The US Senate last night passed a bill that would extend the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits local governments from taxing Internet connections, for seven years. About two Continue reading »

A Mozilla Labs blog post yesterday announced Prism, an application that takes web apps to the desktop. Prism isn't a proprietary platform, but rather gives any web application that runs Continue reading »

This morning we published a great piece by my colleague Alex Iskold that asked if Google should be afraid of Facebook. Alex concluded that, no, Facebook is not in the Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Poll_US_Attitudes_About_Internet_Are_Insane'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Zogby International and 463 Communications released the results last night of an interesting and well executed poll about the attitudes Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Since_when_did_a_Fake_Blogger_Steve_become_a_Reliable_Source'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There are not one, but two stories on Techmeme this morning broken by Fake Steve Jobs, a.k.a. Forbes' Daniel Lyons. Continue reading »

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digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Should_Google_be_afraid_of_Facebook'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; In the latest issue of Fortune magazine, Josh Quittner wrote a page length article entitled Look Who's Worried Now (online Continue reading »

Last week while in San Francisco I got the chance to visit Current's offices, to check out the launch of their new Current.com website. I spoke to Robin Sloan (Online Continue reading »

We wrote earlier this morning that Google and Microsoft were competing for a stake in Facebook, the super-hot social networking platform. Earlier, the NY Post was reporting that Google was Continue reading »

There are more and more ways to get your instant messaging done, with a large number of new online and offline clients from third parties. With so many instant Continue reading »