Fennec Milestone Release for Windows Mobile
On behalf of everyone who have been tirelessly working towards this goal, I would like to announce that our first milestone release of Fennec for Windows Mobile is now available for download. — This...
Palm CEO Ed Colligan Talks Pre with Investors
We're listening to Ed Colligan talk to investors about the state of Palm and what some of their plans are going forward. Some interesting tidbits: — There will be no more PalmOS devices released by ...
New in Labs: Add your location to your signature
Sometime ago I noticed how all mail systems tell you when an email was written, but not where it was sent from. Because I love to travel, the first question in many messages I receive is “where are y...
Guidance on Windows Deployments for Business Customers
Hi, I'm Gavriella; welcome to the new Windows for your Business Blog. — Let me introduce myself: I'm a member of the Windows Product Management team and have been at Microsoft for 13 years. For the...
Apple prepping iTunes Replay on-demand video service
Apple is believed to be wrapping up a new feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company's servers for playback anywhere, anytime without ea...
BOSS Update: Open Monetization, Pricing, Structured Data, and More
Today, we're announcing a handful of new features for Yahoo! Search BOSS as well as important updates on our terms of service and pricing. — Three New Features — Perhaps the most important compone...
25 Random Things Meme Is a Boon for Facebook
According to the latest data from Compete, the ‘25 Random Things About Me’ meme has not only given us access to a plethora of random facts about people we barely know, but this digital fad has also be...
Google Maps Edges Closer To MapQuest
A few weeks ago I thought I was onto something very hot. I was getting ready to announce that Google Maps had caught up to MapQuest in share of US Internet visits. I decided to wait a week to be sur...
Outbrain Raises $12 Million Series B; Massive $18 Million Total Funding To-Date
Last year NY-based Outbrain raised a $5 million Series A round of funding. Today the company is announcing a new Series B round of funding to the tune of $12 million. Including a $1 million angel fu...
First NVIDIA Ion system a desktop, due in spring
NVIDIA at a press conference in Taiwan today provided early details of launch plans for the first systems based on its Ion platform. The company's mainboard chipset manager Drew Henry says the first ...
IBM to tap Amazon Web Services
One of the key questions for Amazon.com's cloud computing business is whether it can move beyond its early customer base of web startups to bring in large enterprise customers. Today, Amazon took a m...
Nokia Lays Off 320 Researchers, Dials Back Production
Nokia will eliminate 320 jobs and temporarily lay off another 2,500 workers as it closes one research center and shifts research and development to different areas. The changes reflect reductions in ...
A social bar for your site
Labels: Google Friend Connect, new features — While it's easy to add social features to your site with Google Friend Connect, you may have been wondering where to put all of the great gadgets. You ...
Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2's text-to-speech infringe authors' copyrights?
Know Your Rights is Engadget's technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay...
Obama: I'm a PC
I realize people have bigger things on their minds these days, but how did the blogosphere not pick up on this yesterday? — Because while it's interesting (and important) to note that Intel (INTC) h...
Another Manufacturer Drops Plasma
Whether the rumors that Pioneer plans to pull out of the plasma TV business prove true or not, one other maker of flat panel TVs has left plasma behind: Vizio. — The five-year-old company, which ori...
Why Spend $350 Million to Map Broadband?
Deep inside the stimulus bill that passed the Senate Tuesday is an allocation of up to $350 million for making a “nationwide inventory map of existing broadband service capability and availability in ...
Adobe: Microsoft's Silverlight ‘has really fizzled’
Addressing attendees at a tech-and-telecom conference on Tuesday, Adobe EVP and CFO Mark Garrett spoke of the challenges ahead. Microsoft's software doesn't appear to be one of them. — Speaking at ...
Spotify versus last.fm
If you want music streamed to your computer for free there's already a big choice. As the ailing record industry thrashes around in search of a viable business model for the digital age, all sorts of...
Surviving the Drama of the Twitter Awards
The microblog site Twitter has raised trivial communication to an art form. Inevitably, it has its gala awards ceremony complete with feuding contestants. — Winners of the first annual Shorty Award...
Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation Comes to Jailbroken iPhones
Six months after the App Store was launched, the iPhone app gray market lives on: turn-by-turn navigation has come to jailbroken iPhones in the form of xGPS. UPDATED — xGPS uses Google's map data a...
Blockbuster Total Access to add games for $5 bump
Blockbuster is going after both Netflix and Gamefly with a new strategy: add the option of renting games as well as movies when you subscribe to the Total Access service. Games will cost a little mor...
Remember That Company You Sold Last Year? Riiight. Its Buyer Wants Its Money Back
It's no surprise that in a crummy market, money disputes tend to surface more than when everyone is feeling flush. But it may surprise you to learn that those disputes are taking place over startups ...
Where in the World Is America's CTO?
With the naming of Oracle (ORCL) President Charles Phillips to President Barack Obama's 16-Member Economic Recovery Advisory Board a few days ago, another Silicon Valley tech mandarin fell off the lis...
Lego and Alcatel teaming up to release Lego phone
Earlier this year Lego and Digital Blue announced combined efforts that would yield a variety of Lego-centric electronics aimed at kids. Slated to be released by this Summer, the announcement include...
Google surges in U.S. search engine rankings
Nielsen Online released its January 2009 U.S. search engine rankings Wednesday and not surprisingly, Google has a commanding lead. — The research firm said 9.4 billion queries were submitted to sear...
Modu Comes Out Of The Woodwork With A Truly Innovative Mobile Offering
Modu, the heavily-funded Israel-based modular phone manufacturer that enables you to slip a light mobile device into a variety of so-called “jackets” (think music players, other cellphones, car stereo...
