Microsoft Unveils Xbox 360 Elite
Premium black console includes 120GB hard drive and line of new accessories. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the upcoming availability of Xbox 360™ Elite, a new model of the video game and enterta...
A message to the techblogging elite
"Kathy Sierra" is currently the top search term at Technorati.com. Sierra is a tech blogger here. Yesterday, she announced she would not appear at a public convention because anonymous death threats...
LG Electronics and Google Team Up to Enhance the Mobile Experience
LG Electronics (LG), a leading worldwide provider of advanced wireless handsets and accessories, and Google today announced a global collaboration to pre-install Google's services on millions of LG mo...
THE MICROSOFT MEMO: SOME CHOOSE RADICAL TRANSPARENCY, SOME HAVE IT THRUST UPON THEM
So our grand project in Radical Transparency has hit the streets. It's the cover package of the April issue of Wired, which went on sale this week. The cover, as you may have heard …
WIRED: Transparently compliant
Wired Magazine is congratulating itself on its own exercise in radical transparency. The San Francisco magazine, which this month spotlights Microsoft's effort to be more open, has posted up the brie...
Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday. The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimi...
Google Partners With LG & Mobile Handset Maker Deal Chart
Google has gained another mobile phone handset partnership, this time with LG. As of the second quarter of this year, selected LG handsets shipped throughout the world will be preloaded with mobile v...
How basic is Twitter?
Like so many others in the tech blogging world, I've spent the last few weeks exploring Twitter. I understand that there were lots of people using it before me, and before that, the developers of Twi...
DoubleClick Explores a Sale
Potential Suitors — Include Microsoft; — Listing Is an Option — Online advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. is exploring a sale, and is already in active talks with Microsoft Corp., among other pot...
SAP Realigns Executive Board Responsibilities
Executive Board Member Shai Agassi to Leave the Company — Leo Apotheker Named Deputy CEO; New Executive Council Formed — WALLDORF, Germany, March 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ SAP AG (NYSE: SAP - News...
Joost successfully run on Apple TV
tutorialninjas.net has reported success in running Joost on the Apple TV. There are currently some problems with fonts but I am sure this will be fixed in a near future... right? What does this mean...
Yahoo! Mail gets unlimited storage, Flickr may be next
As people's inboxes continually expand, e-mail providers have been trying to outdo each other to stay on top of the (literally) ever-growing market. That's why, on the verge of the 10-year anniversar...
FCC Testing Web-Over-Airwaves Device
FCC to Issue Findings in July on Whether Unused TV Airwaves Can Be Used for Web Service — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is expected to release findings this summer on wheth...
Why Are Text Messages Marked Up 7314%?
Verizon and other cellphone companies mark up the cost of text messages by at least 7314% when compared to their rates for data transfer services. — Verizon's max text message size is 160 characters...
Yahoo Signs First Partners in Mobile Ad Push
SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday will take the next step to bring advertising to mobile phones by offering publishers of Web sites aimed at cellphone users a set of tools for posting and managing a...
Patent Overhaul now on D.C. Agenda
When Democrats took control of Congress last election, the lobbyists for all the big technology and telecom companies in Washington pulled out their wish lists, ripped them up, and re-arranged their l...
One Picture, 1,000 Tags
WHAT do you see when you see a work of art? — Strolling through a museum, a painting of a shipwreck catches your eye. You are struck by the dominance of blue in another work. Yet another painting,...
FSF releases third draft of GPLv3 for discussion
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the third discussion draft for version 3 of the most widely used free software license, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). — Today's draft in...
Zune Software Update 1.3: Wednesday
<Update 10:17 AM PT> - As of 10:00 am today (March 28), the update is out. — Ok, dear blog reader: Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28, you'll be able to download firmware update 1.3. Mea culpa on commun...
StreetAdvisor Brings Power to the Neighborhood People
StreetAdvisor will launch publicly today after a period of private testing. StreetAdvisor aims to provide a highly detailed view at the local level of any neighborhood, or even street. Incorporating...
Apple, Dell and Sony Added to Bluetooth Patent Suit (Update2)
Apple Inc., Dell Inc., Sony Corp. and five other technology companies were added to a lawsuit over patents covering Bluetooth, threatening their use of a wireless- communication standard that's in mil...
The EFF-YouTube Celebrity Death Match
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held its 16th annual Pioneer Awards Ceremony yesterday in San Diego, with a special treat for all those tired attendees of the Emerging Technology Conference w...
Microsoft and InfoNow Join Forces to Help People More Easily Find Businesses and Access Business Services
InfoNow to integrate Microsoft Virtual Earth within its LocationInsight offering so financial, retail, manufacturing and services companies can easily direct customers to their business.
Skype 3.2 beta for Windows — Send Money with PayPal, video snapshot, other improvements
Send Money with PayPal, video snapshot, other improvements — Skype 3.2 beta for Windows is available from today. If you're adventurous and an experienced Skype user, download now. — Here are the m...
Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service
At Yahoo!, we pride ourselves on helping people around the world (over 500 million of them!) connect and communicate with each other using the vast array of communications platforms we offer. Of thos...
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO! First look at the Xbox 360 Elite
While everyone else is talking about it and showing grainy camera phone pictures from undisclosed bunkers, we figured we'd go right to the source and get you an exclusive video. You think you need it...
MySpace Making $30 Million/Month
In what may be a slight increase to Rupert Murdoch's claim of $25 million/month (which was only ads, not total revenue), analyst Richard Greenfield noted today that MySpace is now generating "in exces...
How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail
I finally got sick of all the problems with Outlook, bit the bullet and transferred all my historical email online. Having spent a few days using "native" Gmail (vs. POP to Outlook) I already feel a ...
How Well is Windows Vista Selling?
I don't care how well Windows Vista is selling. Really, I don't. I give advice to friends and random strangers about the new OS all day long—sometimes it's "you don't need Vista," sometimes it's "yo...
And Now, Something A Little More Frivolous From Zoho
ToonDoo launched this morning, a new site that lets users easily create comic strips with pre-built or uploaded images and text. This is an Indian company, and has the same parent company, AdventNet,...
Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers
Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 — The Apollo team from Adobe is here at ETech, presenting the Alpha version of their new runtime environment - which is aimed at empowering web develope...