Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students)
Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represe...
Sun to ship Microsoft Windows Server on its hardware
Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. — Within 9...
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS
YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than profess...
Phone cancer doubts remain
The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded. — A major six-year research programme found a "hint" of a higher cancer risk. — But the UK Mobile Telecom...
Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse
Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning. And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer har...
Lenovo Raises Energy-Efficiency Bar with Its Smallest, Quietest Desktop PC
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Lenovo reinvigorated the desktop PC space today with the ThinkCentre A61e ultra small form factor desktop. As the company's smallest, quietest and most en...
Palm Launches Treo 500v on Windows Mobile 6 for Vodafone Customers
Mobile High Speed 3G/UMTS Internet Access and Multiple Forms of Communication Combined in One Compact Handset — Palm Europe Ltd today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 500v smartphone which combines mu...
Who Needs Hackers?
NOTHING was moving. International travelers flying into Los Angeles International Airport — more than 17,000 of them — were stuck on planes for hours one day in mid-August after computers for the Uni...
Idearc Media Acquires LocalSearch.com URL; Makes Strategic Investment in AmericanTowns.com
DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Idearc Media Corp., home to Superpages.com® and publisher of the Verizon® Yellow Pages, has acquired the LocalSearch.com URL and made a strategic investment in AmericanTowns.com...
New York Times Launches Facebook App
The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz. The simple application presents users with a daily (Mon...
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers
Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". So that...
Overview of Windows Vista desktop search Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
View products that this article applies to. … Beta Information — This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to ch...
Yahoo wins exclusive ad deal for Bebo UK, Ireland
LONDON (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)announced on Wednesday an exclusive partnership with Bebo to manage display advertising on the social networking Web site in Britain and Ireland, givi...
Yahoo! Back In The Game
Yahoo! have finally secured a deal with a major social networking property for display and video advertising. Bebo, the UK and Ireland's most popular social networking site, has entered into a multi-...
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service
We haven't heard much about Bejing based startup Mojiti before this week. They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsof...
Coda Toolbar and the Three Pixel Conundrum
(Which, by the way, would make a great band name.) — The toolbar in Coda — it doesn't seem so special, does it? In fact, you might not have even noticed that it's any different than any other toolb...
2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists
Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. — ...
First free, open, GUI iPhone unlock software tested: it works!
HaRRo over on the iPhone Dev Team has already upped the ante — just hours after the release of the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software, he's already got an early beta version of the gra...
Say hello to CH-DVD and a 51GB HD DVD
It's all go in the HD DVD camp at the moment. Still on a high from the Paramount/Dreamworks deal, we're now hearing that HD DVD will soon have a 51GB, triple-layer disc on the way. The significance ...
Yahoo's Open Invitation
Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer — Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifes...
NTP Brings More Suits
Top Wireless Firms — Face Patent Claims, — But in New Climate — NTP Inc. sued the nation's leading wireless carriers, accusing them of infringing its patents related to mobile email services, in...
Internal Linking On Some Tech Blogs Is Out of Control
It seems the more major bloggers tend to ask for the same rights, privileges and respect given traditional journalists, the more frequently I'm seeing some of them violate best practices for informati...
AT&T and Nokia deliver speed and elegance with the Nokia 6555 phone
New 3G mobile phone is optimized for AT&T services, including CV and AT&T Mobile Music — San Antonio, TX and White Plains, NY, USA - AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today announced the immed...
HTC Juno? Yes!
Remember the HTC Juno? It is most certainly going to T-Mobile USA. While Juno is the codename, we haven't got word of the official launch name yet. It's a Windows Mobile based device and has a "con...
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS
YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than profess...
Google Founders' Ultimate Perk: A NASA Runway
In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few mi...
Appeals Court: Hacking your DirecTV not the same as commercial piracy
In a ruling (PDF) issued yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling and concluded that reconfiguring a DirecTV access card in order to decrypt a satellite signal without...
Social Graph: Concepts and Issues
Brad Firzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network In his post, Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the g...
Square Enix Endorses Xbox 360
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 games console got a big boost on Wednesday when Square Enix Co. Ltd., the last major Japanese games developer not to have embraced the console, said it would release a title...
3G version of the iPhone imminent, says analyst
LONDON — There is no doubt a 3G version of Apple's iPhone is in the wings and it could be announced soon, according to wireless chip and DSP sector analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts. — There ...
Adam Bosworth leaves Google
(InfoWorld) - Google has lost the services of Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering who was in charge of the company's Google Health project, focused on helping people research medicines, ill...