Senate unanimously passes RIAA-backed bill
This post was updated at 4:25 p.m. PDT with more details. — The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill backed by groups like the recording industry and the labor movement that wo...
Ballmer changes tune while dancing around Apple's success
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, who's watched his company's PC business come under immense pressure from Apple, used a forum this week to discount the Mac maker's potential for future share g...
Cone Finds That Americans Expect Companies to Have a Presence in Social Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Harder-to-reach audiences are ripe for social media interaction — Almost 60 percent of Americans interact with companies on a social media Web site, and one in four interac...
Oracle's Ellison nails cloud computing
Finally, a technology executive willing to tell the truth about cloud computing. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison said that the computer industry is more fashion-driven than women's fashio...
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Dem...
Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge
Microsoft is quietly readying a plan to make a purchase of the combined Yahoo-AOL, should Yahoo pull off its plans to acquire the struggling America Online unit, according to sources close to AOL — vi...
A call to arms for radio fans: Pandora needs you now
When I spoke to Pandora founder Tim Westergren last week he told me that there would be a time when the Internet radio site would need to issue a call to arms to its listeners — that time is now. — ...
10 amazingly alternative operating systems and what they could mean for the future
This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris.
Apple Won't Face Lawsuit Over Limited Life of IPhone Batteries
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. won't face a lawsuit claiming it didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost, including deliver...
Wall Street's Blowup Shrinks The Tech Market By Billions. Could Be Worse
The Wall Street collapse is terrible for tech, obviously. But it could be worse. — Forrester Research says the financial sector's troubled firms (Lehman, Merrill, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie, Freddie...
Sony Price Dropping 40GB PS3 Model This Weekend
Ho Ho Ho, it looks like Christmas is coming early for fans of the Playstation 3 system. — According to a Blockbusters' memo leaked to us today Sony is permanently dropping the price of the discontin...
FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings
Blogging is a fast medium, that's one of its advantages over traditional media. There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics. Most of those blo...
Analyst: Fundamentals are deteriorating at Yahoo
An analyst trimmed revenue estimates for Yahoo this morning, noting some of the factors that seems to be bringing the company down with no relief in sight. Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal sa...
Tellme for iPhone due by June
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft is indeed working on an iPhone application. — As I predicted, it is the company's Tellme unit that is actively developing a program for Apple's iPhone. Tellme offers v...
Pre-owned market had “big” effect on Halo, says Bungie dev
Marty O'Donnell, Bungie's audio director, has warned that smaller studios face a difficult future if they can't get a return on their investment due to the sale of pre-owned games. — Speaking to Gam...
Full Pass of Acid3
Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent...
Wario Land: Shake It Busts Up YouTube
by Greg Kumparak on September 26, 2008 — Wow. Whoever came up with this new ad for Wario Land: Shake it deserves a raise and a paid vacation to Cancun or something. They've taken a basic concept o...
The Future of Videogames, According to Activision CEO
Beverly Hills, Calif. — Robert Kotick has just pulled off one of the biggest mergers ever in the videogames industry. Now he has to show that the company that emerged from the deal, Activision Blizza...
Election Twitter: Nice try, but...
Intel Atom rival ships; larger Netbooks coming?
Are Netbooks ripe to be resized? Via Technologies thinks so. The Intel-compatible chipmaker says larger Netbooks are on the way. — In an interview, Glenn Henry, the head of Via Technologies subsid...
The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership
Mathew Ingram covers the details of Muxtape's run-in with the RIAA. As you may recall, last month the rather useful site that let people create online “mix tapes” that could be streamed to others was...
Ballmer on search: 'I don't like not being No. 1'
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company may be the only one with a chance to rival Google in search over the long term, but acknowledged that it will take several more years a...
Some screen shots from Vodafone-branded Blackberry Storm emerge
Some purported screen shots of Vodafone-branded Blackberry Storm have emerged today. If you believe what you see is for real, then you may be a bit disappointed. The resolution on the screen is quit...
Nokia to unveil touch-screen phone Oct 2: sources
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will unveil its first touch-screen phone at a media and analyst event in London next week, t...
Twitter to launch election site tonight
Longtime users of the micro-messaging service Twitter may have noticed something around the start of the political primary season: A lot of tweets (Twitter messages) about politics. To some this is a...
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?
Everyone keeps talking about Smule's virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). — I wasn't impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes,...
Our position on California's No on 8 campaign
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions — Dem...
Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit
Apple reportedly plans to build 14 million to 15 million iPhone 3Gs from a previous target of 18 million for 2008, according to a report from Pacific Crest. — Citing “supply chain channel checks” Ap...
Alcatel-Lucent loses $1.5bn MP3 patent claim against MS
US court ditches appeal — Microsoft will not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5bn in damages, after a lower court threw out the jury's verdict in a fight over MP3 patents. — The software giant yester...
NBC says local TV profoundly affected by downturn
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economic downturn has had a severe effect on broadcaster NBC's local television stations but the company has not yet seen an advertising slowdown at a national level, its c...
Apple now selling iPhone 3G unlocked in Hong Kong
If you can't get your goods into China via the front door, there's always the back. Apple is now selling its iPhone 3G unlocked via its on-line Apple Store in Hong Kong. The 8GB model sells for HK$5...
To Splurge Or Not To Splurge
I went to bed with the news that McCain wasn't sure if he would support the splurge. Not that anyone needs my vote on this thing, but I woke up trying to figure out if I am in favor of it. So I'll r...
T-Mobile to “Open Up” T-Zones?
Tags: — T-Mobile has been struggling with the idea of “openness” recently. First CEO Robert Dotson seemed to lament that so many of his users were using unlocked phones. Then they launched the sup...
Windows Mobile 7 phone release now seriously delayed — could be as late as 2010
could be as late as 2010 — Microsoft is delaying the update to its mobile operating system, called Windows Mobile 7, with the new phones carrying the operating system now increasingly unlikely to hit...
Announcing the Disqus API
I'm happy to announce that the first official release of our public API is now online. The methods provided are enough to let you write your own comment import tools, export tools, or even a custom D...
Griffin iPod Dock Simplifies Cluttered Desks
Look what Griffin did! It's another iPod dock, but this time it's actually useful. The Simplifi comes in at $70, but for that you get to toss out your media card reader and your USB hub. There's al...
Android and Windows Mobile smartphones are complementary, says HTC
Android and Windows Mobile handsets can complement each other in the market, offering consumers and telecom service providers more choice, according to John Wang, CMO, High Tech Computer (HTC), who ad...
Glam Media Acquires German Counterpart Codex Media?
Glam Media, the content network that mostly targets females, may have acquired a large German content network aimed at females, called Codex Media. — A tipster who has a connection to Codex Media fi...
Google Maps UK Adds Traffic Information
Google Maps UK has finally added live traffic data to the major roads in England*. As with other areas in Google Maps that have traffic data enabled, you can also let Google predict what the traffic ...
Everyone hates ComScore
As the de facto measuring authority of online audiences, tiny ComScore punches above its weight - and earns some serious coin. — (Fortune Magazine) — Last winter, when Google lost a third of its mar...
Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some Assets
Washington Mutual, the giant lender that came to symbolize the excesses of the mortgage boom, was seized by federal regulators on Thursday night, in what is by far the largest bank failure in American...