Faster Forward - Technology News, Observations and Occasional Rants by The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro - May 24, 2009

Going Mobile With Web Radio

If you think you've read bits of today's column on Web radio, before, you have. Here's the list of ingredients, as they appeared in my blog: * Interactive Web-radio services do a really good job of exposing people to new music. (Notice how many of the comments start with a...

AOL Developments And A New Microsoft Search Engine: What Year Is This?

Two names are dominating tech news today: AOL and Microsoft. But if it's 1999, why is there a hybrid car in my driveway and a flat-panel TV inside my house? AOL has returned to the headlines because its owner, Time Warner, has now publicly acknowledged the inevitable by announcing that...

Microsoft Reveals Next Zune Player -- Months In Advance

Late yesterday, Microsoft announced the next move in its long-running, thus-far-unsuccessful campaign to chip away at the iPod's dominance of the media-player market. The new Zune HD will ship this fall at a price not yet revealed and will share some key features with Apple's iPod Touch (assuming that Apple...

Apple Backs Down In Latest iPhone App Store Drama

You just can't make this stuff up: A developer of a book-reader program for Apple's iPhone had his application blocked from the market for weeks because somebody might use it to read an approximately 1,800-year-old dirty book. Edinburgh, Scotland-based developer (and former Apple employee) James Montgomerie wrote an e-book app...

Faster Forward: May 24, 2009 - May 30, 2009

Going Mobile With Web Radio

AOL Developments And A New Microsoft Search Engine: What Year Is This?

Microsoft Reveals Next Zune Player -- Months In Advance

Apple Backs Down In Latest iPhone App Store Drama