The Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism adds a touch of glamour
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled its latest addition to the Prism Collection, the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism, aimed at design-conscious consumers. With its seamless diamond-cut design with a cryst...
iPhone and iPod touch nab SNES emulation
You've waited, you've watched, and now your wildest dreams are about to come true. That's right, someone has coded a native SNES emulator for the iPhone / iPod touch. Right now, the project is still...
How to successfully launch a social networking development platform.
I decided to jot down some observations and thoughts on launching successful social networking development platforms... like the one facebook launched at f8, Bebo's clone of facebook's, or the one MyS...
MPAA Actually Admits That Some Of Its Piracy Stats Are Bogus
For years, we've pointed to the bogus stats claimed by the MPAA concerning what kind of impact “piracy” is having. The stats incorrectly count “ripple effects” in a rather troubling manner. First, t...
Motorola Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Sales and Earnings
Fourth-quarter GAAP earnings from continuing operations of $0.05 per share, including net charges of $0.09 per share from items highlighted below — Fourth-quarter positive operating cash flow of $470...
To Cut Costs, NBC Universal Ends Pilots
Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, said Tuesday the broadcaster was moving to save as much as $50 million a year by reducing its reliance on expensive pilots of new series on the NBC t...
Create Your Own Reddit
Reddit has announced a brand new feature that they are currently testing out in closed beta - the ability for users to make their own Reddits. Reddit has long had the “other reddits” featuring ones s...
BATTLEFIELD HEROES™ PRESS RELEASE
BATTLEFIELD HEROES LEADS THE WAY FOR EA'S NEW — ‘PLAY 4 FREE’ BUSINESS MODEL — Unique Cartoon Shooter Introduces a New Way to Play Battlefield — Munich, Germany, January 21, 2008 - At the Digita...
Microsoft extends map site to China, sort of includes Taiwan
Microsoft has launched Live Search 地图, the China branch of its Virtual Earth project. — Compared to Google's ditu.google.cn and Sogou's (搜狗) map.sogou.com, the seems about the same, if a little fast...
Real-Estate Search Engine Roost Launches With Full MLS Listings
Just when you thought the real-estate bubble had burst and the economy was going to hell, here comes another real-estate search engine. Today we see the launch of Roost, a real-estate site inspired b...
iPod Recycling Speaker by Bird-Electron
This product from from Bird-Electron is the “one and only Recycling Speaker for iPod". The dimension is exactly the same as the plastic package for iPod Nano (1st & 2nd Gen.) and iPod Shuffle (2nd & ...
Save Space on Your Blog with ShareThis
How many promotion buttons does an article need? Under each story right on this here blog, you'll see three—for digg, delicious, and Slashdot—and that's not as many as you see on other blogs. How ab...
HP's desktop with solid-state drive packs 16GB
If consumers and businesses are going to be convinced to switch to solid-state drives over hard disks, it's going to take something more compelling than 16GB. — On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard will in...
Do the (RED) thing
There's been some speculation online that Windows, Dell and (RED) are going to make an announcement later this week at Davos. Wouldn't it be incredible if, through the simple act of choosing a PC, an...
Playyoo: YouTube For Mobile Games Goes Beta
Playyoo, a site we first reviewed in October and billed as a YouTube for mobile games, opens in beta today after 4 months in private testing. — Playyoo offers free games for mobile phones, user-gene...
MacBook Air: The sexy kind of skinny but with some flaws
Apple has earned a sterling reputation designing beautiful products that usually perform as splendidly as they look. — The MacBook Air laptop that CEO Steve Jobs unveiled last week turns heads.
Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org
Chris Saad, Chairman of the Data Portability Working Group, confirmed to me this morning that Microsoft's David Treadwell, a VP at Windows Live, will be joining the organization. Microsoft is expecte...
Will Apple turn tech stocks sour?
Apple reported earnings that beat analyst estimates on strong sales of iMacs, laptops and iPhones. But its cautious outlook led investors to slam the stock Wednesday morning, and take much of the Nas...
Take your tech recession and stuff it
newsmaker Like a lot of technology CEOs these days, Seagate's Bill Watkins finds himself frequently asked whether the world as we know it is coming to an end—or something like that. — What with regu...
What to do if you're laid off in 2008 recession
It's sad to hear about layoffs at companies like Yahoo. Right now it seems like a bad time to be laid off. I'm here to offer some hope. — I laid myself off in February 2002. Remember that time? ...
Motorola Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Sales and Earnings
Fourth-quarter sales of $9.65 billion — Fourth-quarter GAAP earnings from continuing operations of $0.05 per share, including net charges of $0.09 per share from items highlighted below
Free the Music
A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We've had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it'...
Oops: MPAA admits college piracy numbers grossly inflated
After commissioning a 2005 study from LEK Consulting that showed collegiate file-swappers were responsible for 44 percent of movie studio “losses” to piracy, the MPAA then used the report it bought to...
Publicis, Google to Exchange Execs
Companies Plan to Share Talent, Collaborate to Develop New Products — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Publicis Groupe and Google are collaborating to develop new products and tools and exchange talent by emb...
Why is email stuck in the 80's?
Email is screwed up. — Not that email as a method of communication is screwed but more the fact that the software we use to manage the ever increasing amount of email we get is brain dead and next t...