Update on Windows 7 Beta Availability
Due to very heavy traffic we're seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public bet...
Yahoo Nears End of CEO Search
Yahoo Inc. is in the final stretch of its search for a chief executive officer, and a decision could come as soon as next week, said people close to the Internet company. — Among candidates still un...
Source: Apple plans to attend CES in 2010
On the heels of announcing its plans to bail on Macworld Expo next year, Apple will be instead attending the more generic Consumer Electronics Show in 2010, according to sources familiar with the matt...
Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console
Today we're announcing the availability of the Web-based AWS Management Console, which in this first release provides management of your Amazon EC2 environment via a point-and-click interface. A numb...
For BlackBerry, Obama's Devotion Is Priceless
This week, Michael Phelps signed a deal worth more than $1 million to advertise Mazda in China. Jerry Seinfeld earned a reported $10 million to appear in Microsoft's recent television campaign. — B...
The First Wii: Obama brings video games to the White House
When Barack Obama takes office on January 20th, he'll not only be the most powerful man in the world, but also the most powerful gamer. (Nintendo did give outgoing President Bush a DS and Brain Age s...
Panasonic and LG bet boldly on flatscreen TV growth
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp said it aims to boost sales of flatscreen TVs by 50 percent, joining rival LG Electronics Inc in setting bold growth targets in a slow...
Twitter Squatters Take Over Where Domain Squatters Left Off: Resolution Policy Needed?
from the conflict-resolution-in-140-characters dept — In 1994, reporter Joshua Quittner famously registered the domain name mcdonalds.com, and wrote a whole article about how so many top brand names...
Coby's sub-$200 netbooks handled at CES
Remember those sub-$100 Coby netbooks that we deemed a hoax? Well, it looks like they might not be as hoax-y as we originally thought. Here at CES, Coby has a bunch of base models on the show floor ...
Lawsuit over Yelp review settled
The lawsuit filed by a San Francisco chiropractor against a patient who wrote a negative review of him on Yelp was settled on Friday, according to the attorney for the defendant. — “This case was se...
How China's ‘50 Cent Army’ Could Wreck Web 2.0
Two years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the level and study the art of online guidance and act...
RAMBUS suffers major legal setback, stock drops 39 percent
A lot of companies have seen their share prices drop by around 40 percent recently, but RAMBUS' brutal plunge over the course of about an hour today was spectacular even by global meltdown standards.
Online Fraudsters Prey Upon the Media and Public Interest in Current Events to Launch “Cease-Fire Trojan Attack”
Yesterday morning, the RSA FraudAction Research Lab discovered a social engineering scam designed to lure people, via an email spam attack, to a fake news website designed to look like CNN.com.
Mio's MID: Sony P Look Outside, Windows Mobile 6.1 Inside
Buried way back in the massive automotive section is where Mio hides at the CES. I just happened to be going through for a meeting when I stumbled on this MID under glass. Since it's encased, I can'...
Apple files patent for camera hidden behind display
We've already seen the iSight indicator light “disappear” behind the bezel of Apple's MacBook and iMac computers. A recently published patent application could make the iSight itself not only disappe...
‘Kidnapped’ child tracked by mobile phone and Street View
Cops cuff grandmother following tech dragnet — A “kidnapped” nine-year-old Massachusetts girl is safely back at home after a team effort by an enterprising local cop and deputy fire chief which expl...
Google's new favicon
Back in June, we rolled out a new favicon — the small icon that greets you when you access Google on your URL bar or your bookmarks list — and we encouraged our users to submit their ideas for this im...
French Parking Meters Call Cops When Time's Up
You're shopping when you receive a text message on your cell phone. It's from the parking meter to tell you that you've been given a fine. — A science-fiction nightmare? No, this could soon be the...
UK e-mail law ‘attack on rights’
Rules forcing internet companies to keep details of every e-mail sent in the UK are a waste of money and an attack on civil liberties, say critics. — From March all internet service providers (ISPs)...
AMD's Phenom II could mark company turnaround
AMD's 45nm Phenom II (codenamed Deneb) has the dubious honor of being what may be the most immediately anticipated processor, ever. Even before AMD had finished shoveling its original Phenom out the ...
Stop chatting! Facebook shuts up IM integration with Meebo
Instant message aggregator Meebo integrated MySpace's and Facebook's chat services last month. It let Meebo users chat with friends on either site from within Meebo. Now Facebook is making Meebo tur...
Liberal Blogosphere Proves Trivially Easy to Destroy
Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. After hackers took down SoapBlox, a one-man blog-hosting company which runs local political websites, a silenced liberal commentariat found out how ...