First Test of Google's New Browser
Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole ne...
Yahoo's Stock Is Like a Falling Knife
And BoomTown has to wonder who is going to try to catch it without getting sliced and slashed. — As we noted earlier about Yahoo's dicey situation, in a back-to-school post about what various Intern...
Hulu Launches Fall Lineup, Premieres Before TV Broadcast
Hulu on Tuesday announced that it has launched its Fall Premiere Lineup, which over the next seven weeks, will be the place to find season premieres of Prison Break, Bones, House, Heroes, The Office a...
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces
Google wants to help you put a name to that face. — With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of...
Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service
The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is heating up, creating fresh opportunities for consumers to cut their bills. — Verizon Communic...
Google Launches Video Sharing for Business
Google has found a way to make money from video sharing — but not on YouTube. The company will add video to its paid business edition of Google Apps on Monday. In a way, Google is opening up a whole...
Is Steve Jobs Dying? And Is Fake Steve Resurrecting?
I have been exchanging emails with Dan Lyons, the man behind Fake Steve, and he revealed some scary news. I emailed him to tell him that Steve Jobs isn't dying like some believe, and that according t...
Apple iPhone: 8 million and counting
On Saturday, Aug. 30, the daughters of “BillH” bought an iPhone at an AT&T store in Sunnyvale, Calif. The next day, their father, an Apple investor from Minneapolis, reported on The Mac Observer's App...
Nokia to launch music service for mobiles
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is planning to launch its new mobile music service in the UK next month, and will extend it to continental Europe and Asia next year. — Nokia has under...
A Snappy Way To Make Money In Stock
Most people would say that their favorite picture of their spouse is invaluable. Jason Stitt can put a precise dollar figure on it: $2,000. That's how much he's earned by turning a single snapshot o...
Ultrasound to give feel to games
The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce “virtual” objects in mid-air. — The field of haptics - integrating computing and the sense of touch - has been around for some time but ha...
Dell Inspiron 910 Gets Release Date: This Friday, September 5th.
We've been following the news and leaks on Dell's Eee PC answer, the Inspiron 910, and now here's some more info: we've learned it'll be released on September 5th. The news is not concrete, for sure,...