Obama Will Get His Blackberry
President Barack Obama is going to get his blackberry. — On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration — but that is probably the National Security Agency — added to a standard blac...
Apple quietly updates $999 white MacBook with unibody specs
Hmmm, what's this? Did Apple just update its lowly, $999 white plastic polycarbonate MacBook to more closely align with its new unibody MacBooks? Why yes, yes it has... sometime in the last 3 days a...
Exclusive: YouTube Will Soon Let Big Content Partners Bring Their Own Ads
Big media companies have always had a love-hate relationship with YouTube. They don't know whether to sue YouTube for abetting copyright infringement or get in bed with it because it is the biggest W...
Android G2 Photos: Thinner and No Keyboard
Here they are: Alleged spy photos of the second generation Android cellphone, the thinner, shinier, and totally lickable T-Mobile G2 made by HTC. It has no keyboard and its back looks oh-so-soap-bar-...
Giz Explains: Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X's Dock
Yeah, I said it. The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows. And it's better than the Mac's Dock.
Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped)
Nearly a day goes by on Twitter without yet another social media “expert” choosing to stalk me. At first it started innocently — back in the day (about a year ago) various techie friends started …
Apple's Disclosures About Jobs's Health Said to Face SEC Review
Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators are examining Apple Inc.'s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's health problems to ensure investors weren't misled, a person familiar with the m...
Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration
Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. As we observed throughout the presidential campaign, many people in the U.S. turned to Google Search to find in...
Microsoft expected to cut jobs
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the te...
The Day Live Web Video Streaming Failed Us
Yesterday was supposed to be the day that live Web video streaming took on TV broadcasting. CNN.com alone served a record 21.3 million streams, with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous streams. And A...
Microsoft expected to deliver Windows Mobile 6.5 OS to handset makers in mid-2009, say sources
Microsoft is expected to start delivering its Windows Mobile 6.5 OS (operating system) to handset makers in mid-2009 following the expected debut of the new mobile OS in the upcoming Mobile World Cong...
All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic
Ignited by the Comcast fiasco in the US, the concept of net neutrality has certainly been brought into the mainstream. ISPs are rarely transparent when it comes to their throttling, capping and other...
Sony to announce restructuring details soon: FT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is preparing to announce on Wednesday or Thursday details of its December restructuring plan, including where job cuts will fall, the Financial Times reported. — The news...
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ...
New York City and Google Team Up for New Information Center
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg guest blogged on the Official Google Blog today to announce a new website and Information Center. The effort is a partnership between NYC and Google. The new si...
The top 10 things we hate about the iPhone
Look, we love our iPhones as much as the person, but at this late point in the game, there are some things that are just inexcusable. Here's our top 10 things we hate about the iPhone, and we'll post...
RIVERBED TO EXTEND WAN OPTIMIZATION PRODUCT LEADERSHIP WITH ACQUISITION OF MAZU NETWORKS
Powerful and Flexible Software Delivers Visibility, Reporting and Analytics for Enterprise and Service Provider Customers — Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) today announced it has agreed …
Blimey. It looks like the Internets won
The vote on concealing MPs' expenses has been cancelled by the government! — In other words - we won! — This is a huge victory not just for transparency, it's a bellweather for a change in the way...
Open government
The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products. — The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley's most respected business leaders Scott McNea...
Verizon Wireless Is Q4's Big Winner, Sprint The Big Loser (VZ, S)
Wireless companies will begin posting Q4 results next week when Verizon (VZ) reports Tuesday and AT&T (T) reports Wednesday. How'd they do? — Based on a survey, Morgan Stanley says Verizon Wireless...
Apple Q1 2009 earnings smackdown
It's that time of year again. — After the markets close on Wednesday, Apple will report its earnings for fiscal 2009 Q1. And once again blogger Andy Zaky has challenged the professional analysts — ...
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) on Tuesday disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants. — Robert Baldw...
Sirius XM Rate Increase For March 11th CONFIRMED
For those of you who may have heard the news about the “potential” Sirius XM rate increase this afternoon, I can unequivocally confirm that this is in fact true. Customer support representatives are ...
Announcing The Create A Twitter Revenue Model Contest
First the good news: — Twitter's traffic is surging — yesterday, Hitwise announced it passed Digg. — The micro-blogging company finally hired a revenue boss, Kevin Thau, in December. — Twitter cofo...
MSNBC Now Porting Video To XBOX Live: Inauguration Videos Playing In Dashboard
Less than four hours after Obama was sworn in, I logged into my XBOX Live dashboard and was surprised to get a special section that had all of the inauguration videos already archived and available fo...