Opera Unite reinvents the Web
Cloud computing and Web-based applications will never be the same — Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite t...
Thoughts on Opera Unite
I met today's news about Opera's new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. — On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It app...
RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Tour Smartphone
New 3G World Phone Keeps You Connected on High-Speed CDMA Networks in North America and UMTS/HSPA Networks Abroad — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced ...
Virtual Goods + Mobile Payments = Small Market Worth Fighting For?
The promise of “virtual goods"-pretend things you buy with real money in cyberspace-has lured entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for years. Same goes for mobile payments-using your iPhone instead ...
iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players
Products Affected — Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store.
PageRank sculpting
People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a ...
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off
There's a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client, 0.26, launching tonight, following the earlier release today of a preview of Seesmic Desktop 0.3. Both updated Twitter clients look like signifi...
Dasient: Ex-Googler's Launch Website Security as a Service
Ever come across a Google search result that has the words ‘this site can harm your computer’ below a link? What about the Firefox red screen of death? If you're a Web surfer, chances are you've lik...
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet
Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its World Wide Developers Conference last week. — Of course, the Apple tablet has becom...
Pirate Bay launches encrypted private network
Delayed service fires broadside at Hollywood — Free whitepaper - Virtualization: optimized power and cooling to maximize benefits — The Pirate Bay has opened beta testing on its encrypted virtual ...
The now official Olympus E-P1 digital pen does retro right
Well, it's here: The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds digital camera. The E-P1, or digital pen, packs in almost all the E-620's magic into an absolute tiny and gorgeous body. A body that throws-back t...
Android to replace Garmin-Asus' current Linux platform
The Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 (left) and M20 (right). — At CommunicAsia today, Garmin-Asus showed off its nuvifone G60 and M20 devices. The former was first developed independently by Garmin and lat...
Chat reaches 1 billion messages sent per day
Facebook Chat usage has increased steadily since its launch last year, and this week we reached 1 billion messages sent per day. As a team we've been looking forward to this milestone; we track lots ...
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Expected Soon
and Jessica E. Vascellaro — T-Mobile USA is expected to announce details around a new phone powered by Google's Android operating system next week, say people familiar with the matter. — T-Mobile ...
Sony lawyer: $150K damages per song “certainly” appropriate
How much cash do the record labels deserve for Jammie Thomas-Rasset's alleged copyright infringement? Defense lawyer Kiwi Camara pressed Sony Entertainment's Gary Leak on that point today, trying to ...
Microsoft gives up YouTube chase
SAN FRANCISCO—In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the video site it once hoped might take on YouTube in the user-generated content arena. — In an interview on ...
Why Oracle Wants Solaris
With its future apparently secure, the benefits of Sun's operating system become compelling. — Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems, bu...
Iran using U.S. chip technology in rocket research
Chipmaker AMD says it will notify U.S. government of Iran's claims of Opteron use — Computerworld - An Iranian research institute claims it used Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors t...
Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes
Text Messaging Has Gone Up. Photo: NEWS JUNKIE — Those cell phone companies will have a lot of explaining to do Tuesday when they testify at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on rising text messaging...
E Ink Investors May Try to Block Sale to Taiwanese Firm, Keep Company Independent
Wade Roush wrote: — A group of E Ink investors with concerns about Prime View International's move earlier this month to purchase the Cambridge, MA-based e-paper display company will likely try to p...
Weird Al takes on Craigslist with The Doors
Geek humor abounds. — Parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic poked fun at Segway riders three years ago with his rap song “White and Nerdy.” — His latest single “Craigslist” skewers the people who can ...
Apple could see margins at risk with new price cuts
Lower prices for Mac laptops and the 3G iPhone could hit profitability — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - It's no secret that products for Apple Inc. have historically come with higher price tags than ...
How The Recording Industry Changes Its Own Story
We've already discussed how silly the Performance Rights Act is — and how it's basically an attempt by the record labels to get their own bailout courtesy of radio stations. There are all sorts of pr...
How Are You? No, How Are You Really?
I recently met an acquaintance from college, Chris Costello, whom I hadn't seen in 17 years. We weren't that close in college, but we kept up sporadically through e-mail. In more recent years, we up...