Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million
Intuit will acquire the free online personal finance service Mint, we've confirmed from a source close to the deal, for around $170 million. Silicon Alley Insider first reported a rumor on this. The...
Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustra...
Apple Drops 40GB Apple TV and Discounts 160GB Model to $229
Apple has quietly discontinued the 40GB Apple TV overnight and reduced the price of the 160GB model down to $229. Previously, the 40GB and 160GB models were priced at $229 and $329, respectively. — ...
Visual Search - Why type when you can see it?
How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can't seem to find the movie with “what's-his-name” in it anywhere but y...
Preview of WebKit's WebGL / Canvas 3D
Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for “WebGL” scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL patch has quietly landed. With a name like “WebGL”, I cou...
First real pictures of HTC Leo - All rumours confirmed
PDA.Pl has been lucky enough to have the very first real pictures of HTC Leo (Via PDAClub.pl forums), and the device is a stonker! Present is the massive screen, the gigahertz processor, the amazing ...
LG officially announces GW620, its first Android phone
Though it already broke cover at IFA out in Germany a few days ago, LG's just sealed the deal on its very first Android phone — the GW620 landscape QWERTY slider. Interestingly, the “Etna” name seen ...
iPhone MMS Shows Up Early
Some lucky iPhone owners are reporting that multimedia messaging has started working on their iPhones. The earliest report about MMS activation came from Mediaite blogger Ash Kalb on Saturday who sai...
Solid-state drives offer new savings over disks
Solid-state Flash drives (SSDs ) are making inroads at both ends of the computer market - finding a place in small netbooks and also beginning to replace the traditional hard-disk drive for data stora...
iPhone gets .Net app development
Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld — Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and ...
Which browser isn't such a battery hog?
If you use your laptop primarily for web browsing, the browser you choose could make a difference in how long your battery lasts. AnandTech tested out the latest versions of the most popular Windows ...
SanDisk Launches Speedy Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card
Not all flash memory cards are created alike. Nowhere is this more evident than with the new SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card. Available in 16GB to 64GB capacities, this card promises, and deli...
Yahoo Sells $150 Million Worth Of Alibaba.com Shares As Tensions Lurk
Yahoo is about to raise approximately $150 million by selling 57.48 million Alibaba.com shares, according to a term sheet obtained by Reuters earlier on Monday. The Internet giant is selling the larg...
Dell gives Zune HD a 15 percent discount for launch
Chances are if you're wanting a Zune HD on launch day, gaming capabilities in tow, you've already gotten one pre-ordered, but if you're not already financially committed elsewhere, this deal from Dell...
The “Good Enough” Test: Flip vs. Apple iPod Nano
When Apple added a video camera to the iPhone last summer, the digerati declared that Flip, Cisco's cheap digital video camera line, was dead. When Apple added a video camera to its cheap and tiny Na...
Joost: Volpi Was Forced Out As Chair, ‘Investigation’ Underway
When the virtually wound-down Joost confirmed to us late last week that former CEO Mike Volpi has also exited as chairman, it didn't tell us that owners had forced him out of the role. Now, in a stat...
Windows Bug Enables PC Hijacking, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft last week issued an advisory warning that a bug discovered in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and the release candidates of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 could be used to hijack PC...
Microsoft interns still feel the love
Attention to student program continues despite software giant's financial results, 5,000 job cuts — On the same day that Microsoft Corp. reported some of its worst financial results ever earlier thi...
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges
Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering due to new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive....