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Samsung unveils Galaxy Spica (I5700), its newest Android-powered smartphone (NewsWire)

Nov 16, 2009 6:30 AM

NewsWire: Samsung unveils Galaxy Spica (I5700), its newest Android-powered smartphone  —  Seoul (Korea Newswire) November 16, 2009 — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider...

Palm Pixi Makes Early Appearance in Walmart Display (Dieter Bohn/PreCentral.net)

Nov 12, 2009 8:40 AM

Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net: Palm Pixi Makes Early Appearance in Walmart Display  —  Tom, a reader and apparent late-night shopper sent in this photo of the Pixi on display at a Walmart in Tenne...

Nokia N900 begins shipping! (Mike/Nokia Conversations)

Nov 10, 2009 3:00 AM

Mike / Nokia Conversations: Nokia N900 begins shipping!  —  GLOBAL - Today sees the first batch of Nokia N900 handsets boxed up and shipped out on their maiden voyage into wild.  The N900 has bee...

60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Nov 2, 2009 4:50 PM

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: 60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy  —  31 years ago, in 1978, the television program 60 Minutes put on an episode about t...

Facebook to Partner With Nielsen (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)

Sep 21, 2009 3:45 PM

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal: Facebook to Partner With Nielsen  —  Facebook Inc. plans to announce a deal with online measurement company Nielsen Co., in a step to address advertise...

Imitation Isn't Always Flattery: Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer ... (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

Sep 17, 2009 12:05 PM

Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Imitation Isn't Always Flattery: Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer To Beta Testers  —  Imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery, and this is certainly the...

The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Sep 16, 2009 9:50 PM

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: The long-awaited DreamScreen tablet computer comes from HP, not Apple  —  Hewlett Packard has beaten Apple to the punch in coming up with a beautiful tablet-like com...

Taiwan Economic News: 9.6-inch, PA Semi Apple Tablet due in February ... (Seth Weintraub/9 to 5 Mac)

Sep 14, 2009 10:35 PM

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Taiwan Economic News: 9.6-inch, PA Semi Apple Tablet due in February, cost $800-$1000  —  We went a few weeks without a tablet rumor - which was scary - but the Taiwa...

Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Sep 7, 2009 9:10 AM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Life Recorders May Be This Century's Wrist Watch  —  Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around y...

Dish Told to Pay TiVo Almost $200 Million Over Patent (Bloomberg)

Sep 4, 2009 5:45 PM

Bloomberg: Dish Told to Pay TiVo Almost $200 Million Over Patent  —  Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp. were told to pay almost $200 million to TiVo Inc. for contempt of a...

Windows phones are Coming on October 6th! (Stephanie Ferguson/The Windows Blog)

Sep 1, 2009 7:55 AM

Stephanie Ferguson / The Windows Blog: Windows phones are Coming on October 6th!  —  In just five weeks, you'll have a bunch of new Windows phones to choose from.  But before we show you some of ...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review (John Siracusa/Ars Technica)

Sep 1, 2009 2:55 AM

John Siracusa / Ars Technica: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review  —  In June of 2004, during the WWDC keynote address, Steve Jobs revealed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to developers and t...

Yahoo! to acquire Maktoob.com (Dylan Bowman/Maktoob Business)

Aug 25, 2009 3:05 AM

Dylan Bowman / Maktoob Business: Yahoo! to acquire Maktoob.com  —  Yahoo! has agreed to acquire Maktoob.com, the Arab world's largest online community, marking the first major investment by a U.S...

More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Aug 17, 2009 10:25 AM

Kara Swisher / BoomTown: More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars  —  It looks like the local market is heating up even more, with MSNBC.com announcing the acquisiti...

Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)

Aug 17, 2009 1:02 AM

Ernesto / TorrentFreak: Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone  —  In common with music and movies, it's not that hard to copy a website.  It might take some serious server power to s...

Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

Aug 15, 2009 10:30 AM

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Phil Schiller Is A Man On A Mission: To Save The App Store  —  As Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, you'd have to imagine that Phil Schiller i...

Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS (Elinor Mills/CNET News)

Jul 30, 2009 2:25 PM

Elinor Mills / CNET News: Researchers attack my iPhone via SMS  —  LAS VEGAS—Researchers have discovered a way to take complete control over an iPhone merely by sending special SMS messages and d...

Correcting follower and following counts (Twitter Status)

Jul 24, 2009 10:00 AM

Twitter Status: Correcting follower and following counts  —  For some time, the follower and following counts we display have been incorrect for some folks.  We're soon to push a change that will ...

