Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit
Washington — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc....
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, ...
Apple looks to revive that special event magic
Other than football fans, there are probably few people in America happier to see the month of September than Apple executives. — Apple will look to put the last six weeks behind it with the expecte...
Zillow, newspaper consortium launch ad network
Zillow.com, which in November 2007 teamed up with a consortium of newspapers to carry their listings on its real-estate site, has now expanded that deal to include the sale of ads on each other's site...
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists
We've gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as...
RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier
People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices. — This has not happ...
DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent's Services Play
While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag...
Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV
Today at 3 p.m. EST, CNN's promiscuous social media adopter Rick Sanchez debuts a TV show called Rick Sanchez Direct. — This may be of some cultural significance, in that that the program appears to...
Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.
New satellite to give Google Maps unprecedented resolution
Google has taken the war over exclusive web content into space. Not directly, of course—the satellite that was recently launched into space on a rocket bearing the Google logo was the result of a joi...
Big Marketers Challenge Google-Yahoo Deal
Trade Group Calls for Justice Department To Block Planned Search-Ad Partnership — Some of the country's biggest marketers are rallying to oppose an advertising deal between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc...
Scoble Says “Everything Sucks”. A Bit Over The Top But Not Untrue
Over the weekend, Robert Scoble got a bunch of people pissed off by suggesting that all the companies demoing at DemoFall 08, or at least all the companies' websites, suck. Now I do have at least som...
Intelligently designed? Ars reviews Spore
12 years later... we're playing Spore — With Spore, Will Wright intends to make you an Intergalactic Galactic ruler who begins life as a bottom-feeding primordial soup dweller. When I first saw the...
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint — from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around ...
Intel releases pricing, details on solid-state drives
Less than a month ago, Intel announced its line of solid-state hard drives. We didn't have much information at the time, other than a model number and a few benchmarks provided by Intel, but we're pl...
Obama Cut Web Advertising In August While McCain Doubled Down
Barack Obama's campaign significantly cut back on Web display and search advertising in August, while rival John McCain's stepped on the gas, according to the latest stats from Nielsen. — More inter...
Apple brings iPhone, toothbrush, to Best Buy stores
You know how new relationships go. The first night together can be filled with equal portions of passion and awkwardness. But before you know it, you're selling all your Macs, accessories, and now e...
Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility
Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulate...