19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv
In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the...
BlackBerry Storm review
By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's large...
Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages. Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Y...
Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive
Samsung on Wednesday night said it has begun mass-producing 256GB solid-state drives. This size tops the largest-capacity SSDs found in laptops today. — Samsung currently offers 64GB and 128GB SSDs...
Microsoft Announces New Zune Pass Music Subscription Model
Consumers can now keep the tracks they love. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s digital music and entertainment service, today announced landmark agreements with major and independent music labels to bring s...
T-Mobile Introduces web2go and Simplified Data Pricing
Internet On The Go Available Across Phone Portfolio And Unlimited Data Pricing Provide Tremendous Value — Today, T-Mobile USA, Inc., is introducing web2goSM, an intuitive and improved Web browsing e...
The Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever
And so it came to pass that on November 19th, 2008 publisher Ziff Davis announced that PC Magazine-in the print version that gave it its name-was going to the great newsstand in the sky. When it gets...
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. — “It may look as though k...
How Google's Ear Hears
The new voice-search application for the iPhone marks a milestone for spoken interfaces. — If you own an iPhone, you can now be part of one of the most ambitious speech-recognition experiments ever ...
Singers Sue Label For Failing To Sue Others For Infringement
Techdirt has covered many copyright lawsuits in the past, but this one is a bit different. Singers Daryl Hall and John Oates have filed a suit against their publisher, Warner/Chappell Music, who they...
Facebook Sued For Patent Infringement
It's pretty much a rite of passage for any tech company these days, as you get larger and more recognized, some company that has an overly broad and probably obvious patent will sue you for patent inf...
Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by Sound Analysis on iTunes and Facebook
Mufin, the music recommendation engine that suggests songs based on their sound characteristics, is now open to everyone in public beta. With the launch, Mufin is also introducing two new application...
Nokia to add IBM's Lotus Notes email to smartphones
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, as the world's top handset maker battles Blackbe...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ yields road to the ‘Lost and Damned’
The upcoming episode of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV looks to be a wild one. — GTA IV, which was released in April for the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3, focused on former Eastern European s...
Web Sites Wage Holiday Price Wars
SAN FRANCISCO — As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts this holiday season, a similar and even more ferocious price war is being waged onli...