See where your friends are with Google Latitude
How often do you find yourself wondering where your friends are and what they're up to? It's a pretty central question to our daily social lives, and it's precisely the question you can now answer us...
Windows Mobile: What's coming when
Much was made of this week's slip-up by Motorola's CEO that Windows Mobile 7 is due in 2010 (something that's actually been expected for a few months now). — I've been curious about how Microsoft p...
Sprint EOL list reveals target Palm Pre launch, plenty more
Sprint customers, have you found yourself wondering what Hesse & Co. have in store for you this year beyond the illustrious Palm Pre? Don't worry, you're not alone. While we can't post the list itse...
Time Warner Cable Reports 2008 Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter Results
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC - News) today reported financial results for its full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. — Time Warner Cable President and Ch...
Windows 7 auto-elevation mistake lets malware elevate freely, easily
As you probably know by now, Windows 7 introduces some new in-between modes for User Account Control (UAC). By default, Windows 7 (beta thus far) ships with UAC configured at the “Notify me only when...
How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA
Inside one Harvard Law professor's bid to turn his students into cyberactivists and to force the music industry to face the future in the process. — In retrospect, Harvard's eventual involvement was...
AT&T Seeks Verizon Wireless Assets
In the bidding for the roughly $3 billion in wireless assets Verizon Wireless must divest as part of its purchase of Alltel Corp., one strong but controversial contender is emerging: AT&T Inc. — The...
One of Acer's Mobile World Congress' handsets gets pictured
So, here's the deal... One of our infamous ninjas just sent us a shot of an unreleased and unseen Acer handset. They told us it would be announced by Acer at MWC in a couple weeks, and that it is “pr...
Instant Answers in your IE8 search box!
IE8 users can now get Live Search instant answers, including financial information, weather conditions, movie show times, calculations, equations, conversions, and definitions directly in the IE8 sear...
Firefox 3 Release Notes
Check out what's new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox. As always, you're encouraged to tell us what you think, either using this feedback form or b...
$10-laptop proves to be a damp squib
Text: — TIRUPATI: The much-touted laptop for the masses said to have been built by students of Vellore Institute of Technology that would cost a mere Rs 500 actually turned out to be only a computin...
NYT's Keller: We're Looking For Ways To Charge For Online Content Again
In a Q&A with readers concerned about the precarious financial state of the newspaper this week, NYT Editor Bill Keller was asked if the paper would consider charging for online content again. Keller...
iLife suite quietly going Intel-only, PowerPC owners cry
iLife '09 contains plenty of new features to convince current Mac owners to upgrade from iLife '08, but there is one unfortunate deterrent for those still on PowerPC-based machines. GarageBand '09 is...
Panasonic Will Cut About 15,000 Jobs as First Loss in Six Years Looms
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) — Panasonic Corp. the world's largest consumer-electronics maker, will cut about 15,000 jobs and predicted its first loss in six years as the deepening recession hurts demand for te...
Verizon FiOS Versus Comcast
or “How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps” — This is a review of my experience switching from crummy slow Comcast cable modem to blazing fast modern Verizon FiOS fiber optic Internet servic...
ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Arrives Boasting a New Keyboard and Intel Atom N280 Processor
ASUS announced yesterday the upcoming availability of its its new $399 Eee PC 1000HE, and lo and behold this morning the netbook stork dropped off the newest addition to the Eee family.
‘Twitter Effect’: possibilities and limits
Is there a “Twitter Effect,” by which the rapid spread of information through the microblogging service can crush a Web site with traffic? As I see it, the answer is yes, but it's not as simple as it...
Apple adding to its “vintage and obsolete” list
Sometimes it's hard to say goodbye: Apple has added a handful of machines to its vintage and obsolete list. — alistairmcmillan — From a computer enthusiast's point of view, some machines may never...
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, January 2009
The engine has been churning for a few months and we've finally pumped out another imagery release - a massive ~100TB worth of data!!! Here's where you can see the latest and greatest including our f...
The great iPod migration
How will Apple (AAPL) persuade 100 million iPod users to trade up to an iPhone? That's the problem Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi tackles in a report to clients Wednesday. — His answer: Make ...
Yahoo Starting To Roll Out “Search Pad” Feature
Formerly known as “Research Assistant” Yahoo is starting to introduce (to selected users) what it's now calling “Search Pad,” an application that automatically collects sites and content as users cond...
SongSmith: Financial crisis soundtrack composed from tumbling share price graphs
A soundtrack of the global economic crisis composed by running financial graphs through SongSmith, Microsoft's increasingly popular music software, has become a YouTube hit.
GameFly Acquires Shacknews
Online rental hub GameFly today announced that it has acquired independent video game website Shacknews. — As part of the deal, GameFly has purchased all related Shacknews destinations, including Fi...
Video game helps with fire drill
Researchers at Durham University have modified a video game and turned it into a fire drill simulator. — The team used The Source Engine, the 3D game engine used to drive Half-Life 2, and created a ...
How to Launch Your Web Show on Facebook
Integrating a show with a social network, like Prom Queen on MySpace or KateModern on Bebo, is a great way to attract and interact with an audience. But the world's biggest social network, Facebook, ...
Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft's bugs
Bulk of IE's bugs in '08 could have been blocked, says vendor — Computerworld) Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous...