Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru
Apple's decision to hire Mark Papermaster away from IBM could mean that its Xserve lineup is taking on a more prominent role. — (Credit: Apple) — Updated throughout at 4:55 p.m. PT with additional...
October Surprise: TiVo to Stream Netflix
In the beginning, there was Netflix streaming movies and TV content to the PC, and it was “meh.” Then there was the Roku Netflix player and it was actually pretty good. And lo, then there was Netfli...
MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update
This article provides more detailed information about some recent improvements and the resolution of known issues that Apple delivered in the Late-September 2008 update to MobileMe services. — Apple...
CBS Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Revenues of $3.4 Billion Up 3% — Television Segment Revenues of $2.1 Billion Up 2% — Adjusted Net Earnings of $290.3 Million and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $.43 — Free Cash Flow of $1.4 Billion for...
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse
Here's a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn. — Doerr gave out the advice at VentureBeat's “How to manage your start-up in the downturn”...
Pirate swoop ‘catches’ non-gamers
Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed. — The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scot...
RADUS Debuts Slick Application For Consuming And Discovering Online Content
RADUS (pronounced “radius") is a new media hub that serves as an aggregator for content that includes RSS feeds, videos, photos, and music. And while the site certainly isn't the first to bring all o...
Motorola: No Google Android ‘GPhones’ Til Next Christmas
Motorola's (MOT) cellphone business restructuring includes a big bet on Google's (GOOG) Android platform, which Motorola hopes to use for several high-end smartphones and mid-level phones. So when wi...
The Walls Come Down On AOL.com
Last month AOL began releasing parts of its new tear-down-the-walls home page strategy, allowing users to view email from Yahoo and Gmail. — Today they launch the rest of the new features (we had a ...
H-P Mulls Service Bundles for Netbooks
Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to employ a new tactic to market “netbook” computers in the U.S., offering them at a steep discount to customers who sign-up for wireless service contracts. — This bundling...
Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit
The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks' Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision I...
Brocade reduces Foundry Networks buyout bid
Shares of Foundry Networks soared more than 17 percent in premarket trading Thursday, after the company announced last evening that its merger with Brocade was still alive but at a lower purchase pric...
A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm?
Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion should be thanking one particular customer service rep for stopping at least one customer - me - from defecting to AT&T and the iPhone this week. I had called ...
Flexible 125-inch Plasma Display Coming in 2009
A Japanese display start-up is well on the way to commercializing a 3-meter wide flexible plasma display and expects the first models to appear next year. — The 125-inch display is made using a prop...
Cruz: New Mac Browser Off to an Impressive Start
Cruz is a very slick new entry in the Mac OS X browser world. Built on WebKit, the same engine that powers Apple's Safari, Cruz looks and renders just like Safari, but layers on power-user features t...
Review: Aigo P8860 MID
Launched in China in early August, the Aigo P8860 recently became the first (and currently only) Intel MID to be available worldwide. With the help of the Atom-powered device's first official reselle...
The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff
Social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of AOL's AOL.com homepage, which the company announced Thursday and says it will start to gradually roll out to users over the next few week...
Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism
LOS ANGELES—Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same no...
Softbank's New 1Seg Tuner Gives Japan's iPhones Mobile TV Goodness
Softbank's just stumped-up with this interesting mobile TV add-on for Japanese iPhone users: it's a separate unit with tuner and aerial that retransmits the signal over Wi-fi to the phone.
SecondLight: Surface on steroids
Microsoft's British researchers are literally bringing another dimension to the company's Surface touchscreens, writes Barry Collins in Los Angeles. — The original Surface tables are one of the chie...
BlackBerry Aims to Stay Step Ahead
Boy, oh boy. The bunch who brought you the BlackBerry sure has been a band of busy beavers. — With do-everything wonderphones like the iPhone and the G1 “Google phone” breathing down its neck, the ...