Apple Announces New iMacs, Mac Minis, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule
Apple today announced updates to its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines, including a 24-inch iMac and a Mac mini with new NVIDIA integrated graphics. For the same $1,499 price as the previous generation...
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google — whose search index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter's. So what does G...
Apple Introduces New Mac Pro
Features Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Processors & High-Performance Graphics — Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next-generation system architecture to del...
Oppenheimer: New iMac a better deal than Dell, HP
In reviewing Apple's (AAPL) new desktops Tuesday, some analysts chided the company for not setting “more aggressive price points,” as Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu put it, given today's “tough macroeconomic...
Video: Jon Stewart explains Twitter (or tries to)
Earlier, we posted about Twitter chief executive Evan Williams explaining Twitter to Charlie Rose. Tonight brings perhaps a better Twitter video explanation, compliments of comedian Jon Stewart. — ...
Amazon VOD Launches on the Roku
After much anticipation, Amazon VOD finally landed on the Roku player this morning, expanding the capabilities of the $99 set-top box beyond Netflix. Roku owners will have access to Amazon's VOD libr...
The Final Day of The Pirate Bay Trial
As The Pirate Bay returns after being offline all night, the lawyers of defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Swartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström present their closing statements to the court. — A...
New NVIDIA Notebook GPU Line-Up Features World's Fastest Mobile Notebook GPU
Industry-Leading Performance Combined with HD Video Processing, PhysX and CUDA Highlight New Family of GPUs Designed for Notebooks — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — CEBIT 2009—HANOVER, GERMANY—MARCH 3, 2...
LG's Weapon: Netbooks
The company says it will start selling netbooks in the U.S. before July. — SEOUL, Korea—In the U.S., consumer electronics maker LG Electronics is best known for its cellphones and flat-screen TVs. ...
Socialtext Adds Twitter-like “Signals” And a Desktop AIR App
In yet another sign that this will be the year of the activity stream, Socialtext is adding a Twitter-like message stream to its enterprise wiki/workspace service, The new feature is called Socialtext...
The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City
Liquidation: It's an ugly word for the ugly process of shutting down a retailer by selling off stuff little by little until there's nothing left that anyone's going to buy at any price. And my most r...
Eye-Fi Doubles Storage and Adds Video Support
Our beloved Eye-Fis (SD cards that add Wi-Fi to any digital camera) have finally gotten the bump from their 2GB standard. Now Eye-Fi cards hold 4GB of photos and upload videos to YouTube/Flickr. … Es...
Twitter is to Facebook as Google was to Yahoo!
My friend David King, (former Googler, founder and CEO of Lil Green Patch (# 1 social game on FB) and one of the smartest people I know) came up with an analogy I thought was really interesting to exp...
Let Our Start-Ups Bail Us Out
President Obama noted last week that “we have lived through an era where, too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity.” As the $787 billion stimulus is sorted out, we should con...
Khosla Ventures Goes Retro for New Blood
Pierre Lamond, a Silicon Valley veteran, was planning to retire from Sequoia Capital this year. Instead, the 78-year-old has decided to join Khosla Ventures, the venture firm founded by Vinod Khosla....
Cellphone Sales Down Worldwide, Smartphone Sales Up in U.S.
So how hard has the economic crisis hit the mobile industry on the whole? We've seen Sprint, Motorola, and plenty of others hurting over the last couple of months, but the overall effect worldwide ha...
Facebook and Oodle Launch New Classifieds Product Today
Today, Facebook and Oodle will announce the launch of the new classified product which will replace the old Marketplace application. In contrast to the previous iteration of the application, all clas...
Microsoft: You Can Absolutely Run Office 14 On Windows XP
By and large, big business has shunned Windows Vista, and the big question for Microsoft (MSFT) over the next year is: Will the enterprise upgrade to (and buy hundreds of thousands of licenses for) Wi...