Did Microsoft Just Announce a Zune Phone on Twitter?
The blogs are buzzing over some tweets from a Twitter account run by the Office 2010 team, noting what looks like the outright announcement of a Zune phone. Something doesn't feel right. — First, t...
AT&T issues official statement on SlingPlayer's 3G blackout for iPhone
Sweating bullets over network saturation, are we? AT&T's obviously taking a good helping of heat today over Sling's rock-and-a-hard-place decision to remove 3G streaming capability from its SlingPlay...
Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web
Ursula K. Le Guin, the science fiction writer, was perusing the Web site Scribd last month when she came across digital copies of some books that seemed quite familiar to her. No wonder. She wrote t...
About the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update
The 10.5.7 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. For detailed information abo...
Security Alert: Twitter Porn Names Scam
Popular social networking site Twitter's current top trending topic, or things that are twittered the most in a period of time has a security hole. What larger hole to patch then that of human error ...
More Search Options and other updates from our Searchology event
Today we are hosting our second Searchology event, to update our users, partners, and customers on the progress we have made in search and tell them about new features. Our first Searchology was two ...
Android, Palm Pre a New Headache for IT?
First it was the iPhone, now a wave of new devices will challenge IT departments used to dealing with RIM BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. — Even in a down economy, a raft of new mobile devices is tem...
Hulu, a Victim of Its Own Success?
Hulu, the online TV service launched two years ago by Fox and NBC, has enjoyed incredible success with viewers — too much, it may turn out. — Two weeks ago, comScore's report that Hulu had pulled in...
Intel outlines notebook plans for 2H09
Intel recently outlined its plans for traditional notebook, CULV-based ultra-thin notebook and netbook product lines for its partners, according to sources at notebook makers. — Intel's next-generat...
Microsoft Swings at Wii With Videocam
Microsoft Corp. is developing a new videocamera for the Xbox 360 console that will allow players to control games with the movement of their bodies, people familiar with the matter said, an effort to ...
Google News Gets An Update. Still Sucks.
I'm sorry, but for as good as Google is at organizing the world's data, Google News absolutely sucks. Now, to be fair, I'm going to focus on Google News from a tech news perspective, because that's w...
Madison Avenue and the App Store
There are two new reports this week about how to use Apple's (AAPL) App Store as a marketing medium. — The first, in today's Wall Street Journal, cites several success stories, including Zippo's vir...
Vodafone to Redefine the Mobile Internet Experience
Initiative will enable content partners and developers to create a range of attractive mobile internet services that can be rolled out to all Vodafone customers — Vodafone is to stimulate a new gene...
Facebook Remains Stubbornly Proud Of Position On Holocaust Denial
Facebook is apparently done talking about Holocaust denial for now. A couple of groups that got more out of hand than the rest were taken down, but the company's policy of permitting the groups on th...
Adobe beams up new Strobe video framework
As part of the Streaming Media East conference in New York, Adobe has unveiled “Strobe,” the “open framework” for its Flash video player that the company first announced last month. It's expected to ...
Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness
For old-fashioned detectives, the problem was always acquiring information. For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different. — “The holy grail is ...
Apple, Dell, HP laptop owners sue Nvidia over faulty graphics
Five plaintiffs join forces to demand class-action lawsuit — Computerworld) Owners of Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard laptops have combined their lawsuits against Nvidia in an attempt to force the g...
Call to ‘disconnect file-sharers’
Persistent illegal file-sharers should be cut off from the net, an alliance of UK creative industries will tell the government on Tuesday. — The alliance wants the government to force internet servi...
Up to 24 percent of software purchases now open source
Open source has become big business, suggests an article in the Investors Business Daily, but it has done so by becoming more like the proprietary-software world it purports to leave behind. — The a...
An approach to fair ad blocking
Welcome, Slashdot readers. Feel free to read this proposal before commenting on it. — As I stated many times before, my goal with Adblock Plus isn't to destroy the advertising industry. In the end...
BSA Finds that Software Piracy Continues to Climb
The BSA's 2008 Piracy Study starts off optimistically, but immediately grounds itself in reality by admitting some bad news. In short, the BSA's new study finds that piracy rates have either stabiliz...
Google Hit With Major Class Action Trademark Lawsuit Over Trademarked Keyword Ad Sales—FPX v. Google
FPX v. Google — FPX, LLC v. Google, Inc., 2:2009cv00142 (E.D. Tex. complaint filed May 11, 2009) — In retrospect, it seems so obvious. Why were the lawyers for these chickenscratch plaintiffs (Res...
Make Room for the Wide Load Ads
When the going gets tough, the ads get bigger. — Amid all the hand-wringing about the decline of the news business and the need for subscription revenue, big publishers are doing something concrete:...
Magma!
Today we let the cat out of the bag on Magma. Here is a quick rundown of what the site is! — Magma is an entry point for online video. When you first land on the page you are presented with two se...
At Start-Ups, Boards Spar Over Cash Plans
Managers Face Dilemma Over Whether to Save or Spend Amid Recession, Slump in Financing — SAN FRANCISCO — At a recent board meeting, Jaspersoft Corp. Chief Executive Brian Gentile found himself stuck...
Nightline Teams Up With Twitter for New Web Show
Join the Conversation With Nightline Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. ET — “Nightline” is expanding its ongoing relationship with Twitter to develop “NightTline,” a new half-hour digital program hosted by t...
Samsung Spica and BigFoot Android 2.0/ Donut phone details leaked
Figures. I just finished my today's rant about those loud Android 10x growth predictions and Mobile Review had to come out with the hard info on upcoming new Samsung Android phones and Adroid 2.0/...
Overblown Wi-Fi signal worry: Don't toss that baby monitor
Quick! Get rid of the baby monitor. It's killing the Wi-Fi. — That's what geeks could conclude following reports about a UK-based study on Wi-Fi interference. Can you picture your average guy loo...