ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard
Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardiza...
Touch-screen iPod to take center stage
Apple will at last unveil a touch-screen iPod with a 3.5-inch display at its media event Wednesday, sources have confirmed, some 20 months after Think Secret first broke word of the device's developme...
A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers
As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform. We are very excited about how this is coming together. It has a modern flexible UI, instant perform...
iPhone Becomes Leading U.S. Smart Phone Model in July
Apple Inc.'s iPhone outsold all smart phones in the United States during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to iSuppli Corp. The iPhone accounted for 1.8 percent ...
Evidence of GDrive in Google Apps
Rumors of an online storage solution from Google have been circulating for years. These rumors became stronger in July last year when references to Platypus and GDrive were accidentally made availabl...
Wikipedia Bans Overstock.com
This appears to be a two-items-on-Overstock.com day. Well, it's not for nothing that they call this sleazy Internet retailer "the gift that keeps on giving." — It seems that one of Judd Bagley's "b...
Google's Newest Role: Venture Capitalist
The tech giant's startup investments are narrowing opportunities for VCs. Other corporations are upping their venture investing, too — Just as it has done to companies in the software, publishing, ...
Sony edits Wikipedia, downplaying Halo 3's graphics
The Internet sees everything. It used to be you were safe to strike out at your enemies via Wikipedia edits, but with the advent of WikiScanner, those days are over. Which is why we're discussing a ...
Say 'Goodbye' To The Desk - Dell Launches Its Most Powerful Mobile Workstation Yet For On-The-Go Professionals
Dell Precision M6300 Model Delivers Performance, Features to Create, Analyze, Design — Dell today introduced a mobile workstation, the Dell PrecisionTM M6300 …
Days after closing music store, Sony eyes video downloads (again)
The video download business has been somewhat of a rocky one as of late, but that isn't stopping Sony from considering joining in on the fun. The company is rumored to be planning the service so that...
Why So Many Want to Create Facebook Applications
Site's Growing Ranks — Seen as Potential Source — Of Revenue, Customers — Another online gold rush is on. Entrepreneurs are scrambling to create small software programs for Facebook Inc.'s soci...
NBC says goodbye to Apple, hello to Amazon
NBC Universal didn't waste any time replacing Apple. — Episodes of The Office and Heroes will begin appearing at Amazon's Unbox starting next Monday, according to a statement released by the compani...
Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone
Apple might start making enterprise-class iPhones or incorporate more enterprise-friendly features into existing models, a Gartner analyst has predicted. — Gartner previously dismissed the idea of i...
Expert: Open XML Loses Standards Battle
Standards maven Andrew Updegrove predicts that the ISO will announce that Microsoft's Open XML failed to be voted in as a standard. — Standards expert and attorney Andrew Updegrove has predicted tha...
Price Drop
Some of you may have already heard, but tomorrow we're dropping the suggested retail price for Zune to $199. It's part of the normal product lifecycle, something we've had on the books for months. W...
Sony to Challenge Apple In TV, Movie Downloads
CEO Stringer Sees Video — As Key to Reclaiming — Title as No. 1 Innovator — TOKYO — Two years after taking the helm of Sony Corp., Chief Executive Howard Stringer is quietly preparing a big move...
Radio iPods expected on Wednesday
New iPods designed to support digital radio — Apple is expected to launch a new range of iPods this week designed to receive digital radio. — The company will make an announcement about the new pr...
A Space for Us
I first ventured onto MySpace this winter. After a few minutes of exploring, I clicked into a profile posted by a girl smashed on vodka. Her photo showed her slumped across her desk, blond hair fann...
Mozilla Revives Eudora...You Remember Eudora, Don't You?
Eudora, the email client that introduced many in the earlier days of the internet to email, officially died May 1, although not that many people noticed. Qualcomm decided to open source the Eudora co...
The Word "LINUX" is inappropriate in XBOX Live
I love Linux and the XBOX 360, so yesterday I tried to include the word "LINUX" in the motto section on XBOX Live. I was stunned when I got a message saying "Your motto contains inappropriate languag...
Sony Ericsson loses head
Miles Flint, president of Sony Ericsson, has stepped down to spend more time with his money; to be replaced by Dick Komiyama, current chairman of the board at Sony Electronics, USA. — When Flint too...
Indian bank site back online after malware attack
On blocks since Friday after compromise and infections discovered — The Web site of Bank of India, one of India's leading banks, was restored early Tuesday. The bank has closed the site on Friday a...
Compromised Emails Lead To IE Exploiter Tool
Sometimes, it's impossible to know where an investigation will take you. And though your initial focus might change somewhat, every now and again the focus will change so dramatically that what you e...
Another Tool To Map Website Visitors
Good things come in pairs, I guess. Yesterday I wrote about FeedJit's new visitor mapping widget. Today, whos.amung.us, a real time traffic widget that we covered back in March, released a Flash bas...