First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside
The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop location...
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Citation: boyd, danah. 2007. "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace ." Apophenia Blog. June 24 . http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ ClassDivisions.html — (If you have com...
Intel revs up FSB speeds with Core 2 Duo E6750
NDAs dropped today on Intel's latest dual-core offering, the Core 2 Duo E6750. The CPU is a close cousin to the E6700, clocked at the same 2.66GHz speed but with a faster 1333MHz bus. In fact, it's ...
SOURCE: Local.com
Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company has been awarded patent number 7,231,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the process o...
Exonerated defendant sues RIAA for malicious prosecution
Former RIAA target Tanya Andersen has sued several major record labels, the parent company of RIAA investigative arm MediaSentry, and the RIAA's Settlement Support Center for malicious prosecution, a ...
Odds Given on iPhone Failure
When the long-awaited iPhone hits store shelves this week, no doubt many Apple enthusiasts will adopt early as they've done in the past with other products from the company. But just how crazy it get...
TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash
One Tuesday morning in early May, Michael Arrington was sound asleep in his bedroom in Atherton, California, when three men burst in. Naturally, he was startled. His first reaction, he recalls, was ...
Victim of Dropped RIAA Lawsuit Sues RIAA, Alleges Illegal Investigation of US Citizens
Tanya Andersen, who had been defending herself against a debilitating RIAA lawsuit for about two years before the RIAA dropped its case, has launched a bigtime offensive against her former accusers …
Google Apps Gets Mail Migration, Dozens of New Features
This week we're adding mail migration to Google Apps, Google's web-based platform for communication and collaboration. This is one of more than 30 features and updates to the service we've rolled out...
Plaxo looks to social networking market
Online address book provider Plaxo has introduced a major overhaul in an effort to catch up with networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. — Plaxo has released Plaxo 3.0, an online address boo...
Murdoch Said to Be Close to Terms on Journal
The News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, and advisers for Dow Jones and its controlling Bancroft family were close last night to agreeing on terms designed to protect The Wall Street Journa...
Google Seeks to Extend Microsoft Antitrust Decree
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—Google Inc. asked a federal judge on Monday to extend the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in order to address competition concerns ...
Vonage: The Last Stand
Vonage, the beleaguered VoIP service provider is in court today, trying to defend its position that it doesn't infringe on Verizon's patents. If Vonage loses, then things get really tough for the com...
Google To Acquire GrandCentral
Google is in acquisition discussions with telephone management startup GrandCentral, we've learned, and we have a high degree of confidence that the deal has actually been closed. We are trying to na...
Blinkx raises the stakes in online video
Blinkx ('blinks'), the transatlantic video search engine, has beaten Google, Yahoo! and MySpace to a big technology punch by going live with a system that "listens" to speech in clips in order to allo...
SAMSUNG Mass Producing Industry's First 1.8-inch, 64GB Solid State Drive, Targeted for Notebook PCs
Seoul, Korea - June 25, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives …
IPhone Euphoria May Lead to Investor Disappointment
Apple Inc., whose market value passed $100 billion in May as euphoria mounted over its iPhone, may be facing investor expectations that are too high. — Apple may sell as many as 200,000 iPhones in t...
Court: More time for a Vonage work-around?
Editor's note: This story was updated at 9:20 a.m. PST. — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court weighing the patent case that Verizon filed against Vonage heard arguments on Monday for an hour withou...
Apple basks in iPhone buzz
news analysis As iPhone Week dawns, one thing is clear: marketing is a lot easier—and cheaper—if you let other people do it for you. — Some day business students will look back at the first half of ...
Plaxo 3.0: Bringing web and desktop PIM together like never before
For about a month now, the kind folks at Plaxo have allowed us to play with the beta of Plaxo 3.0, a major update to their unique service that takes the 'management' out of desktop + online PIM.
Local.com gets a patent for local search
Ever wonder who owns the patent for local search? Of course not, because being able to search for local restaurants, transportation, or classified listings online is kind of too obvious to be patente...
A smooth Apps move
Posted by Vikaram Gupta, Software Engineer, Google Apps — Today, it becomes a lot easier for organizations and schools to start using Google Apps email services without leaving any of their valuable...
Google Reader Suffers Down Time
Google Reader, the market leading RSS reading platform according to some reports, appears to have suffered from technical difficulties resulting in feeds not refreshing from around 11pm US PST Sunday....
Wi-Fi Alliance® Begins Testing of Next-Generation Wi-Fi Gear
Wide range of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n draft 2.0 products expected to be available in time for back-to-school purchases — WI-FI ALLIANCE® BEGINS TESTING NEXT-GENERATION WI-FI GEAR
blinkx Wants to Match Ads to Videos Too
blinkx, the publicly traded video search engine, today announced AdHoc, a video ad platform first reported by the Next Net last week. — The company is touting the product as "AdSense for Video," mat...
Nokia Eseries business devices broadly available in U.S.
White Plains, New York - Nokia today announces the availability of Nokia Eseries business devices in the U.S. through a variety of channels, allowing both business and individual users to obtain enter...
Waiters Wanted
It seems there's more people looking for iPhone waiters on Craigslist than waiters available to wait. — In New York especially, waiters are in high demand. One particularly desperate guy wants his ...
