Snow Leopard goes 64-Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo?
World of Apple is publishing (naughty, naughty) Apple's Snow Leopard release notes, below, which include a new Quicktime Player UI, a new Cocoa Desktop, Info Window and Contextual Menus and of course ...
the trials and tribulations of innovation
we just found out that Hulu blocked the boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. this is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized f...
Kindle is not the best iPhone e-reader
By now, you know you don't need a Kindle 2 to read books electronically. You can use the new Kindle for iPhone app. — But Kindle's not the only way to read books on a iPhone or iPod Touch. There a...
The coming of the megacomputer
Here's an incredible, and telling, data point. In a talk yesterday, reports the Financial Times' Richard Waters, the head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, said that about 20 percent of all the ser...
A Reply to Larry Lessig
Congress is not perfect, and I respect Professor Larry Lessig's vigorous effort to change and improve it. Furthermore, as readers of the Huffington Post well know, I am firmly committed to tough over...
Hill tries to bypass Storm
There are a lot of storms swirling around Washington these days but only one that's dragging down Democrats and Republicans alike. It's the one made by Research in Motion. — The BlackBerry Storm — ...
Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition Discussions; Cisco May Be Buying (Updated)
San Francisco based Pure Digital Technologies, the seven year old company behind the Flip Video line of video cameras, is considering a sale of the company, multiple sources have confirmed.
Apple has no clue what's going on with dev contracts
Apple seems to be caught flat-footed and unprepared for the upcoming deluge of developer renewals for its iPhone program, Ars has learned. Here's what we found regarding the status of both ADC and iT...
Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month
The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We've gotten word from Soci...
Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search
Charlie Rose, who's been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the p...
Silicon Valley unemployment rate jumps to ‘frightening’ 9.4 percent
Silicon Valley's jobless rate leapt more than a full point to a stunning 9.4 percent in January, the biggest jump since at least 1990. — The hair-raising report had Silicon Valley Leadership Group C...
Large Pirate Topsite Raided in Sweden
The raids were carried out two weeks ago but were only announced today. The site, which goes by the name ‘Sunnydale’, was a so-called topsite that hosted pirated movies, software and TV-shows spread ...
Webcam Porn Hijacks Twitter Accounts
It appears that there is a rash of Twitter account hijacking going on this evening. Hundreds of twitter accounts are being compromised and tweets are being posted encouraging users to make the accqua...
When job seekers invade Facebook
The increasing popularity of online social networking is changing not only the way people manage their careers but social networking itself. — • Soumitra Dutta and Matthew Fraser — This short essa...
Google needs to grow up and pay a dividend
Google looks to be printing money as fast as the US government - it may pile up $21bn (£14.8bn) of cash by next year. — But unlike the Obama administration, chief executive Eric Schmidt says the com...
Conficker Worm Strikes Back With New Variant
The Conficker/Downadup worm managed to slither onto millions of PCs worldwide at its height, but after it initially infected a computer it only really acted to spread itself, and didn't cause further ...
Stock slump could end up enriching Google workers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — This week's steep drop in the stock market is yielding a golden opportunity for most Google employees. That's because the Internet search leader plans to reset the price ...
Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
After Perez Hilton recorded a single-day high of 13.9 million page views on the day after the Oscars, web research firm Hitwise found that the celeb gossip site's top traffic source is Facebook. That...
Did Kumo.com go live last night?
Kumo.com, the new iteration of Live Search, is supposed to be in “internal tests”, but apparently at least for a time last night it was live. We picked up on a re-tweet of a tweet taken down (btw, wh...
new version + hulu update
we started boxee because there was an opportunity in the media center space for a product/company who put the user first, while respecting the rights of content owners. over the past year and a half ...
Why I Sued Google (and Won)
Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc. temporarily escalated t...
Breaking Apple's Grip on the iPhone
Firms Launch Sites Selling Unauthorized Software for Device, Posing Challenge to Official Online Store — Apple Inc. faces a growing threat to its iPhone business, as renegade stores spring up online...
Is Craigslist the world's biggest bordello?
Catherine is a 35-year-old sex worker in San Francisco who relies on Craigslist to reduce the physical risks often faced by a woman in her line of work. — “Craigslist is important to helping us avoi...
Beta to RC Changes - Turning Windows Features On or Off
The theme of “choice and control” has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows 7. We've certainly received lots of positive feedback about the theme and about the choices we've ma...
Palm investor: Pre will trump iPhone
Palm investor Roger McNamee is talking smack and arguing that Apple iPhone users will jump ship to the to-be-launched Pre. — According to Bloomberg, McNamee said: … And. … That's some heady talk fro...
Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys
Remember “Burn All GIFs” from 1999? In 2009, the Open Source mantra of choice could very easily turn into “Destroy all FATs” — If you've been following the news in the Linux community, you've proba...
About the security content of Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n*) Firmware 7.4.1
This document describes the security content of Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station (802.11n*) Firmware 7.4.1. — For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss …
Robert Scoble To Leave FastCompany
Super-blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his full time job at FastCompany, he confirmed by phone tonight. He first joined the company nearly a year ago and has been running their FastCompany.tv site. ...
Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8
Record Shopper Turnouts Result in Early Closure for Chain — WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Liquidators managing the going-out-of-business sales at Circuit City stores nationwide announced to...
GameStop: “Zero Chance” for Amazon Trade-In Success
“I give the probability of this working at zero,” DeMatteo told Edge in a Thursday phone interview. — Amazon this week introduced a program in which consumers can ship, for free, games in good condi...
USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
USocial is gaming popular social bookmarking sites, including Digg. Credit: uSocial — Among Digg's and StumbleUpon's tens of millions of users, the social bookmarking sites have successfully dealt ...
Philips: OLED windows in a few years
Clear in the day, and all light and bright at night — Philips Research has shown off a new transparent OLED concept that is totally clear when turned off and then can be fully illuminated. — The t...
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?
Some time ago, I wrote an article called “Are Our Brains Becoming Googlized?” It became my most read Search Engine Land post ever. Apparently I wasn't the only one fascinated by the prospect of whol...
Darknets and the future of P2P investigators
LimeWire's new software illustrates a growing trend: “darknets” are becoming simple to setup and use. As millions of people now find that they can easily create their own private share networks, what...
Want all 25,000 iPhone apps? That will be $71,442.69.
While RIM, Microsoft and Palm ready their mobile app stores for release this year, the one that inspired them all, Apple's App Store, continues to chug along at an impressive pace. The store now feat...
NVIDIA's GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
It's hard to say at this point whether we should point the blame at NVIDIA, Apple or right in between the two corporate campuses, but it seems that an uncomfortable amount of 17-inch MacBook Pro owner...