FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials
Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements — The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertiser...
FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records
When Aaron Swartz, a 22 year-old programmer, decided last fall to help an open government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he'd end up with...
Building Applications for the iPhone with Flash
This morning during the day 1 keynote at Adobe Max 2009, Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Flash (Flash Professional CS5) will include support for creating stand-alone applications for th...
Palm: Free Apps For The Web, Free Development For Open Source, And Free Phones!
I'm here in San Francisco for a meeting Palm has called to give its newest employees, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, who both came over from Mozilla, a chance to talk a bit about the state of the webO...
How Happy Are We?
Every day, through Facebook status updates, people share how they feel with those who matter most in their lives. These updates are tiny windows into how people are doing. They're brief, to the poin...
Bell, Telus to launch iPhone next month
Move will break Rogers' year-long stranglehold; telcos set to launch next-generation wireless network ahead of schedule — BCE Inc.'s BCE-T Bell Canada and Telus Corp. T-T will begin selling the iPho...
Gateway's Windows 7-boasting EC18T tablet images, specs leak onto the screen
Hey, what's this attractive looking dude? Well, from the looks of it, it's Gateway's not-yet-announced or previously spied tablet PC. A tipster with access to a seemingly infinite number of photos o...
New Verizon ad campaign takes a direct swipe at AT&T's network
A new advertising campaign from Verizon Wireless starting tonight during the big Monday Night Football game will take a direct swipe at AT&T's network, playing off the successful Apple iPhone commerci...
Apple and Windows Computers Living Together Under One Roof, According to New NPD Report
Nearly 85 Percent of All Apple Households Also Own a Windows PC
Apple Leaving Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change Stance
Apple Inc. is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber's strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, the computer giant said Monday. — In a letter ...
Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor's Perspective
This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetiz...
Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC
SAN FRANCISCO — The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new: tablet computers. — Quietly, several high-tech companies are ...
Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones
Did you pick up an AT&T Pure over the weekend? Yeah, then you might want to spin up Windows Marketplace on your new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. It's live and dancing right now a full day before any ...
Vonage Releases Calling Apps for iPhone and BlackBerry
While the Google Voice application for the iPhone continues to be hung up in Apple's review process, a similar application from another company has passed with flying colors. — On Monday, Vonage, th...
Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online. — An anonymous us...
Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service
Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the “Amazon Mobile Payments Service,” the technology includes a set of APIs (applica...
AVG launches free antivirus suite as Microsoft crashes its party
AVG Technologies has made itself into a familiar name on the Internet by giving users antivirus software at a pretty good price: free. That's how it got 85 million users. Today, the company is annou...
Googled: Schmidt Wants To Build A “$100 Billion Media Company”
If Google were a sitcom, it would open every week with co-founder Sergey Brin arriving late to a meeting “out of breath in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and on Rollerblades.” This familiar depiction of Brin...
Toshiba's Cell-Powered REGZA 55X1 LCD TV Can Record and Display 8 Channels At Once
Toshiba's first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher's LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlle...
Rumor: Windows Live Wave 4 beta this week
New rumors are saying we'll be seeing a beta of Windows Live Wave 4 this week, and the final release in Spring/Summer 2010. — Here's a tweet from user nikhil_j that is sure to get the Microsoft beta...
T-Mobile to Launch Samsung's Google Phone
Samsung Behold II, the first an Android phone sold by the South Korean handset giant, is coming to the U.S. via T-Mobile USA, the two companies announced today. The new device will carry Samsung's To...
Ready for your close-up? Jinni goes into public beta
Finding a movie to watch on a rainy Friday night can be like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.Jinni is a content discovery system, or as the makers prefer to call it a “taste engine”, for m...
MYSPACE APPOINTS MARK ROSENBAUM CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Rosenbaum Returns to News Corporation to Lead MySpace's Financial Operations LOS ANGELES - October 5, 2009 - MySpace today announced the appointment of Mark Rosenbaum to the role of Chief Financial Of...
30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software
In September I didn't do a 30 day challenge because, frankly, I had a lot of work that I really needed to crunch through at the Googleplex and I didn't have much spare time. But October is a new mont...
Is Google a Social Media Company?
Perhaps Google's stiffest competition in the immediate future isn't Bing and Yahoo, but rather it's the likes of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook. Just as we no longer search for the news (24 of the ...
Verizon Wireless, Sam's Club, TARGET: gearing up to launch Motorola Droid, BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2, more
If you've been wondering whether the Motorola Droid (or Tao, or Sholes — whatever), BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2 or LG Chocolate Touch would be hitting Sam's Club stores or even TARGET, you'...
T-Mobile USA kicks off corporate Wi-Fi push
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA plans on Monday to start offering a wireless service for office workers, hoping to increase its presence in the corporate market as it chases la...
Ad Networks On Edge As Facebook Shuts Down Developers
A number of the large ad networks have been reaching out to developers to let them know that they essentially have no idea what's going on. Facebook has taken the latest actions without giving develo...
US Home Mac ownership hits 12 percent - NPD
The NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, reveals that approximately 12 per cent of all US computer owning households own a Mac, up from 9 per cent in 2008. — The researchers note to that wh...
Adobe Puts LiveCycle in the Cloud
Adobe Systems is preparing an update to its document-based workflow system, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, that can be hosted in the Amazon computing cloud and accessed on the go from smartphones, the co...
Microsoft's Ballmer says Web search buys unlikely
* Growth still seen returning slowly, at lower levels — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google Inc's (GOOG.O) dominance in the Internet sea...