The Google/YouTube Come-On
Google (GOOG ) and YouTube are dangling nine-figure sums in front of major programming and network players—that is, the Time Warners, News Corp (NWS )s, and NBC Universals of the world. Google calls ...
Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals?
Microsoft Corp. has put a mountain of money behind its Xbox 360 videogame system and is making another big bet on its Zune digital music player. And after years of research, the company Thursday set ...
Microsoft Vista: Companies Can Wait
Corporate buyers may be slow to adopt the new operating system and Office business programs — It's been five years since the last release of Microsoft's Windows operating system, and more than three...
Windows Live Search For Mobile vs. Google Maps Mobile
Microsoft's Windows Live Search for Mobiles just went live last night, and we took it for a spin, comparing it to Google Maps for Mobile, which has traffic and maps as well. It wasn't much of a compa...
WTF Alert: Chinese BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag Player Site Has Guy Posing In Front of WTC Ruins
These BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag MP3 players may be quite stylish, but wtf is up with their Chinese site? The splash page features some one gloved Michael Jackson guy standing in front of what looks like the...
Apple Seeks U.S. Patent for Combo Mobile Phone, IPod (Update4)
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. sought patent protection for a device that may combine a mobile phone with its iPod music player as speculation intensified that the company may sell a so-cal...
Nintendo Wii launches in Japan
According to our row of clocks in the Engadget situation room here at Engadget HQ, it's now past 9:00AM, December 2nd in Japan, which means the Wii has been out and about in its home country for aroun...
Google Properties - The Extended List
This morning I had the pleasure of filming a segment with Bambi Francisco about, among other things, the holiday season, and the dominant role search plays in the online retail sector. Specifically w...
In a Jam: Stories of ISP bad faith and can the government really listen in to your VoIP calls? Yes they can.
My son Channing, who is four years old, recently celebrated Pajama Day at his preschool when everyone — even the teachers — came to school in their pajamas.
MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
A tough California bill that would have prohibited companies and individuals from using deceptive "pretexting" ruses to steal private information about consumers was killed after determined lobbying b...
How to fix your iTunes artwork
I recently learned a little trick that helped me to fix the artwork that was associated with the songs in my music collection. Over the past few years, I've used a number of different artwork importi...
Apple Sells "Refreshed" Laptop Filled With Porn To 11 Year Old Girl
An Apple customer was shocked, shocked, when he bought a Macbook from the London Apple Store for his 11-year old daughter, and the desktop was full of pornographic JPGs. — His friend, a Consumerist ...
New in version 2.4:
ShapeShifter and guiTweak are now Universal Binaries! — ShapeShifter now requires Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" or newer. — ShapeShifter now supports windows with a "Unified" toolbar. These are windows whi...
The Imminent Demise of the Page View
Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view. While it's not the only way to measure the...
A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project
My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Goog...
Cracking the BlackBerry with a $100 Key
and quickly yanked — from a blog entry discussing the future of the BlackBerry device. It is not yet clear why Symantec pulled the paper (the rumor mill says it's being saved for a conference present...
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU
All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4×4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We ba...
New rules compel firms to track e-mails
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into effect Fri...
One laptop for the price of five
I love the One Laptop per Child project (David Weinberger takes one for a spin here) and think the criticism of it motivated by PC nitwittery ('you should solve every other problem the poor have befor...
BitTorrent Secures $20 Million in Venture Capital
Accel Partners Leads Second Round of Financing — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform, today announced it has c...
PS3 to get upscaled DVDs, 1080p/24
Ok, so the PlayStation 3 wasn't exactly the most flexible high def device out of the gate; despite Sony's claims, DVDs aren't upscaled, there's no component out, and from what we've heard, even though...
Nintendo to gamers: "Do not let go of Wii Remote"
Apparently the innovative Wii controller (or Wii-mote as it's affectionately called) is so immersive that games are getting a bit out of hand, literally. Dozens of reports of overzealous gamers dama...
Google Mondrian: web-based code review and storage
Guido van Rossum unveiled his first Google project, Mondrian, tonight during a Python tech talk at the Google campus in Mountain View. Mondrian is a web-based code review system built on top of a Per...