AT&T has experimented with Second Life-like virtual environments to test its response to attacks. Its researchers, who are scattered around the country, create avatars that “visit” labs and run experiments. “We invented it because we were trying to cut down on travel,” he says. “We weren’t doing it to be cute. We were doing it [...]
Mon, March 30 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
The new AOL CEO, fresh from Google. March Madness video on the iPhone. “Vidification.”
Sat, March 28 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Why is it so hard for me to keep this site updated, when I blog and Twitter at work all day long? A brief sampling, more of which can be found on my clips page: ViddyHo, Yelp, Facebook, Pirate Bay, Apple, Twittering advertisers during the Super Bowl, Caribou’s jab at Starbucks, Yahoo and Google earnings, [...]
Wed, February 25 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
It’s gonna be a big night! For WSJ.com, I talked to people from HuffPo, Politico, LGF, Daily Kos, Townhall, Atlantic Monthly, RedState, Newsmax, Talking Points Memo and Instapundit about their Election Night plans. Check it out: Red Bull, Shift-Blogging and Basement Video Shoots: Politics Sites Prep For Game Day
Tue, November 4 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
They’ve been busy ones, with the economic downturn’s impact on telecoms and advertising, Internet-service lawsuits, why your phone rates may go up, the growing prepaid market and the Google phone.
And I started blogging a bit more — who knew this would get way more comments than this?
Wed, October 29 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Google Inc. crossed $700, IAC/InterActiveCorp split itself into five pieces, and Apple sold more than one million iPhones. Here’s a look at some of the numbers behind the year’s tech happenings.
Read Ones and Zeros
Fri, December 28 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow’s short story “Scroogled,” a woman shrugs when she sees “Immigration–Powered by Google” on an airport sign, but that’s just the beginning of the search giant’s presence in a not-too-distant future.
The story, published in Radar Magazine’s latest issue, envisions a world in which Google turns into Big Brother. Customs agents grill [...]
Wed, September 26 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
A New Library in Arizona Fans a Heated Debate Over What Some Call the ‘Googlization’ of Libraries
By all accounts, patrons of the Perry Branch Library in Gilbert, Ariz., are happy with the new digs.
Since the doors opened last month, visitors have checked out about 900 items a day, far more than the 100 to 150 [...]
Fri, July 20 2007 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
