The Next Net 25

A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard.

Details Unfolding on Microsoft's Origami

As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.

Geekcorps: A Peace Corps for techies

How do you bring the Internet to countries like Mali, where more than 70 percent of the population is illiterate and the telecommunications infrastructure barely exists?

Navigating the aftermath of the customer revolution

"Tiering doesn't work anymore!" a friend and Chief Marketing Officer for a cell phone manufacturer told me the other day, summing up what he experienced in the market.

Uberfuze...Email Profiles

Uberfuze is a free service that lets you and your friends keep in touch better, through personalized buddy profiles in email, private buddy lists, and more!

Update on MashupCamp

Here's additional information on MashupCamp and a link to it's web site.

Techies converge to talk mashups

Hundreds of technologists, reporters and investors are expected Monday morning in Mountain View, Calif., for MashupCamp, the first conference devoted to discussions about the custom programs that come from merging multiple application program interfaces.

Additional Mashup informatin:

Google Maps Mania
Mashup (web apllication hybrid)

The Population Hourglass

Your future is older, browner, and more feminine than you might have realized. That will make for some major lifestyle changes ("Welcome home, Mom!") and lots of huge opportunities for business.

Wondering about upcoming trends. Check out this community website. Treadwatch, focused on Internet marketing and related technologies.

PSP Audio Roundup


Extremetech is featuring a rundown of the PSP and all of its audio capabilities. If you have a PSP and use it for music listening, this is definitely worth a read. They discuss all of the firmware changes, optimizing sound, transferring music and even a little bit of hacking. Check it out, yo.

Apple Drops Hints of iPod Phone

Four trademark applications submitted earlier this month by Apple are adding grist to the rumor mill concerning the launch of an iPod phone, which has been the subject of speculation almost since the launch of the company's popular digital-music player.

The Farkirk Wheel

The Falkirk Wheel is a boat lift designed to connect the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal 25 m below.

Surveillance Cameras for Dummies

WiLife has developed a new security product called LukWerks.

CES 2006

CNET editors cover the Best of CES 2006.

Yahoo! Widgets
Bring some fun to your desktop with stylish and useful Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Google Goes for Web Video

Google is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer's pioneering iTunes store.

It's Time for 2006 International CES

Check out what new gadgets will be coming out this year!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

For such a small device, the 770 is loaded with features. In the original release, its system software packaged with items such as a web browser, an e-mail manager, a news reader.

It Had to Happen

The CellFlix Film Festival is a film contest for movies made with cellular phone cameras.

All the World's A Podcast

Michael Calore of Webmonkey has posted a thoroughgoing tutorial on making podcasts. He explains what they are and then describes each step of the making and publishing of the hot new medium. Calore also reminds us of the power the medium gives us:

The beauty of the new technologies being born on the web — podcasts, blogs, video blogs, social networking sites — is that they put us in charge. The gap between the creator and the consumer is shrinking as we generate our own content and trade ideas between ourselves more freely. Not only to we have more control over what we're listening to and reading, but it's up to us to create it as well.