Four decades ago, Paul McCartney told us that all you need is love. Reportedly near the conclusion of an expensive divorce proceeding, apparently the former Beatle could also use some cash.

After years of chilly relations between Apple (the
Mac maker) and Apple Corps (The Beatles’ publishing company) over their very similar company names and then the [...]

Realizing this, DoubleClick, which used to be a public company, but was then acquired by a private equity firm, was estimated to incur roughly $30 million to $60 million in profits each year.
But amid all of this number crunching, you also need to consider the fact that Google should be able to increase DoubleClick’s revenue [...]

Now the company has reconsidered, and will extend the deadline until at least the end of 2011, according to this IDG story. I still think DRM is a poor way to address the very real problem of music piracy and intellectual property rights, but Microsoft should be given credit for doing right by its customers [...]

No matter how this story ends, it will have a big impact on all Web users. If Microsoft takes control of Yahoo, for example, many of Redmond’s Web properties will likely get scuttled while Yahoo’s become even bigger. If Google and Yahoo do a deal, the price of Internet advertising will go up (since the [...]

Spinscape intrigued me, since I’ve never used a Web-based tool like it. A quick bit of research on the Web and Twitter, and a timely news release, yielded four interesting competitors to this application. Despite the fact that they share a design point–creating graphical representations of networks of ideas–they have very different capabilities.

MeadMap is [...]

(Credit:
Ted Southern)
Then there was Ted Southern’s sidewalk sound show.

At the recent Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, N.Y., I heard two rather amazing sound installations.
I’ll let Ted provide the details, “I was interested in placing sound in reference to the human body in an interesting way, and developed the idea [...]

The lone moderate patch affects Windows Office and could enable information disclosure if exploited.

Among the critical patches one each affects Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Host Integration Server, and Microsoft Excel. All four could enable remote code execution if exploited.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for next week. The announcement is intended as a heads-up [...]

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AT&T)
The rest of the Pearl 8110’s features are pretty much in line with the latest models. There’s Bluetooth 2.0, a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD/SDHC expansion slot. The smartphone is also compatible with AT&T’s push-to-talk service and AT&T Mobile Music. If this sounds like your cup [...]

KML is used to manage the display of geospatial information in Google Earth, the company’s software for flying over the surface of a virtual globe. With its 3D coordinate-based system, people can create models of city buildings, draw a line showing where they hiked, or overlay their own custom place names on a generic map.

The [...]

On February 19, EA upped its bid to the current $26 a share.

That’s because I assumed that EA might provide some new piece of information that would materially enhance details of the game maker’s Sunday bid announcement.

(Credit:
Take-Two’s Rockstar Games division)

“The Activision-Vivendi transaction provides some competitive incentive
for EA to add scale and bolster its product [...]