MacBook AirHead: why Apple's new laptop is basically useless
First, let me just say that the Air is an extremely impressive piece of technology. The miniaturization, the optimization of space, the blatant disregard for current standards — it's everything a rev...
Apple Premieres iTunes Movie Rentals With All Major Film Studios
New Apple TV Software Lets You Rent Movies Directly from Your Widescreen TV — Apple® today announced iTunes® Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including 20th Century Fo...
MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery
We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we're suddenly a lot less in love. W...
Steve Jobs Keynote Live From Macworld
This post is being updated live, in reverse chronological order, from the Steve Jobs keynote at the Macworld Expo! — 9:48am: One button interface for iTunes rentals on Apple TV. Remarkably simple t...
Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet
you broke the Internet — Thanks for all the great toys, Uncle Steve, but did you have to go and break the Internet? I and about 7,000 other people were all signed up to get Twitter updates from MacR...
Apple MacBook Air Looks Absolutely Amazing
It's real. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It's ultra-thin, has a normal state drive and, except for a couple ports, it's all about wireless connectivity. It's an stunning .16 inches thick ...
First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac
We've just found the first Mac rogue application and it's called MacSweeper. — It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to ...
Apple unveils the Apple TV, take 2
Apple just admitted that the first Apple TV didn't quite work out — so it's back with a new model that can access iTunes directly, and streams movies from the new rental store in both DVD quality and ...
Billing Issues
Severity: — High — Resolved: — No — We are currently aware of some billing inaccuracies which we will be resolving later today. All of these issues will be resolved, and any billing errors co...
Um, Whoops.
Hello.. how's your morning going? — I hope it's been a little better than mine. — We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night... my first clue something was up when I saw this mor...
In Europe, Microsoft Again Faces Inquiries
BRUSSELS — After the briefest of truces, Europe's antitrust regulator resumed its battle with Microsoft on Monday, opening two new investigations into claims that the company has abused its dominant p...
Amazon.com is challenging French competition law
PARIS: The online retailer Amazon.com said Monday that it would pay €1,000 a day in fines, rather than comply with a court ruling upholding French limits on price discounts for books. — The company ...
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote
Thanks for joining us for our live Macworld 2008 keynote coverage! We're in, so click on, all our real-time updates are posted just after the break. — Note: this time we're updating from bottom to ...
Ticketmaster Buys Major Reseller
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay about $265 million for TicketsNow, a Web site for reselling tickets to concerts and sports events.
Breaking: Samwer Brothers Invest In Facebook
Serial German entrepreneurs Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer have invested in Facebook, we've heard from a very reliable source - presumably as part of Facebook's recent $15 billion valuation round w...
700 MHz Auction Update
So 214 bidders have been approved for the forthcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, which starts on Jan. 24. The big bidders include AT&T, Verizon and Google. These bidders will go after 1,200 licenses....
Swedish prosecutors dump 4,000 legal docs on The Pirate Bay
As the calendar pages turned from 2007 to 2008, one constant remained for the motion picture and music industries: The Pirate Bay's willingness to ignore their threats (and copyrights) to the point th...
Clearwire and Google Collaborate to Offer Search and Communications Tools
KIRKLAND, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Wireless broadband pioneer Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) today announced it is teaming up with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to deliver the company's popular Google Apps...
Apple Announces Time Capsule Server for Wireless Time Machine Backup
At Macworld 2008, Apple just announced Time Capsule, a full Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and four Ethernet ports, plus server grade hard drives to back up all of the Leopard Macs...
Macworld.ars: iPod touch users to pay $20 for iPhone applications
Within thirty minutes of purchasing my original iPod touch, I had it jailbroken and installed those iPhone applications that Apple had purposefully left out. Those include Google Maps, MobileMail, St...
Another Media Exec Leaves Yahoo
As Yahoo narrows its focus on a few key priorities, it's not surprising to see those whose projects fall outside those areas leave the company. And Yahoo's media group, whose once lofty mission to pr...
New Gmail for the iPhone
We've just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had...
FCC Approves Google For Wireless Auction
The 700MHz wireless spectrum auction on January 24th opens with 214 bidders chasing the big prize, with Google competing with an assortment of telecoms both big and small. — As part of the process o...
Nick Denton Runs a “Slave Shop,” Oxford Chum Jason Pontin Declares
Gawker Media chief Nick Denton is “profoundly talented....kind of bitchy"....and gets by with things he shouldn't. But he does it in a sufficiently Oxonian way so “you don't feel too dirty,” says Jas...
JiWire to Provide iPhone™ and iPod touch Users With First Ever Ad-Supported Free Wi-Fi Access
JiWire Wi-Fi Advertising Network Members to Offer “Ads for Access"™ Payment Alternative at Premium Airports, Hotels, Cafes — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—JiWire …
Apple Makes Nice With Hollywood
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' expected announcement Tuesday of online movie rentals at iTunes will mark a new stage in the company's relationship with media and entertainment companies. — At lea...
New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability
We've been writing a lot about data portability here lately, and specifically the DataPortability.org Work Group. High level members of Google and Facebook staff joined the group a week ago yesterday...
New Gmail for the iPhone
We've just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had...
MacWorld: What will Steve Jobs unveil in today's keynote speech?
Photo: aarontait on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — It's that time of year again - the bi-annual MacWorld orgy in San Francisco. It's four days of Mac heaven for fan boys, gadget obsessives and wi...
New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue
Users Can Customize Appearance of Spots, Use Video and Audio — If you're not making money off your blog, 2008 might be the year. — As more people see potential in earning money off the Internet, t...
Invention: Expressive pen
Expressive pen — While the written word has taken great leaps in recent years with the advent of computer-based publishing and the global dissemination of text across the web, the humble pen is more...
Facebook: 1 in 50 UK Internet visits
Facebook's market share of UK internet visits to All Categories increased to 2.01% in December. The social networking website accounted for one in every fifty UK internet visits in the last month of ...
More than 3.5 million programmes accessed via BBC iPlayer in first fortnight
Over a million visitors to BBC iPlayer website following Christmas Day marketing launch — Over 3.5 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded on demand via the BBC iPlayer within a fortnigh...