Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3?
Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. — Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. — Last night WSUS deplo...
Circuit City Board of Directors Authorizes Exploration of Strategic Alternatives to Enhance Shareholder Value
Company Agrees to Allow Blockbuster and Icahn to Conduct Due Diligence — Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC - News) announced today that it has retained Goldman Sachs & Co …
Mowser.mobi !
Mowser has a new home! — It took a few weeks to work out the details, but pretty much on the day that I announced Mowser was shutting, the guys at dotMobi got in touch with us interested in the serv...
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. — There are stories around why the limitation ex...
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters
Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark. — Customers who bought certa...
BlackBerry 9000 to be announced May 12th at WES 2008
You heard it here first, people! The much-awaited BlackBerry 9000 will be announced on May 12th, the first day of WES 2008 in Orlando, FL. There will even be booths setup so y'all can demo the devic...
iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world
Like many Apple (AAPL) watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world. One of the ...
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com
The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video....
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect
Facebook has announced Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. — It is essentially a new version of their API for third party websit...
Nokia aiming to reinvent itself as an “Internet company”
During Nokia's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo seemed to change the direction of the entire company. “Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more ...
inquisitor joins yahoo!
Today, I am very pleased to announce that Yahoo! has acquired the rights to Inquisitor, my instant search extension for Safari. — For those unfamiliar, Inquisitor is a pioneering software extension ...
Analysis: MySpace and Facebook challenge mobile-only social networks
Mobile life is blooming. Some 47 mobile social network companies have emerged globally, to help cater to our need to message and communicate while on the go. — But what about the huge incumbents, l...
Virgin Mobile USA and Helio in merger talks?
Virtual cell phone operators Virgin Mobile USA and Helio are rumored to be in merger talks, a move that could bring a lot of benefits to both companies. — The tie-up between the two MVNOs, or mobile...
Apple slammed on climate change
Apple is once again being pilloried on the strength of its green credentials, taking last place among computer firms rated within a recent ClimateCounts survey on climate friendliness. — Apple achie...
Britain's Blinkx flies on Google, Newscorp bid talk
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares of British video search engine firm Blinkx surged 50 percent to a seven-month high on Friday, on talk that Internet giant Google and media conglomerate NewsCorp may bid for t...
Facebook: Friends with Money
The social network taps a fresh source of funds for $100 million and will buy more servers to support its growth in users and applications — Facebook is about to stuff more cash into its already ful...
Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team
Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search i...
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod
As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup....
Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quo...
The All Time Techmeme Leaderboard from The Statbot
The Techmeme leaderboard is limited only to the past 30 days. Here's the Top 100 Sites on Techmeme, all time: … http://www.techcrunch.com … http://www.nytimes.com … http://www.engadget.com … http://n...
Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT
A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google's Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear's own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:publ...
The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model
The perennial debate surrounding Twitter's revenue model continues to live on. The micro-blogging service has succeeded in building a strong, loyal following, but failed to capitalize on it. Such a ...
Madison Avenue shift: Look who's leaving big firms, moving to digital startups
Executives at major media companies and advertising agencies are defecting to web start-ups in increasing numbers, attracted by some combination of equity and autonomy. Here's a closer look at who's ...
Amazon.com may owe Texas millions in uncollected sales taxes
mhalkias@dallasnews.com — Texans who shop Amazon.com to avoid paying sales taxes may not have that luxury for long. — The Texas Comptroller's Office is investigating whether the Internet retail be...
Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. — Called an ...
Xbox 360 “Jasper” 65nm GPU in Production
Microsoft preps 65nm GPU for cooler Xbox 360s — Chip process evolution is a usual thing in a console's lifecycle, but rarely has it been as important as in the case of the Xbox 360. — Known for it...
dotMobi Buys Mowser For Mobile Web Integration
Congrats to Russ Beattie and Mike Rowehl, the guys behind Mowser. It may well have looked dead and buried a few weeks ago, but the service has been bought by the dotMobi consortium. Reporting on Dev...
15 Websites / Services I'd Actually Pay For
One measure of a service's utility and stickiness is its ability to charge for usage. Consequently, I regularly find myself asking, “Is this important enough to me that I'd pay for it?” — Here are ...
WiMAX gets EU harmonisation at 2.6GHz
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has started the approvals process for WiMAX to be officially recognised as a 2.6GHz technology, though Intel's bid for Swedish airwaves provi...
Blinkx in focus over Nasdaq
Blinkx , the video search group that was spun out of software specialist Autonomy, was the standout small cap feature yesterday. — Its shares jumped 38.9 per cent to 25p as rumours circulated that B...
Google Bores
After a rousing conversation with reporters Thursday that focused on Google's possible advertising partnership with Yahoo!, the search king's annual meeting was ho hum. — Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news...