Tuesday, February 27th
Estonia holds first national elections allowing internet voting… YouTube’s CBS deal falls through, plus pundits weigh in on YouTube’s future post content filtering… and surprise surprise, next gen optical falls victim to another hacker opening up the medium to less restrictive uses.
Friday, February 23rd
Google takes on Microsoft in an arena other than search… Cisco and Apple make nice on the iPhone trademark… plus Sirius proposes to XM for an $8.9 Billion merger, and can you walk away from your computer for an entire day?
Gmail expansion!
GMail newbies and GMail power-users both got what they wanted; GMail is open to users without an invitation now, and Google CEO Sergey Brin says they’ll add more storage for power users who pony up some cash.
Joost hits street
Joost comes from two former KaZaA and Skype founders, and this new tech is looking to be just as notable. Many content providers and advertisers have already signed on for the recently launched service.
Feb 12th’s Morning Edition
Microsoft isn’t too happy with the five year development cycle on Vista, now they’re promising a much shorter time between Vista, and the next OS. Neither Microsoft nor Apple are too happy with the idea of blanket virtualzation thanks to parallels either. Wikipedia is pretty happy though, because contrary to popular belief, they’re sticking around longer than four months. In about two months, we’ll see the world premiere of Wii-Jayin’.
Saving cash using the web
We love hooking up our ever growing viewership with some kickin’ deals, so we’ve got two today: An Amazon search engine for cheapos, and a way to call internationally for free.
RIAA gone CRAZY!
The RIAA responds to yesterday’s open letter by steve jobs, but basically ignores the meat of Jobs’ letter.
Jobs hates DRM and Vista fails tests
Jobs doesn’t like DRM and wants to put the pressure on legislators to put the record labels in their crosshairs. Vista OneCare doesn’t quite have the same security that XP’s OneCare had, in fact it failed the VB100 test.
Non-superbowl ads
Web 1.0 featured lots of people wasting money on marketing. Now, web2.0 companies use web2.0 to get their message out.