2005 October

Once you start to learn more about the Google AdSense program and start incorporating it onto the pages on your Web site, you’ll find that there are a number of different variations on AdSense, and that while “AdSense for Content” is the most popular, there’s also AdSense for Search and AdSense for Feeds, among others. […]

It makes sense. CDs are looking like VCR tapes when you compare them to digital downloads and MP3 players. Why carry around a scratched up disc with a few songs on it, when you can transport 20GBs of music and have everything you own at your fingertips? Cars are quickly trying to integrate iPods and […]

You can read this two ways, as a funny take on diet books, or as someone in the tech demographic applying a tech mind at the problem of spending too much time in front of a PC. Sound like you (or me?) Then, this book: The Hacker’s Diet is worth a look. Why? a) it’s […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Not sure which side of the law you want to be on? Now you can play either side.
NCsoft North America announces that City of Villains, stand-alone sequel to the hit massively multiplayer online PC game City of Heroes, has gone live in North America.
Developed by Cryptic Studios; and published […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Class-action lawsuits against wireless telephone providers and manufacturers over radiation emissions will be able to go forward, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the companies. The high court rejected hearing an appeal by companies like Nokia and Cingular Wireless challenging a […]

In addition to keeping up on the news, I also need to be able to keep track of news stories and media coverage of specific topics that are of interest to my customers and market segment. There are a lot of different ways to accomplish this, including notably Google Alerts, but one of the best […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Yep, it’s the Swissbit SWISSMEMORY s.beat combining a Swiss Army knife and a USB memory key / MP3 player.
“The s.beat will be available in capacities of 1, 2 and 4GB and will be able to playback MP3, WMA and OGG - I’m always glad to see the latter, since so few […]

Mark Evans of RealTechNews writes:
Another much-anticipated “Web 2.0″ beta has been released: Sphere, which has an ambitious goal of bumping aside blog search rivals such as Technorati and Mark Cuban’s IceRocket.
So what is Sphere’s secret sauce? Apparently, relevance rather than the most recent posts. My first take is it’s intriguing but there’s plenty of […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
“It looks like BlizzCon attendees will have a chance to sign up for a Beta of an unannounced Blizzard game - just hop over to the website and enter the code on the back of your BlizzCon pass. The notice on the site says “Be advised that it may be quite […]

Nicolas Fogelholm of RealTechNews writes:
A recent survey tells people want camera phones. Maybe you are planning to buy one as a christmas present? Here are some basic facts and advice.
Most cell phones have a built-in camera, but if you are serious about taking photos and would like to order prints and fill the family album […]

Mark Evans of RealTechNews writes:
Eleven years ago, Microsoft held an “Internet Strategy Day” in Redmond to discuss how it was about to finally get serious about the Internet after choosing to pretty much ignore it despite the Internet’s move into the mainstream and the emergence of Netscape.
In some respects, Microsoft has lost some of […]

While just about everyone in the blogosphere is reacting with some level of hostility or scorn to the Forbes Magazine cover article by Daniel Lyons entitled “Attack of the Blogs”, it turns out that there are many valuable lessons that we bloggers could learn by reading through the piece, and some ironic proof that Lyons’ […]

There’s nothing more annoying to a new blogger - or even an established weblog author - than finding that your weblog is starting to become overrun with comment spam, with stupid pointless comments that are injected into your blog along with thousands of others in a vain attempt to create lots of inbound links for […]

Last year we came in second, and this year it would mean so much to win. If you like what we’re doing at RealTechNews, please take two minutes and nominate us for TechWeb’s Blog-X awards - the award is for best independent tech blog. Our contributors work so hard for free and it would mean […]

A simple request from a reader to help recover their Yahoo account password because their account was hacked into and shut down ends up producing an interesting essay on the state of identification for remote servers, the challenges of using biometrics for identifying yourself, and the basic solution to ensuring that you never have to […]

One of the many areas of contention in the business blogging community is about whether it’s ethical and professional to have companies gain visibility in the blogging community by creating “fake” or “fictitious” blogs. It appears that the latest entrant in this debate is Panasonic Corporation with a blog that certainly seems to be written […]

Today I’ve written about security issues with using the Sony PSP to access a wireless network, where to find good sample freelance and service provider contracts on the Web (for free) and my thoughts after using a Lenovo IBM X41 Tablet PC device for a month.
The article on wireless networks and the Sony PSP […]

Nicolas Fogelholm of RealTechNews writes:
According to new market research report from Parks Associates as many as 25% of all United States Internet households are willing to use a high-resolution camera phone as their primary camera.
Although the cell phone industry hypes music phones like the Motorola ROKR, Sony Ericsson W900i and the Nokia N91 the consumers […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
“Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before. […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
The world’s first sports car phone with alcohol Breathalyzer has gotten tremendous popularity in Korea. The cell phone by LG was a big hit from the beginning mainly because its outward appearance of a sports car. Equipped with an alcohol measurement sensor, the LG-SD410, LG-KP4100, and LG-LP4100 have sold over 200,000 […]