Google music previews songs based on lyrics
Neat, if you type in a partial lyric to a song — without even referring to the title or artist — Google finds it and gives it to you to play right there...
Windows virtual machines get competitive
Rackspace has announced that they are getting into the Windows virtual machine bizness...
A new language from Google
Neat, Google has a new language called Go. Clever branding, that. It seems to be Google’s attempt to step into the Java/C# space...
The Paris Hilton problem
Joel Spolsky has an article in Inc describing the tension between growth and quality at his company...
The flagship strategy of mobile phones — Microsoft needs one
The flagship strategy of mobile phones — Microsoft needs one In the wake of the iPhone over the last few years, it seems that the market is responding to a business model different than the PC’s that preceded it...
Why is Apple treading water with the Apple TV? Because the real product is in the works.
Apple has come out with version 3.0 of its Apple TV product, and it appears to be little more than a visual refresh with a couple of nice bits of iTunes integration...
Does this metric pass the smell test?
Via Silicon Alley Insider, an analysis by a company called Drake Direct claims that 1 in 4 pageviews in the US goes to Facebook...
IE6 users and status-conscious creative directors
A friend directed me to this site , belonging to a creative director at Squarespace, and containing the following message for IE6 users: Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible...
California says the iPhone costs $599
I recently purchased a new iPhone 3GS since my previous phone bit the dust (or pavement, more accurately)...
Will Apple fix Boot Camp for Windows?
I wrote earlier about how Windows running on Mac hardware via Boot Camp appears to have serious battery-life issues — getting only around 2 hours of life on a machine that should offer at least twice that...