Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social
Easily insert social features to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality — Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/ ), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will anno...
H-P Near Deal to Buy EDS
Hewlett-Packard Co. was close to a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corp. for between $12 billion and $13 billion, according to people familiar with the mater. — The terms of the deal were no...
AT&T now showing “iPhone Black” model in device listing
AT&T Wireless, Apple's exclusive iPhone provider in the United States, is now listing a second model of the iPhone in its device database called “iPhone Black,” AppleInsider has been informed. — The...
Microsoft exec Raikes named Gates Foundation CEO
Bill Gates, preparing to shift to full-time philanthropy at the end of June, has chosen one of his longtime Microsoft lieutenants as the chief executive of his foundation. Jeff Raikes, the retiring M...
Bold new BlackBerry 9000 to take on expected 3G iPhone
RIM said “hello” to the iPhone this morning when it introduced the long-anticipated BlackBerry 9000, also known as the BlackBerry Bold. Aside from its dashing good looks, the Bold has tweaks under th...
Where does Google go next?
Yes, it's making gobs of money. Yes, it's full of smart people. Yes, it's a wonderful place to work. So why are so many people leaving? — (Fortune) — Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer ...
HBO In Your Pocket
Apple is close to announcing it has signed a deal to sell HBO programs and movies on the iTunes website, according to HBO employees involved in executing the agreement. — The deal marks the first ti...
Twitter Beats (Wow, By 3 Minutes) The USGS With China Earthquake News
Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, p...
My New Adventure
As I've often said, I'm one lucky guy. In my position as editor in chief of PC World, I have one of the best jobs in technology journalism. I get to do work I thoroughly enjoy, and to be part of a r...
Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser ...
Google extends online-video lead
People in the United States watched about 11.5 billion videos online in March, and Google extended its dominance in the area, according to new figures released Monday. — Google's sites served up 38 ...
Shape of Things to Come
How Apple's trademark for its iPod protects its brand — and offers lessons for other companies on how to leverage their intellectual property — On Jan. 8, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grante...
Social-networking sites work to turn users into profits
SAN FRANCISCO — It is the burning question in tech circles, and Mike Murphy answers it before it is completed. — “I hear it every time I'm on a (tech) panel,” Murphy, Facebook's vice president of me...
Gates: Windows 7 will “take less memory, be more efficient”
It can be argued that Microsoft's main focus with Windows Vista was security. While sceptics try to claim that there has not been much improvement, Vista does appear to be Microsoft's most secure OS ...
RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone
Top of the line BlackBerry smartphone features premium design and unprecedented performance; perfect for business professionals and power users. — Waterloo, ON - For customers seeking a smartphone t...
Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience
Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They've launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web cra...
Another Classic Rip-Off Job By Ars Technica
Ars Technica is really good at stealing other's ideas. Plain and simple. — Anyone else, and I may have given them a pass that they came up with what seems to be the exact same approach to a story t...
Twitter and the China earthquake
I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that's all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until...
SingTel, Bharti, Globe and Optus Reach Deal to Offer Apple's iPhone
SINGAPORE — Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Bharti Airtel Ltd., Globe Telecom Inc. and SingTel subsidiary Optus Monday said in a joint statement that they have signed an agreement with Apple Inc. t...
What Google Knows About Spam
If you didn't attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I'll embed the keynote below as well. — The only thin...
Digging Deeper On The Top Tech Blogs And Bloggers
This is a follow up to our post last month that listed some of the top tech bloggers according to TechMeme. The goal was to be able to take a look at the individual bloggers who were writing headline...
In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time?
This week, the television upfronts — in which the broadcast networks present their schedules to advertisers — will open with a mystery. Who stole six million viewers? — That's the number who were w...