PS3 Motion Controller May Be Best Game Motion Capture Yet
After Xbox 360's Project Natal, Sony is also adding their own motion controller to the PS3, aptly named The PlayStation Motion Controller. It's the best motion control demo that we have ever seen, bu...
Acer to sell Android netbook PCs in Q3
* First company to launch netbooks using Google's Android — * Move could threaten Microsoft's market dominance — * No prices yet, but analysts say Windows XP costs about $25 (Adds details, quotes)...
Jason Calacanis Tries Turning Mahalo Into a Wikipedia That Pays
Jason Calacanis' Mahalo is getting a two-part makeover. — There's a visual overhaul for the search engine, which involves cramming a lot more stuff on each results page. This is becoming standard ...
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets
Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means o...
China shuts down Twitter and Bing in lead up to Tiananmen anniversary
It's widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship - to put it mildly - on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which exists outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for ...
LinkedIn's startup story: Connecting the business world
Serial entrepreneur Reid Hoffman saw a new way of working - and built a company around that vision. — As told to Ellen Lee — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CNNMoney.com) — In Silicon Valley, it's all abou...
Nokia N97 mobile computer to begin selling worldwide in June
Espoo, Finland - The highly anticipated Nokia N97, Nokia's flagship mobile computer, will begin selling in June in more than 75 countries. Along with a tilting 3.5" touch display, QWERTY keyboard and...
NVIDIA unveils 12 Tegra devices, 25 days of music or 10 hours of 1080p video on single charge (updated)
You've read about it, maybe even dreamed about it in your fantasies of a Microsoft Pink smartphone drizzled with Zune media. Now we've got Tegra taking center stage at Computex with a dozen …
Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard
Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow...
Apple Just Bluffing, Won't Sue Palm Over Pre
Big bad Apple (AAPL) probably won't sue Palm (PALM) over stealing its features for the Pre, says Therese Poletti, backing off an earlier theory. — This will leave the Pre and Palm to bomb on their o...
How excited is Google about the ad blocker for Chrome?
With one quick download, Google's browser will soon enable users to do something that the company can't be happy about — block online ads. — Google Chrome, the company's recent entry into the Web br...
Bidding Adieu to the Dell Inspiron Mini 9
As some of you with sharp eyes noted over the weekend, today marks the official retirement of the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, our first entry into the netbook market. It was a successful product by any num...
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study
When asked about online privacy, most people say they want more information about how they are being tracked and more control over how their personal information is used. Those consumer expectations ...
AP: tech coming to stop “wholesale theft” on 'Net
It looks like the Associated Press is getting pretty close to deploying that ‘anti-misappropriation’ technology the news agency has been talking about. Ars got an AP editor to give us some details. ...
Microsoft unveils new controller
Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360, at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. — Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors ...
Search is too important to leave to one company - even Google
It may seem as unlikely as a publicly edited encyclopedia, but the internet needs publicly controlled search — Search is the beginning and the end of the internet. Before search, there was the idea...
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Dropping Memory Stick Micro
Now here's a hugely welcome turn up for the books... While meeting Sony Ericsson to discuss something I can't tell you about (sorry, NDA until Thursday) I managed to dig up possibly even more interes...
SANDISK BEGINS SHIPPING HIGH-SPEED, NEXT-GENERATION SOLID STATE DRIVES FOR ULTRA-HOT NETBOOK MARKET
SanDisk pSSD Drives Feature nCache -Large Non Volatile Write Cache Technology To Boost Random Write Performance Five Times Over Steady State Performance — Computex, Taipei, Taiwan …
The ‘hyperinterest’ approach to online news
Imagine a news Web site that's a portal to everything people used to read in newspapers plus a bunch of things that newspapers were never able to provide. A cool idea, I think, but first it requires ...
From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009
Nothing like a telling graphic to illustrate what most have been expecting, albeit probably not in this order of magnitude. Veteran media exec Alan Mutter discovered some horrid statistics about the ...
‘Netbook’ SDHC card: clever branding or rip-off?
Flash-memory manufacturer SanDisk announced Tuesday an SDHC card aimed at new Netbook owners disappointed with the skimpy internal storage the micro laptops may come with. On the surface—in the middl...
Analyst: Yahoo Shows Off New Homepage
As we've reported, CEO Carol Bartz is already shaking things up at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—from re-organizing teams to killing under-performing products. In a report released this morning, Barclay's analy...
Want Your Service Integrated With TweetDeck? It'll Cost You A Cool $50,000
One of Twitter's greatest assets has always been its developer community. But with the countless link, image, and video sharing services available (many of which are very similar to each other), most...
Website liable for Google-generated page summary
It's Google's snippet. But you're to blame — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — A Dutch website has been sued - and sued successfully - for the way Google summarized one of its ...
Acer Brings “All Day Computing” to the U.S. Market with the Aspire Timeline Thin and Light Notebook Family
With Prices Beginning at $598, Acer's Affordable Sleek and Elegant Notebooks Offer More Than Eight Hours of Battery Life(2) — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Acer America …
Search billions of documents with the Google Search Appliance 6.0
It's hard to conceptualize the number 1,000,000,000. One billion sheets of paper could circle the earth at the equator well over five times. Counting to one billion would take about 30 years of your...