Jeff Partridge

AOL has always been the perfect example of a ‘Locked door’ ISP. It has tons of content, but if you want to see it, you’d better bring your credit card along for the ride.
Now comes word that AOL may be about to do what the tiger couldn’t: change its stripes. The report is that [...]

It looks like Hotmail isn’t immune to the sudden surge of Upgrade Fever in the computer industry. A source at Microsoft has pointed me in the direction of the blog run by the (hold your breath!) Codename KAHUNA development teams.

It’s been widely reported today that Hotmail is in the midst of being enhanced and upgraded. Sorry to say, the report is, like the reported death of Mark Twain, ‘a little premature.’
As Deep Byte, my source at Microsoft put it, “the detail these guys are all missing is that we rolled users onto a restricted [...]

Time: Yesterday.
Did you hear it? It was the sound of a big, big door slamming.
The door was virtual, but the sound it made will echo across the world for years to come. Yesterday was Day One of the Microsoft lockdown using the Genuine Advantage program.

A number of readers with sharp eyes or more time on their hands have written to me about what happens when you zoom in all the way on the Google Moon map. I won’t say what happens.
All I will say is that I would have expected it to be green :). I guess the point [...]

Ever since reports of Microsoft’s interest in buying Claria (Formerly known as Gator), it’s been under the microscope of the public eye. That scrutiny intensified when it downgraded the threat level of Claria products in MS AntiSpyware Beta. Now, though, Microsoft itself has confirmed the aforementioned wimp-out and tried to defuse the outcry.

Google has pretty much taken over the Earth (as in its Keyhole service). Now it’s raising its sights. It wants the Moon, as well. Yes, it’s true: its online mapping service now covers the Moon!
Well, to be honest, it doesn’t exactly COVER the Moon, but it has a good start and I hope it keeps [...]

We can FINALLY stop thinking Longhorn. Now we start plastering ‘Windows Vista’ all over the Internet. The announcement was made today at 6 a.m. PDT in Redmond.

Do you have two or more computers on a network in your home or small office? Do you wish that you didn’t have to keep running back and forth when you need to do something on the other system(s)? Then Multipicity is for you.

While Firefox may be more secure than Internet Explorer, it’s having its own share of security woes. The latest involves an add-in named GreaseMonkey. It comes less than a week after the last security patch. In this case, the add-in causes a security hole in Firefox that allows outsiders to control the computer.