SF News SFist Tech Roundup: In Brief Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Vista operating system won't be released until January of next year (link from CNet news.com). Office 2007 is also delayed to come out in tandem with
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Say Uncle! Last week, after Yahoo's share price dropped when the company's profits failed to reach analyst's expectations, Chairman Terry Semel conceded in an interview with SFGate, "Frankly, Google has done a better job than
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: For Great Justice The story is of interest more in terms of its precedent than for any actual privacy concerns. The data cannot be traced back to any personal information of individual users, and Google's objection
SF News SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube? But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of the
SF News SFist Chuck: New Year's Revolutions Best Gadget of 2005 The iPod Nano. As pernicious as my gadget fetish is, I still get more than a little unnerved when people talk about consumer electronics using words like "sexy" and
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Usual Suspects Google bought stock in AOL, after the latter turned down possible deals with Microsoft, and earlier Yahoo and Comcast. Google also made additions to its services by adding GMail access from mobile phones,
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Jet Pens In terms of life's luxuries, pens are a pretty managable one. The difference between the crappy free ballpoint you got from the pizza place and a fancy pants pen that makes everything you
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple revolution
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: format c:\ Intel is jumping on the home media center bandwagon with its new VIIV technology, specifically aimed at creating media PCs. SFGate's take explains how Intel is having to work with content providers as
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Media Is the Message Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them, if Apple rumor site Think Secret's speculation is correct. They're claiming that Apple
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: My AIBO Ate My Homework Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Just Like You They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if the same goes for intellectual property theft and encroaching on other people's business, then a lot of people should be feeling
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Dance and Theater Stage Fog doesn't have anything against dancers, and to prove it we're featuring some of our favorite companies this week, letting them mix it up with theater. After all, San Francisco is a
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Very Brady Bulletin When we agreed to open the SFist Tech Labs to the public with this column, we had visions of writing about new cell phones and PDAs and MP3 players, web applications, and all
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Zeptointerest Apparently the rest of the world wasn't satisfied with our "look at how small it is" defense for the iPod nano, as they've gone and made Apple admit to the screen defect, prompting
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Three Companies Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This week,
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
SF News Monday Morning Quarterback Well, we're damn glad this season is over. Best performance of the year goes to Cal, even if they did get upset by Texas Tech in San Diego last week. Fact is, this
SF News Busy Day Marcia, Marcia, Marcia -- oh, we're just the good ol' reliable Bay Area in Election 2004, no one cares about us -- no one's wooing us, no one's filling up our airwaves with
misc Big Screen Fifteen movies are screening, running the gambit from classic IMAX fair like Whales (about, yes, Whales) to Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey which tours with Stomp. Thrill Ride, which traces the history of roller
