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Undead Tech: Apple's Magic Mouse Has Trackball Bad-Assitude

In fact, if you look at how your hand is supposed to use Magic Mouse, which Apple released last month and updated for Windows this week, it's really not a mouse at all. To your fingers, it's more like a trackball. The Magic Mouse asks you to draw your ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Logitech,  eBay Inc.,  New York Yankees

Microsoft Opens Surface "Interactive Table" SDK for Free

Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to the public. It will ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Chrome OS is Still Not an Attack on Windows

Google's OS was sneak peeked today at the Googleplex. The Wall Street Journal digital called it a "direct challenge to Microsoft Windows." Really? Let's clear up some confusion once and for all: Putting the word "OS" after something doesn't mean it's a ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Wall Street Journal

Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter?

The study, performed by Weber Shandwick, says that only about three-quarters of Fortune 100 companies have Twitter accounts, and of those, many were either inactive or mere placeholders to fend off name-squatting. Few of the companies were following ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Ashton Kutcher

Video Ads on iPhone Will Punish Multiplayer Gamers

AdMob is planning special video advertisements for iPhones that play like movie clips before an app launches. In other words: time to go offline before you fire up that app. (Below, an ad for an EA game plays before a Tapulous app launches.) These ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AdMob,  New York Times Company

P2P Lawsuits "Felt Like Terrorism," Says Viacom Lawyer

Viacom's general counsel says that suing people for file-sharing is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying." Speaking to a group of Yale law students, Michael Fricklas admitted that "it felt like terrorism" when his company and the ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Viacom, Inc.,  RIAA

Why the Times is Wrong to Be Bearish on Palm

The New York Times doubts Palm's comeback in light of recent Android buzz. But Palm isn't competing with Android -- at least not yet. Take the blogosphere out of the equation and put an Android device next to a Palm, and the Palm will win the hearts of ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  New York Times Company,  LinkedIn Corp,  Facebook Inc.

Sezmi Lets You Ditch Cable and Go "Full Hulu"

A new standalone streaming TV service called Sezmi has launched a pilot program in LA, after announcing it had raised another $25 million in funding. So what is this thing? The Sezmi plans to compete with cable and satellite TV by offering live TV and ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: TiVo Inc.,  MTV,  Telemundo,  Sony

New "Microformat" Could Change the Way We Read Online

Imagine this: you visit one of your favorite news sites and the homepage displays a notification that an article you read yesterday has been updated with new information, and a story you read last week has been corrected. The notification enables you ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tim Berners-Lee

The Web's Untouchable Ghost Towns

Spammers can only operate for so long before they're found out and shut down. Once eradicated, they leave a virtual ghost town behind them. Scores of Internet addresses have been abandoned this way, says The Washington Post, creating eerie pockets of ...

From CHRIS DANNEN, Fast Company,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

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