A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes
Microsoft is not going to introduce a Microsoft-branded phone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona later this month. Not a Microsoft-branded Zune phone. Not any kind of Microsoft-branded p...
CSS Animation
WebKit now supports explicit animations in CSS. As a counterpart to transitions, animations provide a way to declare repeating animated effects, with keyframes, completely in CSS. — With a recent n...
Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones
SAN FRANCISCO — More electronic books are coming to mobile phones. — In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it ...
Marten Mickos to leave Sun in reorg
Marten Mickos, former MySQL chief executive and current senior vice president of Sun Microsystems' database group, is transitioning out of the company in a planned reorganization. — I reached Mickos...
TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video
Video — LONG BEACH, California — Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gad...
ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video
For some sports fans, ESPN360, the online version of ESPN's television channel, is a cornucopia of more than 3,500 sporting events each year, viewable from the convenience of a computer. For others, ...
Maryland General Assembly Bans Facebook
The New Line has learned that the Maryland General Assembly, citing security concerns, has blocked Facebook and MySpace from the computers of state legislators and their staffs. — Here is the full t...
Job Losses: The Silicon Valley Perspective
Today's headlines trumpet the loss of 598,000 jobs last month — the worst in 34 years — but what does that mean for Silicon Valley, the home of technology? In order to get a sense of what's happening...
The Dark Side of Overdrive
Faster is always better. Thanks to that simple philosophy, LCD pixel response times have been driven down to puny proportions in recent years. — Today, even the slowest panels are rated at 16ms or ...
Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose? — Where did your eyes go first...
Trouble at Salesforce.com?
Resource Library: — Steve Cakebread, president and chief strategy officer at Salesforce.com, has resigned, and reports say two top vice presidents have also left the company. — Is there trouble in...
Police create wanted poster on Nintendo Wii
Japanese police have used a Nintendo Wii to generate a wanted poster of a hit-and-run suspect. — Rather than commissioning an artist or employing photofit software, officers put together a caricatur...
Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee?
The buzz has been building for Boxee lately. Mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and NPR are getting hip to the little open-source media center that could quite possibly cha...
Apple has NOT banned Facebook
How do these rumors get started? Or, more to the point, how do they get perpetuated? — Late Thursday, a site called tinycomb ("Hand-Picked Tech News") reported that Facebook had been banned “for li...
Apple's Not So Quiet Rally And Why It Will Continue
On Wednesday, January 14, the day Apple [AAPL Loading... () ] CEO Steve Jobs announced he would be taking a 6-month medical leave of absence, Apple shares closed at $85.33. From the moment that...
Intel Now Shipping Atom N280 Processor
Intel confirmed on Thursday that it's shipping the Atom N280 processor to PC makers, which should bring more performance and improved graphics capabilities to netbooks. — The new single-core Atom pr...
Apple Store Bans Facebook For Life
In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius' today whether or...
New York Times Nuts Not To Charge Subscription Fee (NYT)
On the News Corp conference call last night, Murdoch hammered home our point about why the New York Times (NYT) should charge an online subscription fee. — Murdoch noted that the Wall Street Journal...
Why Microsoft, labels cling to music subscriptions
LOS ANGELES—For anybody wondering why Microsoft and the top music labels continue to promote subscription music services, the answer was revealed Thursday. — David Ring, executive vice president of ...
The Pirate Bay Plans to Sue IFPI
The decision to block The Pirate Bay has once again ignited a debate on Internet filtering, the responsibilities of Internet providers and the legal status of BitTorrent sites. The IFPI - the RIAA's ...
HP UK pulls Linux from all new netbooks
Microsoft only option - unless you want an old model — HP has decided UK consumers don't want Linux-based netbooks. Actually, it appears to believe business buyers don't want the open-source OS eit...
Three executives leave Salesforce.com
* Salesforce.com President Steve Cakebread resigns — * Company lays off 2 executive vice presidents - sources (Recasts to include president's departure, background, ) — Three senior executives lef...
Apple Store Design Hits a Glass Wall Again
An architectural review board yesterday ordered Apple to redraw plans for a store in Georgetown, the fourth time it has rejected the company's submission. — The Old Georgetown Board told Apple's arc...
Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?
