Verizon Wireless Introduces The HTC Touch Pro2
For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go to — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and BELLEVUE, Wash. — Verizon Wireless and HTC Corporation introduce the HTC Touch Pro2™, a global-capable smartphone d...
Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting
By all accounts, Microsoft's private company meeting at Seattle's Safeco Field today was a hit — with a preview of a “Bing 2.0” overhaul, executives demonstrating Project Natal, the unveiling of the f...
Steve Jobs is going after the game market
In an interview with the New York Times columnist David Pogue, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs emphasized that Apple was going after the video game market, particularly with its iPod Touch gadget. —...
Twitter's New Terms of Service
At the start, critics often said, “Twitter is fun, but it's not useful.” At one point @ev responded dryly with, “Neither is ice cream.” Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized po...
Google Launches Internet Stat Center
Without any fanfare, Google has launched a new resource called “Google Internet Stats” which brings together industry facts and insights from across five different industries. Using a number of third...
Facebook Lite Goes Live to Capitalize on International Growth — and Simplicity
and Simplicity — Facebook has just launched a new version of the site, called Lite, to give users a simplified, faster-loading experience than the traditional www.facebook.com. It's intended to help...
Sprint to launch unlimited cell-to-cell calling, regardless of network
UPDATE: It's official. — An anonymous tipster tells TechVi Sprint will be launching a calling plan which will allow customers to call any other cell phone from any other carrier for free.
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us
So we've had our fun with Facebook over the years (Why We're Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages, Republican PR Director Calls Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg “totally full of sh*t”, Randi...
AMD Presses Consumers to Rethink the Chip
Tired of losing speed comparisons with Intel processors, Advanced Micro Devices will stress how its chips can satisfy specific computer needs — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) wants to change the way y...
iPhone OS 3.1 now enforces Exchange encryption policy, may block pre-3GS iPhones
The Apple Support forums are a'buzz with reports of several users upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 and discovering a new “feature” which was not available previously. As mentioned in our comments, after up...
The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile
Today at TechEd Australia I took the opportunity to chat with Loke Uei Tan - program manager on the Windows Mobile team - to talk about the future of Windows phones and the Windows Mobile OS. — As a...
Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts
One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. Today, we are adding a new way to tag people and oth...
Unhappy with your broadband speed? Try Winston the pigeon
Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. — A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird ...
Third-party Google Voice client hits the webOS App Catalog
It looks like it isn't just bluster from Palm when it comes to thinking differently about its app approval policy. Besides taking a pretty healthy stance on applications that deviate from its current...
Google's 09/09/09 09:09:09 Logo
For a brief period of time, the following logo doodle was showing on the Google US homepage yesterday, the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of this millenium: — It's not the first time that ...
Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging
Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail. A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, t...
Pirate Bay buyer ‘misled’ investors, booted off exchange
A Swedish stock exchange has banned Global Gaming Factory X from offering its shares there after concluding the company “misled” investors about its ability to purchase The Pirate Bay. — AktieTorget...
Listening to Radio on the Web? That's So Last Year
The next generation of radio listeners might not remember the olden days of scrolling through stations by turning a knob on a car or home stereo. Instead, the radio they listen to could very well be ...
Oracle makes promises to Sun customers, but mum on MySQL
Oracle has much to say to Sun Microsystems customers in a front-page advertisement it placed in Thursday's European edition of The Wall Street Journal. — The advertisement commits to greater investm...
Western Digital introduces smarter, more intuitive backup drives
Try as they might, the hard drive companies just can't convince consumers to backup their precious computer data. Only about 14 percent of consumers use an external hard drive, according to hard disk...
Lights, Camera, Action!: YouTube Videos in Google Product Search
Video product reviews are getting a lot of buzz right now, as shoppers increasingly turn to the web to help them figure out what to buy. We're excited to announce that we are including relevant and h...