Acer smartphone launch confirmed
So asks an invite that's just dropped into Pocket-lint's inbox this morning, confirming rumours the company are to launch a smartphone. — Due to be unveiled on February 16 …
Next Generation iPhone Model Revealed in Firmware
MacRumors has discovered that Apple's iPhone 2.x Firmware has evidence of the next generation iPhone which has been designated “iPhone2,1”. — Apple uses these models numbers to distinguish between d...
Some Things Need To Change
Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face. Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the cr...
Blogger Infighting Played a Role, Says TechCrunch Founder
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington blamed fellow technology bloggers for the recent attacks on him, saying that his competitors' criticisms made him a target. … Mr. Arrington announced Wednesday he ...
AT&T: 1.9 million iPhones activated
AT&T said Wednesday that it activated 1.9 million iPhone 3Gs in the fourth quarter with 40 percent of those activations representing new customers. — In the back half of 2008, AT&T activated more th...
The New York Times Company Reports 2008 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The New York Times Company announced today fourth-quarter 2008 earnings per share from continuing operations (EPS) of $.19, including $.10 per share for severance costs …
iPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats
A huge disappointment for pet owners, was word that iPhoto's newest feature, Faces, wouldn't recognize animals according to Apple employees on the show floor. We even did a few tests at Macworld Expo...
Congestion Management FAQs
In February, Cox will begin testing a new method of managing traffic on our high-speed Internet network in our Kansas and Arkansas markets. During the occasional times the network is congested, this ...
Maybe We Should Call Them Venture Pessimists
Venture capitalists need a healthy dose of optimism to do their jobs — betting millions of dollars on young ideas and hoping they turn in to the next big thing. — These days, though, that optimism i...
Which HD video Web service is the best?
Around this time last year we put together a comparison of various video sites to determine which ones had the best overall quality and user experience. Since then, high-definition-capable digital ca...
Apple vs. Palm: the in-depth analysis
Apple and Palm kicked a lot of dirt at each other last week — acting Apple CEO Tim Cook flatly told analysts that “We will not stand for people ripping off our IP” when asked specifically about compet...
T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 First Impressions
After the BlackBerry Bold's epically delayed launch on AT&T and the Storm's epically borked launch everywhere, RIM needs 2009 to be better than 2008. The T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a good way ...
iPhone push notifications: dead and buried, or waiting in the wings?
Apple's no stranger to missing a deadline or two, nor is the company averse to pushing back products a few weeks or months when they need more time. But less common are products that disappear entire...
Report: Click Fraud At Record High
17.1% of all clickthroughs on web advertising are the result of click fraud - the act of clicking on a web ad to artificially increase its click-through rate - according to the latest report from Clic...
Sources: AT&T, Comcast may help RIAA foil piracy
CNET staff writer Marguerite Reardon co-authored this report. — AT&T and Comcast, two of the nation's largest Internet service providers, are expected to be among a group of ISPs that will cooperate...
Music Licensing Rights Hindering Hulu As Well
from the live-by-copyright,-die-by-copyright dept — The main backers of the online video site Hulu, NBC Universal and News Corp., are two of the stronger supporters of our copyright system, and have...
Will Intel let Jen-Hsun Huang spread graphics beyond PCs?
Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang is on a mission to get graphics chips into everything from handheld computers to smart phones. In a dinner with reporters on Monday night, the head of the Santa ...
Logic circuits that program themselves: memristors in action
Integrated circuits incorporating memristors are able to successfully perform logic operations and dynamically reprogram themselves, opening the door for learning devices. — Scanning electron image ...
Android app uproar sparks debate over open app store model
An Android Marketplace application has been accused of attacking files. Ars looks at the matter and concludes that there may be more smoke than fire in this case. — An Android Market application ha...
Movie channel to go live on Web before TV debut
A premium movie channel backed by a trio of studios is expected to debut as an on-demand Web site months before its traditional TV launch. — The consortium of MGM, Paramount Pictures, and Lions Gate...
Cloud computing shapes up as big trend for 2009
It is still early in the year, but cloud computing already is shaping up as a key trend for 2009. — At SoftwareAG's Cloud Computing Innovation Day in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday,? executives fro...