Google to buy Valve
Austin GDC 2008 Steaming away — WELL PLACED SOURCES tell us that Google is going to be buying Valve any second now. If you have to stop and think about why, you probably are not aware of Steam, Val...
Echoing the Campaign of a Rival, Microsoft Aims to Redefine 'I'm a PC'
RELAX, computer users, after only two weeks Microsoft will stop teasing you as the company begins the next phase of an ambitious — and risky — $300 million campaign intended to make over its tarnished...
New Windows Live Betas - Download Wave 3 Now! (Updated With International Goodness)
With the Windows Live Wave 3 beta due to start today, we thought we'd provide our readers with a small headstart on the rest of the world. Here's the download links for the new Wave 3 suite of applic...
Popular Canon SD870 IS gets fresh
The most exciting thing about the new Canon PowerShot SD880 IS Digital ELPH camera is that it's an update to the really popular SD870 IS. However, that doesn't mean Canon didn't try to improve on its...
Tech Guru Riles the Industry By Seeking Huge Patent Fees
Millionaire Nathan Myhrvold, renowned in the computer industry as a Renaissance man, has a less lofty message for tech companies these days: Pay up. — Over the past few years, the former Microsoft C...
CANON U.S.A. INTRODUCES THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED EOS 5D MARK II DSLR CAMERA FEATURING FULL-FRAME HD VIDEO CAPTURE
The Canon EOS 5D Mark II Escalates Full-Frame Digital SLR Photography to the Next Level with HD Movie Recording Capabilities, DIGIC 4 Imaging Processor, and 21.1 Megapixel Resolution
T-Mobile Android phone to hit stores on Oct 17, Sprint Android phone coming next year
Android, Google's new operating system for devices, will be officially unveiled as part of the HTC “Dream” phone launch on T-Mobile on September 23rd, at a press conference in New York.
Verizon Wireless Going Contract-Free?
According to an inside source, it looks like Verizon Wireless will be offering contract-free services as of September 21. Much like T-Mobile's FlexPay, the option will be available to those who pay f...
iPhone apps like Whrrl preview the power of location, but there is far greater potential
With a global positioning system (GPS) chip now in the iPhone 3G, location services are becoming important to many mobile application developers. Each day, we're seeing new iPhone apps launch which …
Nortel Shrs Plunge On Lower '08 Outlook; Blames Carriers
Nortel Networks (NT) this morning reduced its outlook for 2008 revenues, noting that carriers are cutting their capital spending further than previously expected, and enterprise and metro customers de...
Peter Moore Interview: Part Three
Why Rare are a spent creative force... and other shocks from the Xbox backroom... Yesterday, we followed Moore from Dreamcast to Xbox 360. Today, there's more from the Microsoft years, including a d...
‘Android’ Cellphone to Showcase Google Brand
The first mobile device powered by Google Inc.'s “Android” mobile phone software is expected to sell for $199 and will showcase the Google brand, people familiar with the matter say, a departure from ...
Want To Know Why Apple TV Is Still Steve Jobs' “Hobby”?
Want to know why Steve Jobs is still calling Apple TV his “hobby”? — New research by The NPD Group offers an explanation: — 41 percent of dollars budgeted for movies and video is spent on DVD movie...
Bret Taylor on FriendFeed's Road to Monetization, Early Surprises
This evening, at a panel on lifestreaming put on by the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor spoke about the popular aggregation and lifestreaming service's early months, explai...
Can games make your kid a better citizen?
Study: Game experiences can provide hands-on learning opportunities — Can playing “Madden” or “World of Warcraft” encourage your kid to be more engaged in public life? Believe it or not, yes. — P...
Mysterious new 4GB iPod nano 4Gs begin appearing on store shelves
Now this is an interesting development. According to two separate tipsters (with two sets of photos) Apple has released a third version of the new multi-hued iPod nano to the world — a 4GB model.
Open set-top box ships
Neuros Technology has started shipping its second open set-top box, which targets both consumers and product companies. The high-definition capable “Open Source Device 2.0” (OSD 2.0) runs several ope...