Actual T-Mobile G2 information... maybe
We just got a tip about the next Google Android-powered handset for T-Mobile, yes, the G2. We're running this as a rumor as it's definitely not confirmed, but we'd bet on this turning out to be true ...
Microsoft Extends XP Availability For Distributors
Microsoft system builder partners who've been feeling queasy about the impending Jan. 31, 2009, deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP pre-installed can now breathe a bit easier, as Microsoft is giv...
Warner Music Group Disappearing From YouTube: Both Sides Take Credit
Warner Music Group's videos are disappearing from YouTube. The move to take down the videos started early Saturday morning. It's a result of a breakdown in negotiations between Google and the music ...
Will the Recession Kill Web 2.0?
The last fast few years have seen resurgence in Internet companies not seen since the bubble years of the late 90s. The growth of these advertising-supported “Web 2.0” companies has propelled online ...
Is this the new Mac mini?
An anonymous tip (the best kind). Thoughts? — Click to embiggen.
Touchscreens add nothing to laptop usefulness
It's time to get out my asbestos coveralls because the touchscreen faithful always appear with their flamethrowers when I broach the “touchscreen in laptops” subject. This is a hot topic currently as...
After Steve Jobs, who runs Apple?
“We are in the early stages of changing roles in Apple's management structure,” Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster wrote last week in the wake of Steve Jobs' decision to hand the Macworld keynote over to se...
Digg's Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product
So Business Week gets their hands on Digg's financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of...
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content
The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one). The Huffington Post also often excerpts liber...
The Wide (and Weird) World of Two-Screen Laptops
Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations are loaded with high-end features, including Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs and Nvidia Quadro Express graphics, RAID storage, and built-in Wacom pen tablets...
Warner Music pulls out of YouTube licensing deal
Warner Music, one of the first media companies to strike a licensing deal with YouTube, has demanded that the Google-owned site pull down all videos from its artists and songwriters, in a move affecti...
Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration
Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopa...
Nokia E63 Available for Pre-Order for $500
Amazon is now listing Nokia's BlackBerry-ish QWERTY E63 phone as available for pre-order. The unlocked 3G phone can be reserved for $500, though there's no word on release date. — The E63, based on...
On the Net: Hulu is Web site of the year
In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. — It's this year's pick for Web site of the year. — “This ...
Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate
After playing with a prototype of Intel's Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there's a reason why it's aimed at schools. — ...
What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up
(Credit: David Paul Morris/Getty Images) — After more than four years running Microsoft's game studio, Shane Kim was given a new assignment this fall, running strategy and business development for t...
SEC Mandates Interactive Filing; Will Start Phasing In Next Year
The news is filled with stories of how much the Securities and Exchange commission has missed but, hey, maybe some of the atrocious examples of financial skulduggery could have been caught sooner if t...