Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million
Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or app...
Steve Jobs Returning to Apple After Nearly ‘Starving to Death,’ Says WSJ
Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple on schedule at the end of June, “people familiar with Apple” tell the Wall Street Journal. He might also end up at the company's developer's conference next week,...
Apple looks towards digital media sharing during iPhone calls
Apple has spent some time outlining technology that would add a new level of interaction between iPhone users, such as the ability to share and control playback of digital media files like music track...
Ray Ozzie's cloud hangs over the Valley
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Ray Ozzie tends to see things much like a Seattle meteorologist—always cloudy. — Making a trip to sunny Silicon Valley, Ozzie addressed Silicon Valley's Churchill Club, outlining t...
Mossberg Also Believes a Faster iPhone is Imminent
Engadget points to comments by technology reporter Walt Mossberg as evidence that the new iPhone is indeed imminent. Mossberg posted a new review for the Palm Pre in which he acknowledges that Apple ...
FTC Sues, Shuts Down N. Calif. Web Hosting Firm
In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive g...
Number of domain names pass 183 million, up 12% from last year
Verisign publishes a quarterly report about the domain name industry called The Domain Name Industry Brief. The latest report, summing up Q1 2009, was just released. — Since there is always a lot o...
Adobe Strives to Crack the Smart-Phone Market
Shifting Strategies, Opposition From Apple Have Slowed Effort to Push Flash Video Software Beyond Computers — Adobe Systems Inc., which makes the Flash software widely used on computers to play Inte...
Lab test: $999 MacBook outpaces pricier models
Updated $999 MacBook outpaces pricier models — The latest entry-level MacBook rolled out by Apple a week ago offers more than just an improvement on the white laptop it replaces in Apple's notebook ...
Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go (anywhere!)
Street View is a great way to see panoramas of streets from all over the world. We've launched some great improvements to this tool, including most recently overlaying user photos and the ability to ...
Facebook Removes Regional Network Privacy and Visibility Settings
Yesterday afternoon Facebook posted about how the site is growing beyond regional networks and how networks will no longer be part of the privacy settings. The rationale is that the company has grown...
HTC to unveil Android-powered HTC Hero on June 24, says paper
HTC (High Tech Computer) is scheduled to unveil its new Android-powered smartphone, the HTC Hero, in London on June 24, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report. — The HTC He...
Six months later, no ISPs joining RIAA piracy fight
Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way. Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a...
Google recruiter: Company kept ‘do not touch’ in hiring list
A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search...
Ron Conway To Focus On “Real Time Data” Startups: 40-50 New Investments In Next 18 Months
Heavy hitting angel investor Ron Conway, who's been called the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” by Gary Rivlin, is now focusing most of his investment attention on “real-time data,” …
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 highlights
VS2010 Beta 1 promises a worthy upgrade to the premier IDE for .Net development, but some key pieces are still missing — The first thing you'll notice about Visual Studio 2010 is the revamped user i...
BlackBerry Pearl Flip Spied in Verizon Stores
For the Verizon (NYSE: VZ) customers out there that may be waiting to get their hands on the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Pearl Flip... Latest word is that dummy devices and spec sheets/marketing materials...
Hulu Still Going Strong, But Growth Is Dropping Off Sharply
There's no question that Hulu has firmly established itself as one of the dominant video sites on the web. But its incredible growth seems to be dropping off, and quickly. Between January and Februa...
Nintendo unmoved by rivals' plans
“Nintendo's philosophy is to try to create new forms of entertainment” — Nintendo's veteran games developer Shigeru Miyamoto has told the BBC that the firm is “not worried at all” by Microsoft and S...
Nintendo Selling Black Wii in Japan This Summer
Back when the Nintendo Wii launched in 2006, the company showed possible console colors: White, red, silver, lime green and black. White was the launch color, and that's all customers have had. Unti...
RedGage: A blogger's road to riches on the Internet?
A new site called RedGage is opening up today to bloggers, photographers, and videomakers, saying it can help them make money from the content they create. The Hollywood, Fla.-based startups pulls in...