Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS
Disco is software for burning disks that illustrates a new approach to interfaces: It smokes while it burns. If you blow into your computer's microphone, the smoke blows across your desktop. — When...
Microsoft Adds Xbox Games, May Cut Price to Woo Moms (Update1)
Microsoft Corp. has won over 20-year- old gamers, who spend hours a day launching rockets and firing plasma guns on the company's Xbox 360. Now it wants their moms. — To lure them, the world's larg...
A big Google-Apple partnership next week? Bet on it.
I don't typically join the gaggle of folks trying to guess what Steve Jobs' next move is going to be, but for once I can't resist. On Monday Jobs is taking the stage at Apple's worldwide developers c...
Yahoo! Webcam ActiveX Controls
Do I need to update Yahoo! Messenger to the new version? … How do I get the Security Update? … What is the security issue? … How did Yahoo! learn of this? … What is the potential impact? … Who is affe...
Google Universal Search - Video and Maps Benefit
Our column in TIME this week is about Google's dominance of the search market which, as of this week, measures at 64.8% of all U.S. Internet searches, more than double the nearest competitor Yahoo! Se...
Craigslist cuts off Listpic, cites bandwidth issues, TOS violations
Listpic, the visual searching and browsing tool for Craigslist has been blocked from the service as of yesterday. Craigslist creator Craig Newmark posted on the Craigslist user forums to alert the co...
Face recognition set for takeoff in Australia
Despite a series of technical hiccups, the first public trials of Australia's biometric SmartGate project are set to take place in Brisbane in August, six months behind schedule. — In development si...
From Engaget:
of just how little publishing executives understand — Engaget reports that "the head honcho of Macmillan Publishers" lifted a couple Google laptops at a recent BookExpo America, and then when he ret...
1.110V type large picture size
As for electric power consumption of 110V type "HD-110MH80" approximately 220W (schedule). The same as this corporation 37V type liquid crystal television …
QUALCOMM Disagrees with ITC Decision
QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies …
Import ban on 3G handsets could hurt industry
news analysis An import ban on all new models of 3G wireless handsets that use chipsets from Qualcomm could cause a huge headache for several cell phone makers and mobile operators if the matter is no...
Microsoft to push Windows Server 2003 SP2 via Automatic Updates on Patch Tuesday
On June 12, this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will be delivering more than its usual bundle of security fixes and patches for Windows, Office and other products. The company also will be starting...
DOW JONES ENHANCES THE SEVERANCE PACKAGES FOR SENIOR MANAGERS
Dow Jones & Company may or may not be close to a sale, but yesterday it sweetened the pot for managers in case of a takeover. — In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dow Jones sai...
Google launches YouTube's money machine
YouTube has updated their embedded video player to include new features that I think make a lot of sense for Google. The one I find most interesting gives users quick, uninterrupted access to related...
Exclusive: Activision Closes Vicarious Visions' CA Office
Gamasutra has learned that Activision has closed the doors on its Mountain View office, the California-based division of Spider-Man 3 co-developer Vicarious Visions, the New York-based developer that ...
Are You Blogging This? A Web 2.0 Song.
It's a cheap trick, but it works. At least till it's over-exposed. — David Lee King, a librarian from Kansas, has put together a clever music video called "Are you blogging this? A Web 2.0 Song" O...
Dell denies plan to exit LCD TV business
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Dell will sell a wider variety of television sets made by other manufacturers over its Web site but denied reports that it plans to stop making LCD TVs. — A number of industr...
Firefox Tip: Paste multiple lines to input boxes
Paste multiple lines to input boxes — If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a time—meaning that ...
Sub-$100 Nvidia GeForce 8400 to Launch June 19
TAIPEI — According to the company's partners, Nvidia plans to launch a cheap version of its GeForce 8-series graphics card, the GeForce 8400, on June 19. — Sources interviewed here at the Computex s...
Time Warner to make decision on AOL at year-end
NEW YORK — Time Warner Inc. said on Thursday it will make a decision on AOL's future by the end of the year, addressing rampant speculation the online unit could be spun off or merged with another com...
Google and Wild Sanctuary Team Up to Bring Sound to 'Earth'
About a month ago, AppScout reported that Wild Sanctuary was in talks with Google about mashing up their audio files with Google Earth. Success! The Wild Soundscape Tour, a free add-on layer, is now...
Google overtakes Cisco as Silicon Valley's most valuable
Google, the fast growing search engine, has eclipsed Cisco Systems, the router maker for the Internet, to become Silicon Valley's most valuable company. — We'd been waiting for this to happen. — W...
