Apple: No new products before the holidays
Despite Internet rumors of forthcoming product releases, an Apple representative confirmed that the company has no plans to release any new products before the holidays. — “Our holiday line-up is se...
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Emailed Steve Jobs, Apple Called Back!
I mostly love my new MacBook Pro - but one thing that has been driving me slightly insane is that the trackpad misses clicks sometimes. You hear and feel the click - it just doesn't register the clic...
Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro
Here we are sitting in the PC Magazine Labs, and it occurs to us: We've got a shiny new Macbook Pro and an early build of Windows 7 on disc, so why not attempt to use one to run the other? — Check o...
Spam surges as Google's CAPTCHA falters
Techworld.com) The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security vendor MessageLabs has reported...
Brains behind Hulu leaves NBC
George Kliavkoff, the man who helped draw up the blueprint for a string of successful digital media services—from Hulu to Major League Baseball Advance Media—is leaving NBC Universal at the end of the...
The Apple analyst who couldn't shoot straight
What is it with Craig Berger and Apple? — The FBR Capital Markets analyst made headlines Monday with a report that Apple had slashed iPhone production for this quarter — down as much as 40% from the...
Facebook moves into micropayments for gifts
Since its launch in early February of last year, Facebook's online gift store has run off of standard U.S. dollars, letting users purchase gifts one at a time, or in bundles at a slight discount. How...
Three's a Cloud for Salesforce.com, Facebook and Amazon.com
The clouds are aligning: Salesforce.com Monday unveiled plans to make its “cloud” work with Facebook's and Amazon's. — “Cloud computing” is the hottest tech buzzterm since “Web 2..” It's come to mea...
About Those Rumors That the New York Times Would Sell About.com
We've heard the chatter about the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) possibly selling About.com ... let's start by admitting that what makes sense to me and what makes sense to the people running the ...
Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? — The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly beca...
Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all
MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7. It's just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed. — Technical Fellow Mark Russ...
Irrepressible widget-maker RockYou aims at Asia, raises $17M
RockYou, a company that started out two years ago making simple slideshow widgets for MySpace, and more recently applications on Facebook and other rival social networks, is now invading Asia. — It ...
Salesforce.com Wants to Host Your Web Site
Salesforce.com is getting into the Web site hosting business, the latest sign that the company's ambitions reach beyond the sales-automation software it's named for. — Salesforce.com, whose annual c...
What Ray Ozzie didn't tell you about Microsoft Azure
Behind the whiteboard of confusion — Fail and You Unveiled earlier this month at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference by Chief Whiteboard Operator Ray Ozzie, the Azure Services Platform con...
Ad Net Rates Dropped 11% In The Third Quarter
The average amount advertisers pay publishers to display their ads one thousand times — CPMs — dropped 11 percent from Q2 to Q3 across the 307 ad networks and 1,300 publishers that ad-optimizing firm ...
Social Networks Reunion.com and Wink Merge
Two lesser-known social networks Reunion.com and Wink have merged. The two sites focus on people and alumni/classmates search, and now plan to launch a new brand early next year. Terms of the deal w...
Circuit City Stores, Inc. Provides Update on Liquidity and Announces Store Closing Plan
Company Plans to Close 155 Stores, Further Reduce New Store Openings and Renegotiate Certain Leases — Company Announces Ongoing Evaluation of Additional Cost Reduction Initiatives …
Verizon Wireless kills Pay as You Go data plans, data plans now mandatory
This has been rumored to be coming but VZW E dropped the bomb on us all by leaking a Verizon Wireless document detailing some drastic changes to Verizon's data plans. Starting November 14th, 2008 …
Yahoo News Is Bracing for a Day of Heavy Traffic
The festive red, white and blue graphics have been designed. The production rehearsals have been held. The Web servers have been adjusted in preparation for a great influx of traffic. Now Yahoo New...
MTV Networks in deal to monetize uploaded videos
The company plans to pair ads with clips on MySpace using Auditude's technology. — Reporting from San Francisco — Hollywood used to fume when fans uploaded video clips to the Internet to share with ...
VoxOx goes gunning for Skype, Digsby
What if Digsby and Skype merged into one seemingly all-powerful VoIP and messaging communications tool? It's a question which, according to San Diego-based telephone company TelCentris, can be answer...
Times Said Shopping About.com
The troubled New York Times Company is running out of options. It owes more than $1 billion, close to half of it coming due in the next two years. But it just ruled out layoffs for the foreseeable f...
Censorship, or What Really Weirds Out Weird Al
Visitors to MTV's new online music video site can listen to songs with plenty of crass and vulgar lyrics, but may be surprised to find that certain other language had once been deemed too nasty for br...
John McCain and Barack Obama Talk Tech
In advance of tomorrow's elections, here's a pair of videos of the two presidential candidates, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, talking about tech. — While Obama has ma...