Snow Leopard Box Set Briefly Appears in Apple Online Store [Updated]
MacRumors has received word that a listing for the Mac Box Set version of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard briefly appeared in Apple's online store earlier today. While the page, which listed the box set as sh...
Microsoft to adopt dual-platform strategy to compete with Android and iPhone, say handset makers
Microsoft plans to adopt a dual platform strategy to promote its Windows Mobile OS (operating system) so as to take aims at both Android- and iPhone-based platforms, according to sources at Taiwan han...
Mail and contact import for everyone
A few months ago, we added the ability to import your old mail and contacts to Gmail. We made this feature available for all newly-created Gmail accounts first, since people new to Gmail benefit most...
Why AT&T Killed Google Voice
Telecom operators are yesterday's business. It's time for a national data policy that encourages innovation. — Printer — Friendly — Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPh...
Windows Live Movie Maker - get it now
Microsoft has taken the wraps of Windows Live Movie Maker, “the the one-minute way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies that are easy to share — for free”. You can download Windows Liv...
Does iLike price show cost of Facebook dependence?
Music service iLike is dependent on Facebook for 80 percent of its traffic and revenue and that fact has suppressed iLike's value, say sources close to iLike. — MySpace has offered about $20 million...
Getting connected Side-by-Side with enterprise search
People use search to find what they need, and the same holds true in the business world. We want searching your company intranet to be comparable to searching on Google.com, and the Google Search App...
Sony sneaks PS3 Slim through FCC under pseudonym, 250GB model discovered
Shenanigans were afoot in Sony's efforts to throw bloggers (such as yours truly) off the scent of the just-announced PS3 Slim in the FCC, and we've got to give them credit — filing the thing as a “Com...
RIM planning on including full Flash and Silverlight support in browser
We've been gathering details over the past month or so on this, and it's pretty much confirmed: Research In Motion is planning on integrating full Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support into their Bl...
What Are These Bars On My iPhone? Wait, You Mean AT&T Is Working?!
Over the weekend I noticed something odd going on with my iPhone: It was working! That is to say I actually had signal in the SoMa district of San Francisco, which is something that I had basically g...
Confirmed: Facebook Expanding Gift Shop to Include Virtual and Physical Goods from Developers Tonight
We've covered the evolution of Facebook's virtual gifts extensively on Inside Facebook over the last couple of years, but tonight we're hearing that Facebook is about to start testing …
Microsoft Hit With Two More Patent Suits
It's open season on Redmond in Eastern Texas jurisdiction as more actions emerge in wake of i4i victory. — A Texas judge's order that Microsoft pay more than $240 million in damages to an obscure Ca...
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in on...
Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing
One of the least appreciated, but smartest, moves Yahoo has made in the past year is to launch Yahoo BOSS, its open search APIs which lets developers create their own custom search engine using Yahoo'...
Crimespotting: Crime Has Never Looked So Good
There's nothing cool about crime, but Stamen Design comes pretty damn close to making it cool with the new site it built and designed, San Francisco Crimespotting, that launched today. The site offer...
San Francisco Opens The City's Data
This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. Newsom is also running for governor of California in the upcoming 2010 ...
Survey: Average gamer is 35, fat and depressed
CDC study finds playing leads to ‘lower extraversion’ in adult gamers — A new study says the average age of video-game players in the United States is 35, and oh, by the way: They're overweight and ...
Facebook 3.0 May Be The Most Useful App On The iPhone Yet
When Facebook launched the 2.0 version of its iPhone app in September of last year, it was a huge upgrade from its original app that launched with the App Store last July. And now it's on the verge o...
Reinventing Chumby
The interactive device's open-source software will power picture frames and other gadgets by the end of the year. — Say “Chumby” and an image of a squat beanbag with a touch-screen comes to mind—tha...
ReTweet.com to Launch at Noon, Declares War on Tweetmeme
Retweeting is a big business. Just ask Tweetmeme, the popular service that tracks the most shared stories on Twitter and provides the popular retweet buttons you see on many websites including Mashab...
Archos confirms Sept 15th Android event, readies AppsLib app store
Even though we've known since June that Archos would be announcing its long-rumored Android internet tablet next month, it's still great to see this robot-adorned invitation confirming that September ...
Compal Communications to start shipping Eos smartphones to Palm in October, says paper
Taiwan-based handset maker Compal Communications is expected to start volume shipments of Palm's entry-level smartphones, the Eos, in October 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times rep...
Trying to find an end table at Ikea? There's an app for that
Ever gotten overwhelmed in a cavernous Ikea store, battling the crowds to look at blond wood furniture and get a plate of Swedish meatballs? One developer thinks he has the answer: an iPhone app to h...
How I rode a Samsung tablet PC to retro role-playing nirvana
Great art stands the test of time, and demands of us a commitment commensurate with its greatness... or, at least that's the kind of thing I only half-ironically told myself as I pulled the trigger on...
Lawyer and Author Adds His Objections to Settling the Google Book Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — A growing chorus of authors, academics and other book industry figures is objecting to the settlement of a class-action suit that would allow Google to profit from digital versions of ...
Logitech bows track-anywhere laser mice
Logitech on Wednesday answered Microsoft's BlueTrack with two mice using its own technology to work on any available surface. The Performance Mouse MX and Anywhere Mouse MX both use a laser variant n...
Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters:
Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on Twitter — with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff — Michael Jackson's death created an emotional outpouring of unprecedented magnitude on Twit...
Woman charged with harassment over suggestive post
ST. PETERS, Mo. — A Missouri woman is accused of cyberbullying for allegedly posting photos and personal information of a teenage girl on the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist after an Interne...