Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing
I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 has RTM'd! — As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after g...
Amazon Buys Zappos; The Price is $920m., not $847m.
News has just broken that Amazon.com has purchased hot ecommerce up-and-comer Zappos for 10 million Amazon shares or $880 million. (The Amazon release said it was $807 million, but that was based on ...
eBay's Q2: PayPal, Skype growth offset by declines at marketplace sites
eBay today reported solid second quarter financial results that were slightly better than Wall Street's expectations but revenue growth of PayPal and Skype was offset, in part, by declines in the Mark...
Friendster founder on social networking: I invented this stuff [UPDATED]
Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams poses in front of the logo for his start-up company, Socializr, at a Lunch 2.0 event in 2007. Credit: Terry Chay … The millions of high school and college kids on F...
Xoopit + Yahoo! Mail = Moving beyond that massive digital shoebox
If your email inbox is anything like mine, it's turned into a “digital shoebox” over the years. It's full of hundreds or maybe thousands of special photos that have been shared by close friends and f...
Gmail Offers to Automatically Unsubscribe You from Mailing Lists
Ever get an email from a legit mailing list but went ahead and marked it as spam anyway because you just don't want it? Gmail has smartened up to this common behavior, offering to automatically unsub...
Share Photos and Videos Anywhere You Have Email
After you snap a great photo of friends or shoot a fun video on vacation, you want to be able to share it immediately. We've been working on providing more ways to publish those photos and videos whe...
Adobe confirms Flash zero-day bug in PDF docs
Hackers exploiting flaw already in the wild, says iDefense — Computerworld - Adobe is investigating a critical vulnerability in its Flash format that is currently being exploited by hackers using ma...
BlackBerry Thunder Appears In Verizon System. Huh?
Not this again. On the heels of the first live video of the BlackBerry Storm 9550 yesterday, this image popped up in the forums early this morning. Apparently the “BlackBerry Thunder” is listed in V...
How The Times' Home Page Gets Made
By most counts, New York Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman still considers the front page of the printed newspaper a sacred space, a place where editors and reporters display their best wo...
What the Heck Is Going on With Apple TV?
Apple, during its quarterly earnings call yesterday, didn't bring up its stepchild set-top box, the Apple TV. For those who follow the video industry, this is more of a predictable disappointment tha...
Facing Scrutiny, Google Steps Up Lobbying
Google spent $950,000 lobbying lawmakers, regulators and the White House on issues ranging from cloud computing to copyright in the second quarter, according to public lobbying disclosures. — The su...
Mobile Internet Use Shrinks Digital Divide
Quick: Picture an Internet aficionado, circa 1995. — The first image that comes to my mind is Dennis Nedry, the embryo thief in “Jurassic Park,” who met his untimely end facing down a dinosaur in a ...
Forrester: Vista on 12% of corporate desktops, Mac on 3.6%
Windows XP still holds 86%, as grandchild Windows 7 goes RTM — Computerworld - The much-maligned Windows Vista operating system runs on almost one out of eight corporate desktops 28 months after its...
Disney's Iger: Content need not be free
PASADENA, Calif.—Disney CEO Robert Iger said he appreciates the fact that his company helped pioneer user-generated video with “America's Funniest Home Videos,” but acknowledges he missed a big opport...
Apple Backs Down On Bluwiki Threats
Apple has retracted its legal threats against public wiki hosting site Bluwiki, and, in response, EFF is dismissing its lawsuit against Apple over those threats. — The skirmish involved a set of ano...
Google Docs, Slowly Morphing into Google Drive
The new interface of Google Docs, which is slowly rolled out to all users, brings the service one step closer to an online storage service. The “items by type” menu replaced “PDFs” with “Files”, sugg...
iLike Negotiating A Reorganization; TicketMaster May Be Flushed Out
We've confirmed from multiple sources that San Francisco/Seattle based music service iLike, which has been profitable since 2008, is raising new capital in an unusual transaction designed to push out ...
Apple Downplays Fiery iPod Incidents
An exclusive KIRO 7 Investigation reveals an alarming number of Apple brand iPod MP3 players have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property. — It's an investigation...
Feds suffer from ‘serious’ IT security talent shortage
New report counts the ways — Free whitepaper - The starter PKI program — The United States government faces a serious shortage of skilled cybersecurity specialists, according to a new report, whic...
Has Facebook changed our ideas about privacy?
