Palm Centro heads to Verizon, in stores tomorrow for $99
Come on, T-Mobile, all we need is you to get on board now and that'll make a perfect Yahtzee! for Palm with its surprise hit, the Centro. Thanks to Verizon's expected announcement today, the top thre...
Leaving Yahoo!
It seems that word has started to leak out, so I might as well remove any speculation or ambiguity. In the next few weeks, I'll walk the halls at Yahoo! as an employee one last time and turn in my pu...
RepairPal, It's Like Google Health for Your Car
Going to the mechanic is like going to the doctor. When something needs to be fixed, for most people there is no easy way to tell if they are being charged the going rate or are being ripped off. En...
USB 3.0 for the masses - Dispelling the myths.
There has been a lot of unanswered speculation recently regarding USB 3.0 and Intel's involvement; I thought it was about time to set the record straight. By the way: USB 3.0 will be a new wired USB ...
Congressmen say Chinese hacked their PCs
Dissident locations, other sensitive data intercepted — Lawmakes are urging everyone on Capitol Hill to have their computers checked for malware after discovering that people working from inside Chi...
Live from the 2008 Apple Design Awards (Liveblog and Photos) - WWDC08
Since 1996, every year at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has awarded the most innovative Macintosh software and related hardware produced by independent developers with a Design Awa...
Google CEO talks of good, evil and monopoly fears
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Wednesday detailed his theory of competition in the Web industry while saying Google's famous mantra of “Don't be evil” is often mi...
iPhone 3G's True Price Compared
Ever since Apple announced that they're cutting $200 from the iPhone's price and lowering the iPhone 3G down to $199, people have been rumbling about how the increased AT&T data plan price negates any...
A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy
Add-Ons to Online Social Profiles Expose Personal Data to Strangers — Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizz...
Gmail.com Domain Made Disfunctional In Germany
Surprise... I usually enter “gmail.com” to jump to my email inbox, but today I'm greeted with the following message after doing so (the message sits at mail.google.com/gmail/): — We can't provide se...
BlackBerry Seawolf 9110 Joins the Pack, Javelin, Aurora and Thunder throw a party
It almost seems like we're unearthing a new BlackBerry model every week. There were a number of doubters on the internet when we first posted news of the BlackBerry 9100 and external display.
Comcast Increases Upstream Speeds for Its High-Speed Internet Customers for No Additional Charge
Upstream Speed to Nearly Triple for Performance Customers and More Than Double for Performance Plus Customers — PHILADELPHIA—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSK - News, CMCSA - News) …
An Imitator That Rivals the iPhone
The story so far: Apple introduced the iPhone a year ago, and has sold six million of them. Then on Monday, Apple unveiled an improved model that brings faster Internet, G.P.S. and a much lower price...
iPhone 3G's True Price Compared
Ever since Apple announced that they're cutting $200 from the iPhone's price and lowering the iPhone 3G down to $199, people have been rumbling about how the increased AT&T data plan price negates any...
Mobile broadcaster Flixwagon hitches to iPhone
Flixwagon, a tool for live video broadcasting to the Web via smartphones, is working on a version for the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. — Tel Aviv, Israel-based Flixwagon is still relativ...
App Store has size and price caps, opening with iPhone 3G
Developers submitting content to the App Store will have wide-ranging control over how their app is offered, but face a definitive limit for the size of their apps, AppleInsider has learned. The port...
New kissing robot from Japan
Sega Toys today announced [JP, PDF] they will start selling a new humanoid robot in Japan, E.M.A., on September 26th. E.M.A. stands for “Eternal, Maiden, Actualization” (whatever that means). — The...
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers
As programmers, we deal with a lot of unusual keyboard characters that typical users rarely need to type, much less think about: … Even the characters that are fairly regularly used in everyday writin...