Yahoo gives a taste of its ‘open’ overhaul
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Yahoo showed its vision for what its Yahoo Open Strategy makes possible, demonstrating how it hopes to engage users more by enabling its existing sites to grow beyond their current c...
Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50
Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year's TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger. There were so many st...
Video: Interview With Skype CEO — Where is Skype for the iPhone?
Where is Skype for the iPhone? — Do You Want Skype on Your iPhone? — Oh god yes... I can't wait. — Not Really. — In this era of flat rate plans from mobile companies, does anyone need Skype? — T...
Nontechies, This One's for You
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. — That old cliché is more true than ever. Red state/blue state. Pro-choice/pro...
Apple details next-gen Nike+ system with GPS, wear sensors
A new filing from Apple describes a future generation Nike+ system that would be capable of more accurately monitoring athletic performance in real-time, providing feedback on wear of athletic gear, a...
TiVo control coming to BlackBerry
TiVo and Research In Motion are teaming up to enable BlackBerry users to remotely schedule recordings of TV shows on their digital video recorder, the companies announced Thursday. — Under the partn...
Trustbusters divided on next move on Google
Go big or go small. — That's the question facing lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Google. Sources who have provided testimony to the government say a departmental debate re...
Xbox 360s Flying Off The Shelves After Price Cut
Well, that seems to have done the trick. Following last week's Xbox 360 price cut in the US, the console has seen a big spike in sales. — Some retailers are reportedly showing 100% increases in sal...
E-books: The flexible future
Interesting news from the DemoFall conference held this week in San Diego: — Plastic Logic—a company founded to commercialize electronics built on flexible plastic substrates—demonstrated a prototyp...
What's happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services
Last night, I had the chance to meet with some companies who are exhibiting at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco at a press-only event called Mobile Focus. It was a good show - fo...
Confirmed: iPod Touch Can Support VoIP Calls
Cult of Mac has confirmed the newest version of Apple's iPod Touch contains the hardware necessary to enable free or low-cost phone calls over wi-fi. — With 5 wires connected to the Touch headphone ...
Classical download store opens
Classical music lovers in the UK will now be able to download their favourite works from the web, thanks to a new resource launched today. — Passionato is providing the world's biggest collection of...
Zune exec on phone future, new iPods
There are a number of businesses where Microsoft is playing catch-up these days. But arguably one where the company starts furthest behind is in the music business, where it decided two years ago to ...
Samsung Netbook official photos...
The still unnamed Netbook is set for launch at the end of October, and orders are already in place with resellers. Demand has been so positive that Samsung UK has rushed these first shots of the devi...
Red Hat: Virtualization will be free
Red Hat has predicted that virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. — Red Hat...
ScanScout Taps New CEO
About founder Bill Day to helm video ad network — NEW YORK Video ad network ScanScout has tapped About founder Bill Day as its new chief executive. — Day takes over from Waikit Lau, ScanScout's co...