Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems
The Oracle Corporation, the technology information company, announced Monday that it would acquire a rival, Sun Microsystems, for $9.50 a share, which would value the transition at $7.4 billion. — T...
iPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback
Various voice-related features, under the codename “Jibbler,” have been discovered in the version of SpringBoard set to ship with the next update to Apple's mobile operating system. — Sources speaki...
Adobe Flash secures set-top deal
Adobe has secured a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. — It will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver we...
America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than America...
Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?
Microsoft knew this day was coming. This was the reason it desperately wanted — no, needed — to take down Netscape in 1996. Netscape wasn't just trying to build a program for reading text and photos...
Apple netbooks manufactured by Foxconn rumoured
Apple sliced down to netbook size? — WE'VE PICKED UP ON some Chinese whispering which would have us believe Apple could be about to release its very own netbook, with Foxconn Electronics chosen as t...
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Reel around the fountain — Free whitepaper - Avoiding costs from oversizing data center and network room infrastructure — The Pirate Bay four, who were convicted of being accessories to breaching ...
Washington, D.C. will be 1st to get free mobile TV
Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monda...
Digg Ends Exclusive Ad Deal with Microsoft
Digg is ending its two-year-old exclusive ad selling relationship with Microsoft, one year earlier than the deal was set to expire. — The two will continue working together on remnant and so-called ...
Dear Twitter: Please take my money
With respect to my cranky co-worker Charles Cooper, and reversing even my own Oprah/Kutcher-prodded twitterrant the other day, Twitter is an important platform for publishing and marketing, and it nee...
Apple jumps 32 spots into Fortune 100
Reflecting a strong 2008 in which its earnings — if not its stock price — jumped sharply, Apple (AAPL) this week made its first appearance in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 since Steve Jobs' return. ...
Former Yahoo Music Exec Dave Goldberg To Head Survey Monkey
Former Yahoo music head Dave Goldberg-who has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital since he left the Internet company more than two years ago-has finally landed at another company, s...
How Many New Twitter Users Post-Oprah? A Lot. Maybe Over A Million.
Late last night, former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block tweeted out that he had done some research to attempt to quantify the “Oprah Effect” — that is, the number of users who signed up for Twitte...
Twitter riddled with worms and scams (again)
Who will stop the madness? — Multiple new versions of the Mikeyy cross-site scripting worm spread across the Twitter micro-blogging network over the weekend. — The first in the latest batch of wor...
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions — and the end of reading alone — Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of “aha” moment in your memory...