Monday Morning Madness
This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been “hacked” including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not been Twittering since becoming the president elect due ...
Early returns show strong holiday video game console sales
Updated at 5:28 p.m. to include additional data and analyst perspective. — Though the retail economy suffered what appears to be one of the bleakest holiday seasons in recent memory, it looks as tho...
Introducing Picasa for Mac (at Macworld!)
Sometimes I find it hard to describe Picasa without sounding like a late-night infomercial for a multi-bladed thingamabob: “It's a photo organizer! A photo editor! A web-savvy photo sharing and mana...
Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing
Apple has cut deals that will finally enable iTunes to offer songs free of copy protection software from the three largest music labels, according to two sources close to the negotiations. In exchang...
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year
One way to think about online video is to consider how big a chunk it takes out of our daily lives. The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year ove...
Truphone Brings Skype To iPhone & iTouch
I have been a frequent user of Truphone since it launched its mobile VoIP service over two years ago. What started as a simple VoIP client for Nokia Symbian S60 devices is fast becoming a unified cli...
Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
For the first time in a decade, I'm getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. — Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the ...
Blu-ray's Fuzzy Future
The biggest news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January was not the birth of a new product but the death of one. — A decision by Warner Brothers to withdraw support for the HD DV...
Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked (Bill O'Reilly, Britney Spears, Rick Sanchez)
My guess is this has nothing to do with the phishing attacks that started on Twitter a couple of days ago. But a few minutes ago the official Fox News Twitter account posted “Breaking: Bill O Riley i...
For Sale at the New York Times: The Front Page
The New York Times (NYT) is already trying to mortgage its headquarters and unload assets like its stake in the Boston Red Sox. — So what's left to sell? The front page. — Today's edition of the ...
TV and Web Marry After Long Courtship
After more than a decade of disappointment, the goal of marrying television and the Internet seems finally to be picking up steam. — A key factor in the push are new TV sets that have networking con...
Apple's last Macworld beginning of new era
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' absence from Macworld 2009 could be a prelude to a new communications strategy. — (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) — Even though CEO Steve Jobs will not be playing his...
China targets Google and Baidu in crackdown on ‘vulgar’ websites
Chinese officials today launched a crackdown on “vulgar” websites including Google and the country's leading search engine, Baidu. — Officials named 19 sites they said had failed to censor inappropr...
Intel and Adobe to Extend Flash Platform to TVs
Optimizing Adobe Flash Technology on Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 Will Enable Rich and Seamless Web Content on TV — Adobe® Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Intel Corporation today announced ...
Sony on brink of upheaval as analysts back British chief
Sony, the embattled Japanese electronics group, is on the brink of a corporate upheaval that could see job cuts and sweeping changes to management and manufacturing processes. — Company sources have...
2009: Products I Can't Live Without
At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I've done this - previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the...
Lenovo shows off 16-inch thin laptop; Launches all-in-one PC, dual-screen mobile workstation
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Lenovo unveiled new consumer laptops and a debuted a dual-screen mobile workstation. — Lenovo, which began to target consumers a year ago …
Twitter Phishing Scam Takes New Turn with Promises of iPhone
Resource Library: — A phishing campaign targeting Twitter has morphed, according to researchers at Sophos. Phishers are now using accounts compromised in the initial campaign launched over the week...
Roku Netflix Box Gets Amazon Video on Demand
Roku's Netflix box is currently a one-trick pony, but it's getting Amazon's Video on Demand later this year, meaning you can soon buy or rent and instantly stream movies and TV shows from Amazon's ser...
Iomega aims at TVs with home server
Backs up PCs and plays digital media files — Iomega has announced a home storage and media server that backs up files on connected PCs and plays digital media content to connected output devices. —...
NRK offers free podcast containing every Beatles song
The Beatles could have all their songs on iTunes, but not the way you might think: via a podcast describing the story behind each song, released by a Norwegian broadcasting company. — NRK is podcast...
Music sales boom, but albums fizzle for '08
Americans bought more music in 2008 than ever before, but album sales — the music industry's main source of revenue — dropped for a fourth year. — According to the Nielsen Co.'s year-end figures, mu...