Seems there is a bit of confusion about our last post.
Q. Why do you say it is unlocked if you can't activate a non AT&T sim? — A. There is a difference between unlocking and activation.
Microsoft bows to pressure on XP
Customer demand has forced Microsoft to extend the shelf life of Windows XP by five months. — Microsoft was scheduled to stop selling the six-year-old operating system on 30 January 2008 to leave th...
IPhone: iPhone Re-Reviewed (Verdict: Don't Buy)
It's about 3 months after the iPhone launch, and happy with the improvements, I was planning to change our "Wait" verdict to a full-on and rabid "Buy". That wasn't because of Apple, but because of th...
Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk
Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and its most loyal fans could take a few hits. How Apple performs through these battles will determine the company's overall reputation going fo...
3Com Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $5.30 Per Share in Cash
Transaction valued at $2.2 billion — MARLBOROUGH, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired …
Act Now and Get a Downgrade to the OS You Really Want, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
It's looking more and more like the pent-up demand for Windows Vista we've heard so much about this past year is really just pent-up demand for Windows XP. — With Vista failing to win over the consu...
Go from hell
Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do? Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe require...
Ad-Supported "Free" Music Plays On: SpiralFrog, Imeem, QTrax
As Apple (APPL) and Amazon (AMZN) duke it out in the MP3 price war, music publishers are still trying to figure out how to cash in on a crowd that will go to great lengths to get its music for free.
Data for 800,000 job applicants stolen
A laptop containing unencrypted personal information for 800,000 people who applied for jobs with clothing retailer Gap Inc. has been stolen. — The computer contained social security numbers and oth...
CBS Creates 'EyeLab' To Woo Web Surfers
CBS Corp. thinks Web surfers would rather watch a blooper reel from the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" than an actual episode of the show. — To cater to what it believes is the short attention span ...
Amid disappointing Vista uptake, Microsoft relents on XP execution
Responding to feedback from customers and third parties, Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP to both original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and retail channels through to June 30, 20...
Hollywood studios go after two piracy sites
The Motion Picture Association of America has filed suit against two Web sites that it claims are allowing Internet users to view pirated films, many of which are still in theaters. — The lawsuit, f...
Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebates
Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses...
Verizon Wireless Introduces The Ultimate Consumer Entertainment Source: The MOTORIZR Z6tv
The MOTORIZR Z6tv is Motorola's First Device to Premiere V CAST Mobile TV — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SCHAUMBURG, IL — Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation's …
Daniel Cooperman to Join Apple as General Counsel
Apple® today announced that Daniel Cooperman, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oracle Corporation, will join Apple as the company's senior vice president, general counsel and se...
Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!
I've been telling the PR industry for some time now that things cannot go along as they are . . . business as usual while mainstream media goes to hell in a hand basket. I've been saying this private...
British Library books go digital
More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. — The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of...
Visa unveils Visa Micro Tag contactless payment device
Visa is making available the Visa Micro Tag, a new key fob payment device embedded with Visa payWave, the company's contactless technology feature. The Visa Micro Tag is designed to easily attach to ...
Day 73: The (Sleepy) Attack of the Yahoo Vice Presidents
Despite a lot of noisy speculation all around the Internet yesterday about big changes afoot, let me give you the skinny on exactly what is going to happen today at Yahoo when all its top brass gather...
Yahoo tops Google in quality of searches, study says
While Google dominates market share, Yahoo gets more users to click on results — September 28, 2007 (Computerworld) — While Google Inc. dominates the search query business, results generated by Yaho...
AJAX and the Mobile Web
A workshop will allow leading vendors to address the mobile Web and the need for more applications. — With smart phones becoming more prevalent among users and delivering greater capability than eve...
The problem with newspaper blogs is . . .
I've come to argue that newspapers should not be big brands but big collections of brands. — If I develop a relationship with a blog, I don't go searching for it through the many layers of an advent...
Slide.com Grows 228% May - Sep, Overtakes Flickr in NZ
Photo-sharing website, Slide.com grew by 228% between 5 May 2007 and 22 September 2007, overtaking Flickr during the week ending 8 September 2007 in the New Zealand market. Slide.com ranked at second...
Rumor: Xbox 360 Core Discontinued
GameStop should just go ahead and put our tips email in their distribution list, because as soon as something interesting pops up on their POS system, we get a good four or five emails regarding it. ...
Is the Apple TV officially a flop? (Or: How to fix Apple TV)
It's been online for a few days now, but I just spotted (via PaidContent) Fortune's article entitled The iFlop (sub-head: "Steve Jobs tried to design—and dictate—the future of television. Here's how ...
Apple Geniuses are reportedly unbricking iPhones
Apple continues posting warning signs around their stores, cautioning customers that unlocked and modded iPhones fall outside their warranty. And at the same time, Apple Geniuses around the country q...
IPhone: iPhone Re-Reviewed (Verdict: Don't Buy)
It's about 3 months after the iPhone launch, and happy with the improvements, I was planning to change our "Wait" verdict to a full-on and rabid "Buy". That wasn't because of Apple, but because of th...
Microsoft Extends Sales Availability of Windows XP
Responding to feedback from its customers, the company decides to give small businesses and customers in emerging markets more time and flexibility to test and prepare for the operating system upgrade...
Google Defends the DoubleClick Deal
In Senate hearings on the proposed acquisition, critics say the deal would give Google too much control of the online advertising market — Google (GOOG) is watching you. But you already knew that. ...
Kosmix releases Google GFS workalike 'KFS' as open source
Search startup Kosmix has released a C++ implementation of the Google File System as open source. This parallels the existing Hadoop/HDFS project which is written in Java. The Kosmix team has deep e...