Apple Tablet In 2010
Apple (AAPL) is reportedly working on a “media pad” tablet to fit between its iPod touch and MacBook devices. The idea is that it'd be better for surfing the Web, watching movies, and reading books t...
Faster is better on Google Suggest
As we prepared to write this post, we discovered a common childhood passion for fast things: high-speed trains, roller coasters, firetrucks, and more. That may be a key part of why we're so excited t...
View from the Top: Eric Schmidt of Google
Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor, interviewed Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, in London. They discussed the future of newspapers, developing online advertising and antitrus...
Intuit GoPayment lets you process credit cards on your phone
Want to process a credit card payment on your smartphone? There's an app for that. — Okay, to be more specific, there are actually several iPhone apps for that, most notably Credit Card Terminal fr...
Acer takes on HP in home servers
Acer plans to unveil its first home server for the U.S. market on Thursday, called the Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server. — The server is intended for home use as well as small businesses that have ...
Yahoo Thinking About Buying Into That Whole Social Networking Thing
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a bigger player in social networking and revamp its family of products, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said Wed...
Websites ‘keeping deleted photos’
User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said. — They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting...
Google's Beta Love May Die In Fight For Enterprise Customers
Being in Beta is cool. So cool that five years after its April 2004 launch Gmail is still held in Beta by Google. That's despite the fact that it has 146 million users worldwide (Comscore, April 200...
Apple Job Listing Reveals More Powerful ARM Processors and Video Processing for iPhone
A recent Apple job listing that we just discovered reveals that Apple is looking for a low level iPhone programmer with detailed knowledge of the ARM processor including its NEON vector unit.
Seventeen things that people are actually saying when they retweet others
Retweeting (that is, repeating someone else's tweet, with attribution) has emerged from daily twittering habits and has become part of Twitter's cultural vocabulary. — The idea of rebroadcasting som...
Kumo: Already a step behind Google, Yahoo?
Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game. — While it has been readying Kumo for its first public airing—probably at next week's D: All Things Digital event—Yaho...
Hulu to stream Dave Matthews Band show
Hulu has announced that it'll be live-streaming a concert for the first time: a June 1 show by the Dave Matthews Band at New York's Beacon Theater. The online video hub will be the only place streami...
Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit ‘pause button’
LAS VEGAS — Nortel enterprise customers have pressed “a pause button” in purchasing gear from the company, the chief of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group acknowledged this week. — Customers are wa...
Microsoft Kicking Apple's Butt In The Living Room (MSFT, AAPL)
There are many things about Apple (AAPL) that Microsoft is jealous about. But Apple's home entertainment business is not one of them. — Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360 and its Windows Media Center soft...
Muck Rack, home of 140-character dispatches from the field, gets useful
Muck Rack, which aggregates tweets by professional journalists, instantly became my least favorite web startup when it launched in April with an endless stream of chatter from the Fourth Estate.
Intel's Tukwila slips yet again
Intel has slipped out a revised schedule for its next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila. Again. This time it's into 2010. — Intel released a statement Thursday on the schedule chang...
Satellite Net Service Sued for Caps, Paltry Bandwidth
Satellite internet provider Hughesnet treats its rural customers like rubes, advertising its service as being equal to DSL, while actually delivering paltry bandwidth and over-throttling subscribers, ...
VMware foresees mobile virtualization in 2010
Virtualization company VMware says that its new platform to let organizations virtualize smartphones and mobile devices will show up in handsets next year. — The mobile phone is now as important to ...
OpenTable IPO Prices At $20, Better Than Expected
OpenTable Inc.'s initial public offering has priced at $20, an underwriter said. That's well above original expectations, suggesting strong investor demand. — It's another positive sign for venture...
Twitter passes Bebo and Linkedin; MySpace heads south
Though you may think that Twitter gets, oh, far too much attention, the reality is that this is something that is growing fast. Damn fast. So fast that it has recently left not only the New York Tim...
The Next iPhone
In the summer of 1994, I landed a college internship as a programmer at a DOS/Windows development shop. There were maybe 20 full-time programmers on the team, and, when I joined, they were nearing th...
Put the pedal to the metal with a faster Google Chrome
We introduced Google Chrome back in September, and it's received a great response so far. Since launching, we've been working hard on adding the top requested features and making Google Chrome even f...
New Logo Look
You may have noticed new logos at the top of some of Google's web pages, including Google Labs, Google Moderator, and Google Code. These are the result of a new logo design we are rolling out. We ho...
Easily Create Your Own Feed Bundles Of Joy With Google Reader
Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry to using a feed reader for most people is building up a collection of good feeds. Sure, you can import someone else's OPML file, but most people have no idea what...
Best Buy stores only getting 4 Palm Pres for launch day?
“Whoa, whoa, easy there killer.” That's probably one of the phrases coming out of your mouth at the moment. One of our most-trusty of ninjas just dropped this bomb in our mailbox — it's going to be ...
What We Know About The Apple Tablet So Far
More evidence of the Apple Tablet surfaced today. We first wrote about the device at the end of last year when OEMs in China started hearing about the device. Details are still thin, although probab...
BlackBerry Storm 2: the official unofficial hands-on
We've been bumping into the new BlackBerry Storm 2 for quite a while now on the so-called “information superhighway,” but we've finally had a chance to escalate those encounters and spend a few sweet ...
Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000?
Microsoft will stop issuing security updates and patches for Microsoft Office 2000 as of June. It's Microsoft's policy to support its business software products for up to 10 years after their release...
Whither Eucalyptus?
If you're wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it's currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it's possible, after ex...
Oprah's Skypefest draws backlash
The Queen of All Media has embraced Skype and Twitter, but technical glitches and other snags highlight why new media isn't yet ready for prime time. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Oprah Winfrey's tast...
Apple under fire in Taiwan
Labor groups target a supplier of the U.S. computer giant. — TAIPEI — Labor rights groups are stepping up their campaign against a Taiwanese supplier for Apple Computer. — They have accused the co...