Twitter Talking Separately to Microsoft and Google About Big Data-Mining Deals
Is there gold in them thar tweets? — Maybe so, because-according to sources familiar with the situation-Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google separately about striking data-mining d...
It's My Browser, and I'll Auto-Click if I Want To
Free file hosting provider MediaFire seems to think that, when you follow a link to download a file from its service, it has the right to control your browser. This is yet another example of a web si...
Sony Vaio X: World's Lightest Laptop $1300 (Actually Affordable, For a Vaio)
Sony's X comes out from its dark hiding spot. Not only is the 11-inch carbon fiber notebook super slim, but it's actually affordable on the Sony scale of economy, starting at $1,300. (Update: It's g...
New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010
We're thrilled about the growing number of people who are using Microsoft Office every day to get things done at work, at home, at school and on the go. For instance: — 500 million people worldwide ...
BlackBerry Bold 2 to be announced October 21 for T-Mobile, AT&T
We have it on good authority that T-Mobile and AT&T both currently plan on announcing the Bold 2 — also known as the Onyx — on October 21. As a refresher, this would be the touchpad-driven piece with...
Barnes & Noble's eReader Will Run Android
It's not certain, but I'll be damned if it isn't the best idea I've heard in a while: Barnes & Noble's rapidly-approaching eReader will be an Android piece, according to our source. And it should be,...
Join the Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype
You might have heard of the new experiment Google is running for its homepage, showing only logo and search box (and apparently search buttons, at times) unless your mouse moves over the page. To joi...
Microsoft plans monster Patch Tuesday next week
Unlucky 13 sets record as biggest-ever patch day, includes first-ever for Windows 7 RTM — Computerworld - Microsoft today said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday ...
Ozzie on the realtime wave
In June, I spent several days on the Microsoft campus talking with Microsoft executives about the impact of realtime and the emerging era of cloud computing. My conversation with Chief Software Archi...
Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine, Chubby Exterior
Iomega's on to something with the StorCenter ix2-200: built-in torrent and Time Machine support, Bluetooth-based uploads from phones, remote access, and lotsa spiffy features wrapped up in an earth-fr...
VC Fund-Raising Drops, Marketing Not Worth ‘Brain Damage’
Just like their portfolio companies, venture capital firms continue to find it difficult to raise funding compared with last year. — Through the end of the third quarter, 83 venture funds raised $8 ...
Miley Cyrus quits Twitter
On television, Disney star Miley Cyrus can flip between her normal self and her Hannah Montana alter ego, just by putting on a blond wig. — On the Internet, the 16 year-old Cyrus also can switch off...
Yes, Rock Band is coming to iPhone. Here's proof.
A few weeks back, we got a press release from EA's PR company. It was tucked within an attachment titled “Rock Band Verizon iPhone Fact Sheet_V3.docx”. As if seeing “iPhone” behind “Verizon” wasn't ...
PCs are best for e-reading, Microsoft's Ballmer says
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Microsoft has no plans to develop a digital book reader to compete with the fast-growing popularity of Amazon's Kindle or a device that rival Apple is reportedly dev...
There is no WebKit on Mobile
Last week I spent a lot of time on WebKit in order to produce a comprehensive comparison of all WebKits. My purpose was to prove there is no “WebKit on Mobile,” and to gain some more insight in the c...
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
In September, Intel showed off Light Peak as if it were the latest the latest hot idea out of the labs. But the fiber-optic communication technology could well be coming to near you next year rather ...
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web
When it comes to built-in support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, WebGL is being built into Firefox and the browser project behind Safari, and now Chrome is following suit. — “Preliminary WebG...
Burst Media Acquires Giant Realm
Deal Reinforces Burst's Position as a Champion of Vertical Content Online — BURLINGTON, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Burst Media, (www.BurstMedia.com), a leading provider of advertising representation, ser...
Royal Mail loses Amazon contract as postal strikes loom
Threat to deliveries forces major client to pull plug on £25m deal — Royal Mail has lost a crucial contract with its second largest customer, the online retailer Amazon, as a wave of strikes threate...
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight
In the battle for supremacy among the software industry's Big Four, Cisco may be placing the biggest bets and angling for the biggest returns. Some still think of Cisco as a networking hardware vendo...
Best Buy Announces MobileMe Competitor “mIQ”
Earlier this week, electronics retailer Best Buy announced a new mobile backup service called mIQ. Designed to compete with similar services like Apple's MobileMe or Microsoft's My Phone, mIQ offers ...
IPhone Tethering Still Unavailable, AT&T Says
AT&T subscribers still won't be able to use their iPhones as wireless modems for their computers, despite the carrier's reversed position on Internet-phone applications. … Tethering, the process of us...
Google Offers A Proposal To Make AJAX Crawlable
It's one of the most common pieces of SEO advice you'll find: Don't build your web site with AJAX if you want it to be crawled and indexed by search engines. AJAX-based web sites are essentially a lo...
Rogers and RIM Launch the New BlackBerry Curve 8520 Smartphone in Canada
TORONTO, ONTARIO and WATERLOO, ONTARIO—(Marketwire - Oct. 8, 2009) - Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI)(NYSE:RCI) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today launched the BlackBerry® CurveTM 8520...