First look at Windows 7's User Interface
At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months MS has let on that ...
Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors
Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google's wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to massive co...
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPo...
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Set Common Voice Abroad
Principles Aim to Define Conduct With Nations That Restrict Speech, Lack Privacy Protections and Censor Search Results — Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will announce Tuesday that they h...
Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren't
Comments are the lifeblood of TechCrunch, and we love 'em. But we also get our share of the freaks, conspiracy theorists and jerks out there who have something to say and believe they have a constitu...
Parton Adds Voice to Argument Over White Space
Dolly Parton has stepped into the battle at the Federal Communications Commission over whether the agency should act now to begin allowing the marketing of devices that use the white space between dig...
Sonos Launches Free iPhone, iPod Touch App [Update]
Those of you with Sonos equipment already filling your abode with the sweet tunes of your music library and an iPhone or iPod Touch should promptly hit up Apple's App Store and download their free app...
AdaptiveBlue takes a fresh tack with Glue, a semantic social network
AdaptiveBlue's latest version of its browser plug-in is a complete revamp of its BlueOrganizer product. Now called Glue, it aims to synthesize semantic technology that connects information about book...
Shakeout Threatens to Thin Out Web-Ad Brokers
As the Economy Sours and Venture Funding Grows Scarcer, Some Networks Have Begun to Exit a Crowded Niche on the Internet — More than 300 online-ad networks have cropped up over the past couple of ye...
Q&A with Charlie Miller on hacking the T-Mobile G1 phone with Google Android software
Charlie Miller has another notch in his belt. The security researcher at Independent Security Evaluators headed a team that hacked Google's Android software, which debuted last week on the T-Mobile G...
Retailers Slash Blu-Ray Player Prices
Electronics manufacturers and retail chains are slashing prices of Blu-ray players in a bid to boost adoption of the high-definition movie format, which has yet to catch on with American consumers. —...
The Deal Dance: AOL and Yahoo (and even Google and Microsoft) Continue to Waltz
So-at this point-BoomTown feels it is not untoward in asking: What the heck is taking so long for Yahoo and AOL to decide whether or not to merge their struggling operations?
Wal-Mart To Sell Google's G1 Phones At Discount Starting Wed
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Wal-Mart Inc. (WMT) will start selling the G1 phone at a discounted price starting Wednesday, a Wal-Mart spokesman confirmed Monday night. — Wal-Mart will carry the Google Inc...
AMD Closes Sale Of TV Unit To Broadcom; Price Reduced
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this morning said it completed the sale of its digital television processor business to Broadcom (BRCM) for $141.5 million in cash, subject to certain escrows and adjustme...
Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games
Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social networks to mobile devices. They've also been picked up in the portfolios of a number of firms. — London bas...
Google's Green Agenda Could Pay Off
SAN FRANCISCO — Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, is increasingly looking to the energy sector as a potential business opportunity. — From its beginning, the company has invested mi...
Zimbra offers hosted collaboration tools for universities
There's a growing trend towards “hosted” software — saving money on hardware and IT expenses by letting someone else host your software on their servers. Now, Yahoo-owned Zimbra is getting into the a...
Real Estate Crashes In Second Life, Too: Linden Lab's Bailout Plan
Linden Lab's new-ish CEO Mark Kingdon has been fond of telling reporters “there's no credit crunch in Second Life.” We'll see about that. Last night Linden announced it was jacking the prices on its...
Microsoft, Yahoo team up against lottery hoax e-mails
You know all those hoax e-mails that arrive in your in box saying that you've won a lottery? You don't click on them, obviously, but many people do, enough to prompt Microsoft and Yahoo to form a coa...