming from Sebastopol.Carl Malamud is an Internet activist whose offices are in the Sebastopol complex owned by publisher Tim...
Aug 6, 2007 | business, Google, Internet
Solicitations arrive constantly in my mailbox offering to help move bruceb.com to the top of search engine results (where it so clearly belongs). It is easy to become confused about the world of online searches and advertising. If you’re brand new to the idea,...
Jul 28, 2007 | Apple, business, Microsoft, Vista
As you can imagine, different people interpret these statistics differently. I’ve seen articles in the last few days that reach dramatically different conclusions. You decide which ones are meaningful.In the latest quarter, Apple Macintosh computers garnered...
