A picture is worth a thousand words
Here on the Gmail team, we're always thinking of ways to help you communicate. Back in the day, we put chat right inside Gmail. Then along came group chat and more emoticons. And when we realized t...
Security Flaw Is Revealed in T-Mobile's Google Phone
SAN FRANCISCO — Just days after the T-Mobile G1 smartphone went on the market, a group of security researchers have found what they call a serious flaw in the Android software from Google that runs it...
Informed players say Apple's Mac mini still kickin'
With Apple's recent ‘State of the Mac’ omitting any mention of the Mac mini and reports surfacing over the current line's discontinuation, there's been some speculation that the diminutive desktop's d...
Amazon's Kindle obsession: Bury the printed book
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos loves to talk about the Kindle e-book reader. He's even got media mogul Oprah Winfrey pitching the device: “I'm telling you, it is absolutely my new favorite thing i...
Source: Yahoo to announce plans for Neb. facility
LA VISTA, Neb. - Yahoo Inc. is expected to unveil plans to build a new facility in Nebraska on Friday, just days after the California-based Internet company announced it will cut at least 1,500 worker...
New MacBook Pro Does Not Support 8GB RAM (for now)
Luke from iFixit.com was kind enough to test out a new NVIDIA-based MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM (two 4GB chips) to see if the earlier reports were true. NVIDIA representatives had stated that the new...
A New (Fighter) Jet for Google's Founders?
A company controlled by Google's top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precise...
New Facebook Design: Running the Numbers on Applications
Over the past few weeks there has been some debate going on about the overall impact of the new Facebook design. Scott Rafer declared the Facebook platform dead earlier this week. I had previously p...
Study: Sequoia e-voting machines disturbingly easy to hack
The Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy has published a report disclosing security vulnerabilities that researchers have detected in Sequoia's AVC Advantage voting machine.
Twitter bug reveals private messages
Be careful what you Twitter — especially if you think the website will keep it secret for you. In 1999, Scott McNealy, then Sun's CEO, said, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” Webheads ha...
The XO laptop gets a Windows makeover
On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. But simply booting up the device shows that the Windows version bears little resemblance to the original One Lapt...
Don't Be Evil? Google Uses Shady Ad Tactics To Edge Out Competitor
Two weeks ago we wrote about Yamli, a powerful transliteration engine that allows users to use their Latin keyboards to type in Arabic text. The service has gotten rave reviews (see the comments), an...
Search Engine Cache Isn't Copyright Infringement
from the good-news-for-search-engines dept — There are some out there who have suggested that search engines such as Google and Yahoo are basically just massive copyright violators, because they sca...
White space battle gets dirty as the mud flies
If you thought that the battle over white space devices might cool down after the Federal Communications Commission issued its own engineering report on the technology, think again. In a new set of c...
Oprah likely to kindle big interest in digital books
Kindle sales appear likely to get a significant boost on Friday, with talk-show megastar Oprah Winfrey apparently about to endorse Amazon's digital book reader. — Amazon is featuring a trailer of h...
Dell readies small, cheap computer for small biz
Dell is preparing an all-black version of its Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, this one aimed at small businesses and set to ship as the Vostro A90. — Dell's Vostro A90: rebranded Inspiron Mini 9 — The PC...
Intel ‘corrects’ executives who slammed iPhone
Updated 4:30pm with additional background on the ongoing saga of Apple and Intel. — Intel issued a “correction” Thursday regarding comments one of its executives made earlier this week slamming the ...
Looking for job security? Try Cobol
As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement — A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as s...
The Cure To Our Economic Problems
I would hate to be the winning Presidential candidate. Both candidates are delusional in thinking their economic policies will drag us out of a recession or even improve the economy. The reality i...
To Prep for Downturn, VCs Turn to Triage
The credit crunch has scared America straight for a few quarters at least. This means that consumers aren't buying, and corporations are putting spending on hold. As such, venture firms have been so...
Nintendo Kills Wii Homebrew With Update, Again, Again, Again
Nowadays, any self-respecting hardware manufacturer is locked in an interminable battle to lock down their platforms for unclear reasons, because that's how things are, OK? Accordingly, Nintendo has ...
Moody's may cut New York Times into junk territory
Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday it may cut its ratings on New York Times Co (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) into junk territory, citing concerns about continuing revenue decli...
Apple could buy Dell with cash
Here's an interesting corporate milestone: When the markets closed on Wednesday, Dell (DELL) was trading at $11.98 share, with 1.96 billion shares outstanding. That puts Dell's market capitalization ...