Facebook Connect, Easy as 1, 2, 3
Earlier today, we announced Translations for Facebook Connect, which simplifies and streamlines the process of translating a website into to any of the more than 65 different languages Facebook curren...
Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines
Steve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.” And they're not just going for e-books and mags. ...
The Affirmation of Commitments - What it Means
The Affirmation of Commitments completes a transition that started 11 years ago ... When ICANN was created in 1998, with the assistance of the United States Government, a memorandum of understanding ...
The Windows 7 Logo Program
First, let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Relph and I am a Senior Director with the Windows Product Strategy Group and I lead a group known as the Windows Ecosystem Team. My team and I focus o...
Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% Call Drop Is “Normal” in New York
How utterly s**tty is the iPhone on AT&T in the New York area? The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls. And that's considered acceptable by Apple. — Giz reader Manoj took his iPhone to th...
RIM launches TiVo for BlackBerry
How long does it take to pump out an TiVo app for BlackBerry? One year, evidently, as RIM and TiVo have just announced the availability of TiVo for BlackBerry. Allowing BlackBerry users with a TiVo ...
UK internet ad spend overtakes TV
Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV, says IAB — The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising t...
New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud
New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim's dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a n...
Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking
ABOUT two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers — and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new sur...
Recognize That Cute Picture Online?
Affiliate advertisers could be abusing the photos you post. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Internet advertisement platforms are brimming with photos of sunny smiles and exposed body parts. Many of these ad...
Time Warner's $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale
When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong isn't busy hiring former Google executives, he's preparing for his company's spinoff from the Time Warner (TWX) mother ship, which is is supposed to happen by the end of the...
iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding
iMeem may go down in the history books as the little company that could. The service morphed from an instant-messaging centric social network into a widget service to a full on music streaming servic...
Rackspace: Sequoia Apparently Distributes Stake
Rackspace (RAX) investor Sequoia Capital yesterday apparently distributed its roughly 10% stake in the web-hosting company to its limited partners, a move which pushed down the share price and trigger...
Sources: ‘Light Peak’ technology not Apple idea
Industry sources are refuting a report claiming that a future fiber-optics technology was an Apple idea that was brought to Intel. — Light Peak was an Intel Labs project that the chipmaker was worki...
Kindle prepared for pre-Frankfurt UK launch
The Bookseller has heard from authoritative sources that Amazon.com will finally announce the arrival of its e-book device the Kindle in the UK next week. The news confirms the story first reported b...
Google bosses on trial in Italy
The trial of four Google employees has begun in Milan with an engineer from the search giant giving evidence. — The employees are accused of breaking Italian law in allowing a video of a teenager wi...
YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI's Next-Generation Codeline
YUI().use("node", function(Y) { Y.one("#message").setContent("Hello, World!") We're pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3's core infrastructure (YUI, Nod...
AT&T Acquires Plusmo to Further Mobile Applications Strategy
DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T - News) today announced the acquisition of privately-held Plusmo, Inc., a leading provider of cross-platform mobile application solutions, bringing to AT&T an ...
Stressing Hardcover Sales, Publisher Delays E-Book of Sarah Palin Memoir
For the second time this month, a publisher has decided to delay the electronic-book release of a major new title in hopes of maximizing hardcover sales, as the beleaguered industry works out how e-bo...
AT&T and TerreStar to Offer Hybrid Sat/Cell Phones
Today AT&T and TerreStar announced a new partnership that will make hybrid satellite-cellular phones available to customers in the U.S. The service will provide normal cellular access when users are c...
Fox Interactive Morphs Into News Corp. Digital Media; Management Reshuffle
So the ghost of Fox Interactive Media is finally buried, and now emerges the winner, ready to take on the world...or whatever. News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Digital Media (NDM) is the new name of News Corp...
RIM confirms October 2nd launch date for Mac version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager
How about some great news to get your Wednesday in full swing, Mac-sporting BlackBerry addicts? RIM has just made it official — BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac will be released at 1PM ET on Friday...
Palm Has a PREcarious Channel Issue
Yesterday morning, our teammate and partner, David Eller downgraded Palm (PALM) stock to Unfavorable from Neutral. Simultaneously, I published a report examining how this problem will likely disappea...
Ribbit injects voice into Google Wave release
Ribbit, one of the earliest web-based telephone services (acquired last year by British telecom giant BT), plans to ride Google Wave's coattails — announcing the integration of several gadgets allowin...
