Apple's iPhone will be released on June 11
Ever since Steve Jobs' keynote at the Macworld Expo in January, we've known that the iPhone is being released sometime in June. But we haven't known exactly when. — Now Cingular is confirming that ...
Death of the cell phone charger
A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air. Business 2.0 reports. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — How much money could you ...
Video Games Conquer Retirees
CHATAWA, Miss. — For 133 years the School Sisters of Notre Dame have lived here in a thick forest just up the hill from the Tangipahoa River. In a modest but stately compound called St. Mary of the P...
Office 2008 for Mac hits beta: lush 'Escher' graphics engine revealed
Hello Diggers, MacSurfers, TUAWers and readers of many other Mac sites who are kindly linking to us! We've temporarily disabled comments to help the server cope with the rather immense traffic coming...
Is Google Too Powerful?
As the Web giant tears through media, software, and telecom, rivals fear its growing influence. Now they're fighting back — It's the year 2014, and Googlezon, a fearsomely powerful combination of s...
Lie-Detection Software Could Scan E-Mail, Text Messages
Software could be trained to detect patterns of lies in text for law enforcement, dates, and spouses. — Researchers at Cornell University want to create lie-detection software for e-mail and text me...
Today's Other Malware Threat: IE7.0.exe
Lest you think that the ANI thing was the only thing going on today, you'd miss the other part of today's entertainment. There's a new Trojan spam going around trying to entice you to download MSFT I...
Switched On: Hollywood's remote control turns revenue off
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: — Last week's Switched On compared two devices that only peripherally compete with eac...
Why I Voted For XXX
The ICANN Board voted today 9-5, with Paul Twomey abstaining, to reject a proposal to open .xxx. This is my statement in connection with that vote. I found the resolution adopted by the Board (rejec...
Look at Facebook
Recent traffic statistics at social networking site Facebook are impressive and we're wondering if there's a wider story here. — Facebook tells us the site is seeing about 1.5 billion page views a d...
c,mm,n, the world's first open-source car
Earlier this week c,mm,n (website in Dutch), the world's first open-source car, was revealed at AutoRAI, the Amsterdam car show. The initiative and vision behind the c,mm,n (pronounced "common") come...
Desktop On Demand - New WebOS Launches
Desktop On Demand (DOD) is the latest WebOS to come onto the market. It is a free "online desktop service" that lets you access your desktop remotely. DOD comes with 1GB of free disk space, with ext...
LOOK OUT GOOGLE. NOKIA IS WORKING ON ITS OWN MOBILE SEARCH ENGINE!
With the rumors about Google Phone running wild, what is poor Nokia to do? Well, mobile search is in pretty embryonic stage right now. So if Google want's it's own smartphone, we want our own search...
ICANN rejects creation of '.xxx' domain
LISBON, Portugal — The agency that sets the Internet addressing guidelines influencing how people navigate the Web defeated a proposal Friday to give adult websites their own ".xxx" domain. — Many i...
Amsterdam sold for $50,000
IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Second Life — Going, going, gone. Amsterdam sold for $50,000. Ok it's not the real-life city, but the virtual one created in Second Life which was auctioned off this ...
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Startup Entrepreneur?
If you've applied for a job before, you've probably fretted over how to answer questions like "are you inclined to rely more on improvisation than on careful planning?" or "do you like to create chall...
Alex St John Interview
Shack: Tell us a bit about yourself, and why you thought PC gaming should move from DOS to Windows. — Alex St John: I used to work for Microsoft several years ago, and I was originally hired to hand...
NewTube Is Just The Beginning
Give it up for NBC Universal and News Corp. (NWS ), because in late March the two old-media titans made the biggest splash for a nonexistent product since the iPhone. — Of course, Steve Jobs has a c...
Verizon Creates Its Own TV Channel
If you are one of the select few who gets broadband via Verizon's FiOS fiber pipe, and you live in the Washington, D.C. area, on Friday you will get to watch the telco giant's leap into the content bu...
Belkin In-Desk USB Hubs and iPod Dock Fill the Grommet Holes
Belkin has introduced a new and really cool line of in desk hubs that are designed to slip into those grommet holes on most desks. The trio of products includes two USB hubs and an iPod Dock.
T9space Reports 4 Million Pageviews a Month
We were first contacted by T9space a few months ago, when there was no web interface to speak of and just a simple mobile site that helped you view your MySpace profile on a phone. In fact, it entere...