Is this Dell's Android smartphone ditty?
Mr. BlurryCam, meet Dell's first cellphone. At least that's what the forum jockeys are claiming on Chinese site PDAFans. We have no way to authenticate the claim but whatever we've got here is sport...
Down Time Rescheduled
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partn...
Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?
Microsoft may have developed a contender that threatens Google's Web search dominance. — In a story headlined “Fear grips Google,” the New York Post reports that the launch of Microsoft's Bing searc...
Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme
AFTER an investigation that took more than a year, Microsoft has filed its first lawsuit over click fraud, where people manipulate clicks on a Web advertisement. — Microsoft filed the civil complain...
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts
Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. The service, which has more than 5 million registered users will retain its free version, ho...
Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses
In the future, Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader will display more book formats beyond its own. And you should also expect to see Kindle books on a lot more devices. — That was the clear implicatio...
Hunch.com's decision making engine launches. Someone add Twitter now
Hunch, the new startup from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, has launched and it's beguilingly fun. After filling out 42 questions ranging from “Have you sky dived” to “Do you like it when the cabin ...
AT&T signals an abrupt end for some prepaid iPhone plans (updated)
Update 4: I am working with an AT&T spokesperson to try to detangle the contradictory information discussed below. No results as yet, but will update when that becomes possible. — I just spent the ...
I.B.M. to Help Clients Fight Cost and Complexity
In 2000, the Linux operating system was a hot technology, but it had not spread much beyond scientists, researchers and computer programmers. Then I.B.M. declared that it would back Linux with invest...
Is QuickTime X The Missing Link For Flash On The iPhone?
Now this is interesting. Apparently, the new version of Apple's video playing software, QuickTime X, will support the playback of .flv files in Snow Leopard. Yes, Adobe Flash files. — The blog, Ca...
Leaked Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds compact has us hot, bothered (updated)
It's not scheduled to be announced until tomorrow, but it looks like Olympus' Micro Four Thirds tribute to the classic rangefinder has leaked out onto these here Internets looking every bit as handsom...
Google's digital book future hangs in the balance
Google, the company best equipped and most motivated to digitize the world's books, wants to offer the world an online Library of Alexandria. The decisions of the Justice Department, authors, book pu...
Virgin Media and UMG launching unlimited music service
UK ISP Virgin Media has teamed up with Universal Music Group for its long-awaited unlimited music service, which has been announced today but won't launch until later in the year. However, alongside ...
Use Their Work Free? Some Artists Say No to Google
When Google representatives recently invited dozens of prominent artists to contribute work to be featured on its new Web browser, the company enthusiastically sold the idea as an opportunity to have ...
Microsoft Stops Paying For Employees' iPhones
Microsoft's (MSFT) cost-cutting measures drove it to lay off thousands of employees. As expected, it also led to some perks being discontinued for its remaining employees. — For instance, Microsoft...
Android an Alternative to Windows in Netbooks, Says Gartner
Google's Android mobile phone software worked well on mini-laptops at the Computex Taipei 2009 electronics show and, backed by the strong Google brand, may be headed for prime time, two Gartner analys...
Politicians Fail to Grasp Peer-to-Peer
PARIS — It was the French equivalent of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens' description of the Internet as “a series of tubes,” which made him the subject of endless mockery on the Web. — In a video sh...
Intel to launch new Core i7 and Celeron series CPUs in 2H09
Intel plans to launch new 45nm Celeron E3000 series CPUs targeting the entry-level market in third-quarter 2009 to replace the current Celeron E1000 series The company will also release a new Core i7 ...
Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption
Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company's products or services and a place to learn more about the management team,...