Google Wave First Look
If you're not one of the 100,000 lucky users who gets an invitation to Google Wave today, don't fret. You can check out Google Wave right here. — But first, ground rules. Click on all images in th...
Adobe boss takes seat at Dell
Annoyed with Adobe? Feel the company's customer commitment to be a little weak? Somewhat annoyed at the company's opaque price tier structure when it comes to Creative Suite sales in the UK and Euro...
Everything We Know About Apple's Touchscreen Tablet
It's looking more and more likely that Apple will release a 10-inch tablet computer in early 2010. — Even if you're sick of Apple tablet rumors, we promise you'll like this one. The latest update c...
Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% Call Drop Is “Normal” in New York
How utterly s**tty is the iPhone on AT&T in the New York area? The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls. And that's considered acceptable by Apple. — Giz reader Manoj took his iPhone to th...
Introducing the new Local Search for Mobile
The mobile search team is always looking for new ways to make searching the world around you as easy and useful as searching the web. Today we're introducing a redesigned local search experience on y...
Soon to Launch: Lists
My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I'm the project lead on Lists, a new feature we're testing with a small subset of users. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example...
Palm Pre Woes — When the Cloud Goes Down
When the Cloud Goes Down — The big news in the Palm world yesterday was the release of webOS 1.2. This new version had been delayed once or twice and contained a lot of fixes and new features. Like...
Your mobile and desktop search history now in sync
Sometimes I do a search on my desktop computer, only to find that I need to repeat the same search again later on my mobile phone. Today in the US we're launching Personalized Suggest for Android, iP...
Broadcom's Nicholas After The Fall
Forbes Magazine dated October 19, 2009 — Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicholas faces up to 360 years in jail on charges of backdating options and distributing illegal drugs. … Henry T. Nicholas III says...
Craigslist's Missed Connections as Art
Some browse the “Missed Connections” section on Craigslist in the hopes of spotting a posting from the dapper gent they exchanged a glance with in the checkout line. Others read the listings purely f...
Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally
How long would it take to translate all the world's web content into 50 languages? Even if all of the translators in the world worked around the clock, with the current growth rate of content being c...
Xobni now featuring Twitter!
Tonight we're launching a feature we've wanted to launch for a while and one which we've been using internally with much glee. Twitter is now integrated with Xobni. When you click on an Outlook emai...
HP Envy 13 Review: The MacBook Imitated, Not Duplicated
You know what they say about knock offs; they're never quite as good as the original. But HP's Envy 13, which is clearly a rip of the 13-inch MacBook Pro (everything down to packaging screams Apple),...
Zipcar app pulls into the App Store
According to Zipcar, a whopping 25 percent of its members own iPhones. So it was only a matter of time before the urban car sharing service released an iPhone app. — Originally demoed during the ke...
Twitter's Geolocation API Appears To Be Live. But Most Of You Are Lost.
I noticed something interesting tonight. In the new build of Tweetie 2 (not out yet), a bunch of little red location markers started appearing next to tweets in my stream. Knowing that this new vers...
Apple offers new resource for finding iPhone, iPod touch apps
Apple on Tuesday rolled out a new resource on its Web site for users that want to find apps for the iPhone or iPod touch. — The new section, called “Apps for Everything” breaks down the apps into nu...
Akamai's new network aims for iPhone HDTV
Akamai Technologies is extending its content delivery network to the Apple iPhone as it introduces the Akamai HD Network, a system for streaming high-definition live and on-demand video to a variety o...
Intuit QuickBooks 2010 Includes App Store
Intuit launched QuickBooks 2010 on Monday, including the must-have feature of recent software platforms, an app store. — Both QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 include the new Intuit App Center, which...
Report: HP mulls merging printer, PC units
Hewlett-Packard is considering a reorganization that would see the company's printer unit combined with its personal computer business, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday. — The plans...
BlackBerry Storm 2 hitting Verizon Wireless around October 25th?
One of our ninjas just blessed us with a product inventory shot from Best Buy. It shows that Best Buy locations will be getting BlackBerry Storm 2 dummy units starting October 25th. Why is that impo...
The end of objectivity - web 2.0 version
This week a new nail was driven into the coffin of the notion of journalistic objectivity. The culprit? The Washington Post's leaked social media policy. — The policy is aimed at preserving the ap...