Apple's much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year
Exclusive: After four years of meticulous developmental riddled with setbacks, Apple is now racing toward an early 2010 launch of a device that may see the electronics maker redefine the portable comp...
How Palm Re-Enabled iTunes Sync (The Plot Thickens)
So the big question: How did Palm re-enable iTunes sync? The answer, so far as we an tell, is to go even deeper in their efforts to make the Pre look like an iPod. I just plugged my 1.1 Pre into my ...
How (and why) to replace the AP
The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet. From Richard Perez-Pena's New York Times story today: … Them's fi...
Antitrust: Commission welcomes new Microsoft proposals on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Interoperability
Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar
We've been wondering what the Microsoft's retail shops are going to be like. Well, according to a Powerpoint presentation leaked to us, it's going to make the Apple Store look downright boring. UPDA...
Apple won't let you use cool augmented reality iPhone apps — yet
yet — A concept video for an identification app, called Augmented ID, that uses facial recognition. — IPhone owners are excited to get their hands on the augmented reality applications that we wrot...
Debunking Rumors about Advertising and Photos
In the past couple of days, a rumor has begun spreading that claims we have changed our policies for third-party advertisers and the use of your photos. These rumors are false, and we have made no su...
The New York Times Describes Online ‘Membership’ Plans
The New York Times has talked about charging again for some of its website; its CEO recently alluded to a “membership model with special offerings.” What does that mean? Meet NYT Gold and NYT Silver...
Sprint CEO: We're glad we waited on Android
PASADENA, Calif.—Sprint CEO Dan Hesse talked a lot about the mobile operating system he held off on—Android—and not so much about the phone he has backed, Palm's Pre. — Hesse said Friday here at For...
Network Solutions: 573,928 possibly compromised in attack
Network Solutions issued a Data Security Alert (DSA) on Friday, which reported the discovery of malicious code planted on servers supporting their E-Commerce merchants' websites. The code, discovered...
Obama White House loves BlackBerry but bars Twitter
Barack Obama's White House, home of the famously BlackBerrying president and first lady, has blocked online access to Twitter. — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the admission today (se...
Dell settles Austin discrimination case for $9.1 million
Dell Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $9.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company had discriminated against female employees. — In October, two former employees, Jill Hubley an...
The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cos...
Microsoft Changes ‘Laptop Hunters’ Ad After Apple Complains
New Version Reflects Lowered Price on Mac Notebook — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Following a complaint from Apple, Microsoft has quietly tweaked at least one of the ads in its “Laptop Hunters” campaign t...
Arrington on Twittergate: “I wouldn't do things any differently”
As a reporter who blogs — and who has been competing against Michael Arrington for the past couple of years — I've been helplessly fascinated by the Twittergate debate of the last couple of weeks.
CollegeHumor's New Production Spinoff: Notional; Van Veen's Heading It
Earlier today we reported on a new spinoff multimedia production company out of IAC-owned CollegeHumor. Now we have more details on it: the new company is called Notional, and is headed by Ricky Van ...
Tech Rumor of the Day: Palm's Pre Hasn't Flopped
S , PALM , RIMM , VZ , GOOG , NOK , MOT , AAPL — Sprint (S Quote) has sold a healthy 350,000 Palm (PALM Quote) Pre phones in the seven weeks since its debut. — The update comes from RBC analyst Mi...
Samsung Confirms It's Working on NVIDIA Tegra Phone
A Samsung representative today confirmed that Samsung is working with NVIDIA's Tegra processor in an upcoming device. — Unfamiliar with Tegra? Imagine taking your smart phone and plugging it into y...
Source: Verizon Hurrying To Launch LTE By Early 2010, Perhaps For Apple
So, it's looking more and more likely that a large form iPod touch, which we first reported on last December, is coming sometime in the next 6 months. But there are still a lot of unknown variables a...
Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds
It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors' orders and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices. — It is called hig...
Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar
We've been wondering what the Microsoft's retail shops are going to be like. Well, according to a Powerpoint presentation leaked to us, it's going to make the Apple Store look downright boring. UPDA...
HTC Hero review
The HTC Hero has been an object of lust for some time now for gadget enthusiasts. Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, smartphone fans seemed to agre...
Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?
One of the questions that no analyst asked directly during Microsoft's post-FY09 Q4 earnings call this week was one very much on Microsoft employees' minds: Will Microsoft cut more jobs as a way to im...
Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories
Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this ...
Plug pulled on suspected pirates
Breakfast producer, BBC Radio Humberside — Web users suspected of file-sharing are being cut off without warning by internet service provider (ISP) Karoo, based in Hull. — Karoo, the only ISP in t...
Correcting follower and following counts
For some time, the follower and following counts we display have been incorrect for some folks. We're soon to push a change that will address this issue. This means that the count you see in your si...
Nokia to acquire cellity
Espoo, Finland - Hamburg, Germany - Nokia and cellity today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire certain assets of cellity. cellity is a privately owned mobile software company which employs 14...
Antitrust: Commission welcomes new Microsoft proposals on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Interoperability
Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease”
So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a “cancer”. Opinions on this one are...
New technology supercharges debate on public domain
When TechCrunch website posted Twitter material leaked by a hacker, the computer-using public had plenty to say about it. But was it trafficking in stolen property or just practicing good journalism?...
Gates Faults U.S. on Data Privacy and Immigration
NEW DELHI, India — In a far-ranging speech Friday, Bill Gates criticized the American government's policy on immigration and data privacy, predicted giant leaps in technology in the near future and ex...
ChaCha Never Lets Me Down, Even When They Let Me Down. They Raise $4 Million More
Human powered search startup ChaCha has been good for so many chuckles over the last few years. One of their investors called them as disruptive as Google, for example.
AOL Legends Steve Case, Ted Leonsis Join Tim Armstrong For 100-Day ‘Revival’ Meeting (TWX)
AOL (TWX) chief Tim Armstrong is holding his 100-days-at-AOL meeting in a 2,000-person air conditioned tent, according to reports on Twitter. — During the event, he unveiled AOL's new mission statem...
He's Back. Mark Hamburg Returns to Adobe
After over a year spent working at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington offices, Mark Hamburg has resigned from Microsoft to rejoin Adobe Systems, Inc. where he will again be working in the Digital Imaging...
New Technology Increases Productivity
Working all the time a good thing? — Workplace technology may be a boon for work and family life. — According to staffing firm Kelly Services' “Global Workforce Index,” 78% of workers in the US an...
Microsoft admits it can't stop Office file format hacks
Plans to build ‘sandbox’ around questionable docs in Office 2010 as defense — Computerworld - Microsoft's plan to “sandbox” Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admiss...
Kevin Spacey Says Facebook Movie Might Shoot This Year
Actor is producing ‘The Social Network,’ but doubts he'll appear onscreen. — Last year, Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a film about making big bets and winning piles of cash: “21,” based on a ...