Symantec offers free software as amends for antivirus snafu
Not enough for some; "They call this compensation?" asks Chinese user — Five weeks after an errant virus update crippled thousands of Chinese PCs, Symantec Corp. has decided to compensate users by g...
Yahoo sales chief quits in reshuffling
The Internet firm will combine its search and display ad departments. — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. said Sunday that its chief domestic sales officer had resigned and that the company would merge its...
U.S. lags behind leaders in Internet speed
A communications workers union advocates measures to improve Americans' access to faster broadband connections for medical, educational and business purposes. — Forget how far the nation is falling ...
Blade Runner at 25: Why the Sci-Fi F/X Are Still Unsurpassed
A quarter-century after Ridley Scott's dark vision of the future changed the face of filmmaking, special-effects maestro and MythBuster Adam Savage offers an appreciation. — Twenty-five years ago,
The Ultimate iPhone Campout Guide: Updated
Our non-agoraphobic cousins over at Gridskipper updated their iPhone Campout maps with five more locations that show you where the nearest food, coffee, Wi-Fi, bathrooms, and hotels are in relation to...
Time for blogosphere to get real about church and state
As they are wont to say back where I grew up, Chas Edwards is a stand-up guy. Full disclosure: Chas is a former CNET colleague who left the company more than a year ago to become the publisher of Fed...
Fujitsu's 12.1-inch T8140 tablet with SSD: 3.3-pounds, 11.3-hours
So you liked the looks of Fujitsu's tiny T4220 12.1-inch convertible tablet, right? Only that 3 hours off battery was a deal breaker. No worries, meet the smaller, lighter, and more efficient Lifebo...
Friendster sees massive 40 percent page view boost in May
Friendster, the early social network that stumbled badly three years ago and gave up leadership status to MySpace, Facebook and others, continues to recover — and its 40 percent page view boost last m...
Four Things You Should Know About Collecting User Reviews
At Internet Retailer 2007, I was impressed with a presentation presented by Geoffrey Robertson, VP of eCommerce at JC Whitney. JC Whitney is the largest direct marketer of automotive aftermarket part...
Portals Can't Keep Upfront Buyers From TV
As media agencies committed billions to network TV last week, the Internet's biggest players appear to have made few inroads when it comes to steering some of those billions their way. — Both Yahoo ...
The man who invented the cash machine
"They're clever scoundrels," fumes John Shepherd-Barron at his remote farmhouse in northern Scotland. He is referring to the seals which are raiding his salmon farm and stealing fish. — "I invented...
When 'Digital Natives' Go to the Library
College and university librarians got some unconventional advice Saturday: Play more video games. — At a packed session for academic librarians attending the annual meeting of the American Library A...
JVC LAUNCHES NEW 1080p FLAT PANEL LCD TVs
JVC today expanded its LCD TV line-up with the addition of four new models that offer 1080p full HD resolution. All four models, in 37-, 42- and 47-inch screen sizes, incorporate an array of JVC tech...
Leader of net piracy gang jailed
A Briton has been jailed for 51 months after pleading guilty to software piracy charges in the US. — From his Australia home Hew Griffiths led the DrinkOrDie piracy group which specialised in cracki...
Report: U.S. lags behind other nations in broadband speeds
U.S. ranks 16th in deployment, availability of high speed networks, CWA says — The U.S. is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the availability and use of high-speed broadband connections...
In DVD War, Both Sides Could Lose
Sure, Blockbuster has given Blu-ray a boost over HD DVD, but the high-definition DVD-format battles could be waged for years to come — When Atsutoshi Nishida took over as chief executive of Toshiba ...
TorrentSpy begins weeding out copyright content
TorrentSpy, the torrent-file search engine accused by Hollywood of aiding copyright violators, plans to use a new filtering system to remove links to pirated content from its search results. — FileR...
Microsoft's anti-virtualization stance: forget DRM, think Apple
This weekend Eric Lai of Computerworld attempted to describe the possible relationship between Vista's DRM and Microsoft's licensing restrictions against virtualization. The view that Microsoft's pro...
Mitch Kapor's Foxmarks To Leap Into Search World
Mitch Kapor likes to solve problems. In the 80's, he was the guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for computers. More recently he decided to tackle a a simpler problem - synchronizing Firefo...
Plaxo reboots, gets in sync
A few years ago, Philippe Kahn, who headed up Borland and started a couple of other companies including LightSurf and Starfish Software said, "Synchronization between various devices needs to happen q...
Murdoch Reaches Out for Even More
In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch's sprawling media empire was in jeopardy. — Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more t...
Yahoo! Names Hastings, Nebraska Greenest City
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced that Hastings, Nebraska, has won its "Be a Better Planet" Greenest City in America challenge. The birthplace of Kool-Aid, Hastings will receive a grand priz...
Lotus leaps into social networking
But will it do Web 2.0 without Notes? — IBM is the latest big company to jump onto the social networking bandwagon, via its Lotus subsidiary which has at last released its much-hyped information-sha...
Google: 'We all have to invent the wheel'
Douglas Merrill first learned about online security while growing up in Arkansas. A natural geek, he spent Saturdays putting together computers with his dad, a physics professor. — While exploring ...
Microsoft working on Voice Search for Windows Mobile
Call Microsoft as many derogatory terms as you'd like, but the company continues to support their mobile platform admirably. Continuing the trend, they appear to be working on an application that wil...