Google: Expect 18 Android Phones by Year's End
Summer Of '09 Phone War update: By year's end, there will be at least 18 phones on the market worldwide based on the Android operating system, Google disclosed for the first time today. — Andy Rubin...
Apple quietly updates $999 MacBook, again — goes back to school with free iPod touch
goes back to school with free iPod touch — Shh, don't tell the press but Apple just bumped the specs on its entry-level white MacBook again. The bump measures in at just 0.13GHz on the processor, 13...
D7 Tech DEMO: Plastic Logic
Amazon (AMZN) isn't the only company that wants you to read books and newspapers on a handheld device. The Kindle has a bevy of competitors, some of which already exist-like Sony's (SNE) Reader-and t...
Sprint Palm Pre Activation
Since there are quite a few in the wild already, and we're just over a week away from launch, I figured it'd be as good a time as any to give a preview of what activation/first use will look like on t...
Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to “figure it out”
Google co-founder Sergey Brin was cornered with a hot-topic question at the tail end of a press conference at the Google I/O Developer's Conference. A “mainstream media” reporter from Australia wante...
Apple: Will It Cut 8GB iPhone Price To $99?
Is Apple (AAPL) going to attack the low end of the smartphone market with a big price cut in the 8 GB version of the iPhone? — RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky thinks they might. In a research not...
Rich mobile browser Skyfire launches version 1.0
Skyfire, a mobile browser that wants to bring the full desktop web experience to mobile phones, is taking its product out of beta testing today and launching version 1.0. Sometimes, that's a signal t...
Android, iPhone Dominate Mobile Browsing in April 2009
Google's Android and Apple's iPhone together accounted for almost three-quarters of web browsing on mobile devices in April, yet not even 10 percent of device sales, according to the most recent Mobil...
Microsoft to Netbooks: Stay Tiny Or Pay the Price
Microsoft appears to have decided that any netbook with more than 10.2-inch screen isn't really a netbook at all, and should pay more for a copy of Windows 7. This is Redmond's version of the questio...
Acrobat.com challenges PowerPoint with collaborative presentations
Acrobat.com, Adobe's website of free office software, is unveiling a new tool today that marks the early steps towards competing with PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation-making software in Microso...
Cuban: Internet video progress ‘disappointing’
CARLSBAD, Calif.—Mark Cuban says that despite the growth of YouTube, the Internet video market over the last decade has actually been a disappointment. — The problem, he said, is that when Google bo...
HP unveils Mini 1101, Mini 110 XP / Mi editions with optional HD video accelerator
HP's got more additions to its Mini netbook lineup coming your way with the 1101 and 110 XP / Mi. All three models sport a 10.1-inch widescreen LED, autosync software for easier connectivity to your ...
Time Warner To Decide On AOL Spinoff At Thursday Board Meeting (It's A Done Deal, Supposedly)
Last month Time Warner announced that it would likely spin off its AOL assets into a new company, followed by an IPO (10Q SEC filing is here). Little detail was given about the transaction …
Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7
At Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference about a year ago today, Julie Larson-Green first introduced Walt Mossberg to Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities, which we call Windows...
SanDisk Signs New Cross-License Deal With Samsung
SanDisk (SNDK) shares are poised to rally this morning after the company announced a new patent cross-licensing deal with Samsung. The company also signed an agreement for Samsung to to continue to s...
The Future is ChicagoNow
It's been eminently fashionable to bash Sam Zell for his gutting of Tribune Co., and with good reason—a copy of the Baltimore Sun I saw recently looked about as substantial as a cocktail napkin, and t...
‘Cashmere’: Another (possible) destination on Microsoft's embedded roadmap
Microsoft is considering releasing this year a new version of the core embedded operating system that powers Windows Mobile phones and other devices. That new Windows Embedded Compact release, codena...
BSkyB link with Microsoft on X-Box
Rapid TV News understands that the long-awaited link up between BSkyB and Microsoft's X-Box is at last going to happen. Full details will be announced tomorrow (Friday, May 29). The unveiling “Exper...
The Woz Says Jobs Sounds ‘Healthy, Energetic’
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Steve Jobs sounds “healthy, energetic” a month before the CEO is expected to return to the company. — Getty Images — Steve Wozniak — On the sidelines of the A...