Aussie eBay Users Victimized By Big Seller
A large eBay seller that had been the subject of numerous buyer complaints in Australia pocketed thousands of dollars in unfulfilled orders before its owner skipped the country.
Web’s Masters Recommend Best Mobile Web Practices
As millions of people around the world add web-capable mobile devices to their pockets, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hopes publishers will adopt its recommendations on mobile web development.
Microsoft: Vista Isn’t As Bad As You Think
Suspicious Vista detractors were the target of an OS mind-trick, Microsoft grabbed a handful of people who had only heard about Vista and subjected them to the "Mojave Experiment." It doesn’t involve probes or Area 51 or shock treatment. The Mojave Experiment involves a simple switcharoo scheme where Vista is replaced by Microsoft’s "new" new operating system, called Mojave. You can probably see where this is going already: Mojave is a trick; it’s still Vista.
Tech Giants Put Heads In Clouds
Uber-geeks have been talking for a while about cloud computing and how it’s the future, especially the geeks at Google, and later, Microsoft. Today, though, it’s a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo generating the next wave of cloud computing buzz.
T. Boone Pickens On Yahoo’s Leaders: “Pathetic”
Last September, Forbes put together a list of the 400 richest Americans, and T. Boone Pickens came in 117th place. Now, thanks (at least in part) to Yahoo, he’ll likely be a few spots lower when that list gets updated.
Bebo To Beam Users’ Messages Into Space
Now might be a good time to brush up on your foil hat-making and bomb shelter-building skills. On October 9th, a signal containing messages from 500 Bebo users will be beamed towards another planet with the goal of contacting intelligent life.
MSN Direct Hops In Your Car
Microsoft hopes to plug location-based information into GPS devices and reach potential customers as they enter a local market for a business.
Washington Post Predicts Interactive Success
Silly name, but predictably intriguing, Predictify has made its way onto several major newspapers’ and blogs’ radar, and now onto their webpages. Washingtonpost.com is the latest to partner with the crowd-sourcing prediction platform, joining up with the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and ReadWriteWeb, among others.
Are you ready for some web-streamed football?
Heck, I’m ready for any kind of football, even if it means having to hear about Brett Favre every single day for the rest of the summer.
FCC’s Free Broadband Pushes Constitutionality
The FCC’s (read Chairman Kevin Martin’s) plan to set aside spectrum for a free, nationwide broadband network is also on yet another path for failure when eventually it is scrutinized by the courts.