Palm Pre First Hands On!
Yes — you're looking at the first site in the world to have a Palm Pre (or at least be able to post it up). There's so much to say but that's going to have to wait for our full review. In the meanti...
Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)
Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss.
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google's VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard.
AOL Spinoff Approved Last Night by Time Warner Board: Here Are the Inside Details (Not in the Press Release)
While there were reports that the Time Warner board was meeting today to approve the spinoff of its AOL online unit, it actually gave the move an “enthusiastic endorsement” last night, according to so...
Purported next-gen iPhone bezel shows speaker, color changes
Images from Hong Kong depict several significant changes from the bezels of prior iPhones to the next-generation model, if their source is to be believed. Listings pages from Hong Kong-based part ven...
More Households Cut the Cord on Cable
Amid tighter budgets, more people are trying to save money by cutting their cable cords. In response, cable companies are beginning to experiment with new Internet services. — In what's shaping up ...
D7 Interview: Arianna Huffington and Katharine Weymouth
Old media, meet new media, meet old media's new media. Arianna Huffington's self-named Web site is one the most prominent (and fast-growing) examples of the new media aggreation model — produce a sma...
Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service
When I was looking for funding for GigaOM nearly three years ago, I had a very simple, four-slide PowerPoint presentation that I showed to potential investors. Two slides focused on the past, but the...
Mole: PSP-Go details confirmed, smaller PS3 is on the way
Our trusty inside source spills the beans about Sony's long-term strategy. The PSP-Go! is real, and should be announced at E3. The more surprising news? A slimmed-down PS3 is in fact coming, but no...
Economy isn't slowing Apple's building plans
Apple (AAPL) isn't letting the recession slow its retail ambitions. — The company said Wednesday that it plans to remodel 100 of its stores this year, to make more room for customer training and dis...
Shhhh.
Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future.
New version of HDMI cables brings Internet into consumer electronics
An industry alliance is announcing today a new version of the popular HDMI cables that connect high-definition video appliances to TVs and other appliances. It's just a simple cable upgrade, but it w...
Exclusive: Steve Ballmer demos the Zune HD for Engadget!
That's right kids — Ballmer himself whipped out the newly minted Zune HD for us during D7 and showed of a few of its finer features... including its ability to play a Pixar movie on its gorgeous OLED ...
D7 Buzz: Bartz And Ballmer Meeting This Morning
When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested yesterday at the D7 conference that she would consider doing a deal with Microsoft for “boatloads of money,” she might have been doing more than just answering a h...
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
Wikioperating Thetan Level Zero — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has ban...
Zune HD Hands On: Photos and Video Tour
Having just played with a prototype for a few minutes, I'm really impressed with the Zune HD. I've got a video, too, showing off how well the animations work. — The device is tighter and more physi...
So That's Why Hulu Hates Boxee
Hulu, the popular television content aggregator backed by major Hollywood companies, today launched a desktop application that can only be used on PCs. Of course, we wouldn't expect the company to do...
Semantic technology gains publishing foothold
OpenCalais, a Thomson Reuters project to improve electronic publishing by adding computer-readable labels to content, has attracted the attention of several media publishing organizations, including C...
Dell Joins the Budget Ultrathin Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z
Ok, this trend is really growing some legs. Dell has just announced and made available their Studio 14z, a $649 optical-driveless budget ultralight with a 16:9 HD screen, Nvidia 9400m graphics and a ...
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all
It's a well-known story by now: Europe, the US, and plenty of other countries have made it generally illegal to circumvent DRM, even when users want to do something legal with the content. Sure, it s...
Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Knows Stuff About Computers
Pundits have framed President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as a judicial equivalent to her predecessor. Not quite: Justice Souter is a proud luddite who has never owned a computer....
U.S. Manga Obscenity Conviction Roils Comics World
In an obscenity first, a U.S. comic book collector has pleaded guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex abuse and bestiality. — Christopher Handle...
Spotify releases video of Android app in development
Spotify, the streaming music service which is gradually gathering a large fan-base in Europe, has been plotting a mobile version. It recently hired a head of mobile and the speculation was that it wo...
The Web's most dangerous keywords to search for
Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It's “screensavers” with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent, according to McAfee's recently released report “The ...
Best Buy Backs a Digital Media Venture Fund
Best Buy, the consumer electronics retailer, wants to finance the next hot digital media start-up. — Best Buy is supplying the capital for a new digital media investment fund that will be managed by...