Apple Sold Twice As Many iPhones As Macs Last Quarter. ... (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

Jul 21, 2009 5:10 PM

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Apple Sold Twice As Many iPhones As Macs Last Quarter.  And It's Closing The Gap On iPod Sales Too  —  The quarterly numbers are in for Apple.  And once again they're ver...

iPhone App Store 1 Year Later: Apple's Highs and Lows (Jared Newman/PC World)

Jul 10, 2009 4:15 PM

Jared Newman / PC World: iPhone App Store 1 Year Later: Apple's Highs and Lows  —  Apple may enjoy smugly tooting its own horn, but it is particularly puffed-up today while celebrating a year of t...

Employee Shot at Arlington Apple Store (WJLA-TV)

Jul 3, 2009 12:05 PM

WJLA-TV: Employee Shot at Arlington Apple Store  —  ARLINGTON, Va. - An employee at an Apple store in Arlington's upscale Clarendon section is recovering from a gunshot wound.  —  Police say the ...

Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads (Bryan Barletta/Medialets)

Jun 24, 2009 2:35 PM

Bryan Barletta / Medialets: Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads  —  Just 18 days after the launch of the Palm Pre, their App Catalog has hit its first major milestone, 1 million down...

Now We're Talking: AIM With Push Support Hits The App Store (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

Jun 22, 2009 5:40 PM

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Now We're Talking: AIM With Push Support Hits The App Store  —  There's been a lot of talk the past few days since the launch of the iPhone 3.0 software about the lack of...

Weekend Webware: DIY keyboard cat videos (Josh Lowensohn/CNET News)

Jun 20, 2009 3:05 PM

Josh Lowensohn / CNET News: Weekend Webware: DIY keyboard cat videos  —  Keyboard cat is a full-fledged phenomenon.  Even my mom knows about it, and I wasn't the one to tell her (Stephen Colbert ...

English's Millionth Word: Web 2.0 (John Battelle/John Battelle's Searchblog)

Jun 10, 2009 9:25 AM

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: English's Millionth Word: Web 2.0  —  For the past few days I've been focused on a final draft of an essay, co-authored with Tim O'Reilly, focusing on ...

Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple (Ashlee Vance/Bits)

Jun 9, 2009 1:40 PM

Ashlee Vance / Bits: Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple  —  Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook.  But eve...

GPS system 'close to breakdown' (Bobbie Johnson/Guardian)

May 19, 2009 7:50 AM

Bobbie Johnson / Guardian: GPS system ‘close to breakdown’  —  Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010  —  It has become one of the staples of modern, hi-tech life: using satell...

Palm Pre counting down to a June 6th launch? (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

May 19, 2009 5:40 AM

Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Palm Pre counting down to a June 6th launch?  —  Know what happens in the run-up to a major product launch?  Rumors are mongered and advertisements are sold, lots and lo...

Craigslist to remove erotic services section, monitor adult services posts [Updated] (David Sarno/L.A. Times Tech Blog)

May 13, 2009 10:40 AM

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Craigslist to remove erotic services section, monitor adult services posts [Updated]  —  Updated at 10:17 a.m.: This post has been updated to add comments from...

Assuming There's a New York Times in 2040, I Hope It's Not This One (Harry McCracken/Technologizer)

May 11, 2009 9:40 AM

Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Assuming There's a New York Times in 2040, I Hope It's Not This One  —  I just went to NYTimes.com, as I do multiple times a day.  A split-second after I arrived ...

AT&T doubling 3G capacity (Kevin Fitchard/TELEPHONY Magazine)

Apr 20, 2009 9:35 AM

Kevin Fitchard / TELEPHONY Magazine: AT&T doubling 3G capacity  —  Tweaks to the HSPA network will bring 3G capacity up to 7.2 Mb/s even before AT&T implements next-gen wireless technologies  —  A...

They're gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

Apr 16, 2009 6:00 PM

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: They're gone!  After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes  —  After a public outcry and the attention of several members of Congress, Time Warner Cable has stopped i...

Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones ... (Arn/MacRumors)

Apr 16, 2009 6:00 AM

Arn / MacRumors: Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones, Depicts Front-Facing Video Camera  —  Apple has been conducting ongoing research into how to further improve their mobile...

Email the way you want it - Nokia E75 begins shipping (Nokia)

Apr 6, 2009 7:15 AM

Nokia: Email the way you want it - Nokia E75 begins shipping  —  Espoo, Finland - The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing the company's best efficiency and productivity solution to the marke...

OMG, OnStar May Soon Let You Twitter From Your Car (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Mar 27, 2009 4:30 PM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: OMG, OnStar May Soon Let You Twitter From Your Car  —  All you Twitter addicts stuck in traffic, some good news.  You might not have to risk your life any longer sen...

Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won't start now (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Mar 22, 2009 5:05 AM

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won't start now  —  My former boss, Jim Fawcette, used to say that if you asked a group of Porsche owners what th...

Social networks 'are new e-mail' (Darren Waters/BBC)

Mar 15, 2009 1:00 PM

Darren Waters / BBC: Social networks ‘are new e-mail’  —  Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival...

