SIM- and Hardware-Unlocked G1 Available to Developers (or You) for $400
The Android Dev Phone 1, a totally unlocked G1, is available to “developers” for only $399 after paying a small setup fee. Just register as a developer over at the Android Market and the phone is you...
Wireless turns iPod into a phone
A freeware application for the iPod Touch can turn the music player into a virtual mobile phone. — Truphone uses wi-fi technology in an iPod Touch to allow users to make calls to other iPod Touch ow...
Video Just Got Better
Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with approximately 100,000 new videos added each day. Starting today, you'll be able to upload higher qua...
Economy, opportunity seen leading to $599 Apple netbook
Faced with the perfect storm of a bleak market and a boom in ultra-budget portables, Apple is believed by some to be readying its own take on the netbook for the first half of 2009. — Analyst Ezra G...
Does Google Have a Secret OS?
Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was st...
Google Software Update sneaks its way onto computers
Software developers generally use one of three ways to alert and deliver version updates to users: a pop-up prompt when you launch the app, a systemwide refresh tool — like the App Store for the iPhon...
A Look At Failed Social Networks
Many social networking sites have come and gone, though it's easy to forget about most of them with monsters like Youtube and Facebook acting like they are the only kids in the classroom. Social netw...
Warcraft account security
My World of Warcraft account is now more secure than my bank account. It is harder to steal 5,000 fake Warcraft gold from me than $5,000 real US dollars. Why? Because unlike my bank, my computer ga...
Some Details About Yahoo's New Video Platform
Like the look of the videos on Flickr's new mobile site? If you're a website publisher, you may soon be able to use Yahoo's video platform to convert your users' uploaded clips into great-looking, iP...
Ex-Appler resurrects Mac-friendly RAID
‘Set and forget’ — Apple's XServe RAID may have given up the ghost, but now there's a new option for storage-hungry Mac shops. — Today, The Reg spoke with Alex Grossman, formerly the senior direct...
Microsoft Turns to Crispin and the Rapper Common for New Clothing Line
New branded apparel is meant to suggest Microsoft's 1980s salad days — NEW YORK (AdAge.com)—Microsoft is going from marketing computer programs to making clothes, with a new line of graphic tees dub...
Wikipedia's WYSIWYG Dilemma
The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced a $890,000 grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation to simplify its very techy user interface for editing posts. It's a big chunk of change on top of a...