Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack Pricing
Most people buy a PC preinstalled with the edition of Windows that meets their unique needs. However, for some customers their needs may change over time. — Windows Anytime Upgrade — With Windows...
About the security content of iPhone OS 3.0.1
This document describes the security content of iPhone OS 3.0.1. For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occur...
FCC Looking Into AT&T Rejection Of Google Voice App
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission has launched an inquiry to AT&T Inc. (T) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) over the rejection of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) voice application for the popul...
Oy Tenenbaum! RIAA wins $675,000, or $22,500 per song
After a brief deliberation, a federal jury has awarded the record labels $XXX in damages, finding that PhD student Joel Tenenbaum willfully infringed on 30 copyrights. Next up: an appeal on the const...
Search Options now on Google Images
A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for ...
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale
Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some key elements: Great user experience and ...
Microsoft: No browserless Windows 7 after all
It looks like there won't be a browserless version of Windows 7, after all. — Microsoft said late Friday that it won't ship the Windows 7 “E” version of Windows even though Europe has yet to sign of...
Skype Founders Claim eBay No Longer Has A Right To Skype's Core Tech
As you know, eBay bought Skype for a ton of money a few years back, without having any real plan for what to do with it. There were no synergies between the two, and about the best that can be said f...
A Google Wave reality check
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Lars Rasmussen sighed, half an hour into a demonstration of Google Wave, the company's audacious attempt to reinvent Internet communication: we'd found another bug. — Rasmussen...
Highlights from the ‘1984’ lawsuit against Amazon
“Kindling.” Credit: oskay / Flickr — Justin Gawronski and Antoine J. Bruguier are suing Amazon for having deleted their copies of George Orwell books from their Kindle readers, sans permission. Th...
Acer's Aspire Predator gaming rig gets even faster, stays just as orange
Just a few weeks too late for a Transformers 2 tie-in, Acer has announced a new revision of its Aspire G desktop, a.k.a. Predator. It shares the same case with the earlier edition that hit the US of ...
The Online Ad Recession Continues. Is This What A Reset Looks Like?
The recession in online advertising, which began in the first quarter of 2009, continued into the second. Every quarter we keep track of the combined advertising revenues of the four largest Web adve...
Bit.ly Wants To Make Money With A News Service; But Will Anyone Pay For It?
URL-shortener bit.ly has quickly become the platform of choice for people who want to share content on Twitter—with its links generating an average of over a billion clicks each month.
Google Engineering Director Spells Out Vision for the Future of Digital Books
Google's vision of how it intends to sell and manage our digital books in the future is pretty simple and totally sci-fi. — Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy (above right) spelled out the...
District Court Judge Orders Facebook To Reveal Source Code In Patent Dispute
Facebook's legal woes just won't stop coming. Last November a company called Leader Technologies, which makes business communcation tools, filed suit against Facebook alleging that the social network...
Android, Windows Mobile Phone Sales Slower Than HTC Expected
Taiwanese smartphone maker High Tech Computer (HTC) lowered its 2009 revenue forecast due to slower than expected sales of new smartphones that use Google's Android mobile operating system and Microso...
Should Wedding Party In Viral YouTube Video Get A Cut Of Music Sale Profits?
Yesterday, we had the story of the incredibly popular viral wedding video, talking about how the music in that video, despite being over a year old and being sung by someone with massive reputation pr...
Coming This September: Twitpocalypse Now Redux!
The first Twitpocalypse was one of those events that you're going to tell your children about one day. I remember where I was when it hit: On my way to Napa Valley with some friends as we heard siren...
Open data is the future of web discovery
Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets a...
Is Google's Android Killing Windows Mobile?
Earlier this morning, I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola, soon after his company reported earnings (they met Wall Street's modest expectations) to talk about everything...
Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline
There were two interesting Windows-related news stories last week. First, Joe Wilcox's story on a report from NPD claiming that 91 percent of $1,000-and-higher retail computer sales now go to Apple. ...
Apple to fix iPhone security flaw
Apple is set to release a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone, the UK network operator 02 has said. — Experts revealed on Thursday that modified SMS messages c...
I Quit The iPhone
I have loved the iPhone, but now I am quitting the iPhone. — This is not an easy decision. — I was there in January 2007 when it was announced and I bought the first iPhone as soon as it was avail...
Intel to suspend Atom Z sales to netbook makers, say sources
Intel has reportedly informed customers that it will accept no more orders for its Atom Z processors from netbook makers soon, as it is getting close to completely digesting its inventory, according t...
Search Options now on Google Images
A few months ago when we announced the Search Options panel, we promised that you would soon see similar functionality across our other search properties. Today we are rolling out Search Options for ...
Judge: Tenenbaum guilty of copyright infringement
It's all over for Joel Tenenbaum—except for the size of the check he'll be told to write the RIAA. In a reversal of her decision last night, Judge Nancy Gertner has granted the record labels' motion ...
How to Create An Online Store With Google Checkout in 5 Minutes
Google Checkout may not be the successful payment processing platform Google hoped it would become, but the company keeps trying to leverage it in other ways. — Yesterday, the search engine brought ...
British hacker loses appeal against extradition to US
• McKinnon's family and supporters express dismay at decision — • High court rules that Jacqui Smith had taken Asperger's into account — The British computer hacker Gary McKinnon failed today in h...
Yahoo: Losing the Geek Factor
Surrendering search responsibilities to Microsoft will likely take a toll on Yahoo's engineering and innovation prowess — An identity crisis gripping Yahoo! (YHOO) had reached Shakespearean proporti...
Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Much More Personal
For all the concern and uproar over online privacy, marketers and data companies have always known much more about consumers' offline lives, like income, credit score, home ownership, even what car th...
IPhone Investigation to Focus on Markets Without Service, FCC Head Says
U.S. regulators probing wireless- phone contracts will focus on markets where Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Palm Inc.'s Pre aren't available to consumers, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commissi...
Financial Analyst Meeting 2009
STEVE BALLMER: Well, thanks. It is a real pleasure for me to have a chance to be here with you today. I actually have a lot more I need to cover than I have in many past financial analyst conference...
China Unicom's iPhone gets regulatory approval, pictured
Still having doubts that an iPhone will ever come to China via legitimate means? Have a gander at this. According to the listing after the break, which was discovered on China's State Radio Regulato...