ARM targets Intel with 2GHz Osprey chip built for speed
Intel is developing Atom processors intended to replace ARM chips, but now ARM is fighting back with a performance-optimised design it hopes will replace Intel chips — ARM has announced the first pr...
Palm Pre App Sales Slated for September 24th, 1.2 Next week
Wondering when the new app catalog is coming? An anonymous tipster sends word: September 24th is definitely the date to watch, just as we suspected when we first published the images. — On that day...
Sony's Gorgeous New A-Series Walkman Features OLED, Up To 64GB Capacity
Sony has unveiled the latest update to the A-Series Walkman line with some serious features. The new NW-A840 series, available in black and brown, simply is the most brilliant Walkman offering from S...
Opera Mini 5 Beta Out Now: Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial Bookmarks
Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini crunches pages a server for viewing on your Java phone or BlackBerry. The new beta has a snappier interface geared for touch or keypad control, and adds tabbed browsin...
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Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 bundle has a 250GB HDD, $400 price tag
While the Forza 3 set is still an unconfirmed listing, there's no denying the Xbox 360 has just upped its storage capacity options with a 250GB HDD bundle clad in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 emblem...
Seagate launches a network drive that you can use to get your data, anytime, anywhere
Seagate is launching a novel portable backup device that will let you access your photos, videos, and other data from afar. — The product fits in with the consumer mantra of the digital age: access ...
Kindle edition of The Lost Symbol outselling Amazon hardcovers!
Get ready for what could become the biggest story of 2009 in the book trades. — Yesterday I went out on a limb and predicted that “Amazon will sell more Kindle editions than hardcover editions of Th...
iPhone OS 3.1 Jailbroken Almost Immediately (Just Not For Everyone)
Sometimes it pays to sit back from the bleeding edge a little. Like when the Dev Team releases their Pwnage Tool for iPhone 3.1, and it doesn't work on the 3GS or the new Touch. But it will, you see...
Cheap Chip! Athlon II X4 Breaks the $100 Quad-Core Barrier
Even the Intel fanboys have to hand it to AMD once in a while. After Intel deftly dropped a Core i5 anvil on Phenom II's head, AMD did a quick drop to floor and now fires back slo-mo style with its o...
Our Craigslist
The cover story for the September 2009 issue of Wired takes a look at the current state of Craigslist and the challenges it faces as it continues to evolve. In a sidebar, the magazine's amazing art d...
As the Economy Turns, Tech M&A Is Back — and That's Good News for Startups
and That's Good News for Startups — Looks like the economy, and with it the urge to splurge, is back — especially in Silicon Valley. After a long chill, the M&A market seems to be thawing — welcome ...
SEC Watch: The Story Of Google's Offer For On2
An SEC filing includes the backstory of Google's controversial offer to buy video compression firm On2 Technologies. Several groups of On2 shareholders have sued to block the deal, saying that On2's ...
Copyright Infringement In Action
About 9 PM EDT on Sunday the 13th, Wil Shipley, developer of Delicious Library, tweeted that an application on the iTunes App store had stolen his copyrighted images. — Wil was talking about the woo...
Telegraph community and Nieman Reports
I have an article in the latest edition of Nieman Reports, the journal of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. This edition looks at journalism and social media and I've writte...
TC50: Find The Perfect Scene, Every Time. AnyClip Is A Search Engine For Movie Clips
Darth Vader's fatherly coming out. Tinanic's King of the World moment. There Will Be Blood's sobering lecture on milkshakes. — Whether you want to poke fun at something, embellish a love note …
Twitter Closing New Venture Round At $1 Billion Valuation
Fast growing startup Twitter will soon be joining a select group of startups with private venture round valuations of $1 billion, we've heard from multiple sources. CEO Evan Williams disclosed the ro...
Zune HD apps are here... complete with pre-roll ads
The first batch of apps for the Zune HD can now be freely downloaded from Microsoft, and they come with an unexpected “present”: static and video ads that play during launch. — Apps for the new Zune...
Why You Can't Get a Good Phone With Verizon
Why does the U.S. carrier known for the best network have the worst smartphones? — Verizon gets plaudits for its coverage and call quality, but consistently loses out to AT&T, T-Mobile and even Spri...
Google's Schmidt To Book Settlement Critics: What's Your Solution?
As the proposed Google Book Search lawsuit settlement is debated, I've read calls from various critics that everything should go back to “square one” for a solution. Would Google be willing to do thi...
Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA
The image above is a CAPTCHA — you can read it, but computers have a harder time interpreting the letters. We tried to make it hard for computers to recognize because we wanted to give humans the sco...
Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay
SAN FRANCISCO — The founders of Skype are escalating their legal battle with eBay. — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who became billionaires after selling Skype to eBay in 2005, have filed a copyr...
Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. — The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 b...
Your company? There's an app for that.
Few technology and device-making companies probably realize it, but they are in direct competition with Apple (or soon will be). How did this happen? Well, the iPhone1 does a lot of useful things pr...