EBay Is Said to Have a Deal to Sell Skype
SAN FRANCISCO — EBay plans to announce on Tuesday a deal to sell its Skype Internet calling division to a group of private investors, according to two people briefed on the company's plans. — The in...
More on today's Gmail issue
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar — Gmail's web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 100 minutes. We know how many people rely on Gmail for p...
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review
In June of 2004, during the WWDC keynote address, Steve Jobs revealed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to developers and the public for the first time. When the finished product arrived in April of 2005, Tiger wa...
Munster: Steve Jobs will host next week's Apple special event
Apple hasn't confirmed it, but Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seems pretty certain that Steve Jobs himself will introduce a new line of iPods next week. — In a note to clients Tuesday morning, Munster...
Microsoft to Deliver New Generation of Windows Phones on Oct. 6
Leading mobile operators and phone manufacturers worldwide prepare to introduce an array of sleek new Windows phones. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows® phones will be widely available ...
Current Zunes are discontinued; Zune HD is it going forward
I met with the Zune folks today and one bit of information than I can discuss immediately is that the Zune HD will be the only device type going forward: The current Zune models, the Zune 8, 16 80, an...
IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo
IE6 numbers take a nose dive; Firefox reaps nearly all the benefit — Computerworld - Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while F...
Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper Garrido?
A followup on this earlier BB post about the wacko blog and gadget hallucinations of kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido. — Weighing in on that post, an astute BB commenter ...
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens
A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight — The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shift...
EMC co-founder kills himself
Street kid, entrepreneur and ambassador — Obituary Richard Egan, the colourful and vigorous co-founder of EMC, went into a linen cupboard of his home at the Four Seasons condominiums on Boylston Str...
Oracle 11g R2 Makes Its Debut
Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market. — The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 milli...
Canon EOS 7D Preview
Canon's X0D series was, for many years, essentially the default choice for keen enthusiasts, professionals and aspiring-professionals who wanted top-level image quality and functionality without the b...
Twitter overtakes MySpace in the UK
We all knew Twitter was on the way up and MySpace was on the way down, but who'd have thought that the once-mighty behemoth would be eclipsed by our favourite avian upstart quite so soon? Yet here it...
Chrome Is Gaining Desktop Notifications
Things are really starting to get busy in the world of Chromium. Yesterday, we noted how the latest developer builds of Chrome were now Snow Leopard-ready. Today brings some other interesting news. ...
Nokia Delays U.S. Music Launch
The unlimited-download service won't be released this year in the U.S. as planned. — LONDON — After promising earlier this year that a 2009 U.S. launch for the service was in the works, Nokia told F...
Another Popular Developer Lays The Smack Down On Apple's App Store
Another day, another story of Apple's ridiculous App Store approval policies gone awry. Joe Stump, the former lead architect for Digg who is well known in the developer community, has posted an entir...
WD ships 7200RPM 2TB desktop hard drives: Caviar Black and RE4
Surely you recall Western Digital's earlier 2TB effort, the Caviar Green — right? While said drive was just perfect for the casual storage junkie, performance gurus know that it left something to be ...
NFL bans tweeting before, during, after games
The National Football League has had a love-hate relationship with social media. — Some teams tweeted to fans while choosing players at the NFL draft back in April. But then last month, a few NFL t...
Amazon Multi-Factor Authentication for AWS Accounts
An additional layer of protection, once reserved for banks and large enterprises, is now available to protect your AWS account from unauthorized use. This should be especially attractive to our enter...
Hitachi ships 500GB Travelstar 7K500: 7200RPMs in a 2.5-inch form factor
Itching for a speedy and spacious new upgrade for your laptop? Ain't got the cheddar required to pop in a 512GB SSD? Then have a look at Hitachi's latest, a half-terabyte drive that spins at 7200RPM...
Digiprotect Admits It Shares Files Just To Find People To Demand Settlement Money From
Last week we wrote about claims that copyright holders were purposely putting their own content online to see who downloaded it, and then suing them. In that post, we mentioned a post from last year ...
Sony to throw its weight behind 3D TV
3D technology looks set to hit the home consumer market next year, with Sony on Wednesday announcing plans to sell 3D televisions globally by the end of 2010. — Sony's decision to throw its weight b...
China Mobile Still in IPhone Talks After Unicom Deal
China Mobile is still in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone in China even though rival China Unicom last week announced a distribution deal for the handset. — The talks between Apple and Chi...