Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours here at the office with Valleywag's most cherished and adored tech celebrity, Jason Calacanis. Love him or hate him, the bloke's got contacts, and he confirmed to ...
Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks
Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA's new mobile platform, AppleIn...
Google Rewires Washington in Challenge to Microsoft
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Vivek Kundra, recruited to Washington to overhaul city computer networks plagued by cost overruns and viruses, treats his projects like stocks. The biggest “buy” on his trading ...
IM: Not coming soon
In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because ...
YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through
After months of experimenting with long-form video, YouTube said on Friday it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. — The staggering growth of...
In Defense of Piracy
Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up. — In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushin...
Stupid rock band totally pwns Google
Google's Hot Trends page has been gamed before, but today's #1 spot is the best ever — a dorky-white-guys rock band named Captain Caucasian and the Raging Idiots. No KKK references, just a bunch of g...
Over 300 iPhone Apps Use Location Look-Ups
According to Skyhook Wireless over 300 iPhone apps are location-aware as of October 3rd. According to Mobclix there are over 4,000 apps in circulation. If these numbers are correct this puts the loc...
New machine prints sheets of light
NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) — On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every...
Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Companies Sending Text Messages
Verizon Wireless this week told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers. The plan prom...
Expect to see start-ups and VCs hit standoff over valuations
When the stock market goes into the dumps, it takes a while for the effects to trickle down to start-ups. That's because start-ups are often are working away on a project that's isolated from the lar...
Mafiaboy Grows Up; a Hacker Seeks Redemption
The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours. —...
Searching for Cheap Gas?
Driving across town to find gas that's a few percent less expensive may have seemed silly a few years ago, but nowadays it's becoming a lot more rational. With gas prices up 71% compared to last year...
Embed a Part of a YouTube Video
If you want to embed a YouTube video that starts to become interesting somewhere in the middle, there's a simple way to skip the boring part. YouTube's embedded player has a parameter that lets you s...
Chinese Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to come sans 3G, WiFi
It's a sad day for every Nokia fan in China. Apparently Nokia's iPhone killer, 5800 XpressMusic, will come without 3G and WiFi support. And while I can understand the lack of 3G radio because of Chi...