AT&T Introduces Free ‘Mywireless Mobile’ Application on Apple App Store
iPhone Customers Can View Data and Voice Usage, Manage Bill Payments, Add New Wireless Features and More
The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is here!
As we previously announced, today the Windows 7 RC is now available for anyone interested in giving it a spin! Typically, a release candidate is the last development milestone before release to manuf...
Rest in Peace, RSS
It's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn't cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it's not worth swimming in if you get my ...
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’
Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. — After years of debate abo...
Source: 10.5.7 Hitting Your Mac on Friday
If you've been champing at the bit for the magic of 10.5.7, according to a super-secret Apple source, your champing can cease on Friday. The newest version of Leopard is slated to fix a slew of netwo...
Microsoft sends second wave of layoff notices to 3,000
Microsoft on Tuesday notified more than 3,000 workers that it was eliminating their jobs. — The software maker said in January that it would cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. It made 1,...
iPhone 3.0 Firmware Taking Better Pictures than 2.2.1?
The iPhone's camera resolution leaves much to be desired, but there's more to image quality than just resolution. And according to one series of tests, the firmware 3.0 is taking better photos than i...
Microsoft Layoffs - Cinco de Fire-O
Well, if ever you wanted to console yourself with some tequila, today might be your day. Phase Two of the big Microsoft 2009 layoff engages today. — Microsoft continues layoff plan, eliminates thous...
Visual Voicemail Coming!
Well I bet at least a few of you will be more than interested in getting your hands on this feature and while the above picture lacks any real detail, an approaching release date is interesting enough...
The Future of Internet TV (in America)
This column has a global audience so sometimes I have to defend my tendency to see things from an American perspective. But I'm not sure there even IS a defense for this particular item so I'll just ...
Report: Water-Damaged iPhones Now Swappable
Careless iPhone owners who have flipped their handset into a swimming pool-or glass of beer-can now reportedly save themselves the expense of purchasing a new handset under a new Apple store policy al...
The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going
For a dozen years, the Webby Awards have tried to make the Web glamorous. But what they've really done is distill the hucksterism of the Internet into its purest form. — Among the inside crowd, the...
Apple sued over reputed fire hazard of MagSafe power adapter
Apple is again the target of a class action lawsuit over power adapters, this time stemming from complaints about the company's MagSafe power adapters for its MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air com...
Behind-the-scenes Palm Pre advert leaked...and stars Facebook?
We've already seen Palm and Apple clash when it comes to print advertisements, but now details of what could be the first Pre TV advertisement have leaked. Photographer and film maker Jaime Gonzalez ...
A Tech Company's Campaign to Burnish Its Brand
AD AGENCIES usually hang on their clients' every directive. But when Intel was developing its biggest advertising campaign in years, it handed a carefully thought-out brief to the ad agency Venables ...
IPO pipeline has turned into a sieve
If Rosetta Stone was a Silicon Valley company, the local venture capital crowd might be feeling a bit more chipper these days. The Virginia-based company makes language teaching software, with 31 lan...
Evidence points to 3G radios in MacBooks, Tablets?
From the rumor mill to the evidence mill.... I heard from an Apple source last month that Apple laptops were going to get a slight update this summer. There was speculation that update might be a 3G...
Rumored Microsoft 3D Wii killer: we think we played with it
The rumors, leaked images, and speculation are only going to get worse as we move closer to E3, and now it's Microsoft's turn to bear the scrutiny of the gaming press. A report making the rounds, alo...
announcing the boxee app dev challenge
the new boxee API enables developers to build and publish apps for boxee users. while people are working on a variety of boxee apps, we thought it would be a good idea to provide some extra incentive ...
Facebook to vacate downtown Palo Alto in May 14 move
Facebook's long-planned move to new headquarters in the Stanford Research Park will begin May 14, the company said Monday. — The social networking firm's new home will bring together all of its more...
Microsoft Must Buy Twitter
Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo — and that's great. But if Redmond really wants to carve into's Google search business over the next 10 years, it needs to off...
McAfee: New botnets dwarf Conficker threat
The Conficker worm, which has sent off many a recent security alarm bell, may just be a small fry, compared to the growing number of botnets, viruses, and worms infecting cyberspace. — According to ...
