Google translates Persian
Today, we added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate. This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it's a news story, a website, a blog, ...
Live blog: iPhone 3G S launch day
Apple's iPhone 3G S goes on sale Friday at 7 a.m. in all time zones, and we have a team of people in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area covering the launch. — At Apple and AT&T stores in Manhat...
With Iran crisis, Twitter's youth is over
For Twitter, the past year has been a series of coming-out parties as it jumped further and further into the public eye. But it wasn't until this month's post-election upheaval in Iran that it became...
Microsoft: There Will Be “No New Console”
Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that the company would be releasing a new Xbox 360 in 2010, one featuring a built-in camera. That seemingly confirmed a new hardware configuration with th...
How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software?
Microsoft has officially unveiled its long-awaited consumer antivirus offering. Formerly code-named “Morro,” it's now been christened Microsoft Security Essentials, and it will enter public beta test...
Steve Ballmer Is Making A Bad $10 Billion Bet
Steve Ballmer says he is willing to invest 5%-10% of Microsoft's operating income over the next five years on search. — That's a boatload of money. — Specifically, assuming Microsoft's operating i...
Why Doesn't Anyone Want a Blu-ray Player?
Blu-ray may have won the war against HD-DVD, but American consumers aren't exactly warming to the high-definition disc format. — According to a new Harris Poll, more U.S. homes have a Blu-ray or HD-...
iPhone 3G S: First peek under the hood
What makes the iPhone 3G S tick, and why is it the “fastest iPhone ever,” as Apple claims. Rapid Repair tears down the iPhone in Paris, providing some clues. — First, a quick glance at Apple's clai...
Sony should beware — Activision chief is not simply playing games
Activision chief is not simply playing games — Bobby Kotick and a partner bought the once-struggling Activision for $440,000 in 1991, at a time when it was losing $30 million on $10 million in revenu...
Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn't It About Time?
Tonight, the bored and lonely segment of Twitter users banded together to push three sexy, raunchy, and totally inappropriate terms into the trending topics leaderboard. — Within minutes (as far as ...
No public beta for Battlefield 1943
EA DICE producer Gordon Van Dyke has said a trial version of Battlefield 1943 will be offered to compensate for the lack of a public beta - an inevitability on Xbox Live Arcade, but not always so on P...
Facebook Tell-All Released Into Wild
Facebook's creation myth has left the building, or so we hear: Fortune is said to be readying an excerpt of Ben Mezrich's tell-all book and movie about the social network. And another publication is,...
Newser Gets $2.5 Million in First-Round Funding
Newser, the news aggregation site founded by Patrick Spain and professional media provocateur Michael Wolff, has raised $2.5 million in its first official round of funding, we have learned and confirm...
How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker
Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. “Still in 10k sp...
How to find out “What's here”
On Google Maps, we try to label important places directly on the map tiles. But sometimes, it seems more helpful to just click on a point and ask “What's here?”. Now you can do exactly that with an ...
iPhone 3GS Performance: 54% Faster than the 3G, 11% Faster than the Pre
You may have noticed today's review of the Palm Pre. While I strongly suggest reading it if you're at all interested, I do have some new data for your consumption. After the announcement of the iPho...
An update on the early access program and the SDK.
With the Pre now in customers' hands and reports of webOS hacks in the news, we know that you are more anxious than ever to get access to the SDK and start developing for webOS. — We've been working...
Google to Test New Product Ads on Prize Real-Estate
For years, when people have searched Google.com, they've seen standard text ads with no frills attached. While Google sells other sorts of ads on other Web sites, the overall advertising experience o...
AP Tells Reporters To Muzzle Facebook Friends
Someone sent us the Associated Press' guidelines for staff social networking and, in keeping with company tradition, they're on the paranoid side. You should probably read them, since basically every...
Twitter Plans to Offer Shopping Advice and Easy Purchasing
Someday, when you ask your Twitter followers to recommend the most comfortable running shoe or the best digital camera, you might be able to go one step further and buy the product on the Twitter site...
WebOS 1.0.3 update available now for Palm Pre
Hey Palm Pre owners, if you haven't heard by now, there's a little present waiting for you on your smartphone. Palm has pushed out an over-the-air update for your downloading pleasure that brings a n...
Twitter Declares Checkmate on Twitter Gamers
Just recently Twitter began the much-needed stance to suspend users practicing the controversial “Twitter Game” (as I call it). On the Twitter developers mailing list, Twitter developer Doug Williams...