Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims
Microsoft filed suit against TomTom today, alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents — including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kern...
10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2... and 10 reasons not to
Having used both Kindles 1 and 2, I thought it would helpful to list where the new Kindle excels and where it falters. The dead tree book will never die - I think it will even have more longevity and...
Twitter = YouTube.
What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and...
Apple shareholder meeting dominated by politics
Apple's annual shareholder meeting was dominated, as usual, by groups using the event as a soapbox for furthering their political agenda. Apple COO Tim Cook only answered a couple real questions from...
Why Information Must Be Destroyed
CSO) The inability to discard worthless items even though they appear to have no value is known as compulsive hoarding syndrome. If the eccentric Collyer brothers had a better understanding of destru...
MobileMe: Service updates as of February 25, 2009
The MobileMe service has recently been updated with improvements as described below. — Products Affected — MobileMe — Mail — Compose window address selector shows all email addresses for contac...
Nokia considering entering laptop industry
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE ...
Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users
People who bought an unlocked version of the Android G1 phone are no longer allowed to download new paid applications from the Market, after a change Google made late last week. — Google is prohibit...
Ads in Google News search results
If you're in the US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News. — Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting with ads on a number of Google pr...
President Obama Abandons Twitter
Barack Obama's online presence drove his campaign's early fundraising and his primary victory over Hillary Clinton. His use of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube proved the 46-year-old senator was part of...
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
This week we are announcing that Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has hit an important milestone in development: Release Candidate (RC). — Starting today, the RC of SP2 for W...
T-Mobile's Samsung Memoir arrives, snaps photos, reviews itself
The Samsung Memoir has been rumored to make its way to the nation's newest 3G network for a very, very long time. Starting today, however, it's available in all of T-Mobile's retail stores, online, a...
Server sales cratered in Q4, says IDC
Blades the only bright spot — Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning — Someone has turned the volume knob on the x64 server market from 11 down to 9....
AIM for iPhone gets paid version, SMS alerts, location awareness
AIM for iPhone and iPod touch has split into free (ad-supported) and paid versions, though both feature the same enhancements for this 2.0 upgrade. New in AIM for iPhone 2.0 are SMS notifications, lo...
Google says hello to Twitter with a stream of 1s and 0s
That was the first official tweet from Google's official Twitter account today. The second tweet announced the launch of its App Status Dashboard, which we just covered. This looks to be another mov...
Flexible Touchscreen E-paper Signals the Rise of Touchscreens Everywhere
We've sung the praises of flexible screen technology here a few times—it'll be a key part of the next revolution in gadget technology. And now another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place …
Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz
Today's first witness is Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån and later on the IFPI's CEO John Kennedy will testify, although it's not expected that he will respond to the open letter and peace offering i...
The Kindle Swindle?
BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sust...
Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage
Oh the humanity — Free whitepaper - Lower security risks and costs by minimizing the time to protection — Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widesprea...
Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow.
You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip... You might not consider it important or meaningful... But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
Google blames Gmail outage on data centre collapse
Domino effect crashes through the cloud — Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning — Google has apologised for yesterday's major Gmail meltdown after s...
New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia
We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one. — In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transport...
Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo
Yahoo's top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries's departure...
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. — It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably d...
Apple updates Apple TV software to version 2.3.1 [Ux2]
Apple overnight released a minor software update for owners of its Apple TV set-top media box that has thus far been revealed to include a new Network Test function and improvements when using Apple R...
Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of the ...
“Facebook causes cancer”
I was on newsnight a second ago, debating the rather indulgent claims of Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman about Facebook and Twitter. It's 40 minutes in to the show, which can b...
Ryanair trades blows with ‘idiot blogger’
Online booking glitch provokes almighty punch-up — Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning — Hats off this fine morning to Ryanair, which last week tr...
Telecom industry may see over $12 million in fines
The FCC has proposed more than $12 million in fines for the telecommunications industry, after hundreds of carriers failed to certify that they are instituting proper protections of customer data. — ...
Intel to launch new CPUs for ultra-thin notebooks
Intel plans to launch two new ultra low voltage (ULV) CPUs by the end of March this year mainly targeting the company's consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform for ultra-thin notebook products, acc...
15 online photo editors compared
Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors—big and small, to see wh...
Gizmodo's Amazon Kindle 2 Review Matrix
You don't wanna wear out your eyes reading superlong Kindle 2 reviews before you get one, right? Well here's our review matrix for quick, easy-on-the-eyes digestion of reviews from tech's biggest nam...
What Sells Online? Unsexy Newsletters
They're not the newest fad, but these daily digests sent via e-mail can generate some much needed ad revenue when there's not much of it to go around — We San Franciscans think New York isn't quite ...
Texting ‘improves language skill’
Text speak, rather than harming literacy, could have a positive effect on the way children interact with language, says a study. — Researchers from Coventry University studied 88 children aged betwe...
CDNetworks Acquires Panther Express To Speed Expansion In The U.S.
This morning, CDNetworks announced that it has acquired Panther Express. Headquartered in NYC, privately held Panther Express has been in the content delivery business since 2005 offering HTTP based ...