Why I Sued Google (and Won) (Aaron Greenspan/The Huffington Post)

Mar 6, 2009 7:25 AM

Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post: Why I Sued Google (and Won)  —  Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought.  It was only in 20...

Apple Introduces New Mac Pro (Janette Barrios/Apple)

Mar 3, 2009 6:50 AM

Janette Barrios / Apple: Apple Introduces New Mac Pro  —  Features Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Processors & High-Performance Graphics  —  Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xe...

Time Warner Cable Reports 2008 Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter Results (Business Wire)

Feb 4, 2009 7:35 AM

Business Wire: Time Warner Cable Reports 2008 Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter Results  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC - News) today reported financial results for its ...

Analyst now says iMacs likely in both dual- and quad-core (Katie Marsal/AppleInsider)

Feb 2, 2009 10:00 AM

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider: Analyst now says iMacs likely in both dual- and quad-core  —  A Wall Street analyst who recently reported that Apple was torn between using dual-core processors and qu...

Google's flub: Do we have a Web monoculture too? (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Feb 2, 2009 6:55 AM

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Google's flub: Do we have a Web monoculture too?  —  Google had a rough weekend and a human error caused the search giant to list the entire Web as malware for a...

Cellphones as Credit Cards? Americans Must Wait (Leslie Berlin/New York Times)

Jan 25, 2009 1:25 AM

Leslie Berlin / New York Times: Cellphones as Credit Cards?  Americans Must Wait  —  A wave of a cellphone replaces the swipe of a credit card in a pilot program involving MasterCard PayPass, rig...

Microsoft expected to deliver Windows Mobile 6.5 OS to handset makers ... (Daniel Shen/DigiTimes)

Jan 21, 2009 3:15 AM

Daniel Shen / DigiTimes: Microsoft expected to deliver Windows Mobile 6.5 OS to handset makers in mid-2009, say sources  —  Microsoft is expected to start delivering its Windows Mobile 6.5 OS (ope...

Inauguration Crowd Will Test Cellphone Networks (Matt Richtel/New York Times)

Jan 19, 2009 7:15 AM

Matt Richtel / New York Times: Inauguration Crowd Will Test Cellphone Networks  —  The cellphone industry has a plea for the throngs descending on the nation's capital for the presidential inaugu...

Aussie Google phone launch aborted (The Age)

Jan 16, 2009 6:15 AM

The Age: Aussie Google phone launch aborted  —  Ruslan Kogan. Asher Moses  —  The Melbourne consumer electronics maker who promised to release the first Google phone in Australia by the end of th...

What If Steve Jobs Doesn't Come Back to Work? (Saul Hansell/Bits)

Jan 15, 2009 10:05 AM

Saul Hansell / Bits: What If Steve Jobs Doesn't Come Back to Work?  —  We don't know what's wrong with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive.  But it's got to be serious.  You don't take a six-m...

Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches (Times of London)

Jan 11, 2009 8:40 AM

Times of London: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches  —  Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a ...

Spammers Leverage Battle in Gaza, CNN (internetnews.com)

Jan 10, 2009 2:15 PM

internetnews.com: Spammers Leverage Battle in Gaza, CNN  —  The bad guys are becoming even more sophisticated in their attacks.  —  In a particularly cynical move, spammers are sending out e-mails...

Live Palm keynote coverage from CES 2009 (Ryan Block/gdgt live)

Jan 8, 2009 11:55 AM

Ryan Block / gdgt live: Live Palm keynote coverage from CES 2009  —  This is it for Palm.  Today's launch will either mark the beginning of the company's second coming — or the beginning of the e...

Refocusing on our mission (One Laptop per Child)

Jan 7, 2009 6:35 PM

One Laptop per Child: Refocusing on our mission  —  It pains me to post this, and we have striven to avoid this over the past few months, but it is unavoidable.  We are streamlining our operations...

CES: Samsung dives into connected TV market (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Jan 7, 2009 6:35 PM

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: CES: Samsung dives into connected TV market  —  Samsung Electronics is diving into connected TVs just like the other big companies that have made presentations today...

HP unleashes a series of new low-cost computers at CES (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Jan 6, 2009 5:15 AM

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: HP unleashes a series of new low-cost computers at CES  —  Hewlett-Packard is launching a bevy of new products today that show it is designing its products to take i...

TV and Web Marry After Long Courtship (Wall Street Journal)

Jan 5, 2009 11:25 AM

Wall Street Journal: TV and Web Marry After Long Courtship  —  After more than a decade of disappointment, the goal of marrying television and the Internet seems finally to be picking up steam.  ...

Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple (Chuq von Rospach/Guardian)

Jan 2, 2009 8:50 AM

Chuq von Rospach / Guardian: Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple  —  What's it like working inside Apple when the MacWorld announcements are made?  The man who set up ...

