Zune HD packs a big processing punch
Microsoft's Zune HD will use one of the most powerful chips to go into a portable media player yet: Nvidia's multicore Tegra processor. — Tegra packs two processor cores based on intellectual proper...
In Rumors and Dreams: This Kind of Looks Like the Apple Tablet OS To Me
Some overzealous but lovely tech writers don't believe the first video of this Apple Tablet OS UI vid is real but here's a clearer and with strange hardware. All I know is that this is a cool concept...
Radiohead Says No More Albums
Radiohead said in a magazine interview that it wouldn't release any more full-length albums, instead focusing on downloadable singles like its recently released “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and shorte...
China Unicom buys 5 million iPhones from Apple, ready for sale in September
Beijing - China Unicom, the potential exclusive distributor of iPhones in China, has poured 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) to buy 5 million units from Apple, ready to sell the first batch in Septembe...
Dell's smartphone pictured again, spec'd, other Android details
One of our trusty ninjas just blessed us with the following information: first up, real pictures of Dell's Chinese market smartphone code-named Benzine. Just as TechCrunch reported, we've been told t...
Microsoft: Next Mac Office due late 2010 with Outlook
Microsoft announced Thursday that the next edition of Microsoft Office for Mac will be released in late 2010. The new edition of the venerable office suite will include Outlook for Mac, a new applica...
An Insider On the Apple Tablet
Despite the rumors, I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it's [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.”...
Here It Comes. But What Is It, Exactly? Apple Plans Keynote Event for September.
Time to get the rumor mill kicked into high gear: Multiple music industry sources say Apple executives have told them the company is planning one of its famed keynote events for the week of Sept. 7.
New law makes sex offenders' use of Internet social networking a felony
Quinn also signs law against online ‘grooming’ of victims — SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn signed new laws Tuesday designed to limit sex offenders' use of technology as a way to find more victims.
Social Mobile Games Are Hot. $3 Million Hot
Seattle-based Z2Live, a new mobile social gaming platform, is announcing a second round of financing tomorrow - $3 million from Madrona Venture Group (also Seattle based), topping off the $1 million t...
Windows 7 review
Oh, Windows. You inform and entertain us. You are inescapable, and your Start menu is full of items relevant to our productivity. You move us. Sort of. To be honest, we're not sure what sort of s...
How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Yesterday we revealed plans by The Associated Press to hold back some content from member websites. (Great discussion going on there, by the way.) The primary motivation of that initiative is search...
Google Temporarily Pulling Caffeine Sandbox
If you're still trying to compare Google results with the new “Caffeine” sandbox, be prepared to wait while Google makes some datacenter upgrades. — Matt Cutts just posted the news on Twitter that t...
It Begins: Celebrities Start Whoring Themselves As Virtual Gifts On Facebook
It was only a matter of time. Over two years after its virtual goods marketplace opened, Facebook has cast away its innocence and started to sell virtual gifts emblazoned with celebrity faces and par...
Microsoft's Word Patent Woes May Be Broadly Shared
Few things must be more emotionally paradoxical for the anti-patentistas of the world than to see Microsoft get clobbered on a patent infringement action. Do you rejoice because one of the great advo...
Shareholders Sue To Stop Google's Purchase Of On2
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is offering a 57 percent premium to purchase video firm On2 Technologies—but that's not enough to satisfy a cadre of On2 shareholders, who are suing to block the deal. Investors s...
Fewer workers, bigger paychecks in high tech
Silicon Valley is supporting fewer jobs but issuing fatter paychecks, according to a federal report that says high-tech payrolls have shrunk about 17 percent since 2001, while the average tech wage ha...
Apple, AT&T sued for lack of MMS capability
A class action started in a Louisana district court alleging that Apple and AT&T touted the iPhone as supporting MMS (multimedia messaging service) but have not as yet provided the service. — The pl...
Microsoft Ad Exec Takes Venture-Capital Job
Former Microsoft ad executive and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews is joining Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm, as a managing director. — Microsoft — Brian McAndrews — Mr...
Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a ‘non-issue’
Demand (not technology) in question — Free whitepaper - The security implications of Web 2.0 — OpenSource World Dell has delivered a dose of reality for both Microsoft and the Linux community on t...
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.
Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information.
Apple exploring motion compensation in mobile screens
A new patent application revealed this week suggests that Apple could be working on motion compensation features on highly mobile screens like the iPhone. — Originally filed in February of 2008, the...
Internet Publishers, Bloggers Say No to New Fees
Will Rupert Murdoch be a pied piper for paid Internet news? I Want Media asked online publishers and bloggers if they plan to follow the old media titan into the world of new Web tolls. Many — but n...
Netscape Founder Backs New Browser
SAN FRANCISCO — It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. — After its early success, Netscape was roundly...
Qik for iPhone 3GS - now live and free from the App Store!
You've been asking for it, and now it's here: Qik for the iPhone 3GS can now be downloaded - for free! - directly from the App Store. — If you already have Qik on your iPhone, you should know that t...
An Insider On the Apple Tablet
Despite the rumors, I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it's [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.”...
Project Retweet: Phase One
Some of Twitter's best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting. When you want to call more attention to...
Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money
The popular Digsby instant messenger client not only bundles half a dozen “optional” crapware applications, it's also using your computer to crawl the web, do stock market research, and more. It's ti...
Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel
UPDATED TO ADD STATS — While digging around I found a botnet that uses Twitter as its command and control structure. Basically what it does is use the status messages to send out new links to conta...
Microsoft: Firefox's billion claim is ‘interesting math’
Internet Explorer chief ‘encourages people to be somewhat sceptical’ of claims by competitor — A senior Microsoft executive has called into question the claim by rival web browser Firefox that it ha...
Sources confirm no Apple tablet at Sept. event, coming in 2010
Speculation of an Apple event in September broke earlier today, but The Loop has learned the event will not include the introduction of the rumored Apple tablet. — Very reliable sources familiar wit...
China Will Not Enforce Green Dam Porn Filter Plan
China said Thursday it will not force PC makers to bundle an Internet filtering program with computers sold in the country, backing down from a plan that stirred global controversy. — China will “de...
Google Tests Top Right AdWords Product Ad
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google is testing a new form of products ads. This time, the product ad is displayed at the top right section of the page, directly above the normal Ad...