Intel Wins Nokia as Mobile-Chip Customer; Companies Will Develop Devices
Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, will sell processors to Nokia Oyj for mobile devices, marking the biggest breakthrough in Intel's expansion into the phone market. — The two will develop ...
Methodist University Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs Liver Transplant
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare today issued a brief press release confirming that Steve Jobs did receive a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. The release was...
Breaking news: MySpace to axe 300 international staff and close at least 4 offices
This is breaking now - we just got this official letter to the MySpace staff from one of our sources at MySpace in Europe. The official release follows, but here's the gist: MySpace will be cutting 3...
AT&T: iPhone Coverage Getting Better, Faster Soon
The iPhone 3GS has been a huge hit for AT&T, and although they aren't saying how many customers they've stolen from other carriers, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega said they had “hundreds of thousa...
NPD Finds Consumer Confusion about Netbooks Continues
Netbook, notebook — they sound the same. According to a new report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, many consumers believe the two have the same functionalities. NPD's Netbooks I...
iPhone In-App Purchases Already Leading To The Dreaded Two Words: Bait And Switch
Since it launched a year ago, Apple's App Store has had a series of successes (50,000 apps, a billion downloads, transforming the market), but also some failures. While plenty of people talk about th...
iCrack: The iPhone Is An Accident Magnet
If you've ever thought that your iPhone had the frictional coefficient of a Slip n' Slide, you're not alone. A new report from SquareTrade details the accident-prone nature of Apple's line of smartph...
Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
New business laptop is 25% thinner than T400, weighs under four pounds (image below) — Computerworld - Showing again that rugged business-oriented laptops can play the thin-and-light game, Lenovo Gr...
Adobe Flash Player 10 For Android Due In October
During a recent earnings call, Adobe CEO Shantanu Naraye revealed to investors that a beta version of Flash Player 10 for mobiles will be released in October of this year. — The new Flash player wil...
Sold! Hollywood Blog Queen Nikki Finke Goes to...Mail.com
The Nikki Finke auction is over, and the winner is... Mail.com. Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corporation, which owns the Mail.com email service and a small portfolio of Web sites, has acquired the blo...
Socialtext Goes Freemium With Socialtext Free 50
Socialtext offers a compelling package of Enterprise 2.0 services, but it has a problem. While it can talk all it wants about how great its products are, the real selling point is getting customers t...
Exclusive: OTOY Goes Mobile, Turns Your Cell Phone Into A Powerful Gaming Rig
Last week we posted a pair of videos showing off OTOY, the upcoming server-side rendering service that can stream complex 3D games to your computer through any web browser. It's a very impressive tec...
MySpace Cofounder Takes $7 Million Pay Cut
After years of product rot and declining user-engagement, News Corp (NWS) fired MySpace CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe this Spring and replaced him with former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta. — Despit...
EA Views Sims 3 Leak as ‘Demo Program’
The Sims 3 was illegally downloaded something like 200,000 times prior to its actual release, outpacing the most pirated title of 2008, EA's Spore. Normally, you'd think this sort of rampant piracy w...
Alice.com Is Your Housekeeper And Personal Shopper Rolled Into One
Ever run out of toilet paper or trashbags at an inopportune moment and think to yourself, I wish I had someone to remind me when I need to buy household basics? Tonight at 9 pm, Alice.com will show y...
Share Your Moments With thisMoment
GameSpot cofounder, former Yahoo executive, and old friend and colleague Vince Broady is launching a new site called thisMoment, and it's going into public beta tonight. It's an interesting site that...
Is this the HTC Firestone?
Some pictures of a new Windows Mobile handset from HTC has just surfaced. The device is said to be the HTC Firestone, and its main feature is said to be its 8 megapixel camera. The device appears to...
Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Now Integrated With Microsoft SharePoint
Zoho Suite, a web-based software suite comprised of document, project and invoicing management tools, has launched an add-on that allows Zoho Office to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint.
Ooma Gets $14 Million, Survival Looks Like A Real Possibility
VoIP startup Ooma has raised another $14 million in venture capital, we've heard from multiple sources, increasing the total amount of capital the company has raised to $56 million. This most recent ...
Un-Clear: Registered Traveler Company Shuts Down
The registered traveler company CLEAR, launched by entrepreneur Steve Brill, will shut down tonight, according to its Web site. — Parent company Verified Identity Pass Inc. said on its Web site it w...