Movie Fans Can Buy & Rent Films in High Definition on the iTunes Store
Box Office Favorites Including “Quantum of Solace” & “Twilight” Available in Stunning HD — Apple® today announced that iTunes® customers can purchase and rent box office favorites including “Quantum...
New in Labs: Undo Send
Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her...
Flip Video: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong And Then So, So Right.
Pure Digital Technologies, the creator of the Flip Video line of digital video recorders, got their payday today: $590 million in Cisco stock, a deal we first reported may be happening a couple of wee...
Facebook Poll: 94% Of Users Don't Like Redesign
A Facebook application is polling users on the the new site layout . So far, just over 5% of the nearly 800,000 respondents give it a thumbs up. The rest go the other way. — Users can also leave c...
Palm CEO: WebOS bigger than just the Pre base
Updated: Amid weak fiscal third quarter results, Palm CEO Edward Colligan said that the company is well positioned to launch the Pre and promised a roadmap of smartphones and an application ecosystem ...
Expert: Hackers penetrating industrial control systems
IDG News Service) The networks powering industrial control systems have been breached more than 125 times in the past decade, with one resulting in U.S. deaths, a control systems expert said Thursday.
Android co-founder in Google Ventures?
Is Android co-founder Rich Miner Google's new in-house venture capitalist? To judge by one intriguing clue, it appears so. Miner's name was recently spotted on a nametag at a Silicon Valley event fo...
Nielsen: Twitter's growing really, really, really, really fast
A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing “member community destinations” in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to Febru...
Why Twitter's ‘Suggested Users’ is the Next Superbowl Ad (or “Calacanis offers $500k for three years")
Title: Why Twitter's ‘Suggested Users’ is the Next Superbowl Ad (or — “Calacanis offers $500k for three years") — Subscribers: Does it really matter? It's just a number (13,159)
The Conficker Worm: April Fool's Joke or Unthinkable Disaster?
The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world's biggest April Fool's joke or is it the Information Age equivalent of Herman Kahn...
March Madness! YouTube Gets Live Video Via Silverlight
So live video has finally, finally come to YouTube this morning. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness bracket and live game coverage directly onto a YouTube channel. Go to http://www.youtu...
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Pure Digital Technologies, Makers of Flip VideoTM
Networking Leader Adds Popular Flip Video Solutions to Consumer Portfolio — SAN JOSE, Calif. - March. 19, 2009 - Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies...
New in Labs: Undo Send
Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her...
Microsoft Announces Availability of Internet Explorer 8
New browser focuses on top customer needs, including security, ease of use and performance. — Today Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, the new Web browser tha...
Sony, Google Challenge Amazon
Sony Electronics Inc. is pairing with Google Inc. to battle Amazon.com Inc. in the growing digital books market. — In a strike against Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader, Sony and Google plan to...
Live from New York: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
The Microsoft (MSFT) boss is sitting down with BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler at the McGraw-Hill media conference. Expect at least some chatter about Yahoo (YHOO) and its new boss Carol Bartz, who...
NEW Apple OLED Notebook & iPhone Confirmed By LG
Apple is set to launch new OLED notebooks and flat panel monitors along with a new OLED iPhone claim sources at LG in Korea. — It's also believed that a new iPhone and iPod Touch due later this year...
Google's pictures of UK go live
Google has launched the UK version of its Street View service, which allows users to browse a selection of pictures taken along city streets. — Street scenes in 25 UK cities from Aberdeen to Southam...
MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate
This afternoon, the MIT faculty unanimously adopted a university-wide OA mandate. Here's the resolution the faculty approved (thanks to Hal Abelson, MIT professor of computer science and engineering,...
Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm
An extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle is taking place between computer security groups around the world and the brazen author of a malicious software program called Conficker. — The program gr...
Analysis: Apple's iPhone Shows How Upgrades Should Be Done
Never mind the cut and paste. Never mind the picture messaging, or all the other stuff that should have been in iPhone 1.0. Never mind the new payment methods that will shake up the mobile shopping ...
A More Local, Social Citysearch
Citysearch is unveiling a new Web site on Thursday that will make the site more social and more local — and, the site hopes, staunch its loss of readers. — Citysearch was one of the first Web compan...
Sirius Founder Says The Company Is Screwed
from the cracks-in-the-crystal-ball dept — It's no secret that Sirius XM's business has been hurting. Its recent brush with bankruptcy merely highlighted the huge obstacles the company faced from t...
In partnership with Photobucket, Ontela scores T-mobile deal
Ontela has been on a bit of a roll lately, tapping a new CFO and pulling in cash from the venture arm of Ericsson. Now, the Seattle startup — whose technology helps consumers easily move photos from ...
Rackable CloudRack Turns Up The Heat
The server trays from the CloudRack C2 have no on-board fans or power supplies. — Are you ready for the 100-degree data center? Rackable Systems has introduced a new version of its CloudRack enclos...
Palm WebOS: Subscription Accounting
In my infinite quest to find every bit of Palm WebOS and Palm Pre news on the planet, I came across a Palm document marked “confidential” that illustrates to investors how the company will handle acco...
Hands-on: Mozilla Fennec beta offers performance, features
Mozilla has announced the availability of the first Fennec beta release. Ars takes a close look at the new version and puts the handheld web browser to the test on Nokia's N810. — Mozilla has annou...
Mac security researcher wins Pwn2Own contest with Safari hack
In a repeat performance of last year, security researcher Charlie Miller arrived at the CanSecWest conference this week with a prepared exploit to use in cracking Safari running on Mac OS X. — Unsur...