French President Becomes Online Sensation

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is receiving a lot of attention online for a video in which he tells a bystander to "get lost".Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the newspaper Le Parisien while attending an annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday. Sarkozy went to shake a mans hand who in response said," Don't touch me, you are soiling me." Sarkozy replied while still…

Google, Microsoft Called UK’s Top Business Brands

Some people are bound to find this list a little disappointing; UK companies didn't rank either first or second among the UK's top 500 business brands.  Instead, for better or for worse, Google and Microsoft got those honors.

Bloglines Users Abandon Ship

When a company's last press release was put out in June of 2005, it's probably wise not to expect a quick response.  Still, users of RSS reader Bloglines are disappointed (and increasingly angry) following a long outage.

Apple TV Take 2 Might Need More Takes

What Apple needs is to branch out beyond its cultish following. The company's done pretty well at that lately with the iPod and iPhone and all the hysterical ecstasy that followed. They've got something cool with this Apple TV idea, but the computer-to-TV market has been a more difficult one to break.