Day archives: December 30th, 2005

Internet porn: China says it’s winning war

From CNet News: China is winning the war on Internet pornography but it will be hard to eradicate entirely as many Web sites are based outside of the country, a senior police official said Thursday. China routinely blocks access to Internet sites on sensitive subjects such as self-ruled Taiwan, which China regards as its own, …

Tech Leads List of Top Brands

From InternetNews: Technology companies ranked among the highest rated brands in a survey of consumers nationwide released this week. The 2005 ImagePower Newsmaker Brands Survey, by branding and design consultancy Landor Associates, and research firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, was conducted earlier this month. “This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects …

Intel Plans to Shift Focus to Consumer Products

From the New York Times: Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital home. Intel’s strategy, based on a new generation of multimedia platforms and chips, will be unveiled next week …

Ten Failed Tech Trends for 2005

From ExtremeTech: We’re guilty of hype. But so is everyone else who writes about technology… So in the spirit of fun and mea culpa, we look at some trends that seemed very real a year ago. Note that these aren’t all trends we predicted, but they were all written about by starry-eyed technology writers like …