Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe
Top mobile telephone suppliers have agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone chargers, the European Commission said on Monday, hailing the pact as good news for consumers and the environment. ...
Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban. — But that was pretty straightforward compare...
PRICED TO SELL
At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News, told Congress about negotiations he'd just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license h...
Adobe shuts down for a week
Adobe Systems has shut down its North American operations for the week, as part of a cost-cutting effort that the company said it will repeat at least once more this year. — The San Jose software co...
Extending Google services in Africa
At Google we seek to serve a broad base of people — not only those who can afford to access the Internet from the convenience of their workplace or with a computer at home. It's important to reach us...
Vodafone eyes T-Mobile UK bid
By Andrew Parker and Neil Hume in London and Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt — Vodafone is considering an offer to buy T-Mobile UK in an audacious move that would have huge repercussions for the Britis...
Dell Developing Pocket-Sized Device
Engineers at Dell Inc. have been developing a pocket-sized device for tapping into the Internet, people familiar with the company's plans said. — The gadget uses Google Inc.'s Android software, thes...
So You're an Obsessive-Compulsive Stats-Aholic? There's an App for That
The New ‘Pro’ Version of Buzzworthy Trend-Tracking Service Trendrr Is Total Digital Crack — My name is Simon Dumenco and I'm a stats addict. Seriously — it's kind of a problem.
Thieves ‘using Google Earth to steal koi carp’
Thieves are using Google Earth to steal expensive koi carp from homeowners' ponds, police believe. — They are believed to be using Internet mapping systems to identify gardens with ponds so they can...
A What-man?
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, is started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Cam...
Yahoo Kills Maven: From Acquisition To Deadpool In 17 Months (Updated)
At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and advertising platform provider Maven Networks. Under the terms of the agreement ...
Ch-ch-ch-changes: A visual history of Firefox
The official release of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is due this week. It's a significant milestone in the open-source browser's history. Putting pure features aside, let's take a look at some of the big des...
YouTube Launches Reporters' Center
Being a reporter takes more than a video camera and the willingness to put yourself in harm's way. There are skills and techniques that every good news gatherer should know, and to help out, YouTube ...
China Bans Gold Farming
Trading virtual goods for real money has been banned in China, putting hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity at risk. — In addition to its ongoing crackdown on Internet porn, the Chin...
The Pirate Bay to Take On YouTube, Hulu with The Video Bay
Watch out Hollywood, another threat to your profits appears to be setting sail and headed in your direction. A site called The Video Bay aims to make pirated TV shows and Hollywood movies available i...
Intel brings forward schedule for Clarkdale CPUs to 4Q09
Intel has brought forward the mass-production schedule of its new 32nm processor codenamed Clarkdale to the fourth quarter of 2009 from the originally planned first quarter of 2010, according to sourc...
Windows 7 preorder a hit—on Amazon
on Amazon — Amazon has been taking quite a number of early orders for Windows 7. The $49 preorder version of Windows 7 Home Premium is now the top seller not just among software products, but among ...
A Call to News Publishers: How to Share Your Video
We're always looking for ways to enhance the way people consume the news, and we have some improvements planned over the next few months. To get things started, Google News and YouTube are teaming up...
Birdfeed: Finally, An iPhone Twitter Client To Match Tweetie's Speed And Simplicity
If you own an iPhone, chances are you have at least one Twitter client on it. And while everyday seems to bring new ones into the App Store, at the end of the day, Tweetie always seems to be the one ...
Cable DVRs are legal: Supreme Court denies appeal of Cablevision decision
The last possible effort by movie studios such as 20th Century Fox and cable television producers, including CNN and Cartoon Network, to forestall cable service providers such as Cablevision from prov...
Spears, DeGeneres Twitpic accounts hacked
LOS ANGELES - — Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres after breaking into their Twitpic accounts. — The Internet messaging system ...
Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened?
It's now clear that the bane of my next year will be questions about the future of the newspaper industry from journalists. I don't blame them—newspapers are indeed one of the industries most affecte...
Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard
As Twitter becomes the default conversation spot on the Web, we're going to start to see tools which combine site-specific conversations with Twitter. One example is Tweetboard, which creates a Twitt...
Andreessen-backed Startup Targets Cloud
A new cloud computing startup funded and advised by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz plans to help enterprise companies deploy and manage applications in the cloud. webappVM is a Redwood City company ...