Ballmer: Windows 7 is Vista, just ‘a lot better’
Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista , but more so, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday as he defended the first two years of Vista and claimed its successor will be a major release. — “[Windo...
RIM announcing BlackBerry Storm-alike for U.S. at WES 2009, more devices
Look, we really don't want to do this to you, (well, we kind of do) but we've just got the word from one of our RIM ninjas that there will be a BlackBerry Storm-type device announced at WES 2009.
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. — When Microsoft and Apple were founded. — As those examples suggest, a ...
Vimeo Launches Vimeo Plus - Annual Paid Plans
NY-based video sharing service Vimeo has announced the launch of Vimeo Plus today. Vimeo Plus is a paid service that offers additional benefits over the free service. NewTeeVee has a good overview o...
FRIENDS OF THE BAND
ZUCKERBERG PONDERS FACEBOOK MUSIC BIZ — Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is plotting a possible push into the digital-music business in the wake of MySpace's launch of MySpace Music last month. — The...
Steve Jobs email response re: lack of Firewire on MacBooks
Pictured below is a supposed email from Steve Jobs himself regarding the lack of Firewire on the newly introduced MacBooks. Jobs kind of dances around the issue and just mentions that USB 2 is a viab...
Google Asking Their Advertisers To Publicly Support Yahoo Search Deal
A reader, Darrin (from ReverseMortgageGuides), who says he spends about $100,000/month on Google adwords received a voicemail from a Cleary Gottlieb lawyer named Donald Burke. Burke says he's represe...
Yahoo! gets local with SearchMonkey
Continuing to deliver on their aim of enriching the core search offering with a little help from SearchMonkey, Yahoo! yesterday announced that the existing SearchMonkey apps for CitySearch and Zagat a...
Benchmarking Flash Player 10 (Updated)
The web collectively got a bit shinier this week with Adobe's release of Flash Player 10. The new version offers designers a compelling set of new features including support for rich 3D visual effect...
NVIDIA launches the Quadro CX GPU for graphic professionals
The latest from NVIDIA isn't designed with Crysis in mind, but rather graphic pros that rely heavily on Adobe Creative Suite 4 software. With an MSRP of $1,999, your Photoshop dabbling isn't the mark...
MySpace on target to do $1B in sales this year, defies downturn
We're hearing from sources close to social networking company MySpace that it expects to hit $1 billion in revenue this year, or at worst be within a hair's breadth of that number. Meanwhile, MySpace...
FBI Coordinates Global Effort to Nab ‘Dark Market’ Cyber Criminals
Joint Two-Year Undercover Operation Results in 56 arrests; $70 million — The FBI, in conjunction with many partners in international law enforcement, today announced the conclusion of a two-year und...
AT&T Bold Event Fails To Launch... Michael Phelps & All - Signs Are Pointing To A Release Very Soon
I just spent the better portion of my night at a AT&T launch event for the BlackBerry Bold in New York City. Sadly I had to stand around in line outside for over an hour and a half to even get into t...
Shazam comes out of the shadows
The British tech firm can thank Steve Jobs. Its music search is one of the most popular apps for Apple's iPhone. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Have you ever been out with friends at a bar and heard one of...
Adult Startup Zivity Cuts 1/3 Of Staff
Zivity, the adult social network and media site that describes itself as a “community-powered showcase of female beauty”, has laid off 1/3 of its staff, cutting back from 22 employees to 14. (Again, ...
Welcome to your new Home Page
Also available in: , Português, Deutsch, Español — We've rolled out the new Flickr Home Page to all of our members. Why the change? The layout, design and new features now surfaces much more of ...
New MacBook Pro's got game: compelling new gaming benchmarks
It has been a long-running joke amongst gamers that Mac users tend to wallow in a dearth of gaming options. While that perception may have been true in the past, the tides are definitely turning for ...
Qik taps the feature phone market
today announced that their live mobile video streaming product is coming to a feature phone near you. The Java ME-based application is available in alpha, allowing users with select Nokia and Sony Er...
Discovery CEO: Web ‘Take-up Rate Is Not That Strong’
Cable programmer Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) is making its first foray in ad-supported, free-to-air TV on the UK's Freeview. (It's not free for Discovery, which is reported to be paying millions of pound...
Resistance 2 beta begins... today!
Heya, it's been a while since I've been seen around these parts as James Stevenson, Bryan Intihar and the others at Insomniac have been doing most of the Resistance 2 posting as of late. Along with m...
Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs
Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple's 2008 hardware introductions as the company enters the holiday shopping season with one of its stro...
And we have lift off: AT&T Bold launches on the 27th
This is for real, kids. Information has been pouring in left, right, and center from AT&T and RIM ninjas and we can now say for sure that AT&T is planning to launch the Bold on October 27. We repeat...
FBI Coordinates Global Effort to Nab ‘Dark Market’ Cyber Criminals
Joint Two-Year Undercover Operation Results in 56 arrests; $70 million — The FBI, in conjunction with many partners in international law enforcement, today announced the conclusion of a two-year und...
IDC Announces Q2 Worldwide Server Virtualization License Shipments
Industry analyst firm IDC today announced worldwide virtualization license shipments in the second quarter of 2008 (2Q08) increased 53% year over year, compared to a 72% year-over-year increase the pr...
Nokia's New Touchscreen Gets Prime Placement In Britney Spears' Womanizer Video
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have snagged the most impressive product placement yet in Britney Spears' just released music video for Womanizer. Just 23 seconds into the video, Nokia's new 5800 XpressMusic c...
Qik now available on mass marke...
We are really excited that Qik is now the first mobile live streaming service on mass market phones - a.k.a feature phones, a.k.a non-smartphones a.k.a non-PDA phones. As of today, Qik is now live in...