I think social norms have evolved a bit. When we were just getting started five years ago, people were not sure whether they wanted to put anything about themselves on the Internet at all. It was mo...
Microsoft, Red Hat Renew Linux Patent Spat
From the blogs: Microsoft's code contribution doesn't mean it's letting Linux off the hook. — By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: — A command line view of IT — From the “Can O...
The Google-Cash-Swapping-Orgy Blimp
Google hasn't been shy about sharing its riches with select friends outside the company. And the number one rule of this tightly-knit group seems to be: spread the love. Which brings us to 23AndMe's...
Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million
Yahoo plans on announcing Thursday that has bought Xoopit for a price in the $20 million range, according to several sources, one of its first acquisitions in a long while. — Reached late this after...
Video First Look: BlackBerry Storm 9550 in Action!
Download Storm 9550 Movie. Be sure to click HD to watch in high quality. — * update: wow, apologies in the video for flipping around the device so much in my hands. must have had too much green te...
Exclusive: MySpace Mail Slated To Launch Thursday
This Thursday, MySpace plans to roll out its own webmail, paidContent has learned from sources familiar with the plans. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). social network, like competitor Facebook, allows mes...
Synaptics moves to cell phones with 10-finger touch screens
The Apple iPhone popularized the multitouch screens that you can swipe with your hands, but the underlying technology came from Synaptics, which supplied the touch-based components that made it possib...
AT&T to Power Upcoming E-Reader
AT&T said Wednesday that it will provide the 3G data connectivity for Plastic Logic's e-reader when the device becomes available next year. — All Things D — Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta sho...
Sam Raimi plays ‘Warcraft’
Director signs on for live-action adaptation of vidgame — Sam Raimi has signed on to direct “Warcraft,” the live-action film adaptation of the fantasy videogame franchise “World of Warcraft.” — Le...
Adknowledge buys Super Rewards, expands to virtual goods advertising
Offer-based advertising company Super Rewards has been bought by advertising conglomerate Adknowledge in one of the largest acquisitions to date among companies that build services on social networkin...
HTC to offer Qualcomm BMP-based handsets, hike adoption of Android
Taiwan-based High Computer Tech (HTC) will launch a high-profile 3G handset based on Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (BMP) in September or October targeting the consumer segment, according to industry...
HTC Hero review
There's no underestimating the appeal of the HTC Hero; since we shot our unboxing video and preliminary hands-on at the end of last week it's been watched more than 300,000 times. The third Android d...
NAVIGON Launches iPhone GPS Navigation for North America
First on-board iPhone solution from a major navigation company now available in the App Store — HAMBURG, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—NAVIGON AG, the leading innovator in the navigation market, today ann...
Apple enters NAND supply deal with Toshiba
* Apple says made $500 mln prepayment to Toshiba in July — * Apple COO says NAND market beginning to stabilise — * Says DRAM, large-size LCD markets constrained — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has entered ...
Canon develops Hybrid image stabilization system
Canon has developed a ‘Hybrid Image Stabilizer’ that corrects for both linear and rotational shake. The system, which the company claims is a world's first for SLR lenses, will be incorporated into a...
DYNO Introduces LabelWriter Family of Printers
DYNO expands its line of label printers with three models available immediately—and gets a PR boost from the winner of Donald Trump's “Apprentice” TV show, Kendra Todd. Don't label her, it's only bus...
Hon Hai Suspends Security Official Following Suicide of IPhone Employee
Hon Hai Group, the world's largest contract-manufacturer of electronics, suspended a security official at one of its subsidiaries after the death of an employee who lost a prototype of an Apple Inc. i...
Dell Drops Adamo Price to Compete with MacBook Air
Dell has dropped the prices of their Adamo ultraportables, matching the low-end MacBook Air. The higher-end Adamo, however, is still more expensive than Apple's top of the line model. Apocalypse is,...
Facebook Video: Now Serving 1 Billion Views A Month, Including This Amazing Zuck Impression
For the last few months Facebook has been regularly posting promotional videos to its Career site, introducing prospective applicants to all the neat things that go on behind the scenes.
Aptina to be sloe supplier of 1.3-megapixel CIS for new Xbox 360, say sources
Aptina has won exclusive rights to supply 1.3-megapixel CMOS image sensors (CIS) for a new version of the Xbox 360 console under Microsoft's Project Natal technology, and shipments of the new Xbox 360...