Verizon, Google Close To Mobile Search Deal
Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could be a much-needed jolt for the anemic ...
TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed
I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS pe...
New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites
Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop b...
iHologram Looks Remarkable, but Is it Real?
Macenstein points us to an interesting video which claims to create a “holographic” effect on the iPhone by performing real time adjustments to the image based on rotation: … Our only confusion is its...
Who Says You Can't VoIP on Aircell, I just Did It
This post is dedicated to my father, the late Master Sergeant Bernard Abramson, who in the USMC fashion taught me that “the impossible we do right away, but miracles take a little longer.” — He woul...
Twitterers eagerly await Obama VP decision so they can pass it on
What good is it being the first to know something important if you can't be the first to tell someone else? — With that in mind, Twitter users have been tweeting away with anticipation today of Bara...
Apple's Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans
It intends to make at least 40 million iPhones in the next year; selling so many will hinge on global success and fixing connection glitches — Forecasting iPhone sales is one of tech's toughest gues...
Netbook Prices Are Now Falling
Personal computer maker Acer said Friday morning it is cutting the price of its Aspire “netbook” to $349 from $399. It's cutting the price of another netbook, the Linpus Linux Lite, to $329 from $379...
LG KC910 is the 8-megapixel successor of Viewty
LG just officially announced to us the successor of the Viewty, the KC910. It is an all-in-one multimedia phone, sporting 8-megapixel camera, Dolby sound for music, and DivX and XviD support for vide...
iTunes blocked in China; Tibet album suspected
BEIJING (AP) — Customers in China of Apple Inc.'s iTunes online music store were unable to download songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed...
Canon 50D Info Leaked - REAL SPECS!
Canon's China website has published specifications for the 50D in its public webspace. Although the info is not on the front page of the site yet, it is accessible to anyone. Here is the link (updat...
Facebook v. MySpace In The U.S. Market: The Music Factor
Facebook is now the largest social network in the world. But they continue to trail MySpace by a massive 36 million users in the U.S., and at current growth rates it will take them 18 years to overta...
Yahoo Releases New Version of Site Explorer
Yahoo has released a new look for Site Explorer. Currently, the new version can be found at https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ new, but will be made default in the future. — The new look also c...
BBC iPlayer upgrade prompts new ISP complaints
High definition network freezes out the little guy — The BBC is facing more criticism that the way it delivers iPlayer traffic will make it harder for smaller ISPs to survive. — The latest squeeze...
Macs, Aperture a big hit at the Beijing Olympics
Along with the top athletes from around the world, the 2008 Beijing Olympics has attracted thousands of reporters and photographers, working around the clock to file stories and images from the bigges...
Atari: The Golden Years — A History, 1978-1981
A History, 1978-1981 — [Following his article on Atari's genesis, game historian Fulton returns with an amazingly detailed piece on Atari's ‘golden years’, from Asteroids through Battlezone.] — Ata...