SITE NEWS: Top 10 objectively biggest tech stories of 2008

Dec 30, 2008 1:43 PM

Unlike other news sites, our impartial and omniscient news relevance engine enables us to produce a purely objective top story list for the year. Ok, ok, that's not strictly true, in fact manual e...

Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Dec 30, 2008 9:40 AM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown  —  The U.S. economy has likely been in recession for a year, and tech companies have been bracing for a big slowdow...

Correspondence Is Making A Comeback (Fred/A VC)

Dec 28, 2008 10:15 PM

Fred / A VC: Correspondence Is Making A Comeback  —  I was thinking of making a broader point in my “quill pen” post yesterday but ran out of time so I decided to do that with today's post.  —  Be...

iPhone nano knockoffs already on sale in Thailand (photos) (Aidan Malley/AppleInsider)

Dec 27, 2008 4:50 AM

Aidan Malley / AppleInsider: iPhone nano knockoffs already on sale in Thailand (photos)  —  Those eagerly anticipating next month's Macworld and the prospects of a smaller iPhone should beware, as...

The $99 iPhone lives! (Through AT&T, not Wal-Mart) (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)

Dec 26, 2008 10:30 PM

MG Siegler / VentureBeat: The $99 iPhone lives!  (Through AT&T, not Wal-Mart)  —  Some of you are likely upset that we now know for certain that Wal-Mart won't be selling the iPhone for $99, and ...

G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile (Michael Martin/Google Android News)

Dec 26, 2008 7:50 PM

Michael Martin / Google Android News: G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile  —  A replacement extended life battery may be a late Christmas Present to frustra...

Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs (Who da'Punk/Mini-Microsoft)

Dec 22, 2008 12:50 AM

Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft: Rumors of Upcoming Microsoft Cut-Backs  —  Rumors.  Microsoft layoff and cut-backs and Reduction In Force rumors.  That's all I have for you.  Rumors and second-hand ...

Is this the new Mac mini? - An anonymous tip (the best kind). (Macenstein)

Dec 21, 2008 9:35 AM

Macenstein: Is this the new Mac mini?  —  An anonymous tip (the best kind).  Thoughts?  —  Click to embiggen.

RIM calls the Storm "Verizon's best-selling device" - whatever that means (Darren Murph/Engadget)

Dec 19, 2008 8:30 AM

Darren Murph / Engadget: RIM calls the Storm “Verizon's best-selling device” — whatever that means  —  We're still no closer to determining just how many BlackBerry Storm sales have been reversed...

Apple will unveil netbooks next month, says analyst (Gregg Keizer/Computerworld)

Dec 16, 2008 10:55 AM

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Apple will unveil netbooks next month, says analyst  —  Tough economic times demand a lower-priced system, but Apple won't want to cannibalize MacBook sales  —  Compu...

Mystery T-swivel device is really Compal Tabasco MID (Jenn K. Lee/Pocketables)

Dec 16, 2008 8:05 AM

Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables: Mystery T-swivel device is really Compal Tabasco MID  —  Remember that unknown T-swivel device I showed you last week?  The one that all the smartphone sites swooped in ...

Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update may be around the corner (Katie Marsal/AppleInsider)

Dec 11, 2008 4:45 PM

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider: Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update may be around the corner  —  Apple this week is believed throwing the finishing touches on Mac OS X 10.5.6, the last planned maintenance...

Microsoft Releases Open-source Content Management App (PC World)

Dec 9, 2008 8:45 AM

PC World: Microsoft Releases Open-source Content Management App  — Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophistica...

Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)

Dec 3, 2008 4:05 PM

Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook  —  For now, a marriage between Twitter and Facebook is not meant to be — but the courtship between the two Web 2.0 companies could be r...

2,000,000 Pandora iPhone users!!! (Tim Westergren/Pandora)

Dec 3, 2008 7:30 AM

Tim Westergren / Pandora: 2,000,000 Pandora iPhone users!!!  —  At 10:04am this morning we hit 2,000,000 registered iPhone Pandora users!  —  We're hearing all sorts of wonderful feedback from li...

Nokia's touchiest week (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Dec 1, 2008 9:00 AM

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Nokia's touchiest week  —  We've arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers.  —  When we got here a Nokia executive met ...

Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism (Mathew/mathewingram.com/work)

Nov 27, 2008 10:50 AM

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work: Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism  —  Like a lot of other people, I've been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, usi...

Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens (Yahoo! Search Blog)

Nov 26, 2008 2:10 PM

Yahoo! Search Blog: Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens  —  Over the last few months we've showcased a handful of innovative mashups that developers have created using Yahoo! Search BOSS.  The...

Yahoo Launches "Vertical Lens" Search Through BOSS (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Nov 26, 2008 11:00 AM

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Yahoo Launches “Vertical Lens” Search Through BOSS  —  Yahoo announced an expansion to the BOSS technology named “vertical lens” technology.  In short, this al...

