EXCLUSIVE: HTC To Launch New Touch Phone Says Telstra
Mobile phone Company HTC is set to launch a brand new phone touch phone that will take on the Apple iPhone and the new Pre offering from Palm claims a senior executive of Telstra. — The new touch ph...
How to Get, Install and Play With Windows 7, Pain Free
You've been thinking about installing Windows 7 Beta 1 now that it's totally available to anyone. Well, here's our complete guide to grabbing, installing and playing with Windows 7—it's (mostly) pain...
Microsoft Betting Big on ‘Touch’
Software Giant Invests in Touch-Screen Technology for Personal Computers — While Apple Inc.'s iPhone kicked off the craze for touch-sensing screens on mobile phones, Microsoft Corp. is pushing a sim...
CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com
As was expected, CBS is revamping TV.com to be a video-viewing destination. The well-URLed site, which six months ago started featuring Hulu content, has added CBS shows, and Monday is announcing dea...
Q&A: New Ads Explain, “It's Everybody's Business”
Advertising General Manager Gayle Troberman talks about Microsoft's latest campaign, where leading executives explain how enterprise software empowers people to make an impact. — A new wave of adver...
Seagate replaces Watkins as CEO
Disk-drive maker Seagate Technology announced Monday that Chairman Stephen Luczo is now also serving as CEO and president of the company. — That spells the end of the tenure of Bill Watkins, who has...
Powering a Google search
Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library. Today, search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without ...
Microsoft in no hurry to upgrade Xbox
Microsoft will rely on its Xbox 360 game console for longer than the previous version because it's getting harder to persuade consumers to upgrade, the head of the company's entertainment unit said. ...
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady
What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it. — On the day Barack Obama was elected, a strange new feature appeared on the website of the New York Times. Called ...
Local Advertising Booster Yodle Growing Like A Weed, Raises $10 Million
Yodle, the New York-based startup that helps local businesses advertise more efficiently on the web, has secured $10 million in Series C financing in a round led by JAFCO Ventures and joined by Draper...
To Connect to the Internet, Just Turn on Your TV
LAS VEGAS — If there was one overarching theme from the Consumer Electronics Show here last week, it was that absolutely every device in our lives is becoming a computer connected to the Internet. — ...
UK.gov funds web video product placement venture
Taxpayer coughs for logos everywhere — At a time when the wisdom of of pinning the UK's economic fate to the fortunes of the global financial sector is being questioned, it's good to know there are ...
Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability
Not only are most of the hottest Web 2.0 startups unprofitable, quite a few lack viable revenue models altogether. This has led cynics like me to criticize these startups quite harshly over the past ...
The High Security Risk Attached to Obama's Belt
Why can't the most powerful person in the world keep his BlackBerry? — President-elect Barack Obama, who will take the oath of office next week, has repeatedly acknowledged a strong attachment to hi...
Let's Invent an iTunes for News
Last Tuesday, iTunes, Apple's ubiquitous online music store that sold more than 2.4 billion tracks last year alone, changed its own tune, announcing that songs would no longer be sold with copying res...