Let It Be: Beatles Still Not Coming to iTunes Tomorrow
iPods with cameras? Maybe. iTunes with new features? For sure. iTunes with Beatles? Nope. — I'm sure that Apple (AAPL) will indeed sell the Fab Four's music via its digital music store one day. ...
Pre-Mature Elaboration: Sprint Cancels Palm Pre Offer
If there's a Guinness World Record for shortest-lived promotional offer by a wireless carrier, Sprint's (S) surely a front-runner for it. — Just six or so hours after offering a $100 service credit ...
Antitrust Lawyer Slams Google Book Pact
Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer Gary Reback made his case against the Google Books settlement Tuesday, arguing that the settlement is illegal but could be remedied if the Justice Department insists th...
It's Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude
The word is that Apple's “secrecy machine” has been kicked back into high gear ever since you-know-who returned from you-know-what. Anecdotal evidence backs that up: I've heard very little about tomo...
Introducing News Dots
An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily. — Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars, topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story...
T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger
T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. — The deal between Orange-owner France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK wi...
Don't expect Apple TV as cable set top box, Apple exec says
Though rumors have persisted for years that the Apple TV might transition from a media streaming solution into a cable box competitor, a new report said an Apple executive “killed that concept.”
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft's Xbox
But Not Microsoft's Xbox — Does today's speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can't see many p...
A few thoughts on foursquare's seed financing...
So, we wanted to say a few words about our round of seed financing that we didn't get to say last Friday. First of all, we can't be any happier. The financing - split between Union Square Ventures (...
Source: Palm To Unveil Pixie Phone This Week
Palm will unveil its second WebOS phone this week, internally named the “Pixie,” we've heard from a source close to the company. The debut will occur as part of Fashion Week in New York. — As we wr...
There's a Reason RSSCloud Failed to Catch On
WordPress and Dave Winer are working together to bring real-time, Twitter-style updates to RSS feeds using the cloud element and the accompanying RSSCloud Interface. Yesterday, WordPress added RSS cl...
First Official BlackBerry “Bold 9700/Onyx” (T-Mobile) Image; '09 Launch Expected
T-Mobile U.S.A.'s next major BlackBerry release is the BlackBerry “Bold 9700,” or Onyx, and it will be the U.S. carrier's very first 3G BlackBerry smartphone. Though not even officially announced yet...
Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App
Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they've made you go through their opt...
After the Deadline: Acquired
Today I have big news to announce for After the Deadline. But first, I have to tell you a story. — I left the Air Force in March 2008 to pursue my dream of launching a startup and to finish graduat...
Former Yahoo Tech Star Eric Boyd to Microsoft (via Mochi Media)
Eric Boyd (pictured here), a high-profile techie from Yahoo who left the company for a start-up last year, is now headed to Microsoft to work for its digital group, now run by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu.
Microsoft to preview two Silverlight 4 features
Microsoft is slated to show off two features that it is incorporating into the next version of Silverlight, its Internet Explorer plug-in alternative to Adobe Flash at the International Broadcasting C...
In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption Will be Measured in Exabytes
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, “quintillion” is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, acco...
Best Buy goes early with iPod touch 3rd gen accessories
Best Buy has gone live, ahead of the much rumoured and anticipated iPod touch 3rd generation launch, listing a number of accessories from Belkin all for the yet unannounced product. — Although none ...
Facebook finally lands in the Android Market
We thought the official Facebook application was launching last month, but it never appeared. That was until today, when it quietly rolled out to the Android Market. Android users can finally downlo...
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support
Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance u...
Exclusive: Motorola MB200, MB300 Android phone specs revealed!
Just two days before Motorola's Android portfolio announcement, we have stumbled upon the UA profiles of two Moto Android devices - the MB200 and MB300. We had spotted this duo at Wi-Fi Alliance earl...
Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel's Mainstream Magnum Opus
Table of contents — Intel's emphasis right now is on Clarkdale, the Nehalem-based mainstream lineup centering on a 32nm process shrink. Clarkdale will be the foundation on which upcoming Core i5 an...
To Revive Its Fortunes, AOL Will Acquire or Partner With Startups
Brad Garlinghouse, formerly a senior vice president at Yahoo, is joining AOL as its president of Internet and Mobile Communications, which includes AOL's e-mail and instant messaging. He will be head...
AIM Now Goes Both Ways (With Twitter And Facebook)
In July, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) embraced the stream in a new beta (for both Windows and Mac) and started moving beyond simple IMs. You can now see your Facebook and Twitter feeds, along with AIM...
iPhone C64 Emulator Approved by Apple, Removed Again for Hiding Banned Feature
UPDATE: C64 Emulator has yet again been pulled from the App Store for sneaking in an easter egg that allows the execution of code in a BASIC interpreter. See the end of the post for details.
A copyright black hole swallows our culture
Librarians call it the 20th-century black hole. The overwhelming force is not gravity but copyright law, sucking our collective culture into a vortex from which it can never escape. — That culture ...
HTC Tattoo (aka, Click) brings Android, Sense UI to all
This one sure took awhile but the oft leaked HTC Click has been renamed and kicked out the door as the Tattoo. While HTC is light on specs with the press release, we know it has a 3.2 megapixel autof...
Microsoft: Windows 7 not affected by latest flaw
Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the ...