Power to the people
Imagine how hard it would be to stick to a budget in a store with no prices. Well, that's pretty much how we buy electricity today. Your utility company sends you a bill at the end of the month with...
Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy
Last summer, Mel Karmazin was rattling off his trademark one-liners to talk up the future of Sirius XM Radio, the combined company he ran that had just been blessed by regulators. — He was planning ...
Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied
One of the bigger complaints about T-Mobile's G1, the first phone based on Google's Android platform, is that its touch screen doesn't use multi-touch, the technology which allows for a screen to acce...
Mozilla call for EU intervention in browser war is troubling
Mozilla has voiced support for Opera's effort to convince the European Commission to impose sanctions on Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer in Windows. But is this a necessary or even a wise mo...
Shhh: Whispersync could be the real news out of Kindle 2
Syncing of e-book readers with other mobile handsets may be on the way — Computerworld) The introduction of “Whispersync” technology may well be the bigger technology news from Amazon.com Inc., whic...
Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account?
Companies using Twitter for commercial purposes may soon start getting charged for that activity, according to an interview British trade magazine Marketing (part of BrandRepublic) held with co-founde...
Can Microsoft Catch Up in Mobile?
Going well beyond its current Windows Mobile software, Microsoft will try to extend its desktop dominance with a “Windows phone.” Is it too late? — Microsoft (MSFT) executives have long spun vision...
Craig Newmark's Keynote Unlocks the Secrets to Building a Community
In an era where user generated content is changing our entire culture, rare is the company that can successfully harness the collective creativeness of its community, cultivate loyalty, make money con...
Cisco's Cash Hoard Swells Along With Acquisition Rumors
With $30 billion, Cisco Systems likes to point out it has more cash on hand than any other technology company. So why did it just sell $4 billion worth of debt on Monday? — Cisco has been rather up...
Intel: We're spending $7 billion on U.S. plants
Intel said Tuesday it will spend $7 billion over the next two years to roll out 32 nanometer manufacturing plants in the U.S. — The chip giant said the investment will be made in existing manufactur...
How to become an iPhonedeveloper in eight easy steps
You've probably heard all about iShoot. Written by a programmer at Sun Microsystems in his spare time, this Worms-style artillery shooter blasted to the top of the App Store charts earlier this year ...
The cloud-SOA connection
Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired to bolster service deployments, industry experts say. With cloud computing, enterprise...
SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble with Search Engine Optimization
Long URLs are bogus! Tags like “nude” and “naked” are counterfeits! SEO is a big business, and from what I can tell its proponents are modern snake-oil salesmen. — Search engine optimization (SEO)...
Dell Latitude XT2 multi-touch tablet with 11-hour battery now official (starts at $2,399)
The machine translation is pretty weak, but Dell's 12.1-inch (1,280 x 800 pixel) Latitude XT2 looks to have just made its first tentative steps in a global launch. The video posted after the break …
The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding
Its easy to write about what the government or other people should do with our/their money. It's harder to come up with a course of action that I can undertake on my own that possibly, somehow could ...
Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots
Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing musi...
Reminder: General Availability for Windows 7 Beta Ending This Week
I wanted to quickly remind everyone that this week general availability for the Windows 7 Beta will be ending: — February 10th: Starting at 12am Pacific Time, no new downloads will be available.
As IM Finally Begins To Open Up, Yahoo And Microsoft Cling To The Stone Age
Last week Meebo and Facebook teamed to launch the first integration of Facebook Connect + Chat, allowing Meebo users to chat with their Facebook friends from the popular web-based IM service.
Next Generation Acer Aspire One Netbook Now Available for U.S. Customers
New 10.1-inch Netbook Offers Mobile Freedom, Productivity and Reliability — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Acer America, part of the world's third largest PC company1, today announced U.S. availab...
Take special pictures in style with the Sony Ericsson C903 Cyber-shot™
Seeing is believing with the C903 Cyber-shot™. The slick and stylish mobile phone has a unique sliding lens cover to make great photography as easy as one, two, three. — The C903 Cyber-shot&trade …
How to charge for content. Theoretically.
Second of two parts. First part here. — It won't be easy for publishers to overcome the Original Sin of giving away their valuable content for free. But it could be done. Theoretically. — The m...
A Consumer's Guide to Apple Rumors
There are many unique things about Apple, Inc. And one of the oddest of all is the degree to which straightforward reporting about the company's activities has been drowned out in recent years by a su...
Trackle Feeds You Personalized RSS
Silicon Valley start-up Trackle.com is launching the public beta of its personalized Google Alerts to track pretty much everything in an internet user's life. Trackle's technology and interface is in...