Posts tagged “tech news”

Camping out for an iPhone today. Currently 76th in line at the Burlingame Apple store (smarter than fighting the SF crowds). Got one! Impressions to follow.

My weekly tech roundup: IE7 is actually a decent browser, fixing bugs that made my life miserable. But Microsoft is force-installing it as a "security update," which will confuse novices, anger power users, and break every Flash-based site on the web. Good product, terrible delivery. Typical.

Yahoo! IM and MSN Messenger now interoperate, which is huge for me since I live in Y!IM but most of my friends are on MSN. If you're an MSN user, grab the beta and we can finally chat again.

The RIAA sued a 12-year-old honor student living with her single mom in low-income housing. She settled for $2000. Whatever you think of her defense, that's just wrong. Help pay back her settlement.

Anyone could register .mil domains, including pentagon.mil, with no password required, thanks to two completely open pages on the military's own servers. The Register broke it but stayed coy about details. Slashdot didn't. Neither will I. Go nuts before they fix it.

There Inc. has launched a 3D online world where you can customize an avatar, chat, buy virtual goods with ThereBucks, and even build your own multiplayer games via an open API. It's basically what everyone imagined the internet would be. I've signed up for the beta.

Got a story accepted on Slashdot. Yay.

Interesting global internet stats: English speakers are now a minority online. Plus some Register amusement: Manchester Business School's plagiarised logo, NTL broadband getting a suspiciously biased review, Novell's mystery patch, and Yahoo being blamed for chat room dangers, which is absurd.

I've stopped sharing Slashdot links because everything there is worth reading, and you should just be reading it yourself.