$200 Everex Green PC Now Available
Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores. — "It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidi...
INTEGO SECURITY ALERT - October 31, 2007
OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to — Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers — Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to ins...
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
My company, Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Or...
Disqus launches Blog Commenting App
Disqus, about which fellow blogger Ashish Singh had written about couple of months back, today finally launched it's feature-full blog commenting system. Among others, the YCombinator startup compete...
The Google Phone: The Story So Far, Some Launch Details & What's Next
The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google's mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States. Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) a...
Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US
That's right: Google (GOOG). And trading at a not-preposterous 55-times trailing 12-month earnings, too. — Rank Company Market Cap (Bil) Ticker — 1 Exxon Mobil $505 ...
Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard
In a notable about-face, Apple has changed its stance with regard to allowing Mac OS X Server to be run inside a virtual machine (VM), much as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion make it possible to r...
Google launches privacy channel on YouTube
Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies. The move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behaviora...
AOL to let users block targeted Web ads
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division said on Wednesday that it would let users opt out of online advertisements that are presented to individuals based on the Web sites they ha...
Facebook Music is Coming!
As reported earlier this year, Facebook has been rumored to announce an online music service to compete with iTunes and MySpace in the near future. — This just in: the "Facebook Music" platform will...
More than 100,000 iPhone owners break out of jail
The release of an easy-to-download method of opening up the iPhone to third-party applications prompted almost 150,000 downloads of the software in three days. — Our friends over at iPhone Atlas spo...
Sony's Folding@home project gets Guinness record
It's a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console. In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record. — The record was set by S...
Mobile Classified's Gumiyo Raises 2nd Round
LA-based Gumiyo is a mobile online marketplace that uses cell phones to connect live buyers and sellers. Using any mobile phone, sellers can capture images or video of an item, attach the image to at...
Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans
One of the most disruptive startups in the financial industry is Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Since its launch in February, 2006, Prosper has attracted more than 450,000 members who h...
Messenger 9, GTalk integration
In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology's IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech (edit: [graduate] former student …
How the iPhone changed Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is reportedly talking to Google about using its upcoming mobile operating system. It has unveiled a bevy of phones for the holiday season and generally seems more hip overall-at leas...
Online Marketers Joining Internet Privacy Efforts
Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their W...
Intel's Montvale Itanium chip arrives
Intel announced on Wednesday its line of Itanium products for high-end computing servers. — Code-named Montvale, the chip is an update to Montecito, the dual-core Itanium 2 chip that was launched in...
Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'
New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence. — In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that a...
IAC Reports Q3 Results
IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News) released third quarter 2007 results today, reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 7% rate of growth over the prior year, and $173 million in Operating Income Before Amortizatio...
Cisco offers $10m prize in small biz bingo
Cisco is launching a global contest to find great business or technology ideas. — The "I-Prize" will include the chance to help Cisco start a new business unit along with $10m in funding over the fi...
'Criminal' Botnet Stumps for Ron Paul, Researchers Allege
If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to compu...
Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
Adrianne Yamaki, a 32-year-old management consultant in New York, travels constantly and logs 80-hour workweeks. So to eke out more time for herself, she routinely farms out the administrative chores...
Drop that Tilt: HTC releases WM6 upgrade for AT&T 8525
So if you don't really need that extra megapixel and auto-focus on the camera, and you're doing just fine with your Bluetooth GPS receiver, HTC has just given you one less reason to upgrade to the AT&...