Obama releases iPhone recruiting, campaign tool
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. — The most notable feature “organizes and priorit...
Google Rethinks Its Aversion to Ads
Since its earliest days, Google Inc. has largely promoted its search engine and search-advertising products through word of mouth and partnerships. — But in recent months some of the Internet compan...
Spying on Chinese Skype
Among China's community of dissidents and activists, there's a commonly held belief that, while e-mail and regular phone conversations may be subject to surveillance, Skype is safe from such interfere...
INTERVIEW: Steve Ballmer on the Cloud, Google, data centres and the cult of Apple
Microsoft will out-cloud Google — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered the keynote speech at his company's London conference “Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing To...
One Way to Turn a Mac Into a PC Just Got Better
There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier. — The first approach uses a feature called...
Microsoft gives users six months longer to flee from Vista
Buckling to OEMs? — Never mind that Microsoft has kicked off a hyped ad campaign to convince the public to buy Windows Vista PCs, - it's also given users more time to switch back to Windows XP.
YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads
YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn't yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements. As ...
Report: Facebook's international HQ will be in Dublin
As it expands across the globe, social network Facebook will establish its official international headquarters in the Irish capital of Dublin, the Irish Times reported Thursday. The announcement was ...
Google on Android: Search
On September 23, T-Mobile announced the world's first Android-powered phone, the G1. The phone comes preloaded with Search, Maps, Gmail with Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk, and YouTube. The applica...
AT&T's Samsung i907 is called Epix
Well, there goes BlackJack III... We just got a hot tip from one of our readers and it clearly shows what we all knew as the Samsung i780 dressed up in AT&T branding as the AT&T Epix. There's also be...
Nintendo announces DSi with dual cameras, “DSi Shop” content store [update]
As expected, Nintendo has announced the new DSi at its Fall presentation in Japan. The device features a dual touchscreen layout almost identical to the DS Lite, though the company is calling it a “t...
Security researcher reveals iPhone design flaws
Apple's iPhone has two design flaws that could pose potential security problems, according to a researcher. — The first one concerns the iPhone's e-mail application, which automatically downloads im...
What effect will the financial crisis have on the tech sector?
Expect to see a slowdown in smartphone sales and a concomitant growth in the use of open source, cloud computing and virtualisation technology as consumers cut back on their “discretionary” purchases ...
LG Launches Artistically Inspired Handset, Renoir
Seoul, Korea, October 3, 2008- LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced the official launch of its LG-KC910, a slim yet feature-packed full tou...
SlingMedia Prepares To Launch Their Video Portal At Sling.com
Sling Media, the creators of a hardware device that lets users stream their home television signal to an Internet connected device anywhere (with a software download), is preparing to launch their new...
Ballmer recommends separating iPhone hardware and software
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has never been shy about voicing his opinions on any given issue. At an interview conducted during a recent Churchill Club event in California, Ballmer chose to weigh in o...
Apple settles class-action suit over faulty notebook adapters
Apple has agreed, without admitting fault, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that power adapters sold with certain Power PC-based iBook and PowerBook notebooks were defective in that they coul...
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube released plus first hands
This SimpleViewer gallery requires Macromedia Flash. Please open this post in your browser or get Macromedia Flash here. — This is a WPSimpleViewerGallery — Here are some initial shots of the Nok...
Nokia Tube 5800 touchscreen mobile phone preview (exclusive)
We weren't allowed to take photos of the touchscreen wonder, however did attempt a hand-drawing. No laughing! — The Nokia Tube 5800 isn't due to be unveiled until tonight, however T3 was granted a ...
Yes, Yahoo Cuts Coming. How Many? (YHOO)
Now that even the most stubbornly optimistic Yahoos have had time to digest Jerry Yang's “shape up” memo, layoff rumors are in full swing. The most pessimistic prediction we've heard so far, from an ...
Google ‘Goliath’ Microsoft says
The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm's slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business. — Steve Ballmer told the BBC that Microsoft had become a “David...
To encrypt or not? That is the question
Even before someone hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account I had been wondering whatever happened to encryption. — Encryption — the science of rendering plain text unreadable by anyone but the inte...
Locale App for Android Phones “Wouldn't Even Be Possible on the iPhone,” Says Winner of $275K Developer Challenge
Wade Roush wrote: — Last week's unveiling of the first phone running the Android operating system—the T-Mobile G1, which will be available to consumers on October 22 …
Latest MacBook Pro (fake) images ship!!!
We're happy to reveal the all-new latest fake MacBook/MacBook Pro images. Get on!! — With the almost completely unlikely tag-line of, “A blend of beauty meets beastly power,” (which sounds like a D...
Nokia boss has high praise for iPhone
Nokia boss (President and CEO) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is full of praise for Apple, though he's digging in his heels to compete with the iPhone company. — He described Apple's impact on the industry ac...
Apple details cursor-based QuickLook and advanced functions
Apple is exploring new ways to use the Mac OS cursor to provide users with additional information and usability options for files residing on their hard drive or linked via the internet before they're...
Hi5 translations go live
Social network Hi5 has launched a site translation project, a week after the announcement that the company had created a “crowdsourced translation” app for use on the OpenSocial developer platform and...