UPDATED: RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry System Dies, Millions Without Email
Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry mobile email system is down nationwide, according to our Sprint rep and confirmed by Boy Genius Report, which says the outage started around 10 a.m. for some T-M...
Google's Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads
When Google launched Universal Search, Marissa Mayer was asked if Google intends to include image or video ads. She didn't rule out this idea and said it's natural to see ads evolving in the same dir...
iPhoneSIMfree shows us demo of iPhone unlock app, back end — now due Monday
now due Monday — So the iPhoneSIMfree guys have some news today. First up, they called to let us know they did in fact delay the launch of their iPhone SIM unlock software (which was clear by the fa...
News: Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons
Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons — Did you buy an add-on display, dock, speaker system, car accessory or cable with video-out for your color 4G or 5G iPod? Were you expecting i...
Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads
On November 9th, 2004, you all started a movement. Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contributors, took just 99 days to deliver 25 million downloads of Firefox to a world of people de...
Mobile phone technology turns 20
The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary. — On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (...
controlling your public appearance
In the last month, I've received almost a dozen panicked emails from people who had commented on my blog at one point or another and were horrified to find that their comment was at the top of Google'...
The Industry Standard is Coming Back, Maybe
As Business 2.0 closes, another of the old names is being dusted off and will possibly make a comeback: The Industry Standard, at TheStandard.com. The now-placeholder site was discovered by chance by...
Apple seeks TV price cut
Download costs could be chopped in half — Apple is mulling a plan to cut the price of TV show downloads in half — an idea that's not going over too well in Hollywood. — According to three people f...
Upcoming Netscape changes
› tags: Community, Netscape, Portal, Social News, SocialNews — To the Netscape Community... There are some upcoming changes to the Netscape.com site that we hope will improve your experience. We'l...
The Puppet Master
I have never before quoted myself at length in a column, but this week's Apple iPhone pricing fiasco calls for it, so here is the beginning of a column I wrote back in January 2002: — In 1999, I was...
'The Long Tail Is Just Not That Long'
Q&A: Starcom's Emerging Video Guru Tracey Scheppach — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Tracey Scheppach's job is, simply, to help advertisers find new methods to hawk their wares on TV. But deciding on those...
HP Blackbird 'kicks the living crap out of Dell XPS' - read the HP interview
We talk to Rahul Sood and Mark Budgell from HP about the company's new water-cooled gaming PC — The first piece of design to come out of HP's acquisition of Voodoo has finally been unveiled …
"Photoshop Express" RIA sneak-peeked today
Today the crowd at Photoshop World got a quick preview of Photoshop Express, a new application currently in development at Adobe. First hinted at by Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen some six months ago, Photos...
Google's Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads
When Google launched Universal Search, Marissa Mayer was asked if Google intends to include image or video ads. She didn't rule out this idea and said it's natural to see ads evolving in the same dir...
IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut
In June, they were calling it the God Phone. Yesterday, it was the Chump Phone. — People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they ...
Microsoft, Siemens to develop in-car infotainment
Microsoft and Siemens will join forces to develop in-car entertainment and navigation products that should make it easier for consumers to connect devices such mobile phones and music players. — The...
Wireless network making money, Toronto Hydro says
Business model very different from ones that have failed in U.S., president says — City-owned Toronto Hydro says its downtown wireless Internet network, launched last year, is going strong and alrea...
Shutting Down Big Downloaders
Comcast Cuts Internet Service to Bandwidth Hogs — The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new Internet sin: using it too much. — Comcast has punished some transgressors by...
ESPN Founder Launches CollegeFanz.com
Web 2.0 Site Provides the Ultimate Interactive Experience for College Sports Fans — WAYNE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Twenty-eight years to the day after launching ESPN, the Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen...
Government backs Trust on iPlayer
The UK government has responded to an electronic petition that called on it to ensure the BBC's iPlayer works on non-Windows PCs. — More than 16,000 people have signed the petition since it was crea...
Welcome back to TechCrunch UK & Ireland
Well, we're cranking up the blogging engine here again. My name is Mike Butcher and some readers may know me from a while back when I helped launch this site for the first time late last year. I'm d...
Sony launches backwards compatibility tool for 80GB PlayStation 3 hardware
Sony has just released a tool to let you know what you can expect from the backwards capability of your PlayStation 3, whether you have the 60Gb system, or the Emotion Engine-less 80GB version.