Embed the video on your own site: — The net result? Mainly, people just didn't like Vista. — What do you think?
Venture Capitalist Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud
Much of the country is abuzz over the newly released list of people who invested with Bernard L. Madoff, who has been accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. — In Silicon Valley, another Ponz...
The Race for a Better Read
Attention, all you folks reading this on the Web: if you enjoy this piece, please send a dime to TIME magazine. — I doubt any of you will. Before old media can charge for our content, we have to fi...
StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users, Quietly 50% Bigger Than Twitter
What's got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 mil...
MSI Wind NetOn AP1900Not Just a Monitor, PC Inside It !
Taipeiã€' MSI today announces Wind NetOn AP1900 in AIO family. The AP1900 is the world's very first personal computer that achieved the perfect balance through brilliant calculation of delicate desig...
How to Save Your Newspaper
During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazin...
Vinod Khosla Moves Beyond Personal Wealth
It just might be official: Vinod Khosla isn't heading back to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers after all. — When Khosla started up his own venture capital firm in 2004 to invest his personal wealth ...
Backup And Share Your iPhone Contacts For Free With IDrive Lite
We don't write about every iPhone application that we come across (there are other sites doing a great job at that), but sometimes we just have to. For instance, IDrive, which specializes in backup s...
The Parent Company Auctions Off Assets, Sells Toys.com Domain For $1.25 Million
After YP.com (picked up by Yellow Pages for $3.85 million) Fly.com (bought by Travelzoo for $1.8 million), Vibrators.com ($1 million), here's another high-profile domain name that was just acquired fo...
Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter
Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebook platform one of which is the opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to acce...
Official-looking Kindle 2 pictures and pricing leak out
We're not going to call it official yet, but a bunch of very real-looking Kindle 2 press images just hit the tubes, and we've got to say we're pretty convinced. Although the device itself looks basic...
Steve Ballmer's Comments at Democratic Caucus Retreat
U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat — Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer — STEVE BALLMER: Well, I want to thank Jay, I want to thank the speaker and all of you for...
Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader: Watch Out Kindle
Waiting for the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader is no fun. But if you already have an iPhone or a T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, over 1.5 million books are now at your fingertips. The Google Book Searc...
Bigger than TV, bigger than the internet: Understand mobile of 4 billion users
We do an annual look into the size of the mobile industry here at the Communities Dominate blog. So its time to review the growth of mobile and report on the technology that has 4 Billion subscribers...
Roku's Amazon VOD in Beta. YouTube Next?
We knew Amazon Video on Demand was headed to Roku's media streamer ($99) early this year. And now, via their forums, we have word that the service has entered private beta. I had hoped Amazon VOD fu...
IMO.IM Is The Best IM Web Service You've Never Heard Of
With all the talk about Meebo adding support for Facebook chat yesterday, I took notice of a message in our tips inbox today about another instant messaging aggregator service that I'd never heard of ...
Verisign's Naming Business Health Checkup: Online Ad Network Weakness Hurting Us
For another sign of the times, have a closer look at Verisign's Internet naming business and its health during Q408: in its earnings announcement call yesterday. Some numbers on new name registration...
RIM Co-CEO Temporarily Steps Down After Continued Stock Options Charges
In Financial, RIM (Research in Motion) … Yesterday, RIM and the Ontario Securities Commission had settled (hopefully once and for all) the back-dated stock options scandal from 2006.
Where Do Mobile Ads Work Best? On the iPhone!
The latest Mobile Advertising Report from market research agency GfK found that users of Apple's iPhone were more likely to recall and respond to ads than other mobile phone users. The reason for the...
Third-gen iPhone to run on Nvidia chippery?
Analyst names Apple as key Tegra design win — Will Apple's next iPhone pack an Nvidia ARM-based system-on-a-chip? That's what one US analyst thinks. — Enter Doug Freedman of AmTech, the market wa...
Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN
Many people who watched live streaming video of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 20 may not realize that their PC was used to send the video to other PCs, too. — Clicking “yes...
Study: IT Woes as Mobile Edges Out Desk Phones
Workers are picking ever-more-powerful smartphones over desktop phones. But businesses may face unexpected worries as a result. — With sales of smartphones on a tear, it might not come as a surpris...