Palm to Apple: Bring It
Palm, whose new Pre handset …
General availability for the Windows 7 Beta to end
First off: thank you for your interest in beta testing Windows 7! As we near January 24th, we wanted to update everyone again on the next steps for the Windows 7 Beta. The amount of feedback we have...
Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps
Google says the vast majority of the 1 million businesses that use Google Apps opt for the free advertising supported version. To make the free option less attractive they've been quietly lowering th...
FeedBurner is too broken for its biggest fan
Before Jason Shellen left Google and started Plinky (which launched earlier today), he helped develop products like Blogger and Reader — and he was the one who did the due diligence for Google before ...
the end of an era - flight sim is no more
It really does appear that Microsoft has shutdown the ACES game studio and axed the entire staff. A lot of my friends are now looking for something else to do... Microsoft Flight Simulator is dead. ...
Facebook now twice as big as MySpace? Oh boy
The blogosphere's love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won't stop. — On Thursday, TechCrunch posted new statistics from ComScore that show Facebook now pulling in nearly twice as many...
America's Most Wired Cities
Seattle takes the lead in our annual list of the most broadband-connected U.S. cities. — Move over, Atlanta. Seattle, Microsoft and Amazon.com's home base, is now the country's most wired city. — ...
Google's search juggernaut: Recession resistant after all
Numbers don't lie. And Google's numbers are indicating that the company's search business is holding up much better than expected amid a recession. — Google reported fourth quarter pro forma earnin...
Apple's first Macintosh turns 25
The Macintosh - the first Apple computer to bear the name - turns 25 on 24 January. — The machine debuted in 1984 and kicked off a product line that were Apple's flagship computers for many years. ...
Nokia E75 QWERTY - High Quality Pictures
Here are some new pictures of the Nokia E75. The Nokia E75 has a back cover with a metallic mirror feel along with a 2.4 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, QWERTY Keyboard, Dual keypads, HDSPA, and ...
Last.fm Takes On Imeem On Android
Music recommendation engine / social network Last.fm has launched an official, feature-rich application for the Android platform that enables users to stream radio stations (including personalized str...
Wikipedia May Restrict Public's Ability to Change Entries
Stung by criticism after vandals changed Wikipedia entries to erroneously report that Senators Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died, Wikipedia appears ready to introduce a system that prevents new ...
How Much Worse Can the Ad Market Get? Just Wait.
Glad to see that Google (GOOG) had a decent quarter. But things look grim for everyone else who makes a living selling ads, and there's plenty of lousy news to come. — We've already heard worrisome...
2008: Rearden Commerce Has A Heck Of A Year
One of my favorite startups in Silicon Valley is Rearden Commerce. Few people have heard of it despite the fact that the company has been around since before the first Internet bust in 2000 and has r...
Remember Online Dating?
Usage is down, but revenues are up. Some consumers are still in love with Internet matchmaking. — Online dating seems like one of those things everyone did when the Web was new, then dropped after ...
Obama Is “Failure” At Google, “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
I told you so. Or I told anyone who cared. I even tried to reach the Obama administration in four or five different ways. Do a search on Yahoo right now for miserable failure, and you'll find Presi...
5800 sells 500,000 in 30 days, UK launch today
During a conference call discussing of Q4 results Nokia's CEO, Olli Pekka Kallasvuo mentioned that in the last 30 days of the quarter Nokia had shipped slightly more than half a million Nokia 5800 han...
Lawsuit over website links in spotlight
Copyright violation or fair use to be decided — A copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit filed last month against The New York Times Co., owner of The Boston Globe and its Boston.com website, ...
Senate nears deal to delay digital TV transition
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate appeared close to agreement late Thursday on a bill to delay next month's planned transition from analog to digital television broadcasting to June 12 — setting the stage ...
Why I can't get enough of Windows 7
Anyone who reads The Digital Home knows that I have issues with Windows Vista. I think it's a sub-par operating system with too many quirks and far too many flaws to make it worth using. I only use ...
Documentary features peek into Jonny Ive's playground
Industrial design and mass production—two great tastes that taste great together (unless, perhaps, you are a long-time Adbusters subscriber). They go so well together, in fact, that the folks behind ...
Superstar Team To Launch Flash MMOG Called Ohai
New startup Ohai has been getting big cocktail party buzz over the last few months. The company won't disclose much about what they're doing, except that they're building a Flash-based massively mult...
Spammers Are Gaming Google's Adwords
Researchers are warning of some bad actors in paid results on Google. — The next time you run a search on Google, pay attention to which results you click on from the paid results area. Security ex...
The spreadsheet of sunshine: Who's hiring (updated)
The story I kicked off in late October, Tech layoffs: The scorecard, is a real bummer. On it, we're tracking the current layoffs in the tech economy. I hate the story, since each line on the sheet s...
China Waves Red Flag Over Telecoms
Nationalism plays a part in China's move to support a homegrown 3G mobile technology, in addition to more widely accepted standards. — For the sake of having its own, Chinese-made third-generation m...