IBM in Post-Sun Rebound Acquisition
Looks like IBM found another use for some of the $6.5 billion it had considered using to acquire Sun (JAVA). This morning the company said it is acquiring Exeros, a data relationship discovery compan...
Could piracy blacklist backfire?
Internet law professor Michael Geist on how the US has angered allies with its list of the world's worst piracy offenders — Each April, the US releases the Special 301 Report, which examines the int...
Updates to Facebook Platform Policy
After receiving input from the community and holding a vote, we recently put into place the new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), which serve as the foundation fo...
Twitter Mania: Google Got Shut Down. Apple Rumors Heat Up.
Twitter! Whether you use it or not, or understand it or not, it's the hottest thing in Silicon Valley right now. It's brought up in every conversation. And no wonder - the service has exploded to s...
Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display? Update: Pictures!
[It's still an elusive target for our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, but ]We just got some basic specs on the new, decidedly more newspaper- and college textbook-friendly Amazon Kindle DX. Here's what we ...
What to expect from Windows 7
It feels odd to be writing a review of Windows 7 this early. Normally, software reviews don't make sense until the code is officially released and you have to make a buying decision: upgrade, pass, o...
Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cuts
On May 5, Microsoft began the second round of job cuts it announced it would make back in January. — Here's the full text of the e-mail that CEO Steve Ballmer sent to Microsoft employees notifying t...
Google launches stand-alone contacts manager
Google has launched a contacts manager that users of services like Google Docs, Picasa, and Calendar can use, without having to be a Gmail users. — Aimed at letting users share contacts more easily ...
Leaked Image of G3 aka HTC Hero Surfaced
An anonymous reader sent us these photos of the G3, aka as the HTC Hero, that will be released probably in Q3 this year. This device look very similar to the HTC Magic in terms of the form factor and...
Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off
Our exclusive test shows how the two Web engines compare when given the same queries. — Last week, as physicist Stephen Wolfram was demonstrating his new Web-based “computation engine”—Wolfram Alpha...
Apple's FileMaker division launches Bento personal assistant iPhone app
In a rare move, one of Apple's own divisions is launching an app for the iPhone. — Apple's FileMaker is publishing its Bento personal database app today for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Foundry Group, Allen's Vulcan inject $6.75 million into Gist
Anyone who feels overwhelmed with email, blog posts, Twitter messages and Facebook updates will understand the business problem being addressed by Gist. The year-old Seattle startup company, which to...
P2P bill could regulate Web browsers, FTP clients
news analysis The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing Tuesday to examine a bill that would force peer-to-peer applications to provide specific notice to consumers that their files mi...
iPass aims for mobile cloud service platform
iPass has staked its claim to most laptop and smartphone platforms with the introduction of enterprise iPhone and Nokia S60 clients on Tuesday, but the mobile network aggregator now aims to become a p...
Vudu Goes Box-free for Entone
“Over the top” video services carry the implication of going behind the backs of existing television operators. But two of the (admittedly smaller) players in IPTV and web-delivered video on demand a...
Renesas Releases App Processor for Mobile Phones with Full HD Video Recording, Playback
Renesas Technology Corp has announced the SH7370, a SH-MobileHD1 application processor for mobile phones. The product is claimed to be the first in the industry to deliver Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixe...
Apple Looking to Takeover Electronic Arts?
TheStreet's David Tong relays that FastMoney's Guy Adami claims that there is “chatter” that Apple is eyeing an Electronic Arts takeover. — Adami noted that there is chatter that Apple (AAPL Quote) ...
Why Hasn't Google Cleared, Fired Or Suspended Accused AdWords Employee?
Google takes plenty of well-publicized heat for things it hasn't really done or concerns that get hyped. But in the case of one of its AdWords employees being accused of bypassing AdWords policies fo...
“Apple Netbook” Student Project Is a Pencil-Drawn Beauty
This little project has been making the rounds as the “new Apple netbook,” which, unfortunately, is way off. But the truth is pretty cool anyway: It's a beautiful pencil-drawn, wooden model. — Stud...