About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update
The Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, and 10.5.5. It includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, c...
The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal
I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal af...
@Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect
We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you've been up to, whether it's sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend's tweets....
Hasbro dropping suit against makers of Facebook game Scrabulous
NEW YORK — Hasbro is dropping its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. — According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the...
Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy
Yahoo has invited the press to an event in San Francisco today where it will announce the next steps in its open strategy (details found here). — As GigaOm speculated over the weekend, we should be ...
Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova
The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap — Jon Rubinstein got the call in mid-2007 ...
The Future of the Internet III
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual r...
Google off list of 20 most trusted companies
(12-14) 16:40 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Verizon and FedEx for the first time have made an annual ranking of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States. — Google, howeve...
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld
Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an “iPhone nano”. — It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the s...
Amazon's MP3 Store, One Year In: No iTunes Killer; Probably Won't Be
Amazon has been selling digital music from all the big music labels for nearly a year now. It's the first major challenge to Apple's hammer lock on that business. So how did it do? — If you view A...
The myth of the 99-cent killer app
Stung by criticism from frustrated developers, Apple (AAPL) redesigned its increasingly crowded iPhone App Store last Friday to showcase the most popular paid applications in each category — Books, Bu...
The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent
“I have never seen anything like this” said a corporate law partner at a large silicon valley law firm. He was referring to the undoing of a $17 million venture round at BitTorrent and subsequent rec...
Steve Jobs Will MAY Be At MacWorld Expo, Event Manager Says
Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give his usual keynote address at the MacWorld Expo next month, says the show's general manager. — Paul Kent, VP at IDG World Expo and the general manager of the MacWorld s...
Walmart creates iPhone compatible site
Do you like shopping at Walmart? From electronics to $4 prescriptions, Walmart seems to have everything. But one thing it didn't have was an iPhone application, and now they do. If you visit the Wa...
The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World
Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind. — For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage c...
Windows Live Essentials Beta Released!
I know we told you the Windows Live Essentials would be released last week, it really was planned like that, but sometimes things just don't work out as planned. You had to wait a little longer, but ...
Blogger pleads guilty to G N' R leak
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Google Blog Search loses its bearings
Many serious bloggers rely on Google Blog Search to provide regular reports on who's linking back to them. The blogging tool I use, Wordpress, even uses Google's blog search to feed a little window o...
Let Your Boss Find Your Facebook Friends
Cloud computing, if you listen to Mark Benioff, is all grown up and ready for some action. — When I sat down recently with Mr. Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce.com, his theme was its time ...
Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009
Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com. — The source, who wi...
Google's Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn
The mantra that's been flooding the Googleplex this year? ‘Scarcity brings clarity,’ explains Marissa Mayer, Google Vice-President — When Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google (GOOG) 10 year...
Apple Loses Shine as Mac Sales Slow
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News About News, in 140 Characters
With staff changes and reductions across the media industry, even a blog post can be too time-consuming a way to announce who is in and out of a job. That is why a public relations employee turned to...
Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service? Mahalo Answers.
Mahalo is now answering your questions. The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix. It is a combination of Yahoo Answers …
Mac OS X 10.5.6 now available via Software Update
Headline pretty much says it all, and it's a big one. Tipping the scales at 377MB (or 190MB for some; see image after the break), the OS X 10.5.6 update is now available via Software Update. We're s...
MySQL getting too big for its corporate britches?
For anyone interested in seeing just how different and game-changing open source can be, there's really no need to look beyond MySQL, the open-source database leader. Jeremy Zawodny, formerly of Yaho...
Can Microsoft make its future mobile?
You want a phone that can do it all? Internet, music, photos, films, documents, texting, instant messaging, diary, contacts and ... err ... phone calls? — Then a smartphone is right for you. But a...
Shocking: Teens Talk Sex Online
from the well-what-do-you-know? dept — Forty percent of US teens have sent sexually suggestive electronic messages, a new study says, adding that one in five have sent “nude or partially clothed im...
OpenX Shows Impressive Growth, Ramps Up Revenue Streams
OpenX (which used to be called Openads), provider of an open-source ad serving solution for web publishers - we use it at TechCrunch -, is growing like weed under the leadership of former AOL CEO Jona...
Ways to Monetize Twitter
Plus Ways to Waste Time on the Web — 1. CHARGE FOR IT — Of course, companies can already use the service for free, so what, exactly, would be new? Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, has some ideas: ...
Stickam API Lets You Build Your Own Live Video Site
Stickam, a live video streaming service that competes with the likes of Justin.tv and Ustream.tv, is releasing a new API that effectively allows anyone to build their own streaming video startup with ...
Are iPhone users just tight?
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Apple: Goldman Cuts Rating On Consumer Spending Woes
Apple (AAPL) shares are coming under early selling pressure this morning after Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey cut his rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, citing concerns about consumer spendi...
Nokia's N85 and N79 ship Stateside at long last
It feels like a good couple millennia since we first spotted these phones sporting US-friendly 3G, and now Nokia has done the unthinkable and actually released them in the States. As has become custo...
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag
Oracle reports its fiscal second-quarter results on Thursday, and analysts are expecting weaker-than-expected license revenue, healthy maintenance subscriptions, a potential earnings miss, and some be...