Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores
Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores.
Leaked Photos of Next Generation iPhone?
Images claiming to depict the back cover of an upcoming iPhone have started circulating on the internet. iPodObserver first posted a version of the above photo that allegedly depicts an unreleased 16G...
Snow Leopard Adds Minor Often Requested Tweaks: Put Back, Stack Folder Navigation
With the absence of major new user interface features in Snow Leopard, we're left discussing some rather minor (though frequently requested) tweaks found in the latest developer builds of Mac OS X 10....
About the security content of Security Update 2009-001
This document describes Security Update 2009-001, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads. — For the protection of our customers, Apple does no...
Specify your canonical
Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's a...
YouTube Goes Offline
We are always looking for ways to make it easier for you to find, watch, and share videos. Many of you have told us that you wanted to take your favorite videos offline. So we've started working wit...
Google Exits Radio but Will Explore Online Streaming Audio
Labels: Announcements, Google Audio Ads — At Google we've never shied away from high-risk, high-reward projects. We believe that making big bets is not only in the best interests of our users and p...
Sources: Windows 7 moving toward 2009 release
Microsoft is moving forward with plans to launch Windows 7 this year, although the company still refuses to publicly commit to that goal. — PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. tell CNET News th...
Twitter and status updating
In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives...
MS puts up $250K bounty for Conficker author
Zombie masterminds wanted undead or alive — Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the virus writers behind the infamous Conficker (Downad...
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's “25 Things” craze.
Last week, I enlisted Slate readers to help divine how Facebook's “25 Random Things About Me” trend got started. More than 3,000 of you responded, answering queries on when you first saw a “25 Things...
MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks
A few owners of Apple's new unibody notebooks are experiencing backwards compatibility issues with the units' redesigned audio jacks, which offer a snug connection for the company's latest headphones ...
Bruce, Britney, Beyoncé Staying on YouTube: Sony Music Re-Signs
YouTube and Sony Music Entertainment have signed a deal that will keep the music label's videos and music on the site. The contract accomplishes what YouTube and Warner Music Group have been unable t...
Samsung unveils Blue Earth solar powered phone
No eco launch is complete without earthy PR speak, so the Blue Eartch is apparently designed to “symbolise a flat and well rounded shiny pebble”.
Introducing Bespin
As we strive to evolve the Open Web as a robust platform for application development, we believe in the potential for web-based code editors to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user ...
Charter To File Chapter 11; Stock To Be Worthless
Charter Communications (CHTR) will file for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code by April 1 as part of a debt restructuring plan, the cable company announced. Und...
Opera unveils turbo-charged browsing at Mobile World Congress 2009
Just when you thought browsing couldn't get any faster, Opera unveils its latest innovation for better browsing, Opera Turbo. This all-new, turbo-charged way to surf will make its exclusive appearanc...
GE, Tech Win Big in Stimulus Bill
WASHINGTON — High technology and diversified conglomerates that helped shape the contours of the stimulus plan emerged as big winners in the draft bill scheduled for a vote Friday. — General Electri...
Apple Plans Major Store Space Reorganization
On the heels of an iPhone/iPod display table make-over, Apple plans to entirely reorganize and refocus space within the stores to emphasize customer education, and software over hardware. The change ...
More Tech Start-Ups Call It Quits
As Funding Dries Up, Fledgling Silicon Valley Firms Are Shutting Down; Fears of Chill on Innovation — The deepening recession is speeding up the shakeout in Silicon Valley, forcing droves of start-u...
Midway Files for Bankruptcy
This is no surprise, seeing as the company was looking at $150 million in debt last December with just 50 days to pay it, but today Midway Games filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. — Chairman, Presiden...
Introducing Outlook Live for schools - and cool new features for everyone
We've put together a new video, sharing some of the cool new stuff you can expect to see with the next version of Exchange, code-named Exchange 14. Please take a few minutes to go watch it because, h...
Sirius XM should dump satellites for the Web.
Sirius XM bet on a losing technology. Here's how the company can save itself. — Satellite radio is falling out of orbit. Sirius XM, the product of a merger between America's founding satellite rad...
Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20: A Surprisingly Cute WinMo 6.1 GPS Phone
Garmin-Asus will launch the M20, a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, sometime this year. True to the name, this cute touchscreen handset comes with car dock and a full set of GPS maps for deep-country use.
Facebook, Nokia Discuss Alliance
Battle Over Social-Networking Users Extends Into Cellphone Market — Facebook Inc. is stepping up its efforts to integrate its social network into an array of mobile phones, including those made by N...
Google plans data centre at old Finnish paper mill
* Stora sells old paper plant to Google — * Google says plans to open data centre at site (Releads, adds Google comments) — Google (GOOG.O) said on Thursday it aimed to build a data centre at an o...
Contacts on Ovi beta database failed - my deepest and most sincere apologies
Written by: Kristian Luoma, Product Manager, Contacts on Ovi. — Hey, — Something bad happened yesterday. A cooler broke down in the hosting center that we run the Chat service in.
DirecTV Owner Said to Seek Deal for Sirius XM
Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio giant that is on the brink of bankruptcy, is in preliminary talks with Liberty Media, the conglomerate controlled by John C. Malone, people briefed on the negotiat...
Four changes to Gmail contacts
Over the past few days we've made a lot of small changes to Gmail's contact manager which, combined, should make it easier to organize the contacts you want and get rid of some of the cruft. Here's a...
The Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Program Rev. 2.1
The Microsoft Windows 7 Upgrade Program — Microsoft issued a draft of the Windows 7 Technical Guarantee Program to their OEM partners on December 10, giving them exactly one month to provide their f...
Qualcomm, HP, MySpace to join Symbian camp
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Qualcomm (QCOM.O), MySpace (NWSA.O) and 12 more companies joined the Symbian camp on Thursday, giving the mobile operating system larger scale than Google's (GOOG.O) Android in th...
Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail
A cyberlaw professor argues that Wikipedia is doomed. The online encyclopedia will need to choose between being “high quality” and “open,” but both choices are fraught with risk. — Law professor Er...
Innovative iPhone Developer Smule Raises $3.9 Million
Smule is one of our favorite iPhone developers - besides putting together ridiculously addictive apps like Ocarina (iTunes Link), the team is also especially adept at tapping into the iPhone's network...
New Tweetdeck Out Tomorrow, Here's What It Will Include
We got our hands on the new version of popular Twitter desktop app Tweetdeck that will be delivered to all users tomorrow and we're pretty excited about what's been added. — If you've never used Twe...
NSA offering ‘billions’ for Skype eavesdrop solution
Business model for P2P firm at last? — Counter Terror Expo News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry sourc...
The Royal Website: The Queen's new website SEO review
The British Royal Family's new official website is reviewed for Search Engine Optimisation. — By Julian Sambles, Head of Audience, Telegraph.co.uk — I was honoured to be asked by colleagues to rev...
Apple “Confident” On Q2 Guidance, Bernstein Says
Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi asserted in a research note this morning that Apple (AAPL) officials in a briefing this week “appeared confident” about its guidance for the fiscal second qu...
Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. — The C...
Another little IBM deal
On August 12, 1981, 28 long years ago, IBM introduced its personal computer, the IBM PC. Hidden inside was an operating system called MS-DOS which the computing giant had licensed from a pipsqueak co...
Sniffing Out Illicit BitTorrent Files
A new tool promises to detect illegal files without slowing network traffic. — A new technique has been developed for detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-tra...
Skype Growing by 380,000 Users a Day
Ross O. Storey, CIO Asia — The number of its users is growing by the population of Singapore (more than four million) every 12 days and nearly a third of its registered subscribers now use it for bu...
The Telegraph: how to pick up traffic from Digg
The Telegraph recently ran an excellent story that included our recent Twitter data. While reading the article I noticed the Digg widget illustrated in the picture below on the newspaper's homepage. ...
New Windows virus attacks PHP, HTML, and ASP scripts
Virut gets around — Researchers have identified a new strain of malware that can spread rapidly from machine to machine using a variety of infection techniques, including the poisoning of webservers...
Download and Buy Videos from YouTube
YouTube includes a new section for “My Videos”: a list of purchased videos. A YouTube help page has more details about the new feature: … Videos are available to download in the MP4 format and some o...
Verizon Wireless adopts Alltel's My Circle as ‘Friends & Family’
It was the number one concern of about-to-be-swallowed Alltel customers going into this merger deal, and now it's finally time for those individuals to breathe a huge sigh of relief. In a prime examp...
Epson's tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware
Small, right? That's Epson's Infineon XPOSYS chip, its next generation Assisted-GPS device set for mass production in late 2009. The chip measures just 2.8 x 2.9-mm making it 25% smaller than other ...