Changes Coming to the iTunes Store
Apple® today announced several changes to the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Beginning today, all four major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thou...
Apple Confirms $179 Battery Swap Cost for 17" MacBook Pro
We just confirmed with Apple that swapping out the 17" MacBook Pro's non-removable battery will cost $179. Fortunately, says Apple, the swap might not be needed for a long time: — From a spokespers...
Apple unveils 17-inch MacBook Pro with 8-hour battery
Presenting at the Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring a durable and precision aluminum unibody enclosure, and a revolutionary new built-in battery that deliv...
Motorola Unveils World's First Mobile Phone
Latest devices to be displayed at 2009 International CES in Las Vegas — Las Vegas - CES - Jan. 6, 2009 - Today Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) …
Apple Revamps iLife for '09 with iPhoto Facial Recognition and More
Today at Macworld 2009, Apple showed off a new iPhoto with true facial recognition, a better iMovie and other iLife updates—$79 solo, $99 for family, requires Leopard, available late January. — It's...
End Times
VIRTUALLY ALL THE predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print—the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and e...
Sony's VAIO P ultraportable revealed
Chicklet keyboard, check. Tiny pointing nub, check. Looks like this is Sony's Vaio P series ultraportable on display at CES. By on display we mean, on display as these shots were taken off the disp...
The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we...
Live from the Macworld 2009 keynote
9:07AM “If you wanna hear some new things today — I have three new things...” — 9:07AM “The last year was our biggest ever, 9.7 mil Macs. We did it by growing twice as fast as the rest of the indus...
Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X provides screen sharing, WiFi access, chat features and Twitter-like mood messages
Tonight out at the “ShowStoppers” event at MacWorld in San Francisco, Skype announced the new 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X. The new version will apparently be available for download tomorrow, January 6, 2009...
Say hello to iWork 09: Like iWork 08, but plus one
Whoever predicted that Apple would introduce iWork '09 today gets a gold star. Keynote, Pages and Numbers all received what I would consider minor updates; no need to run around all willy nilly for t...
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced
Six months after announcing its intention to bring SlingPlayer to the iPhone 3G, Sling Media has another announcement to make—just not the one you're wishing for. — SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone isn...
WebEx on Your iPhone, Finally
If I had to name one collaboration application that I to use on an almost daily basis, with the exception of Google Docs, my answer would be Cisco's WebEx. A lot of companies make pitches to me using...
Facebook ‘sets Christmas record’
Facebook has set a new record as it had its busiest day ever over the Christmas holidays. — The social networking site accounted for one in every 22 online visits on Christmas Day, according to inte...
HP unleashes a series of new low-cost computers at CES
Hewlett-Packard is launching a bevy of new products today that show it is designing its products to take into account the lighter pocketbooks and energy usage concerns of consumers. — These products...
AMD: Creating a New Laptop Category (PC World)
Netbooks have their appeal—tiny budget machines with just enough oomph to run Windows XP. Ultraportables have horsepower in spades, but they cost too much to suit some people. This year we're going ...
Stevenote? Here's Your Stevenote. Or, More Specifically, Your Woznote.
Call Steve Wozniak the anti-Steve Jobs. He's far nerdier than Jobs ever was; he's not a polished presenter; he has a zillion passions beyond Apple (Segway Polo, anyone?); and nobody's ever going to s...
Pandora Radio 2.0 Lands On The iPhone Tonight
Pandora Radio, the personalized internet radio service that has remained among the most popular iPhone apps on the iTunes App Store since its inception in July (and that I've previously called the iPh...
How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web
But failed. — A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate. — It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clue...
Bringing Macs into business: Real-life IT stories
As more businesses bring Apple Macintoshes into their regular operations, IT has to figure out how to ensure the Macs play well in the typical Windows-dominated environments. Several companies share ...
iPhoto '09 and Domain Language
Report: PC makers to provide free Vista-to Win-7 upgrades starting July 1
In yet another indicator as to the progress of Windows 7, the Tech ARP site reported that Microsoft plans to allow PC makers to offer customers who buy Windows Vista machines as of July 1 free upgrade...
Model Liskula Cohen sues Google over blogger's ‘skank’ comment
A Vogue cover girl is suing Google in an attempt to unmask the blogger who trashed her as a “skank” and an “old hag.” — Liskula Cohen, a blond beauty who has modeled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, ...
Best Buy offers used iPhones at lower price
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy Co, seeking new ways to appeal to cost-conscious shoppers, said on Tuesday it is selling refurbished versions of Apple Inc's iPhone 3G at its stores that are pric...
The shape of things to come
A self-confessed ‘pretty unlikely early adopter’, the digital guru Clay Shirky still proved to be uncannily prescient about the impact of the web - which is why Tom Teodorczuk is getting his media for...
Bogus LinkedIn Profiles Harbor Malicious Content
The LinkedIn professional networking site connects more than 30 million users from across many different industries. The advantages of maintaining a list of trusted business contacts for career plann...
Was Apple ‘Adequate but Late’ on Jobs?
Some corporate governance experts question whether the tech giant could have been more forthcoming about its CEO's hormone imbalance — Apple (AAPL) investors got answers to some of their nagging que...
Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote. Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumo...
If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse
“My name's Scott. I'm 13 and have launched a web startup.” So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me chatting to Scott's mum today to verify, that, indeed, he was actuall...
Debian 5 release approaches... binary blobs included
The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution are preparing for the upcoming release of Debian 5, which is codenamed Lenny. The decision to move forward with the release follows a contentious v...
Microsoft promotes Bob Muglia to president
After working for 21 years for Microsoft, Bob Muglia has been promoted from vice president to president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB), which generated some US$13 billion in FY08, or a...
Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from legal adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the “free culture” movement, endorsed the Il...
Clearspring Lays Off 20%, President And COO Jay Rappaport Leaving
Seems like widget distribution startup Clearspring is another victim of the economic meltdown forced to make some tough decisions. We heard rumors floating that the company laid off about 20% of its ...
Delivery delays
We're experiencing some delays in the amount of time it takes for updates to appear in timelines. Working on this now.
HP updates Mini 2x netbooks with Atom, 10in LCD
HP in its pre-CES run-up introduced its first major update to its Mini 2100 netbook. The Mini 2140 replaces the Mini-Note 2133 and abandons VIA's C7-M processor in favor of a 1.6GHz Intel Atom that H...
Apple disappoints-no Jobs, big news at Macworld
(Refiles to delete extraneous words in paragraphs one and three) (Adds analyst comment, product details) — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Tuesday it was dropping copy protection from songs sold on the I...
SOA is Dead; Long Live Services
SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other...
Curl taps Adobe RIA infrastructure
The perils of open source — One of the side effects of Adobe Systems releasing code under open-source, the company said last year, has been to let competitors into its Rich Internet Applications (RI...
Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ to Twitter Hacker
An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama's, and the official feed f...
New Kogan Agora Shots Get Us Excited For Android All Over Again
Australia's first Android phone, the Kogan Agora, is only a few weeks away from its official release, and they've decided to keep us excited by sending us these spy shots of it in action. While the p...
Forbes Layoffs Finally Arrive: 19 Fired From Magazine, Web
Like their colleagues at Time Warner's Time Inc. (TWX), the editorial staff at Forbes has known that layoffs were coming to the company's magazine and Web site for quite some time. But at least they'...
Apple's Brilliant Video Engineer: Anonymous No More
My favorite moment at this year's Macworld Expo keynote had nothing to do with any of the products that were unveiled-it was was about the unveiling of a person. — At last year's Macworld Expo keyno...
I Am Boycotting IE Mobile Until Microsoft Gets Its Act Together
I have very high expectations for Microsoft's Windows Mobile announcements at CES this year. You see, I have been a fan of Windows Mobile for quite some time. but, for whatever reason, Microsoft has ...
Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says
SAN FRANCISCO — In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store ...
Comcast starts new year with new network management system
Comcast says that, as of December 31, it has turned over a new leaf, network management practices-wise. The new-and-hopefully-improved “protocol agnostic” system the company unveiled to the Federal C...
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced
Six months after announcing its intention to bring SlingPlayer to the iPhone 3G, Sling Media has another announcement to make—just not the one you're wishing for. — SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone isn...
Briefly: iWork '09 reference appears at Apple.com
With just over an hour to go before Apple kicks off Macworld Expo 2009 with an inaugural keynote presentation from its marketing chief, references to a new version of the company's iWork productivity ...
HTC announces HTC S743: U.S. edition, suckaz
Not forgetting about those ever-important arrogant American consumers, HTC has crafted a U.S.-specific version of their HTC S740 Windows Mobile Standard device. Supporting 850MHz/1900MHz HSDPA bands ...
Disney DVD debacle: Wall •E vs. DRM
As anyone who's watched his adventures knows, Wall •E knows all about obstinate, malfeasant corporate software that does nothing except step on individuals' rights. Which is why it's so ironic that ...
Xbox 360 Records Its Biggest Year Ever
Driven by record sales at retail along with an 84 percent jump in online consumer spending; global install base lead over PlayStation 3 expands to more than 8 million units. — Despite a tough econom...
Apple patents iPhone Mobile Navigation / Mapping App
With the introduction of iPhone 3G with a GPS sensor, many fans expected a bonanza of various navigation apps for the new phone. — And, to be sure, there are quite a few of them using location capab...
Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing
Freescale said Monday it would offer an ARM-based chip that could lead to a $200 Linux-based netbook, offering about twice the amount of usage on a single battery charge as Intel's Atom processor allo...
Yahoo Gives Itself Permission to Change Your Search Marketing Campaigns
If you conduct search advertising through Yahoo, you just got a brand spanking new addition to your search marketing team: Yahoo. — Through an update to their terms and conditions, Yahoo gives itsel...
Checkout Icon Makes Ads 10% More Clickable, Google Says
An ad with a Checkout badge to the right, with non-Checkout ads below it. — Cross-integrating their products can help Google bring customers from their more successful products to their less success...
MediaSentry may be gone, but RIAA tactics will live on
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (subscription) that the Recording Industry Association of America has dropped long-time P2P investigator MediaSentry in favor of European firm DtecNet. — The ...