Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability
New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices …
Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1. — The list of programs consists mostly of...
Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive!
We know it's been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we've been hard at work on a new version that we're proud to announce today! — You've made two things clear since our first release: You want...
Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats
Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of just getting a site preview, you also get estimated visito...
Sprint will make WiMAX an open platform with an SDK and open APIs
From its conception, WiMAX has been engineered to be an open platform for mobile broadband Internet. When you talk to any of the executives and business professionals from the big vendors in the WiMA...
Disk encryption: Can you trust it?
Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. — In...
Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’
The latest patent filing from Apple Inc. hints at a next-generation multi-touch ‘surface’ that would combine typing, pointing, scrolling, and handwriting capabilities into a single ergonomic design ai...
The Chumby Is Open, but Not for Business
I find Chumby fascinating for a lot of reasons. Meant to replace a clock radio, it is a $179 device with a Wi-Fi connection, a 3.5 inch touch screen and a squishy leather case. It displays various w...
Optimus Maximus Shipping News
We begin shipping Optimus Maximus keyboards to those who ordered it last year. At the same time, first versions of Optimus Configurator software for Mac and PC are available at: http://www.artlebedev...
Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta
We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue. If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qual...
Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank
Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn't set out to establish one of the world's most influen...
A Truly Great Idea: 99 Cent Rotating Movie Rentals on iTunes
Apple has started sending out emails letting users know that each week one select movie title will be available to rent for just 99 cents. This is an ingenious way to kick up usage of the rental stor...
Muni's ‘Connected Bus’ is about to go online
The bus of the future has arrived in San Francisco, and while it doesn't drive itself, fly over crowded intersections or necessarily even arrive on time, it does offer free Wi-Fi access, touch-screen ...
Trendy People Need This Phone
The Edge phone is designed for the style conscious fashionistas. The name has nothing to do with data speed. In fact we don't even know what this phone is capable of because as with all fashion phon...
comScore Releases January 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. January 2008 saw Americans conduct more than 1...
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain
THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. — Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of...
Google ventures into health records biz
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the vo...
Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta
We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue. If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qual...
Maritz joins EMC, to battle Microsoft in the cloud
Microsoft's cloud computing efforts have a formidable and familiar new competitor. — Paul Maritz, the former Microsoft platform boss, is becoming president of EMC's cloud computing initiative, which...
Price May Be Steep, But Thin ThinkPad Has Abundant Features
I am writing these words on a new laptop computer that packs a full-size screen and keyboard into a body that's quite thin and light. And it has a solid-state drive with no moving parts instead of a ...
Google's Brin spooked by Microsoft's Yahoo bid
Speaking after a Google press event, Sergey Brin calls the possibility of a Yahoo takeover ‘unnerving.’ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s tak...
Adobe is pushing DRM into Flash
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a story that says Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash, and obviously they're against it. The story says: … The DMCA bans tools that help “circumvent” any DRM syst...
Facebook sees first dip in UK users
Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. — However, Facebook still had 8.5 million unique users in January and remains...
M&A Bankers on Yahoo-Microsoft: Done Deal
We canvassed a couple of Wall Street M&A moguls last night for their thoughts on how the Microsoft-Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO) deal would play out. Their thoughts: — It's a done deal. — Jerry's language in h...
Retailer warns Sony not to abuse its newfound Blu-ray position: Consumers like regular DVD just fine
Hold your horses, sports fans. Don't go declaring Blu-ray the winner of anything just yet, despite the fact that Toshiba original story titlethrew in the towel this week.
TUAW Responds: iPhone LoJack
Way back, one of our readers begged for an iPhone LoJack solution. He wanted his iPhone to “call home” regularly in case of loss or, let's be more realistic, theft. Over the past week, I finally had...
Microsoft preps mystery “significant” news...
Earnings: TheStreet.com Q4 Revs Up 38 Percent; Net Income Up 19 Percent
TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) reported Q4 revenue of $19.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 38 percent from $14.4 million. Net income grew 19 percent to $4.7 million from $4.0 million.
The hands-free way to steal a credit card
WASHINGTON D.C.—Adam Laurie, an RFID security expert, used the Black Hat DC 2008 conference here, to demonstrate a new Python script he's working on to read the contents of smart-chip-enabled credit c...
Friend Spam Is The Worst Kind Of All
Facebook announced a number of steps today to battle the growing problem of application spam - stuff that is sent from your Facebook friends asking you to try out new services. Generally, application...
Apple patent seeks to marry TiVo, podcasts, and iTunes Store
A new patent filed by Apple is raising speculation over what may be in store for the future of podcasting. Podcasting began maturing quickly on its own a few years ago, but Apple's embracing of the g...