iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT
It's high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of o...
Nokia and Matsushita Battery agree on costs related to BL-5C batteries
Matsushita Battery to cover the direct costs related to the advisory — Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo, Japan - Nokia and Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan are in agreement that Matsushit...
Court orders pirate to use Windows
A man convicted of illegally downloading an episode of Star Wars has been told that he can no longer use his computer with an Ubuntu Linux operating system. — Scott McCausland pleaded guilty last ye...
Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, provides online transit guides for more than a dozen U.S. cities including Dallas and San Diego. Now it may take o...
Mitsubishi working on 3D Blu-ray players, displays
We've seen a couple attempts at large-scale 3D displays that split DLP's 120Hz display rate into two 60Hz HD fields, but Mitsubishi is apparently showing off a slightly more advanced version of the te...
Antigua Seriously Pushing For WTO Approval To Distribute Free Music And Movies
Since 2003, we've been following the saga of Antigua's fight against the US in the World Trade Organization. Basically, Antigua argued that the US's ban on online gambling violated the free trade agr...
Forget iPhone, the Gphone is here
Google, the nearly $13.5 billion search engine major, is believed to be a fortnight away from the worldwide launch of its much-awaited Google Phone (Gphone) and has started talks with service provider...
Nokia battery recall to cost Matsushita up to $172m
Nokia's decision to recall 46m mobile phone batteries is going to cost their manufacturer, Matsushita, up to $172m, the Japanese company admitted today. — Matsushita - better known for its Panasonic...
VC Roundup: FM Publishing, New Leaf & Nixon Peabody
Some scattered VC notes as we head into the weekend: — * FM Publishing, the online ad network run by John Battelle, has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding, according to a regulatory filing. Re...
Coming Soon: A New Look!
Remember the first time that you logged into orkut? Maybe you received a coveted invitation from a friend, heard about it in a blog, or stumbled upon it when searching for a social network on google....
SoundExchange reaches Web royalties deal
SoundExchange Inc., an organization that collects royalties for musicians and record companies, agreed with a group representing Internet broadcasters to cap fees at $50,000 a year per webcaster. — ...
IBM to open source collaboration software?
InfoWorld is reporting that IBM may soon open source key parts of its Jazz collaboration software. Jazz comes from the Rational side of IBM's business, and is a development tool that facilitates code...
IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software
San Francisco (IDGNS) - IBM's Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company. — "We might think ab...
Two Deals Show Skype's Relevance In New Work Space
Last week's Skype blackout and the impact it had on millions brought home the fact that the little P2P voice service has become an important member of modern communications. Two new, discrete bits of...
Ohio Man's Dell Laptop Bursts into Flames
A computer network administrator at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital is the latest consumer to encounter the flaming laptop syndrome. — Douglas Brown said his Dell 9200 wide-screen laptop's batteries expl...
In Primary, Tech's Home Is a Magnet
SAN FRANCISCO — For presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa, the place to be is the state fair. Diners are popular in New Hampshire. But for those visiting Silicon Valley, it's the Googleplex. ...
NY Times Launches My Yahoo Clone A Decade Late
from the 1996-is-calling...-it-wants-its-idea- back dept — We were just wondering why the NY Times doesn't seem to understand the basic workings of the internet, and perhaps the answer is just that ...
MySpace Has What Facebook Will: Ad Targeting
Earlier this week, a lot of attention was paid to Facebook's new advertising platform, in particular how the company was going to let marketers use profile information to better target their ads. It ...
Redesign Preview: True Blue Simplicity
When you think Google, you picture primary colors; when you think orkut, you see blue. And though we're updating the look, we're staying true to blue. We've added some rounded corners and new icons ...
Princeton's itty bitty USB Bluetooth 2.0+EDR module
Remember that crazy small, RF receiver used with Logitech's VX Nano? Meet the Bluetooth 2.0+EDR equiv, the Princeton's PTM-UBT3S which measures just 19-mm (0.75-inches) long. So yeah, it's small, in...
'Hey! Nielsen,' Why Are You Going Viral?
FIRST THERE WAS MYSPACE. THEN there was Facebook. Now the world's biggest researcher is launching "Hey! Nielsen," a new online social community where people can discuss …
Check This Guy Out
Bill Snitzer, one of the tech guys at BitGravity, is driving to Los Angeles and showing it live on the Internet. He's got a webcam up showing the drive and a Google Map mashup with a GPS device showi...
Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading
(InfoWorld) - Google's Blogger team solved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service this week and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to...
Conn. offers high-tech voting lessons
HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut is going high-tech to lure young voters to the polls. — Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Thursday that her agency's Web site will offer a video showing ...
Source: Major Apple event on September 5th
Apple's new line of iPods will indeed be introduced in September, in line with recent speculation and rumors. But contrary to the report provided by AppleInsider yesterday, the announcement will not ...
Nikon and Canon Offer High-End Cameras in Fight for Pro Market
After decades as the undisputed leader of the market for professional 35-millimeter cameras, Nikon finds itself in an unfamiliar position in the digital age. Canon so dominates the professional marke...
Technology stocks swinging back into favor
[Editor's note: This is an Op-Ed piece written by Keith Benjamin, a venture capitalist at Levensohn Venture Partners] — Looking back at the public markets, a few strategies have worked very well ove...
'Second Life' radio station emerges
CHICAGO—One of the predictions in the lead-up to this weekend's Second Life Community Convention here has focused on the potential for lots of talk about organization. — There are plenty of critics ...
It's the Facebook Platform's 3 Month Anniversary
Today marks the 3-month anniversary of the Facebook Platform since it launched May 24 at F8 in San Francisco. Suffice it to say, the pace of innovation surrounding the Facebook Platform so far is fas...
Venture Capital, Rockin' to the Oldies
As Music Industry Sales Sag, — A London Bank Steps In — To Fund Veteran Performers — LONDON — Past-their-prime rock bands are used to being ignored by record labels and mocked by the music press...
The zunePhone
Mark sent us this silly mockup of a zunePhone that his coworker made, complete with the signature commercial music for the iPhone (which is actually called "Perfect Timing (This Morning)" by Orba Squa...
Wii still tops in sales; PS3 gains momentum
Sony dropped the price on its PlayStation 3 in July — from $599 to $499 for its 60-gigabyte model — and got a bump in sales, but Nintendo's Wii continued to dominate by posting its largest monthly sal...
Antigua Seriously Pushing For WTO Approval To Distribute Free Music And Movies
Since 2003, we've been following the saga of Antigua's fight against the US in the World Trade Organization. Basically, Antigua argued that the US's ban on online gambling violated the free trade agr...
Data center efficiency - the good, the bad and the way too hot
Meat Cast Ah, data center efficiency. The big vendors have embraced this topic like an admin embraces a bag of Dorritos. — Luckily, we're here to separate fact from fiction. Episode 5 of Semi-Cohe...
Is the digital pen mightier?
For decades, tech companies have been trying to create a digital pen that appeals to the masses. But after years of effort, the world isn't exactly overrun with high-tech quills. — A new crop of co...
MocoSpace Has Strong Growth; Race To Be MySpace For Mobile
Forget watching the big social networks slug it out for market share. People want to take their social networks with them when they step away from the computer. That means applications have to be mo...