What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be Bing Day.
Everyone knew today was the day that Microsoft was going to launch their new search engine. Everyone's been talking about it for months, and the press and marketing efforts were carefully tailored to...
Let's talk about Windows 7 Starter
There has been a lot of talk recently about Windows 7 Starter, so I thought I'd dive a little deeper into what it means to have this edition of Windows 7 running on a small notebook PC (a.k.a. a netbo...
Dell Exits Gaming, Alienware Invades with New M17x Notebook
The PC game machine maker lifts the lid on a sleek new design and talks about the next level in the Alienware-Dell relationship. — Recommends — Ever since Dell bought a stake in Alienware, people ...
Palm Pre Review: Part 1
We know, we know. You wanted the review sooner. Well, you know what? It's here now and we've busted through this handset like a Japanese tourist with an SLR in Times Square. So how does the Pre st...
Bye-bye Kindle, E-reader Screens Coming for Netbooks
Netbook makers will soon play a larger role in the e-reader market if start-up Pixel Qi has anything to say about it. — The company, founded by former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) CTO Mary Lou Jepsen...
It's Heeerrre: ‘Pay With Facebook’ Is In The Wild
Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook updating its terms to get ready for the roll-out of its payment system. Well guess what, it's already here. — The application GroupCard is currently testing t...
Sky puts content on Xbox console
British broadcaster Sky has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see live football, TV and film content brought to the Xbox 360. — The deal marks the Xbox's first move into live linear broadcast T...
Sprint's Palm Pre ‘War Room’
For the phone's launch, the carrier plans to create “situation rooms” to troubleshoot problems. — Sprint is approaching its June 6 launch of the Palm Pre with military strategy. — The introduction...
Syncing music and video to the Palm Pre
Palm today announced that the Pre will sync seamlessly with iTunes: … Reading about this on blogs I've seen two clueless arguments being repeated: … That must be why in Palm's demo iTunes says “Syncin...
Facebook forced to lift ban on breast cancer victim's ‘sexual and abusive’ mastectomy scar photos
After having a mastectomy, Sharon Adams decided to raise awareness of breast cancer by posting photographs of her scar on Facebook. — They were accompanied by a description of the mother …
So Much For Twitter's Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News
Twitter's near real-time search capabilities and the ability for them and third parties to mine the collective data from user messages for indicators of what's buzzing online is the intrinsic core val...
Foursquare To Serve Up APIs, More Mobile Apps, Free Beer
It's been over 2 months since Foursquare launched at SXSW and something strange is happening: My friends are still using it — a lot. Sure, for the service to have real success, it will have to spread...
'Page's Law' Is Google Founder's Next-Best Shot at Immortality
Speaking at Google's developer's conference in San Francisco today, Sergey Brin launched some fresh nomenclature into the jargony culture of computer programmers: “Page's Law.” He was trying to make ...
Google's Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration
Andrew McLaughlin, Google's head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin's plans. — Mr. McLaughlin ...
Securing Our Digital Future
Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, discusses securing our nation's digital future: — The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastru...
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook's platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster. The #spymaster tag is trending on Twi...
T-Mobile G2 (Google Ion) Review: Most Improved Award
Not only does the T-Mobile G2/HTC Magic/Google Ion phone improve on original T-Mobile G1 in just about every way, it manages to do it while cutting down significantly on the size. The only thing it d...
Server Fault now in public beta
Server Fault is now in public beta! — When Jeff Atwood and I launched Stack Overflow last fall, we really wanted it to be a site for and by programmers. But the engine behind the site, the Q&A engi...
New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif.
The idea of creating a Mac clone complete with Mac OS X is not a new concept. However, one company is taking its entry into the clone market a step further by opening a retail store in the Los Angele...
Why Isn't the Republican Party More Interested in Facebook?
We don't espouse political philosophy here on Inside Facebook, though we are in favor of encouraging constructive political debate. That's why we were surprised to hear at last night's Startup2Startu...
Electronic Arts Makes Big Play for Online Services
Videogame Publisher to Unveil Plans for Web Version of Its Popular Tiger Woods Golf Game; Some Titles Will be Free — Free or low-priced online services have squeezed profits from many businesses. B...
Statement Correcting Factual Errors in New York Post Story on FBI Computers, Dated May 29, 2009
A published report in The New York Post on May 29, 2009, regarding the FBI's external, unclassified computer network contains factual errors and inaccuracies.
Experts: Gumblar attack is alive, worse than Conficker
The Web site compromise attack known as Gumblar has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering wi...
Snapdragon Netbooks Called Smartbooks, Coming This Fall
As I was out running some errands earlier today, Stacey over at the main GigaOm site did a little catching up with Qualcomm. Last time I met with them, they showed me some very basic netbook prototyp...
Hands-on impressions of Nokia's N97 [video]
I've been pretty excited ever since Nokia announced it's soon-to-be-released Nokia N97 all the way back in December. However, it wasn't till earlier this week that I was actually able to get my hands...
Windows 7 HD and SSD Performance Analyzed
Article Index: — Windows 7 is undoubtedly the most exciting new operating system to come out of Microsoft within the past decade—and with good reason. The user interface is superb, gone are many of...