Bigger Isn't Always Better... But in This Case, We Believe It Is
Over the years we've heard a lot of feedback from you about what you'd like to change about YouTube, and the size of our video player is always top of mind. That's why today we're excited to announce...
Amazon Kindle 2 Slated For “Early Q1″
Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled to be released in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources n...
Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions
Apple has said “it doesn't do cheap,” but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point-either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2...
Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search
Available Documents: — The World Wide Web provides an abundant source of medical information. This information can assist people who are not healthcare professionals to better understand health and...
Cisco To Shut Down For 4 Days At Year End
If you want to know how bad it is going to get for all of us in Silicon Valley, just look at Cisco Systems. For first time in its history the company is going to shut down for four days at the end of...
Google admits breaking App Store rules
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious...
Verizon Wireless Adds Samsung Omnia™ To Its Touch Screen Lineup
Advanced Touch Screen Smartphone Features Samsung's Innovative TouchWiz™ Technology and the Power of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional — Customer Inquiries — For customer inquiries, please call 800-...
Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode
The keynote speaker at this past summer's TechReady conference—a gathering of 6,000 or so Microsoft engineers from around the world—was the company's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie. This was not...
Talks to bring The Beatles to iTunes break down
Negotiations to bring the music catalog of The Beatles to Apple's iTunes Store have entered into an indefinite state of limbo with the band's multimedia corporation and former record label disputing t...
Nokia 6260 slide feature phone packs HSPA, WiFi, GPS, 5MP camera and more!
Nokia has announced a new device - 6260 slide. The stylish slider is one of the best feature phone announced to date, sporting a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and flash, both HSUPA and HS...
Economy Deals Online Ad Spending a Hit
Digital still stronger than traditional — There seems to be more bad news about the economy every day, and falling ad spending numbers are part of the mix. Although online advertising is still on a...
Making Twitter Smarter
Soren and Howard have been busy building out stocktwits and today they sent me a link to a firefox extension that makes twitter a bit smarter. When you add the stocktwits extension to firefox, a stoc...
Rock-solid Fedora 10 brings salvation to Ubuntu weary
Next RHEL looking good — Review Fedora might not be getting a complete makeover or flashy new features in version 10, out today, but some welcome enhancements under-the-hood make this a worthwhile u...
Acer to launch 10-inch Aspire One as early as February next year
Acer plans to launch 10-inch Aspire One netbooks in February or March next year, according to Scott Lin, Acer Taiwan president. — As for its 8.9-inch netbooks currently available, the 3.5G module-ba...
Magnify.net Raises $750K For Web Video Service
NYC-based Web video startup Magnify.net has raised about $750,000 in Series A1 financing. This is in addition to the $1 million it raised in February. Innovation Ventures led the round, and all majo...
Was Ebay's BillMeLater Acquisition A Huge Blunder?
When eBay paid $945 million for BillMeLater in October, we blinked. The business assigns credit at the point of sale to ecommerce customers who can't use credit cards because they don't have them, ha...
PlaySpan raises $16.8 million for gaming virtual goods platform
Virtual goods sales are starting to look better than real world goods sales these days. PlaySpan announced today that it has raised $16.8 million for its virtual goods platform and online payments bu...
Camera Raw 5.2 update
This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original one that was installed with Adobe® Photoshop® CS4; Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0; and Adobe Premiere® Elements 7.0 software. Visit the ...
Apple Store Will Now Match Competitors' Prices
Apple has apparently fired the first shot in the holiday shopping battle, by announcing internally that retail store employees have the authority to match the prices of other authorized retailers. Th...
Ninendo DS In Red Mario Bros Limited Edition On Black Friday
It's not a special Black Friday deal, but DS fans may think it's a bit special all the same: Nintendo's launching a limited edition Mario Red DS bearing the M logo this Friday. It'll also come with a...
Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic
Since MP3s first became popular a decade ago, music industry executives have obsessed over this question: when would digital music revenue finally surpass compact disc sales? — For Atlantic Records,...
New leaked images of upcoming Nokia E75
For those of you awaiting this QWERTY-slider from Nokia, new pics of the E75 has been spotted out in the wild and leaked pics are now online. There is a decent 2.4″ screen which looks to cramp up the...
iPhone developer stoops to straight bribery
Best application ever, five stars, taverymuch — One iPhone developer has found a novel way to increase rankings in the iTunes store: pay people $5 a time to post positive reviews, thus ensuring the ...
Musical Chairs at MSN: Here's a Partial Scorecard of What's What
Here's part of an internal memo BoomTown obtained about some small, but interesting, changes at Microsoft's MSN unit, sent out by the GM of its Global Media Group, Greg Nelson, which is under the lead...