Google 2.0: Google Universal Search
Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines a...
Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements
It's Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of...
iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January
This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seein...
Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels.
Patent Armageddon is here
The terrific Fortune magazine story about Microsoft threatening free software groups with patent lawsuits has one thing wrong. — Patent Armageddon isn't coming, as the magazine suggests. — It has ...
Sony In Advanced Talks To Buy Kids Social Gaming Service ClubPenguin
Sony is in advanced talks to buy the two-year-old kids focused social gaming ( ClubPenguin, paidContent.org has learned. We have confirmed the talks from senior insiders, but have not been able to co...
FreeHand no longer updated; moving to Illustrator
After a long and storied career, Adobe (neé Altsys, Aldus, and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road. The application has not been revised since Macromedia released MX near...
Google Wins Appeal on Copyright of Nude Images
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Google did not infringe on the copyrights of an adult publishing company by displaying thumbnail images of its nude photographs, handing Internet search co...
Warner Music sues social network site for piracy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Music Group Corp. sued Imeem Inc., a music-based social networking Web site, on Tuesday for infringing the copyright of its artists including Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers...
Wi-Fi Alliance® Reveals New Logo
Customers will soon be able to buy interoperable, backward-compatible, next-generation Wi-Fi products — CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2. products sporting an eye-catching …
MySpace responds to states' request for sex offender data
MySpace responded Tuesday afternoon to >the letter sent by eight states' attorneys general Monday requesting the popular social networking site to turn over data pertaining to registered sex offenders...
CUOMO SUES DELL FOR FALSE ADVERTISING, FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, AND DECEPTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES
Lawsuit Seeks Restitution, Civil Penalties, and End of Deceptive Business Practices — Customers Were Pressured to Take Apart Their Own Computers Even After Paying for Onsite Repair Service
HD DVD hopes to lure buyers with $100 rebate on Toshiba players
Hoping to give HD DVD a leg up on the Blu-ray competition, the HD DVD Promotional Group is launching a new promotional campaign. At the forefront of the marketing blitz will be a $100 rebate on some ...
ANS and Security Bulletin Updates
This is Mark Miller again to let you know about some additional changes we are making this month. In April, we announced changes to our blog site. This month we are announcing changes to our Advance...
uLocate Secures $11 Million in Growth Capital Investment
Investment Funds the Aggressive Pursuit of Location Based Services Market with WHERETM, a Ground Breaking GPS-enabled Mobile Application Platform — FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—uLocate Communic...
Bill Gates: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007
Transcript of Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation — Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 — BILL GATES: Well, good morning. This is a very important conference.
Talking Points: Apollo v. Silverlight
TIM FAULKNER — Just confess already. You don't have a clue about Adobe's new Apollo platform, nor about Silverlight, Microsoft's equivalent. You've read, in a crescendo of excitement, Michael Arring...
Porn.com Sells for 9 Million
MXN Limited acquires Porn.com for $9 Million. Terms of the transaction were not fully disclosed, but this is the second largest adult domain transactions behind sex.com. It was not more then two mon...
Get converted
As previously announced, and as indicated by the lower frequency in blogcasting here, everyone at MacBU is exceedingly busy completing Office 2008, which is on track for release later this year. This...
Warner Music sues social networking site imeem over copyright
Warner Music Group Corp. is suing the operators of the social-networking Web site imeem, claiming the portal enables millions of computer users to share its artists music and video content without per...
Microsoft brings Vista to developing world PCs
LOS ANGELES — After a year in trials, Microsoft Corp. is fine tuning its FlexGo initiative for developing world PCs. Partners including Advanced Micro Devices, Infineon, Intel, and Via Technologies a...
Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network
Robert Scoble recently wrote an interesting post, about FOG - Fear of Google (an acronym coined by CEO of eMarketer Geoff Ramsey). I observed this phenomenon strongly first hand at the Web 2.0 Expo a...
Fujitsu Announces the New 'U Series' of Tablet-Convertible Notebook PCs, the World's Smallest in its Class
Weighing only 580g, with a 5.6" widescreen LCD in a small, light body, new ultra-mobile PCs offer advanced mobility and style for business users — Fujitsu Limited today announced …
Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email
What a day for Apple investors. The stock started off strong today on a lot of pre-market buying, despite news that Amazon will finally start competing on sales of DRM-free music. — Then, whoops, a...
PS3 launch hits Sony profits
'Strategic price' contributes to a 68 per cent drop in operating profits — Sony has announced that the launch of the PlayStation 3 has contributed to a 68 per cent drop in operating profits to JPY 7...
Mission as strategy - connecting the dots at Yahoo!
Last year, the executive team at Yahoo! made the decision to re-organize the company with one of the central themes being the evolution of a culture from one largely organized around products, to one ...
Linus Torvalds on Microsoft patent threat: it works both ways
Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds issued a public response yesterday to Microsoft's recent claim that Linux and associated open-source software applications infringe over 200 of the company's pate...
Halo 3 launch date is announced
Hugely popular video game Halo 3 is due for a September debut, Microsoft has announced. — The September release date is earlier than expected and will help Microsoft in its drive to make the Xbox 36...
Bill Gates Announces New Windows Home Server Hardware and Software Partners at WinHEC 2007
Code2Fame Challenge to showcase software and hardware add-ins for Windows Home Server. — In his keynote address at the Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 …
Dell Hell: Computer Giant Faces Consumer Lawsuit
Consumers Allege They Didn't Get the Tech Support They Paid For — Dell is the No. 2 computer seller in the United States, but now some say the technology giant is ripping off its customers. — New ...
Google's Presentation Application?
Dirson reports that some users, myself included, are seeing a "View as slideshow" link in Gmail when receiving PowerPoint files. — Clicking "View as slideshow" opens a new window where you can view ...
GPS enabled rear view mirrow knows where speed cameras are
GPSMirror is a rear view mirror driving aid. GPS mirror uses GPS location to check it's position against an on board database of accident black spots, common mobile cameras, and fixed safety camera l...
Saving Our Digital Heritage
It is commonly agreed that the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. Today, however, the digital inform...