Garmin announces the nuvifone
That's right folks — Garmin has just announced its new iPhone-like smartphone, the nüvifone. The device features full browsing, PIM, phone and of course, GPS functions. It's an HSDPA, quad-band phon...
Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up More Bandwidth Than Amazon.com; The Kindle is a Hit
Amazon earnings just came out. The company had a strong fourth quarter, with revenues up 42 percent to $5.7 billion, net income doubling to $207 million, and free cash flow doubling as well to $1.4 b...
Instapaper, A Beautifully Simple Bookmarking Tool
Instapaper, a new site by Tumblr employee Marco Arment, simply put will easily be one of the websites I visit most this year. It may very well be the easiest and most beautifully minimal bookmarking ...
Google and Dell tipped to reveal iPhone rival plans
Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell. — Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at nex...
Microsoft doesn't recommend creating Vista ‘Lite’
Frustrated with Vista's sluggishness, some people have been turning to a utility called vLite, that strips out components of the operating system deemed unessential. — Although the move does offer f...
Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition
It's just over a half-year since Google launched Universal Search, its method of blending results from its own various topically-focused or “vertical” search engines. Since that time, the system has ...
Fresh from New York: Trends in online advertising
Silicon Alley technologists and Madison Avenue advertising executives have been meeting yesterday and today at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC conference. Here are some of the trends people were talking abo...
Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs, and Warns on Growth
SAN FRANCISCO — After announcing a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, Yahoo issued a disappointing outlook for this year, suggesting that investors would have to wait until 2009 for a turna...
Breaking: MySpace Developer Platform Launching on February 5th
MySpace has just announced that they will be launching their developer platform on February 5th. You can pre-register now by going to http://developer.myspace.com (requires login). — Earlier this e...
Asustek announces Eee family product lines
With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products whil...
WSJ's Web site adds Facebook function
NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal has just accepted Facebook's request to be online friends. — Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its ...
Firmware 3.90 now available on Network Update
Ready for Skype? Here it is! Get it by accessing Network Update on your PSP. Here are the official details: — Support for PLAYSTATION Network titles has been expanded. — Skype has been added as a...
Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to ‘high severity’; Preps fix
Mozilla has given a proof of concept Firefox vulnerability a “high severity” rating because an attacker can collect session information such as cookies and history, according to Mozilla security chief...
Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform
In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in fo...
What's Google Doing on Vista (RED)?
Little problem for Microsoft: As part of a previous $1 billion bribe marketing agreement …
French police deal blow to Microsoft
The move completes the gendarmerie's severance from Microsoft which began in 2005 when it moved to open sourcing for office applications such as word processing. It switched to open source Internet b...
Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity?
There appears to be evidence that Facebook users are beginning to suffer from app fatigue, and there is growing discontent about how applications are being distributed and about the amount of noise th...