Federal Antitrust Probe Targets Tech Giants, Sources Say
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether some of the nation's largest technology companies violated antitrust laws by negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's em...
Palm's New Pre Takes On iPhone
In the new era of hand-held computers — super-smart touch-screen phones that run sleek, compelling software — Apple's iPhone has been king. A new, improved iPhone is expected to be announced on June ...
Microsoft to use a new term for netbook
Microsoft plans to redefine mini-notebooks that Intel has categorized as netbooks with a new term - low cost small notebook PC, according to Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of the Application Pla...
WWDC 2009 Banners: ‘One Year Later, Light-Years Ahead’
Adam Jackson has posted the first photos (flickr) from WWDC 2009. Apple has started putting up banners 6 days prior to the event. The theme of this year's WWDC appears centered around the App Store....
Square your search results with Google Squared
Some information is easy to find. If you want to learn the rules of golf, you can search Google for [golf rules] and we'll return a list of relevant web sites right at the top. But not all your info...
Adobe service puts browsers side by side
Adobe on Tuesday said it is offering a free preview of its BrowserLab service, which allows Web developers to quickly see what their site looks like on a number of browsers. — The technology, previo...
CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype
We've been working hard behind the scenes on the CrunchPad since our last update in April, and have just about nailed down the final design for the device. We're showing the conceptual drawings here ...
Apple, Google Consider App-Sharing Tools
Smartphone software makers weigh features that will make it easier to share downloadable apps, upending the way we acquire and use wireless games and tools — These days, downloading software applica...
Speedy Opera 10 beta reconfigures as Web suite
Opera 10 has entered beta with the unstated goal of becoming more than a mere browser. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the Norwegian program hopes to become a speedy utility—Turbo-charged, in ...
Microsoft won't offer Windows for smartbooks
The OS maker doesn't plan to offer Windows versions for the machines leaving the market to Linux and Android — Microsoft doesn't plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called “smartbooks,” leavin...
Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful
Google just opened up to a limited audience its very interesting communications experiment called Wave (news stories). Our hands-on evaluation: There's a lot to like. It really is a more contemporar...
Palm: Likely to Stumble with Pre
Adoption of Palm's new Pre smartphone will be hampered by its lousy applications, high price, and marketing missteps — On June 6, Palm (PALM) will release the Pre, a smartphone many hope will fuel a...
Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Norway's Opera Software overtook Apple's iPhone browser in May as the most popular mobile browser in the world, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday. — Of all Internet...
Microsoft games executive describes origins of Project Natal game controls
Microsoft threw one of the biggest curve balls at the E3 video game conference on Monday as it announced a new way to control games through your speech, gestures, and your full body.
The Web will be the Death of Google
There is a famous story about a meeting between Yahoo and Microsoft which took place when Yahoo was still a small start-up. Yahoo was growing at neck-breaking speed and David Filo and Jerry Yang were...
Ads You Can Digg...or Bury
Today, we're announcing our plans to roll out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the ...
Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting
Imagine that you fired up your computer and found that a bunch of your programs no longer worked, because behind the scenes, the operating system had been upgraded without any backwards compatibility.
Apple's Fifth Ave. Store Is A Goldmine
Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Ave. flagship retail store in New York City is a 24-hour zoo, filled to the brim with tourists, shoppers, potheads, and people just looking to cool off. And once a year, it's hom...
The Emerging World of Real-Time Cellphone Data
At ReadWriteWeb we've been following with interest the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab, which is producing some excellent analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers. MIT r...
Sony Ericsson X2 spotted?
A tipster tells us that the device you're looking at here is Sony Ericsson's codename “Vulcan” — better known as the X2 — which would presumably replace the X1 at some point in the next few days, week...
Bing! Here Come the TV Ads
Steve Ballmer says he “gulped” when he approved the marketing budget for Microsoft's new Bing search engine — it's reportedly in the $100 million range. Here's where some of that money is going — Mic...
40,000 sites hit by PC-pwning hack attack
‘Beladen’ bedevils web surfers — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — More than 40,000 websites worldwide have fallen under the spell of a sneaky piece of attack code that silently...
beeTV Raises $8 Million For Stunning Personal TV Recommendation System
The TV guide doesn't know who you are, what your favorite movie genre is, what you've watched in the past, what your mood is, and so on. Because of that, it is incapable of providing you with any rec...
Triangular buttons key to touchscreen typing success - inventor
A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses. — David Baker's Crocodile Keyboard is ...