Amazon Plans an Online Store for Movies and TV Shows
SAN FRANCISCO — In a significant step toward vanquishing the local video store and keeping couch potatoes planted firmly in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com will introduce a new on...
MobileMe: 30-day Extension Eligibility and Details
Note: This FAQ will be updated when your 30-day extension has been made available. Please bookmark this page and check again in a few weeks. Please note that Apple's MobileMe Support team will be un...
Is This The Future Of Search?
The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search h...
Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3
LOS ANGELES — The Japanese video game titans, Nintendo and Sony, announced wide-ranging, if not entirely breathtaking, constellations of new games and services at the E3 convention here on Tuesday, bu...
Updates to Gmail contact manager
Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager Engineer, Google Contacts Team — We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advanta...
Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open
Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody...
THE LOOPT DEBACLE
With the launch of the app store this past week in conjunction with the new iPhone, a little application called loopt has been causing a bit of conflict with the community. Loopt is a location based ...
Yahooglesoft Lawyers Speak!
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Yesterday, BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. to see lawyers from Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo and Google face off in Senate hearings about the contr...
Report: AOL Merger Or Sale Likely In The Next Two Weeks
Reuters is reporting that TimeWarner is seeking to strike a deal with either Yahoo or Microsoft for AOL. It says that talks between the companies “have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 sha...
What Getting Buzzed Says About Yahoo
The battle over Yahoo's search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo's true value: a media aggregation platf...
Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free
One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If ...
BlackBerry Bold / BlackBerry Thunder release information
First things first... how did you like our BlackBerry Bold review? If that just made you crave the device more, you might not be too pleased with the latest info we got. We've been told that the Bol...
A look at who's making iPhone 3G purchases thus far
A study of customers queued outside of Apple's retail stores over the weekend reveals that early iPhone 3G adopters are predominantly Mac users, and that Motorola and Samsung are amongst the rival han...
Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches
What will it mean for YouTube if founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have, like many of us, entertained themselves by watching pirated videos found on their site? — Viacom will likely argue that You...
Lawyer Sues Google For Putting His Ads On Parked Domains
from the what-else-can-you-sue-google- over? dept — Every time you think someone has sued Google for every possible sin imaginable, someone pops up with yet another lawsuit. The latest is that Goo...