Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million
A collective shudder rippled through Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning, as Rackable Systems announced its purchase of Silicon Graphics Inc. for just $25 million in cash. — If you travel all the wa...
Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone?
I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote, where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his ...
Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter
Yahoo has launched an Adobe AIR-powered desktop application called Sideline yesterday, once again validating the power of Twitter for real-time search. After taking it for a spin, I have to say it lo...
Google uncloaks once-secret server
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference her...
Watch this space: No foolin'
We thought about running a harmless little April Fool's Day prank on the blog today. Maybe leak a hint about a hush-hush rumor that Palm would be merging with that pomegranate juice company (the new ...
April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I.
Wow. April Fools Is In full swing. — The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Industry Shocked And Angered By Facebook CFO's Firing
The industry reaction to Facebook firing CFO Gideon Yu is surprise and anger. — The anger stems from the way the company announced his departure, saying it needs a CFO with public company experience...
Hey, Lauren! Is Apple's 17-Inch MacBook Pro Expensive?
There's something about comparing the prices of Windows PCs and Macs that makes otherwise cool and collected people-Windows and Mac users alike-become profoundly emotional and partisan, until steam sh...
Review: BlackBerry App World [Update 2]
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is slated to take the stage later today in Las Vegas at the CTIA show and all eyes will be focused on RIM's answer to Apple's App Store. While we wished that RIM had held of...
Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server option
With a nod to the new economic realities pushing users towards lower-priced options, Microsoft took the wraps off its new low-end Windows Server release, known as Windows Server 2008 Foundation, on Ap...
Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
Apple's second iPhone 3.0 beta that was seeded today offers the usual collection of bug fixes and improvements, but does introduce one new feature: users are now allowed 11 pages of apps (180 apps tot...
Struggling to find the best iPhone apps? Mobui offers an answer
With more than 27,000 applications in Apple's iPhone store, it can be tough to keep up with all of the cool stuff. After all, about 100 new applications have been added every day since the store was ...
HP Is ‘Studying’ Android for PC Use
If Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest PC maker, were to install Google's operating system on netbooks, Microsoft Windows could face strong competition — Move over, Microsoft. Hewlett-Packard may ...
Zoho Chat opens to Google, AIM, and more
Zoho, a company offering a wide range of low-cost web applications for productivity and business, is launching version 2.0 of its instant messaging client, Zoho Chat. The biggest change is both simpl...
MSI outs full specs of X-Slim X320 / X340 and Wind U123
While MSI has been teasing its Wind U123 and X-Slim X320 / X340 laptops for a little while now, we've yet to see the full specifications for each rig laid out. Until now, of course. Over at CTIA in ...
Nokia introduces Nokia Point & Find, a new way to connect with information and services on the go
New platform enables businesses to engage with consumers in real time with relevant content — San Francisco, CA, USA - Nokia introduces an innovative service concept that enables people …
HTC Snap snaps to life, coming to US as S522
Since the Excalibur and Cavalier, HTC's shown an unhealthy aversion for the immensely popular portrait QWERTY format — until now, that is, with the introduction of the rumored 12mm-thick HTC Snap. Th...
The Power of Less at Web 2.0
The theme of this year's Web 2.0 Expo doesn't shy away from the fact that the economy looms large over the event. — “The Power of Less can mean how to get more done with fewer resources,” said confe...
Source: Major Veoh restructuring, layoffs tomorrow
Online video service Veoh is said to be undergoing a major restructuring tomorrow, a source close to the company tells me, that could include large layoffs and a potential change to its product strate...
Billion Dollar Charlie takes on the RIAA
Ars sits down with “Billion Dollar Charlie” Nesson, the Harvard Law professor who's taking on the RIAA in federal court. Winning his case would be great, but Nesson's thinking even bigger. He wants ...
HP Making It Easier For Anyone To Be A Paper Magazine Publisher
Two years ago, we noted (with some surprise) that at least some top execs at HP seemed to actually be focused on trying to move the company into the future rather than clinging to the past, as is so c...
Conficker botnet remains dormant - for now
All quiet on the malware front — Free whitepaper - Trend Micro marries security with Cloud Computing — Conficker changed the way parts of the botnet communicated overnight, but little else of note...
Intel Nehalem Xeon Processor Could Hurt Server Sales
Intel's Nehalem Xeon processor launch could potentially make Intel a leader in the hardware virtualization space and spur more virtualization projects, but it's not likely to sell any more server hard...
Nomee Is An All-In-One Social Networking Aggregator And RSS Feed
Startup Nomee aggregates social networks and websites into a free Adobe Air powered desktop application that helps you manage these networks and sites into a single interface. The nomee personal all-...