Announcing LinkedIn's New Search Platform (Esteban Kozak/The LinkedIn Blog)

Nov 25, 2008 12:50 AM

Esteban Kozak / The LinkedIn Blog: Announcing LinkedIn's New Search Platform  —  I am writing today to announce the full release of LinkedIn's new search platform to over 31 million LinkedIn user...

Google Chrome May Be Pre-installed On New PCs (Sarah Perez/ReadWriteWeb)

Nov 21, 2008 10:30 AM

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb: Google Chrome May Be Pre-installed On New PCs  —  How did Internet Explorer become the number one browser in the world?  Simple - it came with every new computer you p...

Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing (Tamar Lewin/New York Times)

Nov 20, 2008 9:25 AM

Tamar Lewin / New York Times: Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing  —  Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thi...

Help! Iphone snapped my husband's genitals (Nick Farrell/Inquirer)

Nov 18, 2008 6:55 AM

Nick Farrell / Inquirer: Help!  Iphone snapped my husband's genitals  —  Apple says it is a software glitch  —  THE FRUIT THEMED Iphone apparently has a glitch that will photograph your genitals, ...

Yahoo Layoffs Set for December 10 (And, No, Jerry Yang Is Not Leaving Too) (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Nov 15, 2008 6:50 AM

Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Yahoo Layoffs Set for December 10 (And, No, Jerry Yang Is Not Leaving Too)  —  While they're not as significant as the potential 6,000 layoffs at Sun Microsystems (JAVA) ...

How Old Is Your Work Computer? (Business Technology)

Nov 14, 2008 12:35 PM

Business Technology: How Old Is Your Work Computer?  —  It used to be that every three years, workers would get brand new computers from their businesses' tech departments.  But for many those da...

Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider)

Nov 12, 2008 4:00 PM

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet  —  With Black Friday sale information from rival PC vendors beginning to leak online, experts at Barclays Capita...

Xbox 360 Console banning (Major Nelson/Xbox Lives Major Nelson)

Nov 12, 2008 10:10 AM

Major Nelson / Xbox Lives Major Nelson: Xbox 360 Console banning  —  I've gotten a few messages and seen some forum threads pop up on console bannings so I thought I'd post and let folks know what...

Facebook Now Worth About $4 Billion, Revenue Light (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Nov 11, 2008 6:00 PM

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Facebook Now Worth About $4 Billion, Revenue Light  —  Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a sou...

BlackBerry 9530 Storm pricing revealed on VZW staging server (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Nov 11, 2008 6:15 AM

Thomas Ricker / Engadget: BlackBerry 9530 Storm pricing revealed on VZW staging server  —  Ah, now this is a bit more solid pricing information.  Verizon's testman pre-launch site now lists the B...

A Rush for Mobile - When we recently added the ability ... (Wayne Chang/Facebook Blog)

Nov 11, 2008 5:10 AM

Wayne Chang / Facebook Blog: A Rush for Mobile  —  When we recently added the ability to comment on your friends' status updates to the Facebook mobile site, we didn't expect that we would receive...

iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased US consumer handset (Slash Lane/AppleInsider)

Nov 10, 2008 10:15 AM

Slash Lane / AppleInsider: iPhone trumps RAZR as most purchased US consumer handset  —  Apple's iPhone 3G dethroned the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers...

Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars (Dan Farber/Outside the Lines)

Nov 10, 2008 1:45 AM

Dan Farber / Outside the Lines: Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars  —  Google CEO Eric Schmidt is out of the running for the chief technology officer (CTO) position that the Obama administr...

Apple iPhone Chief Claims He Didn't Violate IBM Contract (Paul McDougall/InformationWeek)

Nov 7, 2008 4:55 PM

Paul McDougall / InformationWeek: Apple iPhone Chief Claims He Didn't Violate IBM Contract  —  Mark Papermaster says in court papers that the two tech vendors are not direct competitors.  —  Apple...

AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon (Harry McCracken/Technologizer)

Nov 6, 2008 11:25 AM

Harry McCracken / Technologizer: AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon  —  Here's a bit of cheery news from the Web 2.0 Summit: AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph De La Vega just told inte...

WinHEC: Sinofsky, DeVaan keynotes cover details of Windows 7 (Benjamin J. Romano/Microsoft Pri0)

Nov 5, 2008 2:15 PM

Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0: WinHEC: Sinofsky, DeVaan keynotes cover details of Windows 7  —  Microsoft Windows engineering chiefs Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan are set to take the stage ...

Yahoo Media's Scott Moore and Al Warms to Depart This Week (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Nov 3, 2008 10:55 AM

Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Yahoo Media's Scott Moore and Al Warms to Depart This Week  —  Aside from upcoming layoffs, it seemed as if Yahoo had stanched the flow of major execs from the company.  ...

Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" recording booth outside Apple Store (Sam Oliver/AppleInsider)

Oct 31, 2008 11:30 AM

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: Microsoft parks “I'm a PC” recording booth outside Apple Store  —  Microsoft Corp., engrossed in multi-million dollar marketing blitz to counter comical ads from rival ...

AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations) (Arn/MacRumors)

Oct 29, 2008 8:25 PM

Arn / MacRumors: AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations)  —  AT&T has announced that they are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone subscribers across t...

HP gets serious about Netbooks (Erica Ogg/Crave)

Oct 29, 2008 5:10 AM

Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog: HP gets serious about Netbooks  —  The Mini 1000 MIE has a custom HP interface meant to hide its Linux OS from users.  —  After a brief experiment in the educa...

Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

Oct 29, 2008 4:30 AM

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch: Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed  —  Switzerland-based Logitech, maker of personal computer peripherals, is entering the software market by acquiri...

Introducing Google Earth for iPhone (Peter Birch/The Official Google Blog)

Oct 27, 2008 6:05 AM

Peter Birch / The Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Earth for iPhone  —  Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the Earth arou...

What Tim O'Reilly gets wrong about the cloud (Nick/Rough Type)

Oct 26, 2008 7:30 PM

Nick / Rough Type: What Tim O'Reilly gets wrong about the cloud  —  Technology publisher and Web 2.0 impresario Tim O'Reilly wrote a thought-provoking post today about the dynamics of the nascent ...

If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention? (Leslie Berlin/New York Times)

Oct 26, 2008 9:10 AM

Leslie Berlin / New York Times: If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?  —  IN December, Johnny Chung Lee, then a Ph.D. candidate, posted a five-minute video on YouTube that became an Internet sen...

YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Oct 26, 2008 1:15 AM

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos  —  It's not a big new feature but it's certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a...

Microsoft's Vista Problem, By the Numbers (Steve Lohr/Bits)

Oct 25, 2008 6:25 AM

Steve Lohr / Bits: Microsoft's Vista Problem, By the Numbers  —  Microsoft reported a reassuringly solid quarter in tough times on Thursday, but its Windows business looked weak.  —  The big Windo...

Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users (Charles Wiles/Google Code Blog)

Oct 21, 2008 5:40 PM

Charles Wiles / Google Code Blog: Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users  —  I am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that develo...

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones (David Leppard/Times of London)

Oct 19, 2008 12:36 AM

David Leppard / Times of London: Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones  —  Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their on a national database under government pla...

Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline (Ellen Knickmeyer/Washington Post)

Oct 18, 2008 12:15 PM

Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post: Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline  —  Separately, Sunnis and Shiites Wage Online War  —  Four of the five main online forums that al-Qaeda's media wing...

Start a company in a recession? Absolutely! (Don Dodge/Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing)

Oct 17, 2008 1:25 PM

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Start a company in a recession?  Absolutely!  —  Now is a great time to start a company.  Why?  Because great people are available to join you, VCs are...

Steve Jobs email response re: lack of Firewire on MacBooks (Edible Apple)

Oct 17, 2008 10:00 AM

Edible Apple: Steve Jobs email response re: lack of Firewire on MacBooks  —  Pictured below is a supposed email from Steve Jobs himself regarding the lack of Firewire on the newly introduced MacBo...

Adbrite Lays Off 40% Of Staff, Including Two Execs (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Oct 16, 2008 1:35 PM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Adbrite Lays Off 40% Of Staff, Including Two Execs  —  It's not a happy day at San Francisco-based Adbrite this morning.  The company is laying off 40 employees, w...

Google Answers the iPhone (Walter S. Mossberg/Personal Technology)

Oct 15, 2008 10:50 PM

Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology: Google Answers the iPhone  —  In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a lapto...

11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos? (Rafe Needleman/Webware.com)

Oct 10, 2008 7:15 PM

Rafe Needleman / Webware.com: 11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos?  —  “We are going to lose some good companies.”  That's the warning cry from investors in tech these days.  —  Some we wo...

YouTube Adds Full-Length CBS Content (Abbey Klaassen/AdAge)

Oct 10, 2008 4:30 PM

Abbey Klaassen / AdAge: YouTube Adds Full-Length CBS Content  —  Select Cable and Network Shows Will Contain In-stream Ads  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — YouTube is getting its Hulu on.  The Google-o...

Ning Launches OpenSocial Support. Will They Support Facebook Next? (Vasanth Sridharan/Silicon Alley Insider)

Oct 10, 2008 8:35 AM

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Ning Launches OpenSocial Support.  Will They Support Facebook Next?  —  Ning, the roll-your-own social network, is finally integrating with the Google-le...

