Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream
Steve Jobs at an Apple music event on Wednesday. … Wednesday in San Francisco, I attended Apple's annual iPod Show, its holiday-season kickoff of new iPods and iTunes Store developments. — I'll have...
Apple iPod touch G3 and nano G5 leaked?
Looks like third-party accessories maker Cygnett has stolen the thunder from Apple by unveiling new casings for the iPod touch G3 and iPod nano G5. What? You haven't heard of these two iPods before?...
Now S-U-P-E-R-sized!
Search, that is. For us, search has always been our focus. And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size. Although this is a ...
The Palm Pixi is official, headed to Sprint this holiday season — we've got hands-on and video!
we've got hands-on and video! — The Palm Pixi has officially arrived, and if you're an avid reader of Engadget (you'd better be), this device should look a little bit familiar to you. We first broke...
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “'Open' need not mean free”
Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Asso...
Google Voice Finally Marries SMS And Email
A long requested feature of Google Voice was a simple one: forward inbound text messages to email. Google Voice users get voicemails auto-transcribed and emailed to them, but text messages were not. ...
Apple Approves Real's Rhapsody iPhone App; First Look
Maybe it was the anti-trust patrol looking over Apple's shoulder or the memory of the RealNetwork settlement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), but the Rhapsody iPhone/iTouch app—the first in the U.S. to of...
AT&T Snubs New York And San Francisco On 3G Upgrades
Don't count on getting the network speed boost your new iPhone 3GS is supposed to provide — until next year at the earliest — if you live in iPhone meccas New York or San Francisco. — AT&T announced...
Bing Loves The Porn Hounds
Bing is an excellent search engine. For one thing the surprising early reviews probably forced Yahoo's hand as they entered into one of the dumber corporate transactions I've ever seen. So, kudos to...
Twitter And The Revenue Dilemma
One thing every venture capitalist knows but rarely talks about is the “revenue problem” with hot startups. When a startup is “growing like gangbusters” as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg ...
US Government To Embrace OpenID, Courtesy Of Google, Yahoo, PayPal Et Al.
During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama administration would...
TweetDeck adds MySpace support, directory of Twitter users
I just got off the phone with TweetDeck founder and former one-man team Iain Dodsworth. In 2007, Dodsworth got sick of single-column Twitter clients and wrote his own application that took the comple...
Palm Pre falls to $149.99 on Sprint
Nothing like the announcement of a new webOS device to spur a price drop on the first, is there? The Palm Pre — which has held steady at the $199.99 on-contract price it launched at back in June — ha...
Avid launches consumer versions of Pro Tools audio editing suite
Pro Tools is something of an industry standard when it comes to digital audio editing. Sure, there are other applications for Windows, Mac, or Linux that are cheaper, or which can do many of the same...
AT&T Customers Enjoy Unlimited Calling to Their A-List
New Feature for Qualifying Plans Offers Unlimited Calling to Domestic Phone Numbers, Combined with Rollover Lets Users Keep the Minutes They Save
Everything You Need To Know About Salesforce's Service Cloud 2
In Salesforce.com's most recent earnings call, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff strongly emphasized that the Service Cloud, which was launched in January, was one of the fastest growing segment...
Riot Games launches hardcore fighting game in China, gets $8M boost
Riot Games has raised $8 million in additional venture capital for its online fighting game. The investment was led by Chinese social media giant Tencent, which plans to publish the game in China.
Socialtext Launches Mobile Version Of Twitter-Like Collaboration Platform
Collaboration platform Socialtext is taking its package of enterprise 2.0 services to the smartphone. The startup has launched Socialtext Mobile, a web-based mobile version of the Socialtext collabor...
Tesco and Microsoft Bring Next-Generation Movie Experience to U.K. Consumers
New virtual DVD provides ability to download entertainment including movies with rich video quality, interactivity and bonus content previously available only on a disk. — Tesco, one of the world's ...
Leica M9 and hands-on preview
Leica has officially revealed the M9 - a full frame version of its M-mount rangefinder. The Leica M9, with its 24 x 36mm, 18 megapixel sensor is, according to the company: 'the world's smallest full-...
One More Googler Gone: DoubleClick AdExchange Boss Michael Rubenstein
Google employs about 20,000 people, and I don't expect to write a story every time one leaves. That said, here's another one: Michael Rubenstein, who ran DoubleClick's ad exchange unit and who was ru...
A New Job Just a Tweet Away
More companies are tweeting for hires. — As online job boards have grown crowded amid the recession, many big companies, including Microsoft Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Raytheon Corp. and Vi...
Skype Taps ShoreTel for Enterprise Play
Skype has tapped Unified Communications (UC) provider ShoreTel Inc. as the first partner for its enterprise-focused Skype-for-SIP offering. The companies announced a deal today to allow ShoreTel's 11...