My last post gave some people the impression that I am against all business models that hinge on giving away products and services for free. I am not. I am just against irrational…

Amazon’s Web Services experienced another hiccup today. Early this morning, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) went down for about an hour for at least some customers in the…

I’m waiting for Facebook chat to become enabled in my profile, which gives me some time to think about what exactly I’m waiting for here. And, honestly, instead of…

A minor blogosphere tussle has turned ugly. That’s nothing new; what’s surprising about this particular fight is that one of the participants, Shel Israel, is a well…

Last time we wrote about the EU's Bono Report on the Cultural Industries, it was to warn of a rightsholders' hijack. Lobbying groups like IFPI were encouraging amendments that…

Cell phone companies are adding a second option for users the chance to have unlimited free dialing from home. Users can either buy a phone that seamlessly hops onto WiFi…

I’ve had a very odd weekend. First, I’ve taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article. But a bigger issue is that the…

As expected, Facebook announced that they will be launching Facebook Chat this week. The announcement, made via a post on The Facebook Blog, says that the rollout will be slow,…

Mattel and RealNetworks have released a legal version of Scrabble for Facebook. Who cares? Brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who have created Scrabulous, a very popular…

Visivo Communications, parent company of Qik, has received $3 million in series B funding according to MG Siegler of VentureBeat. The new round of funding was received from MBQI,…

Barnes & Noble? Tower Records? Buggy-whip makers? Amazon (AMZN) feels your pain. A decade after Amazon's explosive entrance into book and music retailing dented big retailers and…

The FCC cut off its nose to spite its face this week when it rejected Fox's indecency ruling appeal on the grounds that it was too long. The capricious ruling means the two parties…

We’ve all seen the usual success story: a 20-something programmer gets an idea, launches a website, and within months he’s already got huge traffic, multi-million…

The unofficial craigslist blog is getting free advertising with a side of legal threats, now that craiglist has deemed the site's existence as a threat to its trademark. Excerpt…

Update: Facebook has confirmed that it will be conducting a slow, gradual rollout of Facebook Chat, and tells users to expect “fairly soon to notice our Chat bar at the…