Apple Updates iMac
Now with Faster Processors & Faster Graphics Option — Apple® today updated its all-in-one iMac® line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an i...
If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal. However, I...
Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name
So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college. — And I conducted a little experiment ...
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Introduction — I've toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used...
Verizon Reports Continued Strong Growth in 1Q 2008
Wireless Delivers Industry-Leading Fundamentals; FiOS Growth Accelerates; Sales of Strategic Services to Large Businesses Continue to Increase — 1Q 2008 HIGHLIGHTS — Consolidated Results — 57 ce...
When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web
Public Profiles Raise Questions of Propriety and Privacy — It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school s...
At Journal, the Words Not Spoken
On Wednesday night, employees of The Wall Street Journal gathered in the Grill Room at the World Financial Center to bid farewell to Stuart Karle, the former general counsel of The Journal, a tenaciou...
Beautiful to use: Nokia unveils three new handsets that merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality.
Foxconn to assemble 3G iPhones with shipments to total 24-25 million units, says paper
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reportedly landed orders for the assembly of second-generation iPhones from Apple supporting 3G, with shipments to begin in June this year …
Black Duck Buys Koders
The company will add to its code search capabilities with the acquisition. — Black Duck Software is buying Koders, which provides an online search engine for open-source software. — Black Duck ann...
Exclusive Video: Psystar in the Wild
It's alive. Reader Patrick (Whiskeyfrown) is lucky enough to be using one of the few Psystar Open Computing machines that have made it into the wild, and he was generous enough to make a video showin...
Morgan Stanley's March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating
Morgan Stanley's Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports - the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo appare...
Nokia decks execs as it counts cost of free music
Doing a Hoover? — Exclusive Nokia faces a crippling financial bill for its strategy of bundling free music with handsets, which will give users unlimited song downloads with Nokia phones. — The wo...
Twitturly Cracks The TwitterMeme Nut
People who hang out on Twitter a lot know that quite often big news breaks there first. A recent example - when Chinese hackers took down SportsNetwork, the news was on Twitter well before we covered...
Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web, TV
The advent of DSL and cable modems gave rise to a slew of popular web services, produced multibillion dollar companies and reshaped consumers' daily lives — all with relatively wimpy “broadband” conne...
Dell, Lenovo to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 cutoff
Microsoft may have decided to give XP Home (only for ultra-low-cost PC use) to OEMs at least through June 2010, but OEMs and customers have been warily eying Window XP's June 30, 2008, expiration date...
Intel lands Cray
Intel has busted into Cray, securing a deal with the high performance computing specialist to slot Xeon processors in future systems. — Cray's latest line of hardware remains centered around AMD's O...