Jimmy Wales: The New Wikia Search API "Is Like Facebook Apps For Search Results." (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Oct 7, 2008 10:00 PM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Jimmy Wales: The New Wikia Search API “Is Like Facebook Apps For Search Results.”  —  Jimmy Wales is opening up the Wikia Search engine to anyone who wants their own...

Facebook "friends" Live Search (Live Search)

Oct 7, 2008 3:15 PM

Live Search: Facebook “friends” Live Search  —  Today we're excited for our friends at Facebook.  Now Facebook users in the U.S. have the option to “Search Facebook” or “Search the Web.”  In addit...

Wholesale Internet Bandwidth Prices Keep Falling (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Oct 7, 2008 10:45 AM

Om Malik / GigaOM: Wholesale Internet Bandwidth Prices Keep Falling  —  Sure it's not like back in the early 2000s, when those crooks from Enron were driving the prices of bandwidth down into the...

Are We Sure About Pending Collapse of Ad-Supported Internet? (Svetlana Gladkova/Profy)

Oct 7, 2008 12:10 AM

Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: Are We Sure About Pending Collapse of Ad-Supported Internet?  —  The current economic crisis is already compared quite often to the Great Depression of 1930s.  And whil...

New content to watch instantly (Brent/The Official Netflix Blog)

Oct 1, 2008 4:15 PM

Brent / The Official Netflix Blog: New content to watch instantly  —  Hi, Brent here with some news about movies & TV episodes that are available to watch instantly.  Today we announced an agreeme...

The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead (Nick O'Neill/All Facebook)

Oct 1, 2008 10:15 AM

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead  —  Enjoy this article?  Subscribe to our RSS feed  —  When Facebook released their platform last year, the company generated ...

Apple's digital music showdown (Devin Leonard/Fortune)

Sep 30, 2008 1:20 PM

Devin Leonard / Fortune: Apple's digital music showdown  —  A ruling this week could force online music sellers to pay publishers more money - as an Apple threat to close iTunes looms.  —  NEW YO...

Motion Picture Studios File Lawsuit Against Realnetworks (PR Newswire)

Sep 30, 2008 12:10 PM

PR Newswire: Motion Picture Studios File Lawsuit Against Realnetworks  —  PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The nation's top movie companies filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop ...

AP: The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Sep 29, 2008 1:35 PM

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: AP: The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader  —  The 20th century news and stock ticker used to be one of the most archetypal images of newsrooms al...

Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat)

Sep 26, 2008 2:25 PM

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge  —  Microsoft is quietly readying a plan to make a purchase of the combined Yahoo-AOL, should Yahoo pull off i...

What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Sep 26, 2008 9:50 AM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?  —  Everyone keeps talking about Smule's virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link...

Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google (James Niccolai/PC World)

Sep 26, 2008 3:45 AM

James Niccolai / PC World: Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google  —  Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide “any real competition” for Google in the online search bus...

Introducing Google Moderator on App Engine (Taliver Heath/Google App Engine Blog)

Sep 25, 2008 3:15 AM

Taliver Heath / Google App Engine Blog: Introducing Google Moderator on App Engine  —  At Google, we host a large number of “tech talks”.  These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics ...

Social networking coming to revamped Journal site (Anick Jesdanun/Associated Press)

Sep 15, 2008 12:05 AM

Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press: Social networking coming to revamped Journal site  —  NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is borrowing elements from popular Internet hangouts like Facebook as it...

AMAZON HIRES AD EXEC FROM M'SOFT (Holly M. Sanders/New York Post)

Sep 12, 2008 8:35 AM

Holly M. Sanders / New York Post: AMAZON HIRES AD EXEC FROM M'SOFT  —  Amazon has tapped a senior Microsoft exec to head its national ad sales in a sign that the company is ramping up its online a...

VideoSurf: New, Genuinely Radical Video Search (Chris Sherman/Search Engine Land)

Sep 10, 2008 4:25 AM

Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land: VideoSurf: New, Genuinely Radical Video Search  —  I'm generally not given to hyperbole or breathless enthusiasm when writing about a new search service.  Quite...

"Funnest" iPod ever: photos of the new iPod touch (Jacqui Cheng/Infinite Loop)

Sep 9, 2008 4:50 PM

Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: “Funnest” iPod ever: photos of the new iPod touch  —  You've seen the nano pictures, so here are the new iPod touch photos.  The device is indeed more iPhone-like wi...

TechCrunch50 Livestream: Day 2 (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Sep 9, 2008 4:10 PM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: TechCrunch50 Livestream: Day 2  —  We'll be streaming TechCrunch50 here Monday through Wednesday so everyone can see the conference's demos for themselves as they ha...

Sony Alpha 900, Previewed (dpreview.com)

Sep 9, 2008 3:45 PM

dpreview.com: Sony Alpha 900, Previewed  —  Pre-Photokina: Nearly 18 months after it first appeared as a prototype at trade shows, Sony has announced its eagerly anticipated flagship digital SLR, ...

