Palm Pre launching no earlier than May 16 according to leaked doc?
We've been made privy to some Sprint planning documentation that implies that the carrier is looking to get all its Pre ducks in a row by May 16, which would suggest that there's no way in hell it's l...
StumbleUpon Stumbles Out of eBay's Arms to Be Reborn as a Start-Up (Plus the Entire Press Release)
The content discovery service, StumbleUpon, has gotten itself back to start-up status, after being bought by eBay two years ago. — It announced today that it was returning to being an …
Getting ready for Android 1.5
I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. This new version (which will be 1.5) is based on the cupcake bra...
Amazon: “ham-fisted” error caused glitch with gay books
Amazon has been taking a beating online for the removal of sales ranking on a number of gay- and lesbian-themed books. The company initially called it a glitch that was being fixed. Now Amazon is ca...
OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData
Award-winning website from the Center for Responsive Politics now provides 20 years of downloadable money-in-politics data—for free — WASHINGTON — Politicians, prepare yourselves. Lobbyists, look o...
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer. — A number of We...
Times change: print no longer default MLA citation style
The Modern Language Association's (MLA) new handbook for academic citations does away with the primacy of print, along with the need to include URLs for Web citations. All hail the rise of the Intern...
Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?
PARIS — Is Internet access a fundamental human right? Or is it a privilege, carrying with it a responsibility for good behavior? — That is the question confronting policy makers as they try to brin...
Hulu: More Vids to Fewer Uniques in March
Monthly viewer stats used to be pretty boring to write. To paraphrase Jan Brady, it was always “YouTube, YouTube, YouTube!” Then along came Hulu and things got more interesting as the premium conten...
Analyst: Apple placed chip order for 32GB iPhones
Apple has reportedly ordered 100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash chips, with the bulk of its order coming from its main iPhone chip supplier, Samsung, according to a research repo...
Cooliris raises $15M for (improved) 3D wall
Cooliris is launching a new version of its 3D wall today, one that makes it easier to explore images and other media on the web, on social networking sites, and now, even on your computer desktop. Th...
BlackBerry Storm Gets Firmware Update
The 4.7.0.113 update will be pushed over the air by Verizon and will fix numerous bugs and add new functionality to the touch-screen Storm. — Verizon Wireless is preparing to roll out an over-the-ai...
Pocket Meeting: A $5 WebEx Killer?
Sharing your screen with someone while chatting on the phone is one of those things that's much harder than it ought to be. We've tried a lot of different tools and none of them makes us very happy. ...
Miramax Rewards Would-Be BitTorrent Pirate With Free Ticket
Most people sharing files on the Internet are aware that at any time they could be being monitored by any number of anti-piracy companies, investigators or lobby groups. There can be little doubt tha...
Jim Breyer Joins Dell Board Of Directors, Fast Becoming Most Powerful Man In Silicon Valley
Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, joined the board of directors of Dell today. That's interesting in itself, but the man also sits on the board of Facebook, Walmart and Marvel, as well as a nu...
How Bad Was Google's Quarter?
. (His prior estimate was for 5 percent growth). Khan also revised his pro forma EPS estimates down 5.5 percent from $5.04 to $4.76. — What's got him spooked? Through February, comScore is showing...
Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red
Amazon's Kindle 2 is slimmer, faster and has longer battery life than its predecessor. But the newly launched e-book reader falls short when it comes to how well it displays text, say some users. — ...
KKR, Warburg, Providence and Elevation Surface in Skype Bid
A quartet of private-equity firms have joined forces for a leveraged buyout of a global telecommunications firm with hundreds of millions of users. — And no, this isn't a blog post from 2006.
Apple to sell $899 20-inch aluminum iMac to schools
Apple this week quietly announced plans to begin selling an aluminum 20-inch iMac configuration to qualified educational institutions for just $899, effectively closing the book on the white 17-inch l...
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year
New data shows that the vast majority of corporate IT departments won't touch Microsoft's next OS until at least 2011. — Microsoft may need to keep its Windows XP operating system around a little lo...
Twazzup Takes On Twitter Search to Make Sense of Real-Time Web
Twitter's acquisition of Summize in 2008 gained the red-hot status update service arguably the most impactful new entrant into the Web 2.0 space last year, as the company looked to harness the million...
