Imagine if astute political observer and philosopher Niccol? Machiavelli parachuted back into our world to see all the strange new media specimens of Earth twittering away during their idle moments.
How would he react? What would he conclude?

Pete Blackshaw, whose professional background encompasses public policy, interactive marketing, and brand management, is executive vice president of strategic services for Nielsen Online, a combination of Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a firm Pete helped…

The U.S. House today passed by an overwhelming margin a bill that would allow the government to seize a person's computer if the machine has one illegally downloaded mp3 on it. This was passed under the guise of strengthening intellectual property laws and was lobbied heavily by the RIAA and MPAA.

(ii) Any property constituting or derived from any proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of a violation of subsection (a).

Moves by Google, Facebook and MySpace Point to Crumbling Walls in the Social-Media Space.

Will consumer electronics marketers be prepared for a rush of millions of analog TV owners who will lose their TV signals in February 2009? It's a major issue at CES.

Lifehacker.com: The Ubuntu Unleashed blog has an excellent guide to the ins and outs of the Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw), a new feature in Ubuntu Linux 8.04, or Hardy Heron, that makes it easy to control the traffic into and out of your system. While turning on the firewall is as simple as typing sudo ufw enable, you can do a lot more with ufw…

Here is an overview on howto use ufw the Uncomplicated Firewall:Lets turn UFW on:sudo ufw enableWhen you initially turn the firewall on, it is in ACCEPT mode, and will accept everything incoming and outgoing until you make rulesets.The simple…

HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for just about $14 billion, or $25 per share. The deal has been approved by both companies’ boards of directors, and is expected to close in the second half of this year.

Windows Server 2008 is not intended to be a “one size fits all” solution and Microsoft relies on third-party solutions to enhance and extend Windows Server 2008 to accommodate functions like auditing, backup and recovery. Here, we…

This seems interesting

Most services I’ve seen are just basic. I mean that they still use univariate (descriptive) statistics to analyze web data. Perhaps the advanced analytics is just around the corner for those services mentioned in this article….

It's well known that failed hard drives can be recovered, but few people actually use a recovery service because they're expensive and not always successful. Geek.com has an article walking through a drive recovery handled by DriveSavers. The recovery team did not give away many secrets, but they did reveal a number of insights into the process.

Still not believing that it was time to throw in the towel, I remembered a company that specializes in recovering dead hard drives: DriveSavers. I dialed them up and after answering a series of questions, I was quoted a range with an estimated…

Google has released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a Webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube

Google has an increasing stable of software that runs on people's computers–Google Desktop is one good example–and is working on mobile phone applications, too, through its Android project. But don't be confused by all…

Windows is getting better, albeit with SP hick-ups, but the Linux desktop is still the best desktop.

To take one example of why I'm in no danger of switching to Windows anytime soon, security continues to be a fundamental problem in any variety of Windows starting with Windows for Workgroups to Vista SP1 and Server 2008. In fact, the newest…

Want a data-only plan for your iPhone? Hacktivate your iPhone with a Pay As You Go plan and add the new “Unlimited Media Net” feature package each month. You must watch your dates and times carefully to avoid reverting to standard data charges. You end up with a contract-free unlimited-data iPhone with the option of making calls @$20/mo

I read about this on another blog several days ago. I have an unused 8gb iPhone and thought I'd give it a try. The other site only used a $25 SIM card to start the deal going, so that's what I did. I ran into a few $ costing issues playing…

It is now your time to tell us why your favorite language is the best. If you cannot do it in 160 characters (one tweet), then get off your soapbox. Creativity is welcome.

c#, it has the power of dynamic languages, sql(linq), and the user base to boot. it constantly has new items being added to it and can do the web, desktop, and even be used to create javascript with script#. did i mention with mono it can…

Bournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system. More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset town will benefit from internet speeds up to 100Mbps under the scheme, considerably faster than consumer broadband speeds on the market.

He added: “Many households and broadband customers in the UK have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th Century that just can't cope with demand.”

I started cycling through combinations and wouldn't you know it… 5937… *click*. The iPhone was unlocked.

I adjusted a few icons on her iPhone for her and returned the phone to her. She cleaned the screen again and locked it. A few seconds later, she received a SMS message and unlocked her phone. After logging into her phone she handed it to me and…