Yahoo! to acquire Maktoob.com
Yahoo! has agreed to acquire Maktoob.com, the Arab world's largest online community, marking the first major investment by a U.S. technology company in a region where internet penetration is still in ...
Microsoft apologizes for race-swap photo incident
Microsoft apologized Tuesday for using photo editing techniques to change the race of a person depicted on the company's Web site. — In a photo on its U.S. Web site">photo on the company's U.S. Web ...
A Teenager's Dream: An iPhone App for Free Texting
A recently released app that offers free text messages on the iPhone is welcome news to parents of teenagers upset over the cellphone bills of their hypertexting children. But can it be a sustainable...
In the future, everyone will monetize their 15 minutes
We first launched the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to help some of our more popular users make money from their videos on YouTube. While we've focused on accepting prolific users who regularly p...
Anger at UK file-sharing policy
Internet service providers (ISPs) have reacted with anger to new proposals on how to tackle internet piracy. — The government is proposing a tougher stance which would include cutting off repeat off...
Microsoft: Prove you're human by reading and regurgitating an ad
Looks like nothing is safe from becoming an advertisement these days. A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application proposes to create ads out of human interactive proofs, also known as CAPTCHAs, tho...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
I'd like to add my voice to the stream of complaints about the iPhone App Store, but before I say anything critical, I have to promise one thing. No matter how annoyed I get, I will not stop developi...
Apple to retain, redesign plastic MacBook family
Once rumored for extinction, Apple's entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker's notebook offerings for the foreseeable futu...
Asustek's Android Eee PC Remains in Deep Freeze
The CEO of netbook pioneer Asustek Computer said Tuesday that he still sees no clear market for mini-laptops known as smartbooks, the reason the company isn't moving forward in that product segment. ...
Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard
Apple's commercials may give the impression that Macs are virus-free (.mov) but the company isn't taking any chances with the newest Mac OS X refresh. — Apple has quietly added a new Snow Leopard fe...
Apple taps ‘Puddy’ to attack Windows 7
After a hiatus of three and a half months without a new TV ad, Apple (AAPL) broke out a pair of fresh “Get a Mac” spots Monday night to soften the ground for the next operating system war with Microso...
Xbox 360 Pro and Elite price cuts confirmed in Target ad for next week
We just received a pair of pics from “next week's” Target Ad. As has been heavily rumored, the Xbox 360 60GB Pro system will be cut to $250 while the 120GB Elite will drop to $300. Knowing that Targ...
Liveblog: Sony announces $399 7" Wi-Fi 3G e-book Reader; will it kill the Kindle?
Get BTL via: — We're here live in New York for Sony's Reader press event. … 10:46 AM: That's all, folks! — 10:45 AM: Haber announces “Reader Daily Edition, our first 3G wireless reader with 7-inch...
Paul Allen, DCM and others invest $29M in Smith & Tinker
It's no secret that Smith & Tinker — an innovative new gaming company that last month introduced Nanovor — has some heavy duty financial support behind it. — We've reported on the company's backing ...
Felicia Day and The Guild's Path to Level 80 Digital Success
The Guild may not be on network television, but with millions of downloads and a third season starting, Felicia Day is proving that a geek community is better than broadcast. — If you don't think a ...
Loophole over DVD age rating law
Retailers who sell violent video games and 18-rated DVDs to children cannot be prosecuted because of a legal blunder 25 years ago. — Dozens of prosecutions under a 1984 Act have been dropped because...
Parallels releases Switch to Mac bundle
Striving to provide an all-in-one-retail-box solution to Windows users who want to switch to the Mac, Parallels announced Tuesday that it's releasing a new version of its Parallels Desktop software th...
Research: 80% of Web users running unpatched versions of Flash/Acrobat
According to a research published by Trusteer earlier this month, 79.5% of the 2.5 million users of their Rapport security service run a vulnerable version of Adobe Flash, with 83.5% also running a vu...
Acer Veriton Z280G all-in-one business nettop announced
Acer's birthed a $499 all-in-one nettop aimed at cubicle dwellers featuring an 18.5-inch screen and an Intel Atom CPU. The Veriton Z280G is, according to Acer, “perfect for reception areas, hotel lob...
Mark Zuckerberg: “Spotify Is So Good”
The ink isn't even dry on the MySpace/iLike acquisition, and already Facebook has a new crush on a different music service, Spotify. — We've heard that Facebook has been talking with the European st...
LG ARENA Wows the Mobile World by Hitting One Million Sales
Seoul, Korea / August 25, 2009 - LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, announced today that the LG ARENA (LG-KM900) multimedia phone has exceeded one ...
Pirate Bay ISP victim of sabotage after shutdown
IDG News Service - Black Internet, the ISP that on Monday turned off the access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, says it has become the victim of sabotage. The damage is substantial, according to...
Apigee's Ambition Is To Be The Google Analytics For APIs
The Web has come a long way from a collection of Web pages to repositories of programmable data freely flowing from one site to another through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). But it is di...
New Sony S Series Walkman Features Built-In Speakers For Unique User Experience
Sony today unveiled the stylish new S Series Walkman(R) Video MP3 player, featuring high-quality built-in stereo speakers that allow users to share music out loud. — “By outfitting this Walkman with...