Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront
Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data tra...
Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position
Ocarina, the second iPhone application from Silicon Valley based Smule, has surged to the top spot on the iPhone App store just a little over a week after launching (you can download it here for $.99)...
Boxee
One of the big “aha moments” for me in the past couple years came when I hooked up a Mac Mini to a large display in our family room in the spring of 2007. Slowly but surely, our family started using ...
Yahoo!'s Five Biggest Mistakes
The Web portal's employees open up (a little) about the company's problems. — Sirens blared outside Yahoo!'s campus Tuesday, a day after chief executive Jerry Yang said he will step down as the Web ...
Google Hosting Time-Life Photo Archive, 10 Million Unpublished Images Now Live
TimeWarner and Google have announced that starting today Google will make available millions of images from the Life Magazine photo archive. The vast majority (97 percent) of these images have never ...
Google's New Search-Based Keyword Tool Tells You What Keywords You're Missing
Google released a new keyword tool tonight, named the Search-Based Keyword Tool. This tool goes beyond what the other Google tools provide and tells you what keywords you are currently missing out on...
Help! Iphone snapped my husband's genitals
Apple says it is a software glitch — THE FRUIT THEMED Iphone apparently has a glitch that will photograph your genitals, attach it to an email and place it in your sent folder. — We found the glit...
LG Incite now available from AT&T
Sweet - it looks like our leaked AT&T Holiday lineup was spot on, with every phone on the list now available from AT&T. The last phone on the list to make its debut, the LG Incite, went live on AT&T's...
Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone
Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. — Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flas...
Blu-ray Working Great, For Pirates
Blu-ray “won” the next-generation DVD standards battle, but that victory has, thus far, been pretty hollow, as consumers haven't wholeheartedly embraced the new format (and the new DVD players they ne...
HP Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results; Provides 2009 Outlook
PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced preliminary results for the fourth fiscal quarter 2008 with revenue of $33.6 billion, a year-over-year increase of 19% or 16% whe...
Netflix Now Streams Movies To The Xbox 360
Adding to the options of streaming movies to your PC, Mac, or TiVo, Netflix now streams 12,000 movies to the Xbox360. That includes 300 HD movies. — Xbox watchers have been waiting for this since l...
Vista Capable: E-mails tell story of tense Monday at Microsoft
There are several interesting narratives to be found in the 252 pages of e-mail released last night in the Windows Vista Capable class action lawsuit unfolding in Seattle. Microsoft is accused of dec...
Old school Steve Jobs flicks off IBM
Given the recent litigation involving I.B.M. and new Apple-hire Mark Papermaster, I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs still feels the same way about Big Blue. — This photo was taken in mid-Manhattan som...
It's Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection Racket On App Developers
Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers. — Basically, application developers (there are 48,000 applications on Facebook today) can apply to...
Apple now taking orders for 24-inch LED Cinema Display
Following a month-long wait, Apple on Tuesday finally began taking orders for its new 24-inch LED-backlit Cinema Display through its online store, saying shipments will begin sometime later this month...