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POPSNY Passes Video Game Label Law Similar laws have been thrown out in states including California and Illinois -- and it's a good thing, because they're absolutely stupid. Why should video game makers be forced by law to label their wares this way, and not creators of other forms of media?
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POPSCourts Strike Down Net Censorship Both First Amendment and pro-tech groups have been hugely critical of COPA, saying that the law is too broad, and would affect news or informational sites talking about mature issues, not just porn.
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POPS"Late Night" Successor Will Debut On The Web So many "viewers" of late night TV actually catch clips of the shows via youtube or other video services in the days following broadcast. So launching a new late night host this way makes a lot of sense.
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POPSiPhone App Store Opens Apple says 25% of the apps will be free for download and use. The remaining pay-for-play apps will be almost all under $10.
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POPSShould You Upgrade Your iPhone? No. Don't forget that despite a $199 price tag on the hardware, a new iPhone will actually cost you more in the long term, because it requires a more expensive AT&T 3G contract.
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POPSXBox 360 Price Cut Coming The price cut comes right before Microsoft gives a big presentation at the E3 conference -- so there's some speculation that they're going to introduce a new model with more power or extra features.
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POPSMicrosoft & Yahoo: Is A Deal Back On? Microsoft withdrew its $33 a share bid in May, because Yahoo wouldn't come down from $37 a share. If they can get the board booted, you can bet that the price will be quite a bit lower.
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POPSFlatscreen TVs Poison The Environment? It's worth noting that LCDs also consume far less power than old-style cathode ray tubes, so over the lifetime of a television, the environmental impact of an LCD screen might be net positive.
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POPSAre Apple's Salaries Too Low? One important points not addressed in this story; if Apple employees are receiving lots of stock options, they're making money that way. Shares of Apple stock were trading under $10 five years ago; today they're around $180.
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POPSFirefox Launch Blows Up On The Pad Mozilla has made a big deal out of their plan to rack up a gazillion downloads on launch day; it's not a good sign that they can't keep the site up for the first hour.
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POPSIs Google Buying Digg? Digg would be a great buy -- but I'm skeptical of Rose & crew accepting a price too far "below $200 million." They've got a huge site with an insanely dedicated audience.
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POPSGoogle Guy Goes To Space Where's Sergey's imagination? I was worth $18.5 billion I'd be building my own orbital mansion, not just renting a day trip.
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POPSThe Webby Award Goes To... Webby Award winners are limited to a maximum of five words in their acceptance speech. Click through for some of the best speeches.
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POPSNew Apple OS Takes Aim At Offices For all of Apple's successes in recent years, the company has still failed to significantly increase the use of its OS in workplaces -- Windows is still far and away the most popular system for companies. So it makes sense for Steve Jobs to target those customers in the future.
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POPSPure Announces New Flip Camcorder The Flip is a really cool product, simple and convenient and smartly designed. Gadget geeks are eager to see if Pure can repeat its success with the Mino -- and whether $179 is a low-enough price point to attract the members of the "myspace generation" it's being marketed towards.
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POPSWhy Your Electric Bill Is So High You know those little black power supply boxes that sit on the cord between your gizmos and the outlet? Those things suck up power even when the device isn't in use, and that drain can add up. It's a good idea to put all your consoles on a power strip and shut them off at the source when you're not using them -- why pay all that money to fuel a device you're not enjoying?
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POPSHow Yahoo Torpedoed Microsoft Bid If the allegations are true, the adoption of this plan is just one of the ways Yahoo sought to poke Microsoft in the eye. Complaints like this one surfacing cant help the continuing efforts to get the two companies talking seriously.
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POPSWhere Are The Dot-Coms Now? These ten profiles are worth clicking through -- it's fun to remember some of these wacky ideas, and probably useful to remember their mistakes (you hear me, web 2.0 guys?)
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POPSMonkeys Control Robot With Their Thoughts I, for one, welcome our new cyborg monkey overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their hydroponic banana gardens.
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POPS10 Cents To Rent A Song? This seems to me like another attempt by the music industry to put the genie back in the bottle. I can't imagine anyone would pay 10 cents to listen to a song under these onerous requirements, when for the equally low price of 99 cents they can download it -- or for free, they can pirate it.
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POPSThe Virtual Girlfriend Yes, this is creepy. But technology that can make a projection react to your movement has plenty of other applications -- think virtual receptionists and computerized coaches or dance instructors.
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POPSNintendo Launches WiiWare Nintendo has a lot of catching up to do in the downloadable game space -- until now, all it has sold is ports of its own old console games. It's interesting to see the company focusing on new and indie developers, but that may not deliver enough buzz to make the service popular.
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POPSGTA IV Sales Top Half A Billion If there's any doubt about the relevance of video games in our society, consider this: Last weekend's number one movie, Iron Man, earned $101 million -- a fifth of what GTA did.
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POPSThe Social Radio This is such a cool idea -- just wait until similar technologies come out in car radios, and you can hear what the guy in the next lane is listening to.
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POPSKodak Embraces Digital Photography That was a bad move for Kodak -- they've been decimated by the move to digital photography and the subsequent implosion of the film business. But the company's come around and is starting to put out a variety of digital products.
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POPSXP and Vista Service Packs Knocked Out The new XP service pack reportedly applies some helpful speed boosts to users' systems, so there's a lot of folks waiting for it. The fact that Microsoft issued a service pack with a major bug in it is not encouraging.
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POPSAverage Web Page Size Tripled In 5 Years Broadband users will have no problem downloading a 213k web page, which is precisely why this is happening. But there are a still a huge number of internet users on slower connections --particularly in the developing world-- and they're being left behind by increasingly bloated sites.
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POPSA Reprieve for Windows XP Ballmer can spin the stats however he wants, but there is still tremendous resistance to Vista both from corporate and home users. Keeping XP as an option would be a smart use, because if consumers are forced to choose Vista, they might buy a Mac instead.
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