Samsung's BlackJack II outed as the i617
Don't worry BlackJack fans, Samsung does indeed seem to have a true BlackJack II successor in the works for you, unlike that stylus-based i780 pretender to the throne. Turns out the i617 — which we s...
iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak tested, confirmed!
We were invited by iPhone / iPod touch file system hacker Niacin (who you might also know for his PSP and MSN TV Linux cluster hacks, etc.) and Dre to test out their new v1.1.1 file system hack.
MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week
MySpace is gearing up to launch MySpace Platform, according to a number of third party developers who've been contacted for input on the product. While this has been rumored since June, this is the f...
The truth about traffic on the Internet
Ahh, the Guardian got into a little dirty truth about traffic on TechMeme: there isn't many people there. — Every time I get on TechMeme I get 500 to 3,000 visits. That matches what the Guardian an...
GM OnStar System Could Halt Stolen Cars
DETROIT (AP) — Say some clown steals your car from the parking deck at work. If it's equipped with General Motors' OnStar service, he could be in for a big surprise and you could get a little revenge...
Mozilla and Mobile
People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here's some information about what we're planning to do wit...
Apple to launch official iPhone Web applications directory
Apple as early as Wednesday is expected to launch as part of its website a directory of official Web 2.0-based iPhone applications, AppleInsider has been told. — One developer familiar with the matt...
61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the first comprehensive study …
Toshiba Recalls AC Adapters sold with Portable DVD Players Due to Burn Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop u...
Google patents datacenter-in-a-shipping-container, ignores Sun's BlackBox
Google has received a patent from the USPTO for the concept of a "mobile datacenter" stored in a standard shipping container and equipped with multiple racks of high-powered servers with its own inter...
Growing pains for TechCrunch's gadget blog?
On Tuesday morning, tech gossip blog Valleywag posted a rumor that TechCrunch's small blog network might not be doing quite as well as its parent brand: Valleywag editor Owen Thomas said that gadget b...
Do Virtual Worlds know the way in San Jose?
First the good news: virtual worlds are experiencing their own dot com boom. Now the bad news: virtual worlds are experiencing their own dot com boom. Tomorrow and Thursday, the second Virtual World...
Google Biz Search; Apple Takes on Office; Other News
* Google is upgrading the search tool it sells to businesses. The new search appliance, which Google announced today, will let people search for information across all the data sources in a company a...
Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista
He says the OS is delivering value to corporate customers — For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Gartner Inc. conference here, emotionless management-speak ...
Why to Move to a Startup Hub
After the last talk I gave, one of the organizers got up on the stage to deliver an impromptu rebuttal. That never happened before. I only heard the first few sentences, but that was enough to tell ...
T-Mobile UK Spends $300,000+ Per Week on Search
T-Mobile UK shared advice and experience on search marketing with WebTrends Engage attendees. — Check out how much the company spends on paid search! — Wouldn't you love to earn the 10% management...
Xbox 360 secrets: After Falcon comes Jasper
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 4:15 pm in Dean Takahashi, Dean and Nooch on Gaming, General. — Microsoft didn't want you to know about Falcon, and it certainly doesn't want you to know about its succ...
Sprint's WiMax dilemma
news analysis If Wall Street pundits get their way, Sprint Nextel's next CEO will put the brakes on plans for a new, high-speed wireless network. — But such a move, while no doubt cutting costs, cou...
Nokia to bundle easy Wi-Fi access on phones
Nokia is planning to bundle software from Devicescape on devices in its E and N series, that will log in automatically to Wi-Fi hotspots. — "We wanted to make Wi-Fi feel as seamless as the cellular ...
Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit
Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006. — Since then, the name ...
Dell boots disks and fires up streamed PCs
Thin clients and blades are for the weak — Forget thin clients and blade PCs. Dell will do the virtual desktop thing in its own, less than radical way. — Dell today announced a streamed desktop p...
More Google Brass Head for the Exits
Bigshots from around the world are converging on Google HQ tomorrow for Zeitgeist, the faithful's annual mecca to the Googleplex. But at least one of Google's top brass is heading for the exits: Benj...
Calculation Issue Update (Fix Available)
Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for downlo...
EBay launches "Neighborhoods" feature
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hoping to woo shoppers who say eBay Inc. has lost its folksy appeal, the world's largest online auction plans to launch its own version of a social networking service Wednesday an...
Here Are the Answers to Your Craigslist Questions
Last week, you submitted lots and lots of questions for Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, the founder and CEO, respectively, of Craigslist. They couldn't answer every question but I think you'll agre...
Briefly: redesigned MacBook Pro power adapters on the way
Apple Inc. has halted shipments of MagSafe power adapters for its MacBook Pro notebook line as a result of quality design issues and is presently working on a fix, AppleInsider has been told. — Seve...
BLINKX OFFERS AD-SUPPORTED VIDEO
Bloggers are getting more and more options to make money off their Web sites. — Video search engine blinkx is launching on Wednesday a service that allows people to make money when they embed video ...
Free the Avatars
Virtual worlds may be freewheeling environments where cyber-behavior is unconstrained by many terrestrial mores. But they are also gated communities, and the gates keep the digital denizens locked in...
File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints
When Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over the warning and ...
Co-Founder of Skype Defends Its Value
In his first public remarks since quitting last week as chief executive of the Internet phone company Skype, Niklas Zennstrom said Tuesday that he had no regrets about his handling of the company but ...
Net firms quizzed on speed limits
Bosses at six of the UK's top net providers are being asked to explain why consumers do not get the broadband speeds firms advertise. — The six executives are being questioned by Ofcom's Consumer Pa...
B'KLYN GETS APPLE, BARNEYS
RETAILERS IN TALKS WITH WILLIAMSBURG CONDO THE EDGE — APPLE and Barneys Co-op are both negotiating for their first stores in Brooklyn. — Sources said the two retailers have been in ongoing discuss...