AT&T U-verse Introduces Total Home DVR, Taking 'When You Want ... (PR Newswire)

Sep 9, 2008 7:40 AM

PR Newswire: AT&T U-verse Introduces Total Home DVR, Taking ‘When You Want, Where You Want’ TV Viewing to Whole New Level  —  Latest U-verse TV Enhancement - Made Possible by IP Technology - Enabl...

RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Sep 8, 2008 12:35 AM

Brad Stone / New York Times: RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier  —  People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring ...

Full PRADA II specifications! (The Boy Genius/Boy Genius Report)

Sep 5, 2008 11:55 AM

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report: Full PRADA II specifications!  —  We just got a heads up from one of our trusty sources, and they've come through with full PRADA II specs for us!  In case you...

Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Sep 3, 2008 4:10 PM

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G  —  Dell CEO Michael Dell said he expects netbooks to eventually be subsidized by wireless telecom carriers...

Chrome - first impressions - I spent an hour this afternoon ... (Rory Cellan-Jones/BBC NEWS)

Sep 2, 2008 12:25 PM

Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS: Chrome - first impressions  —  I spent an hour this afternoon at Google's London HQ getting a first look at its new browser, Chrome.  So here are a few hurried first ...

Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service (Vishesh Kumar/Wall Street Journal)

Sep 2, 2008 7:25 AM

Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal: Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service  —  The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is h...

Google Launches Video Sharing for Business (Liz Gannes/NewTeeVee)

Sep 1, 2008 10:05 PM

Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee: Google Launches Video Sharing for Business  —  Google has found a way to make money from video sharing — but not on YouTube.  The company will add video to its paid busine...

Link by Link: Don't Like Palin's Wikipedia Story? Change It (Noam Cohen/New York Times)

Sep 1, 2008 1:10 AM

Noam Cohen / New York Times: Link by Link: Don't Like Palin's Wikipedia Story?  Change It  —  IN the 24 hours before the McCain campaign put the finishing touches on its surprise announcement Frid...

Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 - Updated: Comcast confirms our story... (Karl Bode/DSLreports)

Aug 28, 2008 4:20 PM

Karl Bode / DSLreports: Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 - Updated: Comcast confirms our story...  Back in May I broke the news that in addition to throttling back high-consumption users to “...

DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)

Aug 26, 2008 2:10 PM

MG Siegler / VentureBeat: DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters  —  The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyo...

Ad serving for everyone (Alex Vogenthaler/Inside AdSense)

Aug 26, 2008 10:15 AM

Alex Vogenthaler / Inside AdSense: Ad serving for everyone  —  Back in March, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with ...

As Facebook hits 100 million user mark, twenty percent have already ... (Eric Eldon/VentureBeat)

Aug 26, 2008 3:05 AM

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat: As Facebook hits 100 million user mark, twenty percent have already opted in to the redesign  —  Will Facebook users like the redesign?  The company made a big gamble in...

Microsoft invests in Net video company Move Networks (Stefanie Olsen/CNET News.com)

Aug 25, 2008 5:50 PM

Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com: Microsoft invests in Net video company Move Networks  —  Microsoft has invested in Internet TV company Move Networks for an undisclosed sum, in a move to broaden th...

Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

Aug 25, 2008 8:20 AM

Brian Stelter / New York Times: Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo  —  Steve Ferguson woke up early on Friday — 3 a.m. to be exact — to watch his stepdaughter Margaux Isaksen, a 16-ye...

Kevin Rose unearths redesigned iPod nano, digs for more? (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Aug 23, 2008 10:40 AM

Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Kevin Rose unearths redesigned iPod nano, digs for more?  —  Kevin Rose of Digg origins claims to have the scoop on the latest iPod nano.  Mind you, this is the same Kev...

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP (Kelly Fiveash/The Register)

Aug 19, 2008 1:25 PM

Kelly Fiveash / The Register: A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP  —  Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built ...

MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details (Apple)

Aug 18, 2008 7:20 PM

Apple: MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details  —  Learn about the 60-day extension to MobileMe subscriptions that Apple is providing to eligible members free of charge.  —...

Android wants to be on any device, not just your phone (VentureBeat)

Aug 16, 2008 4:00 AM

VentureBeat: Android wants to be on any device, not just your phone  —  Google's much anticipated Android mobile phone operating system, due to launch within the next few weeks, may actually be m...

Smartphone Is Expected via Google (New York Times)

Aug 15, 2008 1:55 AM

New York Times: Smartphone Is Expected via Google  —  T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's ...

VMware licensing bug blacks out virtual servers (InfoWorld)

Aug 12, 2008 5:05 PM

InfoWorld: VMware licensing bug blacks out virtual servers  —  A bug in VMware's newest software update has blocked corporate users from starting their virtualized servers Tuesday, according to re...

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