Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates
Project Pink and the rumored remake of a Microsoft Tablet are back on the rumor treadmill this weekend. — It's been quiet out there lately on both fronts. Here's a recap — plus a couple of small up...
What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation?
This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke Univ...
Police ready to ‘take on’ commenters, chief says
People who misrepresent themselves as officials in online comments could face civil, criminal penalties, Acevedo says. — Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo says he and some of his officers have been ha...
Project ‘Gaydar’
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy — It started as a simple term project for an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontie...
Eric Schmidt's Favorite Google Product? Chrome!
What's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's favorite Google product at the moment? When I asked him that this week, I expected a “I love all my children equally” answer. Instead, Schmidt surprised me answering...
WebGL in Firefox Nightly Builds
Last night, I checked in some more work from Mark Steele (who's focusing on the Firefox WebGL implementation), and along with that, enabled WebGL in trunk nightlies. (Finally!) — If you're not fami...
Creating A Hit IPhone Game
How to “Swarm” to the top of the App Store. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — David Whatley's fast-paced action-strategy game “geoDefense Swarm” is the latest to top the iPhone App Store. — Priced at 99 cent...
At long last, GIMP v2.8 to finally implement single-window interface
The GIMP is one of those applications that people either seem to love or hate. While it's always been a powerful and capable alternative to big commercial apps like Photoshop, GIMP's multiple floatin...
We've got the goods on some upcoming AT&T smartphones from HTC and Garmin-ASUS
While many of you spent last night watching grown men pummel one another into submission, we here at BGR put in some over time so we could get to the bottom of the pricing of some upcoming AT&T smartp...
Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users Reporting Poor Battery Life
An undisclosed number of users who have posted on Apple's discussion boards about poor battery life following the iPhone 3.1 software update are being contacted by AppleCare helpdesk with a hefty list...
Yahoo's New Ad Pitch: “It's You!”
By Suzanne Vranica and Jessica E. Vascellaro — Yahoo is planning to Tuesday reintroduce its battered brand to the public on Tuesday with a massive global marketing campaign, according to people fami...
Hybrid Internet-TV Makes Progress in Europe
PARIS — Internet television has become so popular that some European broadcasters want to put it on TV — the one in the living room. — Within several months, viewers in Germany with specially equipp...
New Media Demands a New Kind of Media Company
The media like nothing more than to cover the media. For that reason, there has been near-endless coverage of the struggles of “old media” companies trying to succeed online. Pundits debate the poss...
Phorm sheds directors, grumpy website and... money?
The webside adware company is getting low on directors, and possibly cash, as it prepares to announce its financial results. What's the outlook? — Remember Phorm? Of course you do - everyone's fav...
Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement
For months, Google and its partners in a class-action settlement that would allow the company to create a vast digital library appeared unmoved by a rising tide of opposition. — Google and its settl...
Want to read all about it online? It may cost you
With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking pr...