Om Malik is reporting that Google is making a big to build a city-wide free wifi network in San Francisco.
Google officials say San Francisco residents (and visitors) will enjoy a free 300 kilobits per second, always on connection anywhere in the city. As part of its proposal, the company says it will be offering wholesale [...]

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AppleInsider is reporting that October may bring updates to the iPod line, amongst other things.
Sources believe the new players feature Toshiba’s perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) 1.8-inch HDDs, which are setting new benchmarks for data density. Toshiba has announced the drives in 40GB and 80GB capacities, with the 40GB model packing up to 10,000 songs or [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Apple porting iTunes over to other platforms and hardware, and one of the big rumors was a version of iTunes for Sony’s PSP. Sony has been one of the sticking points when it comes to the iTunes Music Store, but it seems that they would be [...]

Inspired by the PSPupdates site I decided to a simpler version of what newly “downverted” PSP owners should know in order to start enjoying the fun homebrew scene in legal ways without much or any knowledge of what they should do.
“So what do I need to know?” – Patience young Padawan, we shall get to [...]

Dell is known for low prices, but they are trying to turn that image around, or atleast grab some new customers that don’t like the cheaper products Dell ships out.
And while expensive Desktops and Laptops are nothing new, Dell said its new XPS line would be sold at higher prices and larger margins than its [...]

Radio Satellite, not the prettiest of websites, has a comparison between XM and Sirius satellite radio. Living in Canada without a car, I have not experienced either service, but I think knowing the ins and outs of what you are getting before you buy it is probably a good thing and good comparisons are hard [...]

Using FEAR, the creators of the popular series Red Vs Blue have released the start of a new series called PANICS, or People Acting Normal in Crazy-Ass Situations. The first episode is available, and is pretty funny.
I recommend checking it out.

I highly doubt they will ever be able to do this, but Microsoft is looking at speeding up the Vista boot time to around 2 to 3 seconds. Its a nice idea though, and if they improve boot speed, I am sure many people will be impressed. I am not one of those people though. [...]

BusinessWeek.com with a look at commercial companies looking at utilizing BitTorrent technology for their media distribution needs.
The idea? Gather movies, music, games, and software from Hollywood studios and indie producers alike and distribute them to consumers. BitTorrent would generate revenue either by selling ads within the content or charging a fee for the files.
I [...]

I’ll keep this as short and sweet as I can with just a small warning: This downgrader works, but that does not mean there isn’t any risk in using it so use at your own risk; nor ForeverGeek nor the creator of it will be responsible for it’s misuse.
Steps to use the MPH downgrader:
- Create [...]

Alan has an article up about an evening with Marissa Mayer (Product Manager for Google), and there are some really cool facts listed in the article.

1. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Infact it [...]

Google is celebrating its 7th Birthday today.
Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we’ve been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our [...]

Okay, so there are some interesting features in this screensaver by Microsoft, but a beta? Who really wants to test out a Beta screensaver?
Anyways, here are the details from Microsoft:
Stay on top of news, weather, and e-mail with the next step in the evolution in screen savers. With the MSN® Screen Saver (Beta), you [...]

You would think that when launching a product, especially a world wide release, that you would take a team of lawyers and computer geeks and have them scavenge the world looking for what could be trademark problems.
Google is having problems again with the Gmail name as a company in China is now having problems with [...]

Microsoft is launcing its own competition to Adsense and Y! Publisher Network.
Their first steps were to launch what they call adCenter in France and Singapore. What adCenter allows advertisers to do is to target specific demographics using information obtained from Hotmail and Passport users. The ads will only be on Microsoft sites at first, [...]