AT&T flings cellphone network wide open
NEW YORK — Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker — think smartphones, e-mail and music downloa...
Google Releases Chart Image Generator
Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added) — h...
Dell to sell PCs at Best Buy
Beginning in the next few weeks, Dell notebooks and desktops will be for sale at Best Buy, the companies announced Thursday. — Several models of XPS and Inspiron PCs will be available at 900 Best Bu...
Apple Future Headline: New Products Including Super Laptop?
A very good source of mine with good connections to Apple's — [AAPL Loading... (%) ] Asian manufacturing partners called me this morning with some news: Seems like Apple will be making headlin...
Apple sub-notebook to retail for $1500, 3G iPhone by June - report
In a just-aired broadcast on CNBC, the network's Jim Goldman reported that a source close to Apple's manufacturing facilities has confirmed that the company will launch its much rumored sub-notebook a...
Corporate Bloggers Launch the "Blog Council" Organization
CORPORATE BLOGGERS LAUNCH THE "BLOG COUNCIL" ORGANIZATION — Top Executives from 12 Global Brands Form Private Community to Develop Best Practices, Measurement, and Idea-Sharing — CHICAGO, December...
Apple Store 14th Street press preview
We got a chance to preview the new Manhattan Apple Store this morning before the official unveiling tomorrow at 6PM. The store is nicely situated on W. 14th St. and 9th Ave., and while Apple did its ...
Xbox 360 DVD Player Still Sucks After Update, HD DVD Not Great Either [Xbox 360]
We've known that the Xbox 360 DVD player was asstastic for a while, but surely this latest fall update would have improved things at least a little. No such luck, as the player still only got a 40 ou...
Amazon Kindle a Fraud?
That's essentially what bookofjoe reader Steve Saroff contends. — Below is his comment, received last night at 10:40:12 p.m., on my recent "Kindle Blogs" post. — Personally, I believe Steve's lett...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: December 6, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: December 11, 2007 — This is an advance notification of seven security bulleti...
Consumers Crave Apple's Macs
Consumers are becoming more comfortable making the jump from Windows-based PCs to Apple's Macs. This growing comfort is pointing to big holiday's sales of the tech company's computers. — Shares of ...
iPhone 1.1.3 to bring voice capture, disk mode?
Apple may be preparing a significant update for the iPhone as early as this weekend that will have some heavily requested features, according to a claim from CNET France. The site points to multiple ...
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact.
Dear Facebook: Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. — In August Facebook opened up their messaging system to allow people to add normal email addresses. I wrote a post praising the change, but I spec...
Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January
Microsoft field trials of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop will take place next month. — Recommend this story? — Microsoft said it plans to conduct field trials in January ...
EBAY: Time For CEO Meg Whitman to Go?
We realize this may sound like heresy, but we think it's time for eBay shareholders to consider nudging CEO Meg Whitman out the door. — Meg is one of the Valley's most celebrated and admired executi...
Free in-flight Wi-Fi on JetBlue with a catch, of course
This isn't exactly what we expected in terms of in-flight Wi-Fi, but beggars can't be choosers and something is better than nothing. JetBlue, Yahoo! and RIM have announced free in-flight Wi-Fi servic...
Flexible-jointed robot is no pushover
If robots are going to work alongside humans, then they will need to stand up to accidental bumps and shoves, not to mention the occasional deliberate kick. — That is why researchers in Japan have d...
IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip
San Francisco - Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between p...
Google Mobile Updater for Blackberry
Google Mobile Updater. What could that be? After all, Google doesn't have too many mobile apps. Maybe there's some connection with the desktop updater included in Google Pack. Let's see. — "Goog...
Is Beacon Inflating Facebook's Visitor Numbers?
While Facebook's Beacon program has been drawing the ire of many people because of the privacy issues surrounding it, advertisers might be equally concerned about whether Beacon is inflating Facebook'...
Major copyright bill boosts penalties, creates new agency
In the aftermath of the $222,000 jury verdict that the Recording Industry Association of America recently won against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs on Kazaa, the U.S. Congress is preparing to ...
Apple's rising popularity lures hackers
After years of relative safety, the Apple Mac is becoming an increasingly tempting target for malicious computer hackers, according to a new report published this week. — Security researchers have b...
Small New Features Make Gmail Better
It seems that Gmail 2.0 is all about small new features. There may be small, but you'll find plenty of minor updates and there are more to come. — Contact tooltips — The tooltip that showed up wh...
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
I am writing this as a follow-up to yesterday's Tech Talk about Skype. I mentioned this issue then, and I have received a number of requests for additional information about it. There have been some...
Microsoft to Field Test PC For Developing Countries
Microsoft Corp. said that it will field test an inexpensive laptop PC for developing nations being championed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte. — Microsoft's pl...
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista: Preview Release Available!
It's here! It's really here! We're thrilled to bring you the preview version of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, the first Yahoo! Messenger built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system...
Facebook Rethinks Tracking
Site Apologizes, — Makes It Easier — To Retain Privacy — After weeks of criticism over a new advertising program that was perceived as a privacy threat, Facebook Inc. has tweaked its privacy set...
IBM creates a chip-sized supercomputer
Good news, everybody! Those super-geniuses over at IBM have whipped up a new form of CPU transfer which utilizes pulses of light instead of electricity to move data between cores on a chip. The new ...
Slacker Portable Player delayed until next year
Not that next year is too far away or anything, but those of you who have been following Slacker's WiFi-enabled Portable Player DAP may be disheartened to learn that its release has been delayed until...
Google Books Adds Hand Scans
The often controversial Google Books program, Google's effort to scan and digitize every book ever printed has an interesting new addition: hand scans. — It appears that the Google employees scannin...
Online travel organization startup
TripIt is a travel organizer that helps do-it-yourself travelers manage their travel plans. Travelers manage their travel itinerary …
Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates
You know you've really made it as an online entity when an entire country bans your site. In terms of a rite of passage, it's just after the wide-spread adoption and critical mass stages (which of co...
Lenovo will pass Olympic torch to Acer after Beijing
Acer will take over from Lenovo as a sponsor of the Olympic Games after 2008, a move that could help to elevate Acer's profile as a worldwide PC brand. — Acer's sponsorship deal covers the 2010 Wint...