AT&T: New iPhone will be hot, son
We can't tell you where or who, but pretty high up in AT&T's food chain, the following was reported to be said: … For clarification, the above is 100% confirmed. — Thanks, Stephanie!
From Google to Gone: EMI Boots Digital Boss Douglas Merrill
Douglas Merrill, the Google vet tapped by struggling record label EMI to run its digital operations a year ago, is out. He doesn't have a formal replacement, but the company's top digital exec will n...
Looky Here! Actual Revenue for Twitter, Courtesy of Microsoft.
Finally. Here comes Twitter's first real foray into advertising, courtesy of Microsoft's marketing budget. — And don't worry, Twitter users: You won't be getting come-ons for Vista in your Twitters...
Jennifer Aniston ended relationship with John Mayer because of his Twitter ‘obsession’
Jennifer Aniston has reportedly ended her relationship with musician boyfriend John Mayer because he is obsessed with Twitter, it has been alleged. — People claiming to be friends of the actress …
IE8 Users Downgrade To Explorer 7
The latest data shows that Microsoft's new browser lost market share over the weekend. — Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 appears to be losing market share, even though the browser has been on the ma...
Firefox New Tab Page: Cognitive Shield
We've been iterating quickly over the last couple of weeks to define a potential new tab screen for Firefox. — The feedback for the last major iteration was largely positive, and it seems like we ar...
Zimbra Founder and Ex-Yahoo Exec Dharmaraj to Redpoint Ventures
Another former Yahoo exec has landed at a Silicon Valley venture firm. This time, well-regarded serial entrepreneur Satish Dharmaraj will become a partner at Redpoint Ventures, according to sources.
iStockphoto founder, CEO leaves Getty
Bruce Livingstone, founder and leader of microstock pioneer iStockphoto, is leaving the company he sold to Getty Images three years ago. — Livingstone, who launched the low-cost photo-licensing comp...
Netflix Integrates Facebook Connect to Let Users Share Movie Ratings
Netflix is launching Facebook Connect integration tonight to let its users easily share their movie ratings with Facebook friends. — It's a very simple integration and no-brainer for Netflix.
New Botnet Runs on DSL Modems and Routers
A fascinating new botnet has been found running on DSL modems and routers running an embedded Linux distribution. — The worm is called “psyb0t” and appears to have been circulating since at least Ja...
The Javascript Trap
You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser. — In the free software community, the idea that non-free programs mistreat their users ...
Court Allows Dentist To Sue Writer Of Bad Yelp Review
A California court has ruled that dentist Yvonne Wong can continue to pursue a lawsuit against a husband and wife who allegedly panned her on the review site Yelp. — Judge William Elfving of the San...
Google design: The kids are alright
Visual Designer extraordinaire Doug Bowman is leaving Google, and on his way out he wrote a passionate post on his blog detailing the core differences that lead to his departure, focusing heavily on t...
Patrol watches Texas-Mexico border - from pub in Australia
The United States has unveiled an unlikely weapon in its battle against drugs gangs and illegal immigrants at the Texas-Mexico border - pub-goers in Australia. — The drinkers are the most far-flung ...
The Three20 Project
Last week I released my first iPhone open source project, Facebook Connect for iPhone, and today I'm ready to start talking about the next one. — Five months ago I talked about open-sourcing as much...
Women-Focused LimeLife Acquires Tapatap For Community Features
LimeLife has acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based Tapatap, and will integrate the company's core technologies, including user-generated contests and micropayments, into its women-oriented PC and mobile si...
Former MSN Exec Named RNC New Media Director
Todd Herman, former Microsoft and MSNBC.com employee and streaming media expert, has been named the Director of New Media for the Republican National Committee. Herman founded and ran SpinSpotter, a ...
VMware unveils ‘cost per app’ calculator
VMware on Monday made available an online service that it claims can help users evaluate the true costs of server virtualization expenses. — The VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator enables users ...
Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S.
Hulu jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, according to the latest data from comScore VideoMetrix. Hulu drew an audience of 34.7 million people who watched...
Net-Neutrality Backers, Telcos Spar Over Stimulus' Broadband Rules
If telecoms are to get $4 billion in stimulus funds for broadband that enables Facebook for farmers and netbooks for mountain men, then the feds must require the new networks to be open and nondiscrim...
Dell Adamo battery not replaceable
Like many recent Apple offering, the ultra-thin Dell laptop will have a non-user-replaceable battery Pocket-lint has learnt.
‘New’ 17" iMac Turns Out Not to Be so New
The internet is quivering with excitement today at the introduction of a new 17" iMac, aimed exclusively at the education market. — The problem? It seems that a lot of people were out partying over...
Follow The Hires: Twitter Looking To Ramp Up Search And Platform APIs
If you want to know what the strategic priorities are for a startup, sometimes you need to look no further than the positions they are trying to fill. Twitter, which is growing like crazy and just ra...
Skype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World
Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The ...
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers
The danger of storing your data in the cloud, part n. VC-backed online backup and storage provider Carbonite has lost data of 7,500+ customers who relied on the company to keep their files safe, The ...
The Future of Twitter: Social CRM
Twitter has multiple business models to choose from — I get asked over and over: “How do you think Twitter will monetize? What's their business model?” While it's clear their already experimenting...
Media Giants Want to Top Google Results
Argue That Professional Sources Should Be More Recognized Than Blogs — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content w...
iPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding
The iPhone game publisher Ngmoco is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding — in its ninth month as a company. — The funding — led by Norwest Venture Partners an...
Samsung N110
Samsung's updated 10-inch netbook continues to beat the competition with an improved touchpad and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Price as Reviewed: $469.00 — Review Contents: — The Samsung...
Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone
Imagine playing what looks like an Xbox 360 game — on a $100 cell phone. That, according to Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, is exactly what could be possible as soon as winter 2009 wi...
Bigfoot Networks launches second-generation gaming network card
Bigfoot Networks is launching the second-generation of its gaming network card for PCs to deal with the problem of lag. — Lag is the problem gamers see when they're getting ready to blast someone in...
Rivals Say I.B.M. Stifles Competition to Mainframes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — I.B.M. has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue...
The NYT's Blogophobia
What's with the sudden blogophobia at the NYT? Between Craig Whitney's astonishingly tone-deaf memo on how to write a blog, and the legal department's heavy-handed nastygram trying to shut down Apart...
As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes
In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on...
Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0
Last fall, Microsoft rolled out version 1 of its installer for its Web-platform stack of software. At Mix '09 last week, the company refreshed the installer in the form of a new beta for Web Platform...
Eclipse to unwrap Swordfish in early April
Takes stab at open-source SOA software — Free whitepaper - Avoiding costs from oversizing data center and network room infrastructure — The Eclipse Foundation will soon be unwrapping the first rel...
Users criticise Facebook update
More than a million people have now voted against changes to the social networking site Facebook. — The new look site puts more focus on status updates and has been likened to one of its rivals Twit...
Section 92A to be scrapped
Prime Minister John Key has announced the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again. — Commerce and justice minister S...
Top 10 IT locations
From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters. — The i...