That’s further evidenced by a recent study performed by MTV. Using the Wii’s Nintendo Channel, which the company claims tracks the playing habits of more than 1 million U.S. gamers, MTV determined how long people are playing different Wii titles.
It’s not that I dislike the Wii. I think it’s one of the greatest consoles I’ve [...]

But the reality of how we make security decisions begs an important question–should security professionals focus on real solutions to security problems, or just on making people feel better about security? Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer to this question. It depends on who’s paying the professional’s salary, what they expect, and how rational they [...]

The Spot Satellite Messenger is a handheld device that reports your position, anywhere in the world, every 10 minutes. It gets your data from GPS and reports it via the commercial satellite phone network. It sends data to Google Maps but really cries out for a Fire Eagle link, Coates said. (Likewise the Isaac [...]

The Office 2.0 conference opens September 3 in San Francisco. You can get a small ($100) registration discount by going through this link.
Here’s the secret: he isn’t.

Ismael Ghalimi is doing this conference for the love of it. “I love the workmanship of work, the business of these tools,” he told [...]

“We’ll open up detailed information very soon,” Partovi said in his August 29 e-mail. “In the mean time, we’d love to encourage a few Web sites or (Facebook) apps to be early adopters.”

An iLike spokeswoman declined to comment.
iLike is making this announcement in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Expo, the O’Reilly Media-organized confab set [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America, much maligned by file sharers everywhere, has gone through a “significant” round of layoffs, according to a studio source. The source said the layoffs were well over 10 percent and more reductions are expected.

Elsewhere at the MPAA, the group is expected to meet RealNetworks in court again on [...]

During last week’s frenzy over the launch of the
iPhone 3G, another Apple product launch got somewhat lost in the shuffle. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing, considering the glitches it ran into. The product is MobileMe and its intent is to link all of your Apple applications like mail, photo storage, and music [...]

Patel’s new area previously had been run by Jeff Weiner, who left Yahoo for a stint supporting venture capitalist work. Brad Garlinghouse, who’s leaving this summer, had run the new work moving to Dietzen and Bhat.

Yahoo underwent an executive exodus in the last two weeks, losing three executive vice presidents, two senior vice presidents, and [...]

IBM plans to acquire business rules management software maker ILOG in a deal valued at $340 million. Under the deal, IBM will merge ILOG into its WebSphere brand, in a move to expand its middleware software footprint. Middleware is a layer of software that helps servers running databases and Web site software talk with servers [...]

These are services like identity services, contact lists, this is the layer where our social graph of your relationships lives, your presence and rendezvous, communication services. Perhaps most importantly, our advertising platform infrastructure lives at this level.
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Robert Scoble

In the meantime, not everyone believes Salesforce and Google are about to set the world [...]