Ballmer: Microsoft will soon release ‘Windows Cloud’ OS
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications. — Within a month, Microsoft will unveil...
To Our Developers
We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software. — We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would ...
New content to watch instantly
Hi, Brent here with some news about movies & TV episodes that are available to watch instantly. Today we announced an agreement with Starz Play that adds around 1,000 choices that you can watch insta...
Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories
In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) - wi...
Will T-Mobile Sell Half A Million Google Phones This Year?
Still unknown: Whether Google's (GOOG) Android ‘GPhone’ smartphone operating system — an impressive technical achievement — will become a commercial success. — But U.S. carrier partner T-Mobile seem...
Blizzard wins Warcraft bot payout
World of Warcraft creator Blizzard has won $6m (£3.36m) in damages from the makers of a software ‘bot’. — The damages award comes after Blizzard won the first round of its legal battle against MDY I...
The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead
Enjoy this article? Subscribe to our RSS feed — When Facebook released their platform last year, the company generated more buzz in the Valley since Google went public. Thousands of developers flo...
Expanding the Cloud: Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2
The backend servers that power the world of Internet Services have become increasingly diverse. With today's announcement that Microsoft Windows Server is available on Amazon EC2 we can now run the m...
CBS Gets a Rude Lesson in Citizen Journalism
Network's iPhone App Turns Up Some User-Generated NSFW Pics to Mobile Site — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app...
US consumers flock to Mac laptops
That sound you can hear is Steve Jobs laughing after reading figures from US market watcher NPD that Apple laptops accounted for 20 per cent of retail notebook sales during July and August. — That's...
xbmc/boxee on Apple TV
as we were just starting to work on boxee the first version of Apple TV came out. — it looked great, the boot video was amazing, but then it lacked some basic stuff (video format limitation, ability...
Apple: No evidence of benzene in Mac Pros
Apple says it has not seen any evidence to back up a French newspaper's claim that Mac Pros are emitting toxic odors, including benzene. — The repoort, first appearing in Libération and picked up by...
Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text convers...
Kevin Mitnick detained, released after Colombia trip
Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate—that is, until h...
Bizarre phone lets users see through walls
Multiple sensors give us perhaps the world's oddest phone — This week's CEATEC technology show just outside Tokyo is home to not just the latest mainstream gadgets, but also some of the weirdest tec...
Palin Had Another Private E-Mail Account, Company Says
Gov. Sarah Palin maintained a private e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the state government's secure official e-mail system, according to the Wa...
New DOS Attack Is a Killer
2:45 PM — Things are a-brewin' in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and t...
Saving electricity one data center at a time
Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously. ...
Tim O'Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0
eBay was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was cool. — Tim O'Reilly wrote a nice piece the other day Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm. In the post, he re-asserted the proper definiti...
House Lets Orphan Works Legislation Die; Tons Of Content Remains Locked Up
We've discussed in the past the importance of orphan works legislation, which would make it possible for people to use content on which the copyright holder cannot be found. The amount of “orphan” co...
Is The Original Spyware Company Finally Dead?
For nearly a decade, we've followed the changing business of what was originally called Gator. When it first launched, back in 1999, the company was offering an e-wallet product, and even though ther...
Apple drops NDA on released iPhone software
Apple today gave up the fight to keep the NDA on released iPhone applications built with the iPhone SDK. The NDA has recieved much bad press and complaints from developers who wanted to communicate t...
Microsoft still paying people to search
Microsoft's latest effort to get people to use its search service is something called SearchPerks, which gives people points for using the search engine that can later be redeemed for prizes. — User...
New Wii due by 2011
What They Play has heard from multiple sources in the game development and publishing community that Nintendo is currently showing early presentations of its next home console hardware. Apparently se...
HP to buy LeftHand Networks
Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that it intends to buy storage specialist LeftHand Networks for $360 million. — Privately held LeftHand will fill out HP's virtualization offerings as the tech...
Apple TV Gets An Upgrade — Without Steve Jobs' Help (AAPL)
Without Steve Jobs' Help (AAPL) — A neat new feature is coming to Apple TV, Apple's (AAPL) set-top box, without Apple's help. No, it's not a DVD drive, which we suggested yesterday. But clever code...
Netflix to stream movies from Starz
In an interesting move by Netflix and Starz, about 2,500 featured movies and concerts are now available for instant streaming over the Internet and using the Roku Netflix box. Because Starz offers fi...
Royalty decision could impact iTunes Store sales
When it comes to music sales, physical or otherwise, everyone seems to get a piece of the pie. You've got your mechanical royalties (sometimes called publishing royalties) as well as your artist roya...
Oracle buys maker of 3D retail software
Oracle is adding to its retail software lineup by acquiring Advanced Visual Technology, a maker of 3D space planning software for retailers. — AVT, based in Hertfordshire, England, sells a product c...
Studios Sue to Bar a DVD Copying Program
Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, on Tuesday over its new $30 software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs. — As the ope...
XOHM WiMAX In Baltimore: Speed Tests With XOHM ExpressCard
We went to Baltimore today to check out America's first fully-functional XOHM city for ourselves. Earlier today, we had a hands-on experience with XOHM using a Nokia N810 WiMAX tablet. Since then, w...
Facebook Group vs Facebook Fan Page: What's Better?
Facebook allows for 2 networking tools: — Creating/ joining a Facebook group; — Creating/ joining a Facebook fan page. — While the major differences become evident only after you try out them firs...
Leaked: RIM's New BlackBerry Terminator 9900!
On AT&T waiting for the Bold? Visions of a BlackBerry Storm dancing thorugh your head? Screw it! Set your eyes on RIM's latest device, the BlackBerry Terminator. With no less than four machine gun...
StumbleUpon 2.0: Good-bye, software toolbar
On Tuesday night StumbleUpon is changing the way users interact with the service, ditching the need for a software-based browser toolbar in place of a small frame that loads on top of the Web site you...
Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps?
RDF is the cornerstone of The Semantic Web, yet there still very few commercial RDF apps. — In the latest issue of Nodalities, a magazine about the Semantic Web by UK company Talis, there is an arti...
Bezos, Benioff invest in appointment-booker ZocDoc
There are some big new names backing ZocDoc, a start-up that lets you book doctor's appointments online (currently just in New York). Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has contributed an undisclosed amount...
Why Palm needs Android
The new Treo Pro runs Microsoft's Windows Mobile - but Palm may get even more mileage out of embracing Google's Android for future phones. Image: Palm — Unless you're Google, these look like rough ...
Palm Treo Pro, Pearl Flip 8220, T-Mobile G1, and more coming soon to Best Buy
A sneak peek into Best Buy's inventory system reveals several hot new phones coming soon to your local Best Buy. Available as of a few days ago is an unlocked version of Sony Ericsson's diminutive C9...
Apple files motion to dismiss Psystar ‘monopoly’ lawsuit
Apple has filed a 23-page motion to dismiss upstart clone maker Psystar's counterclaim against Cupertino rather than filing a response to that claim. — The story starts way back when, when Psystar, ...