Google moves towards single sign-on with OpenID
Currently users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit, but users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily. Similarly, many websites...
AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations)
AT&T has announced that they are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone subscribers across the U.S. … AT&T provided a number of early hints that the service would be coming.
MacBook Airs ship; Psystar plans Mac notebook, Blu-ray desktop
Apple is making good on a promise to have its new MacBook Airs in the hands of customers early next week. Meanwhile, unofficial Mac clone maker Psystar has announced a Blu-ray-enabled Mac desktop and...
John Doerr: 10 ways for companies to stay afloat in rough times
At VentureBeat's Downturn Roundtable event this morning, Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr came prepared with a list of the top things that start-up CEOs should do. He surveyed 18 of Kleiner's companies, a...
T-Mobile G1 unlock possible; Android Community celebrates with giveaway
The first T-Mobile G1 has been unlocked thanks to the guys over at Unlock-TMobileG1.com. In honor of this we will be giving away 3 unlock codes for the T-mobile G1 in a community contest.
Apple's $24.5B: The case for a stock buyback
Here's a headache most companies would love to have. — Apple is sitting on a huge cash reserve — $24.5 billion as of September and growing at the rate of $8 to $10 billion a year - that's doing alm...
New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions
Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the...
Rockers refuse to throw the horns for white space broadband
As a vote on the question looms, the Federal Communications Commission's docket continues to fill up with an amazing number of statements, position papers, petitions, and pronouncements, all focused o...
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer
Having followed activity in the BlackBerry ecosystem over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that BlackBerry Storm should be called BlackBerry Stealth. Why? With little media coverage...
Intel: solid-state drives boost battery life
Intel said Tuesday that solid-state drives can extend battery life up to 30 minutes compared to hard disk drives. — Add the speed advantage of solid state drives and that's two strikes against hard ...
Taiwan's CMEL shows millimeter-thick OLED panel
A Taiwanese display maker has developed a 25-inch screen that's less than a millimeter thick. — The new screen, which was unveiled by Chi Mei EL at the FPD International exhibition in Japan on Wedne...
Opera CEO: Chrome has been very good for us
Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner was in town today, so I spent a few minutes with him talking about the browser company he co-founded way back in 1995. With browser battles raging, I wanted to know how th...
Source: MTV exec Holt offered MySpace Music job
MySpace Music has offered its vacant CEO position to Courtney Holt, MTV Networks' executive vice president of digital music and media, according to a music industry source with knowledge of the negoti...
TheStreet.com Posts Surprise Loss, Names Jim Cramer Chairman (TSCM)
The market panic has been good news for TheStreet.com's (TSCM) Web traffic — the company posted 27% year-over-year unique visitor growth during Q3, it said today, including an average 8 million unique...
Retailers Get Social with Facebook
More retailers have fan pages on it than on other social media sites. — Facebook is the social media site of choice for many US online retailers, judging by an August 2008 study by Internet Retailer...
Microsoft researcher talks tools, telescope, and iPhone
As he began his speech on Wednesday, Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid talked up his ties, not just to Microsoft's products, but also to those from Apple. — “If you use a Macintosh or an iPhone …
Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of U.S. Internet searches last month while Microsoft Corp. lost market share, according to researcher ComScore Inc. — Yahoo had about 20.2 pe...
Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09
Asustek Computer plans to launch its first Android-based Google phone in the first half of 2009, according to company sources. Asustek may initially sell the Android-powered handsets under its own br...
Eight candles for Google Toolbar
Google recently celebrated its 10th birthday. As we participated in the festivities, we realized that we are coming upon another birthday: In just a few weeks, our very own Google Toolbar will be tur...
Intel, Asus want laptop designs from you
Intel and Asus have launched a site that seeks collaborators for “community designed” PCs. — The two companies say consumers can become product designers at WePC, a Web site launched Wednesday. Par...
Google New York hit by cost cuts
Google's offices in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood are the latest to feel the pinch, with hours curtailed and snack service cut back, according to an internal memo. To understand what a shock to th...
Gaming performs better for Sony as it ekes out a profit
The Japanese giant Sony runs everything from movie studios to a life insurance company, making the company's overall earnings almost meaningless. On the plus side, looking at each of Sony's divisions...
Schneier sticks it to surveillance
Inglorious five-year snoop-plan — Security guru Bruce Schneier has challenged the view that privacy and security are at loggerheads, suggesting the real debate is between liberty and control. — Sc...
HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first
It's something you can't get on the Roku. Nor on LG's BD300. Nor on Samsung's P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. Nor through Netflix's own “Watch Instantly” portal. It's high-def Netflix streaming, an...
Beatles, Long Digital Hold-Outs, May Lend Tune To Rock Band Game
We're still waiting for The Beatles to finally start selling the back-catalog online, but the band looks set to take one more step in that direction Thursday. Their Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Corps label and...
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID
A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google's made the switch to OpenID, joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers. — But it looks like so...
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn
Hi Everyone. I'm writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn's applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information...
Motorola Speed Dials Cell Overhaul
New Mobile Chief Plans to Slash More Jobs, Focus on Google Software to Simplify Design and Cut Costs — Motorola Inc.'s new cellphone chief is moving quickly to scale back the struggling division, si...
HP gets serious about Netbooks
The Mini 1000 MIE has a custom HP interface meant to hide its Linux OS from users. — After a brief experiment in the education market, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday is set to introduce a whole line o...
Google SearchWiki
Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the exper...
Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed
Switzerland-based Logitech, maker of personal computer peripherals, is entering the software market by acquiring internet video communications services provider SightSpeed for $30 million in cash. Th...
Tech leaders back sports blog network
Former AOL programming chief Jim Bankoff has secured a mid-seven-figure sum of venture capital for SB Nation, a startup network of sports blogs, from a group of digital media and technology luminaries...
Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn't Have FireWire
Rainer Brockerhoff's studied dissection of the new MacBook's design—how certain design choices intersect with the realities of components to produce real notebooks—perfectly explains how they are not ...
Tech giants in human rights deal
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion. — The Global Network Initiative follows c...
Samsung NC10
This 10-inch netbook trumps the field with its spacious keyboard and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Current Price: $550.00 (1 seller) — Review Contents: … The Samsung NC10 has joined the ran...
Garmin: Nuvifone on track for 2009 launch, but economy hurts outlook
Garmin said Wednesday that it nuvifone, a GPS enabled phone, is on track to launch in the first half of 2009 and should hit carrier labs in the earlier part of the year. — Garmin added in a statemen...
Guardian Launches Full RSS Feeds, First Media Company Not To Suppress RSS Adoption
On the eve of The Guardian's launch of full text RSS feeds, Matt McAlister, Head of Guardian Developer Network, pinged me looking for examples of other mainstream media companies that have full text R...