Search Cube scours Google in 3D
Search Cube is the latest in a string of search engines that forgoes displaying search results in an easy-to-parse, ordered list, in favor of a wiz bang 3D interface. It grabs its results from Google...
Top Facebook Applications See 25 Percent Drop In Traffic Since Redesign
If you thought the last redesign spelled the death of the Facebook platform, you ain't seen nothing yet! Last July Facebook released their new design and within a matter of months, widget application...
Microsoft's search must begin in Redmond
Microsoft's challenge to grow its share of the search business isn't just a global issue. It's also a challenge within its own walls. — Despite investing five years and hundreds of millions of doll...
Report: Yahoo Gains Marketers, Ad Share
SEM tool provider AdGooroo today released a report that explores ad coverage per keyword among the big three engines in Q1 2009; it's a hypothetical proxy for search revenues. The report concludes, a...
Deconstructing Apple's Tiny iPod Shuffle
A teardown by researchers shows the device's components cost a mere 28% of its retail price—a fat profit margin. Biggest supplier: Samsung — When the first iPod graced store shelves almost eight ye...
Buy.com offering Apple official unlocked iPhones for $799
Buy.com is offering an official Apple Unlocked iPhones now for $799. This is an official Apple iPhone which isn't jailbroken. You can do iTunes updates and not have to worry about locking your iPhon...
Interview with the Creator of the StalkDaily Worm
Today, Twitter was infamously attacked by a worm which maliciously effected accounts by forcing them to post a link to the website StalkDaily. I spoke to its creator, 17 year old Michael Mooney, who ...
Getting ready for Android 1.5
I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. This new version (which will be 1.5) is based on the cupcake bra...
Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea
Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution ...
Apple's best move: Jobs as chairman with Cook as CEO
Apple chief Steve Jobs is involved with all of the company's key product plans, had a hand in the iPhone 3.0 launch and at least a few people expect him to return in June. — Those interesting takeaw...
All-Time Top iPhone App Sales Figures and Estimates
As part of Apple's one billion app countdown for their iTunes App Store, they have also compiled a list of the all-time top 20 apps [App Store] for both Paid and Free apps. — Perhaps most interestin...
Seagate: Revenue better than expected; Raises cash to pay debt
Seagate Technology on Monday said revenue in its fiscal third quarter will be about $2.1 billion, better than the $1.88 billion projected by Wall Street. Meanwhile, Seagate said it has raised $430 mi...
What iPhone Apps Are Used Most? Hint: Not Games
When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else. — According to an upcoming report on smartphone usage by...
Google Update, Open Sourced
It doesn't have an interface, it's always running in the background, ready to silently update your Google software: Google Update is the service that makes Google's desktop applications behave more li...
Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X
Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world's most secure OS, bea...
A One-Time Raging Bull on Apple Rages Again.
Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is out with a report this morning, advising investors that Apple's stock could rise from its current $119 to $152. That would be a 26% gain in the shares, which have alr...
You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook
But It May Be Called Facebook — Last week, we wrote that FriendFeed was in danger of becoming “the coolest app that no one uses.” The thought was that while FriendFeed is doing some great things bot...
Let's Go Crazy: New Prince iPod Costs $150 Per Song
The newest special edition iPod to hit the market comes from Prince. It is purple, it is produced in a limited batch of 950, and it will cost you $2,100. — But at least it contains every Prince son...
Twitteronia vs. Status.net: The Battle for Hosted Microblogging Begins
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed) — It's no secret that I'm a huge proponent of self-hosted Microblogging. I've written numerous times on LouisGray.com and my own blog about the ...
Mobile Barcodes: Big In France!
We've always known mobile barcodes are big in Japan, but on a vacation in Paris, we saw some there, too. — Here's how they work: Web-connected phone users take a picture of the barcodes, phone soft...
BoomTown Channels Miss Cleo: A Twitter Transaction?
This weekend on Twitter, someone paid BoomTown a compliment of a sort: “I read you because you are a solid fact-based reporter with a Miss Cleo intuition :)”
Our ears may have built-in passwords
YOU are the victim of identity theft and the fraudster calls your bank to transfer money into their own account. But instead of asking them for your personal details, the bank assistant simply presse...
Rumor: Apple Expect 4 Million New iPhones Shipment by end Q2
Together with the rumors on the new iPhone in the past few months, here is yet another rumor from chinatimes according to its source from iPhone component suppliers. According to its insider news, Ap...