A Windows to Help You Forget
In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft's long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vi...
Foxconn said to be tapped to make Apple tablet PC, shipments expected to begin in 1Q10
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will be the manufacturing partner for an upcoming tablet PC device from Apple, according to market sources. The device is expected to hit the market …
Introducing Search Options for mobile
Finding the exact information you need sometimes requires filtering and refining your search results. Earlier in the year, we launched a collection of tools called Search Options which enable you to ...
Kindle 2 goes to $259, International GSM version coming October 19
This just in: the Kindle 2 is falling from $299 to $259 and they will be selling an international version with built-in AT&T SIM card for $279 on October 19. Quoth the suits: … The new international ...
FTC Responds to Blogger Fears: “That $11,000 Fine is Not True”
As you've likely heard by now, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to reign in freebie-grabbing bloggers and graft-happy social media users masquerading as unbiased critics. The agency announced a...
Antitrust: Commission market tests
The European Commission will on 9 October 2009 formally invite comments from consumers, software companies, computer manufacturers …
Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9
Believe it or not, Windows 7's successor(s) have been in the planning and early development stages for a while now. We haven't posted anything about any of them yet, but we've been watching closely t...
Compuware Buys Gomez For $295 Million In Cash
Compuware is acquiring Web app experience management solution provider Gomez for $295 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in November of 2009, following government approvals and the satisf...
Quickly view formatted PDFs in your search results
Google search results sometimes include documents that were not originally formatted to be viewed in a web browser, such as PDFs. In the past, the only way to view these documents was to download the...
Use Your Voice to Text, Call and Search with Bing
Today Sprint Wireless announced their new Samsung Intrepid phone with a new voice user interface from Tellme. This new interface will allow you to search the Web with Bing by speaking your search que...
FBI head banned from online banking after phishing attempt
SAN FRANCISCO—No one is immune from cyberthreats, not even the head of the FBI. — FBI Director Robert Mueller was banned by his wife from doing online banking after he nearly fell for a phishing sca...
In E-Books, It's an Army vs. Google
SAN FRANCISCO — Whenever it can, Google likes to have programmers solve its problems. But now it faces a dispute that even its ranks of lawyers and lobbyists are finding hard to smooth over. — A br...
One Hundred Linked to International Computer Hacking Ring Charged by United States and Egypt in Operation Phish Phry
LOS ANGELES—The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt …
Live Blogging: Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt Talking Search With The Press
Google cofounder Sergey Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt are speaking today to a small gathering of reporters at Google's New York office. Below, a semi-live blog of the briefing. — Semi-live?
Apple's Mighty Mouse Never Lived Up To Its Name. And Now It Can't.
It seems pretty clear at this point that Apple is getting ready to release a new mouse, probably with some kind of multi-touch capabilities, that is probably attached to some new iMacs. No one is hap...
Exclusive: Dell's Android phone is coming to the U.S.
Remember the Dell Mini 3i, Dell's China-only Android phone? Well it's not China-only anymore. — Rumor has it that Dell will bring the Mini 3i to the U.S. in the next few months to compete with othe...
My GMail password scares me with its power!
Google's GMail blog has some “handy” advice on how pick a good password to project your email account. — Don't use dictionary words, use mixed case, your eldest kid's name is a bad choice, etc etc. ...
Google Cloudboard
Google tests a service called Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should make it easy to copy data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services. The service is not publicly available yet, bu...
Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's
(10-05) 12:38 PDT — The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google. — At a press ...
Palm Pre says “Hola” to Spain on 14 October
Telefonica today announced the availability of Palm Pre on its HSDPA mobile network in Spain on 14 October. New Telefonica customers can receive the phone at no cost, depending on their service plan ...
Man banished from PayPal for showing how to hack PayPal
Some hacking tools more equal than others — PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker on Tuesday, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit ...
BBC Planning Pay-For Global iPlayer; $10 For Doctor Who?
BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial wing, is planning to launch a pay-for video-on-demand portal, a range of new paid mobile apps and a series of ecommerce partnerships overseas, after endurin...
HitWise Says Microsoft Bing Fell to Google's Gain
Microsoft Bing's U.S. search fell from 9.49 percent of U.S. search share in August to 8.99 percent in September, according to figures from HitWise. Google recorded 71 percent of U.S. searches from 70...
Kohjinsha dual-screen swivel netbook prototype hands-on
Sure, gScreen is slowly mastering the art of grainy video teasers with its dual-panel portable, but here at its CEATEC booth, Kohjinsha's got quite a looker of its own, on display in a very clear and ...