Apple's all-new MacBook Pro packs new NVIDIA GPUs, glass trackpad
Oh, don't act so surprised. A refresh of Apple's long-in-the-tooth MacBook Pro line was pretty much the only sure thing slated for today's event, and Apple certainly delivered. As for looks, you pro...
Bush Signs Draconian Anti-Piracy Law
Over in California, champagne corks are popping. In the offices of the MPAA and RIAA, lawyers turned lobbyists are dancing jigs. In houses all around the US however, people are left dumbfounded by t...
McCain Campaign Sends Letter To YouTube Defending Fair Use
from the what-the...? dept — This is impressive, and somewhat unexpected. It's rather rare to see politicians (other than maginal ones, at least) showing any sort of recognition of fair use.
Motorola Recruiting for “Android Social Networking SmartPhone” Project
An innocuous posting on Coroflot might be indication of Motorola's plans for implementing Android into their hardware lineup. One of our readers sent us a link to a job posting for the Interaction De...
AT&T goes wild with texting, announces four QWERTY phones
If you're into that whole SMS craze and you're on AT&T, you're in luck — four times over. The carrier's gone ahead and announced not one, not two, but four QWERTY-equipped dumphones today, including ...
Ex-Google, Yahoo, Facebook employees snub recession, launch Hadoop startup
Recession be damned, a group of top Silicon Valley engineers have come together to launch an interesting startup called Cloudera. Not yet launched, it intends to help other companies adopt a promisin...
Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2: watch this space
As some of you may recall, Windows Server 2008 shipped with SP1 already installed. Microsoft made this decision in order to synchronize the Windows client and server release schedule. As such, SP2 w...
Yahoo! Search Hits the Airwaves
A little over four years ago, we launched our own search engine and became a principal in the search business. Our focus since then has been the same - building the best search experience to give use...
Study: Google does a brain good
(CNN) — Can Google make you smarter? Is the more you Yahoo, the better? A new study suggests that searching online could be beneficial for the brain. — A study at the University of California, Los...
JS-Kit, the widget company for dummies, gets boost
JS-Kit, the Silicon Valley company that makes it easy for bloggers to add comments, polls, product reviews or ratings system to their website, has gotten a boost when it most needs it. — It has rais...
Booyah Raises $4.5 Million from Kleiner Perkins
Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings, and has become an exclamatory catchphrase for broadcasters like Jim Cramer and Stuart Scott. More quietly, it's also become the name o...
Microsoft Search Payback: Killing Yahoo, Annoying Google
The Google-Yahoo search partnership is getting neutered by the Justice Department. If the current “compromises” are adopted, the deal will be worth far less to Yahoo, Yahoo shareholders, and Google, ...
Intel Underwhelms—But That's OK, Really
But That's OK, Really — Intel's quarterly report today might be one of those rare cases of “not bad” being “good enough,” based on trading reaction to these numbers. — And I've just learned that de...
Contains Spoilers
Engadget just posted the first real picture and accurate description I've seen in public of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, set to be announced later today. It's the real deal. Major visible changes fr...
Google, Yahoo Seek to Avoid Antitrust Suit Over Ad Deal
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are in talks with the Justice Department in an effort to head off an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement. — The settlement negotiations are at an e...
Free links to your site
I can't believe a new feature from Google isn't getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmaster blog just a...
Video Of The BlackBerry Storm 9500 Mobile Phone In Action
We have another exclusive video of the new BlackBerry Storm 9500 mobile phone! The video shows us the best views yet of key features in action such as web browsing, camera , email, instant messaging...
Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2
Update builds on momentum behind software-powered unified communications and voice. — Today, Microsoft Corp. debuted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), an update to the awar...
Mint Leaves Beta, Brings A Bunch Of New Features With It
Mint, the personal finance startup that won last year's TechCrunch 40, has launched a host of new features including investment tracking, 401k managment, and more flexible budget sheets. CEO Aaron Pa...
Microsoft declares war on the ‘Apple tax’
Microsoft is on the warpath once again, with some Redmond executive slamming Apple for putting a tax on Macs and suggesting (in a kind of roundabout way) that Macs aren't really more secure than Windo...
Today's Claim Chowder
Let's flag the most egregiously wrong rumor reports from the last few weeks. — DUNCAN RILEY: $800 MACBOOKS — Jackass of the week honors go to Duncan Riley at Inquisitr, who a week ago launched the...
SOFTWARE PREVENTS MOBILE PHONE CHATTING WHILE DRIVING
Aegis Mobility has developed DriveAssist , software that offers parents and corporations the ability to stay in touch with their teens or employees, while ensuring responsible mobile phone use while d...
Top Digger helps launch Tip'd, a Digg clone for financial news
Tip'd, which launched today, describes itself as “a place for investors... to meet, share, discuss, comment, and vote on what's happening on both Wall Street and Main Street.” Essentially, it's anoth...
First New York Times API is Live - Here's Why it Matters
The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf(). First...
BillShrink Grows By $8 Million With Plans To Expand To New Markets
BillShrink, a startup that aims to help users save money across a variety of vertical markets, has closed an $8 million Series B funding round led by Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
More Competition For Steve Jobs: Samsung Entering US PC Market
This is timed nicely to today's Apple event — news that Samsung is entering the American PC market. Samsung's PCs are big in South Korea (duh) but not really anywhere else, so it would be easy to dis...