Ballmer to Congress: Act Now on Stimulus Agreement
House and Senate lawmakers moved with impressive speed today to forge a final agreement on a $789 billion stimulus package designed to help revive the struggling U.S. economy. Microsoft CEO Steve Bal...
Clearwire Funding Gap May Put Backers' Internet Expansion Plans on Hold
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Clearwire Corp. may have to delay its network expansion if it fails to close a funding gap of about $2 billion, dealing a setback to investors such as Intel Corp. and Google Inc....
New BlackBerry users 20% higher than expected
Research in Motion on Wednesday provided a positive surprise with word that it expects its BlackBerry subscriber additions for its financial fourth quarter, which finishes at the end of February, to j...
Novell Delivers Moonlight 1.0
Novell's Mono project has announced the availability of Moonlight 1.0, which is an open source technology that enables Linux and PowerPC Mac users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Moonlight p...
Real estate sites like Trulia see record traffic and revenue
Online real estate sites like Trulia.com, are reporting record traffic and revenues — even as most of the rest of the real estate industry is in the doldrums. — The San Francisco company Trulia says...
Microsoft kills off public availability of Windows 7 beta
Torrent sites are where it's at — Microsoft has slammed the door shut on its Windows 7 beta download program, though anyone still keen to get their mitts on it can simply trundle along to Pirate Bay...
Eight Ways to Help Google News Better Crawl Your Site
From time to time, publishers ask us what they can do to improve their listings in Google News. The following are eight of the most frequent, and useful, pieces of advice we give out. Why eight? Be...
Blip.tv gives videomakers a chance to be a star
Everybody's in show biz. — Just ask Dina Kaplan, a co-founder of Blip.tv, the video website that distributes some 38,000 homegrown shows across the Web, and splits ad revenue 50/50 with the folks wh...
Ginx, an easier way to see what people are sharing on Twitter
Ginx describes itself as a tool for sharing news through Twitter. But it's not just that, it's also a better interface for using core Twitter features than Twitter itself. I've been playing around w...
Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book
Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author's Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project.
Cisco's Shopping List: EMC? VMware? Sun? NetApp?
While we're all waiting for the economy to recovery, let's play a round of the hot new game, “Who Wants Cisco To Make Them A Millionaire?” — That's been a popular game this week, actually. Kicking ...
Facebook appraisal pegs company's value at $3.7B
Facebook Inc. quickly concluded it wasn't worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft Corp., according to confidential information obtained Wednesda...
New in Labs: Add your location to your signature
Sometime ago I noticed how all mail systems tell you when an email was written, but not where it was sent from. Because I love to travel, the first question in many messages I receive is “where are y...
BoomTown Decodes the Twitter-Is-Really-Serious-Folks-About- Not-Making-$$ Memo
In a blog post that comes as the polar opposite of a complete surprise, Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone clarified a comment he made to a U.K. magazine that sounded like Twitter might actually charge for ...
T-Mobile U.S. Launches BlackBerry Curve 8900
The time has finally arrived in the U.S. for T-Mobile customers wanting the new only to the United States BlackBerry Curve 8900. All the rumors have been confirmed. The price under a new 2 year cont...
Samsung delays launch of Android phone
Samsung has delayed the release of its first mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system until the second half of this year. — There had been speculation that Samsung, which recently lea...
Why We Don't Write About Twitter Every Day
Every day we receive between 8-10 emails and phone calls about the launch of a new Twitter application. And everyday, I reply to each one with the same thing... we try to stay away from covering Twit...
BREAKING: Maryland General Assembly Will Lift Facebook Ban
The Maryland General Assembly will soon lift its Facebook ban. Del. Kumar Barve, House Chair of the Joint Advisory Committee on Legislative Data Systems, told the New Line this morning that “Facebook...
Microsoft Security Advisory (960715)
Update Rollup for ActiveX Kill Bits — Version: 1.0 — Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory. — The update includes kill bits for previously published Microsoft ...
StockTwits May Change How You Trade
A new financial microblogging site lets newbies learn from the pros and eschew bad advice at no charge—at least for now — For a rookie, stock trading can be tough, especially in today's bear market....
BlackBerry Maker Pares Forecast
Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. projected fiscal fourth-quarter margins and earnings at the low end of its prior forecast despite strong subscriber growth, suggesting customers may be opting ...
Spotify now available to everyone in the UK
We're taking our first baby step to open up Spotify to a larger audience today. Up until now we've kept a close eye on controlling our user growth with invitations so that we don't run into any probl...
Nvidia scores a couple of deals with Wintel
Nvidia is announcing a couple of deals with Wintel today that show the company is making progress with its new technologies. — In an endorsement for a new mobile graphics technology from Nvidia, Mic...
Comcast Property Sees 92% Success Rate With New OpenID Method
The most-watched geek event of the day has to be the OpenID UX (User Experience) Summit, hosted at the Facebook headquaters. The most discussed moment of the day will surely be the presentation by Co...
Kindle's New Challenger Brings E-Books to iPhones
JR Raphael, PC World — Amazon's new E Ink-powered Kindle 2 is all the rage right now, but a Canadian bookseller is confident it can give you the same experience on your smartphone, and without the h...
Is Cisco fattening its wallet for acquisitions?
Technology giant Cisco Systems said Monday it plans to sell $4 billion in bonds to pad its corporate wallet with cash, spurring speculation that the company is on the hunt for companies to buy. But e...
Hands-On With the Dell Latitude XT2
Just this morning Dell unveiled its Latitude XT2, an update to the XT, which was the first tablet to have multitouch capabilities. A few hours after the announcement we were able to spend some qualit...
Diddit launches surprisingly addictive activity guide
The development team behind search company Inktomi is launching a new service tonight called Diddit, which functions as both an activity guide and a way to share stories and accomplishments. — Diddi...