Digg founder Kevin Rose is taking the stage at 2 p.m. Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit for a brief “High order bit” discussion. Here, you’ll find our take on his short talk, in real time.

Embarq provides Internet connectivity to about 1.3 million subscribers, making it the fourth-largest DSL provider in the country. It has acknowledged experimenting earlier this year with NebuAd, which intercepts and performs deep packet inspection of what’s flowing through a company’s network in hopes of delivering relevant, anonymized ads.

A trio of politicians in the U.S. House [...]

The Wi-Fi access feature makes Skype a more useful product for people who use the VoIP app from their Mac laptops, and the per-minute payment scheme makes sense for highly mobile users for whom buying access by the hour or month would leave a lot of unused credits behind.

Disruptive Telephony covered other new [...]

And on the other side of the spectrum, a similar ad outsourcing deal with Microsoft could push Yahoo’s price to $26 a share in a 12-month period, Lindsay noted.

Previously, Yahoo’s 12-month price target was set at $26 a share by Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., based on the controversial Yahoo-Google [...]

Apple developers have been having a tough time renewing their
iPhone development licenses, according to reports. For them, the company had some good news Friday: the licensing for all developers has been extended to July 11–one year after the opening of the iTunes App Store.
Now, developers can rest easy because Apple has finally managed to [...]

Titanium is the fourth most common structural metal around. There’s more of it in the Earth’s crust than all the nickel, copper, chromium, lead, tin, and zinc combined. However, the current multistep, high-temperature batch process method for refining the ore into metal is extremely expensive.

(Credit:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory )

“By using a titanium alloy for [...]

• May 4, 2000: $37.12
• May 3, 2002: $8.43
• May 4, 1998: $26.31
• May 3, 2008: $21.50
More seriously, Ellison deserves fair compensation for his labors over the years. Of course, if you ask a dozen compensation experts what “fair” means, you’ll wind up with a dozen different answers. Boring blather about whether Ellison’s a [...]

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Charter Communications, Cablevision, and Bright House Networks have all agreed to develop the technology behind Tru2way.

Sony signed an agreement with the country’s six largest cable companies Tuesday to develop a TV that will receive cable services without the need for a set-top box.

The Japanese electronics giant will make an [...]

So I went to a very sober Web site to discover the definition of this Social Accountability Standard, which seems to be referred to as SA8000. Here it is: “(The standard) measures the performance of companies in eight key areas: child labor, forced labor, health and safety, free association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, [...]

Apparently the couple had left their son in line to hold down the fort while they ran errands. When they came back at approximately 8:30 a.m., they tripled their presence in line, angering those behind them.

SAN FRANCISCO AT&T store, 8:25 a.m.: AT&T invited me and another reporter inside the store to check out the [...]