E-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7
Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned. — The software maker incl...
SanDisk SlotMusic Cards Are Destined to Fail
SanDisk, a flash memory chip maker that has been fighting off competitor Samsung's bid to acquire the company, has launched SlotMusic MicroSD memory cards that will carry full-length music albums just...
Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?
In the sandbox — Since its release a few weeks ago, curious developers have been sniffing through the source code for Google's new Chrome web browser. Chrome's source is interesting for a variety o...
Microsoft Authorizes A Big $40 Billion Buyback; Ups Dividend
Well, that's one thing they can do with all their cash... Rather than buy anyone else, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) board has authorized the company to spend $40 billion on buying its own shares through...
T-Mobile's Dream Is a Distraction
Google's Android OS is really about ruling the world of feature phones, not the world of smartphones. — You're about to be bombarded by a rush of coverage about T-Mobile's G1, aka the HTC Dream, the...
FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack
FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell in connection with the hack of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's private Yahoo account.
How Yahoo could have protected Palin's email
Last week I criticized Yahoo for their insecure password recovery mechanism that allowed an intruder to take control of Sarah Palin's email account. Several readers asked me the obvious follow-up que...
Netbytes: Is the Wall Street Journal losing the plot?
As Wall Street rides the rollercoaster of global financial hysteria, people are turning in their millions to the website of The Wall Street Journal for reliable information. But just when it's needed...
Why Google Isn't Enough
Web 2.0 has annoyed legions of information technology professionals by providing an experience for consumers that, in many ways, is just plain better than what everyone gets at work. At some point af...
Analyst: Apple will sell 5 million iPhones in Q4
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, one of the most bullish — and closely watched — of the more than two dozen analysts who track Apple Inc., has raised his estimates for the company's fourth quarter, which...
RIAA rejects damage award, forces trial, looks hypocritical
What price innocent infringement? That's the question a San Antonio jury will have to address in mid-November, as the RIAA and 20-year-old Whitney Harper will battle in court over the amount of damag...
Palm OS II-based smartphones now due H2 2009
Palm's next-gen operating system will be finished by the end of the year, the company promised late last week. — The company said the Linux-based system software known as Palm OS II and ‘Nova’ is “o...
Olympus unveils rangefinder inspired Micro Four Thirds concept
At a press briefing in Cologne, Germany this morning, Olympus unveiled its Micro Four Thirds concept camera. In an interesting contrast study to Panasonic's G1, it appears that the next Micro Four Th...
New from Microsoft: Data Centers In Tents
This month we've already had a patent from Google for floating data centers, and a proof-of-concept from Intel for a data center with almost no air conditioning. What's next? — It turns out that Mi...
The first 9 Megapixel autofocus camera module for handsets announced
It seems that 8 MP camera phones should already step aside to make room for the 9 MP handsets, although the first ones haven't had the chance to conquer the market yet. — Digital Imaging Systems …
Entertainment Studios to Launch Six HD Networks
Entertainment Studios ( http://www.es.tv), the largest independent producer and distributor of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations, announced today that the c...
iPhone Developer: I Just Made $250K From App Store In Two Months (AAPL)
Steve Demeter developed the iPhone puzzle game Trism as a side project, but now he's quitting his day job. Why? Because he says he's generated $250,000 in profits since he started selling the $4.99 ...
Google throws down open source gauntlet
Google founder Larry Page wants the world to know that he and the company are serious about open source, unlike others who shall remain nameless. Alas for this reporter all I got for my attempts to d...
The Pirate Bay Is Getting Into Streaming?
The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker (and one of the most hated by studios), may be getting into streaming, a tipster told us. — The Pirate Bay, which has 3 million users and is cl...
McAfee offers $465 million for Secure Computing
Security specialist McAfee on Monday announced that it has a deal in place to acquire Secure Computing. — The merger offer is pegged at $5.75 per common share in cash, which McAfee says represents a...