Google Maps: Invading Your Privacy? (Not Anymore!)
With the launch of Google Maps Street View, curious users have found some relatively inappropriate images. In a DigitalPoint Forums post, users discuss the impact of Google Maps Street View on privac...
PSP Slim Details Revealed
944 Views — Back in March, we brought word of a new and improved PlayStation Portable. But what good are the rumblings of new hardware without some of the details? Today, thanks to several sources...
Ham radio group says FCC turns deaf ear to BPL interference complaints
ARRL, the national association for amateur radio, has demanded that a New York broadband over powerline (BPL) pilot be shut down. Citing repeated interference with ham radio transmissions, ARRL gener...
AT&T, Verizon oppose Google airwave proposal
AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two biggest U.S. mobile-phone companies, urged U.S. regulators to reject Google's proposal for the mandatory resale of some airwaves the government plans to auction by J...
San Antonio to test municipal wireless network
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is partnering with AT&T Inc. to build a municipal wireless Internet network serving downtown as a test project that could some day be expanded to cover the rest of the city. ...
Yahoo! Releases Zurfer: Mobile Flickr World-Explorer
Zurfer is a mobile Flickr viewer that is location-aware. The prototype was developed at Yahoo's Berkley Research Center. As Mor Naaman describes it: … Zurfer is free, but to use it you'll need a sma...
One City's Home Sellers Do Better on Their Own
On Williamson Street in Madison. — Home sellers in Madison, Wis., did not get higher prices for their homes using real estate agents, a study concluded. — Study (pdf) | Share Your Thoughts
Hello from the new General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit - Craig Eisler
Wow! I can't believe I'm actually here - General Manager of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit. I would not have guessed this is where I would've landed when I rejoined Microsoft.
The $3,500 USB drive
It's not uncommon to see USB drives that look like they belong in a jewelry case, which makes their prices somewhat less outrageous because they can at least do double duty as a pendant or necklace. ...
Does Digital Fingerprinting Work?: An Investigative Report
Audio and visual fingerprinting of copyrighted video is seen as the best way to combat infringement, but in NewTeeVee's testing this week across multiple sites, it did not work. We were surprised to ...
Journalism isn't dying, it's reviving
Journalism's old guard is in a panic. With the latest bad news — massive editorial staff reductions coming at the San Francisco Chronicle and believable rumors of similar cuts at an already shrunken ...
The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1
A lot of people have opinions about venture capital — the pros and cons of VC, whether or not to take VC, which venture capitalists to take money from, how to get VCs to invest in your company, whethe...
Google Wins Chinese 'Taste Test'
HONG KONG - — Google's Chinese-language search engine surpasses homegrown competitor Baidu.com in technical sophistication, but it trails in the quality of its Web connection and in its grasp of loc...
Wired News Interview With Jason Calacanis, Unedited Version
Click here for edited feature with introduction. — "Wired Interview With Jason Calacanis, Unedited Version" By Adario Strange — Wired News: Will video become a part of Mahalo, or will you remain p...
TorrentSpy ordered to start tracking visitors
A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit. — TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search engine,...
Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
San Francisco (IDGNS) - With Microsoft's monthly patch release expected on Tuesday, scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's computers. ...
Mac vs. PC cost analysis: How does it all add up?
Everybody knows PCs are cheaper than Macs, right? Wrong! (At least sometimes.) — People have been arguing online about how much more expensive Macs are than PCs — or not — for more than a decade (...
Behold the Hand of Fake Steve Jobs!
Okay. I admit it. I, too, am obsessed with the question of who's pretending to be the CEO of Apple (AAPL) on the brilliantly written spoof blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. — How powerful is Fa...
EB presents Menlow-based UMPC platform.
EB (formerly known as Elektrobit) have launched a UMPC hardware platform that is one of the first to be built around the Intel Menlow platform. The device will run Linux (presumably one of the distri...
SALESFORCE.COM: CHOCOLATE ON DEMAND
It's a well-known fact among those of us in the tech industry that Salesforce loves to package free chocolate—and sometimes other swag along with its press kits. It's kind of notorious. So when I sa...
iNokia? - it's Nokia Media Transfer 1.0 beta - for Mac OS!
Here's another big piece of news. Nokia has finally revealed the second half of its Mac OS connectivity strategy, with the release of Nokia Media Transfer 1. beta, adding to the existing iSync plugin...
Announcing some changes at the top
It's with great happiness that I'm able to announce the promotion of Ryan Block to editor-in-chief of Engadget, and my transition to editorial director of the site. It's a move which is long overdue ...