Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u]
First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac ma...
Will Books Be Napsterized?
YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. — Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile ...
Google Wave's unproductive email metaphors
OK, I took a few hours off from playing with Google Wave yesterday. I read all my comments on the post I wrote Thursday about Google Wave, many of which were very ascerbic toward me. — I took the d...
Gmail Messages with Enhanced Content
Gmail added a feature that lets you interact with the messages sent by some companies without opening a new page. It's called “sponsored mail with enhanced content” and here's the description: … One ...
The model of the new media model
Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targ...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism
Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Nor does he want it to be. In a long interview about his company's relationship with newspapers and the print journal...
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy
Table of Contents: — Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 perc...
Apple flexes iPhone muscle with mobile networks
Apple dictates terms as iPhone price war looms between Vodafone, O2 and Orange. — Apple imposed such secrecy on mobile networks negotiating access to the iPhone that one was forced to keep the deal ...
A Partnership Between Old and New Media
The offices of Curbed, a blog network start-up, are located in the Village Voice building in New York. That is perhaps telling, as readers increasingly turn to blogs like Curbed's — which cover real ...
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World
What is that mountain you're driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry. Science fiction? Not anymore. Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physica...
Spooks want govt to block Skype
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption...
LifeSize to Release Passport amid Cisco-Tandberg Deal
As Cisco looks to extend the reach of its high-definition video conferencing capabilities by buying Tandberg, rival LifeSize Communications is unveiling Passport, a device designed to bring HD video c...