This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day
I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo! Hack Day back in 2005, and I've since participated in hack day events at Yahoo!, Global R...
Motorola Droid hands on!
We absolutely nailed this puppy to the wall over and over and over again, so it's only fitting we'd be doing the first actual unveiling, right? We're not going to get too in-depth though, that will c...
Apple execs book flight time for mystery product, ‘not iPhone’, bafflement follows
We're deciphering Apple executives and their fourth quarter statements right now - but the initial take away at this stage is the company's mysterious admission that “air freight costs” are set to ris...
Plastic Logic Shows Off a (Quick) Look at Its Kindle Killer: Meet the Que
Plastic Logic, which has been talking up its coming e-reader for some time now but hasn't actually started selling it, has a little more to say: It will have more to say about its coming e-reader in a...
Barnes & Noble ‘Nook’ e-reader with color touchscreen out Tuesday for $259, says WSJ (update: Best Buy connection?)
Looks like the cat's out of the bag. The Wall Street Journal's had a glimpse at what it says is an upcoming ad for Barnes & Noble's impending announcement …
Random users Google Voice mail is searchable by anyone?
Holy crap. It seems that Google is going to have some pretty serious explaining to do this morning, as one of our readers has sent us in a tip that reveals a major security flaw involving Google Voic...
Internet Archive's BookServer could ‘dominate’ Amazon
SAN FRANCISCO—An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazo...
Rock Band Hits The App Store
The much anticipated and hyped Rock Band for iPhone and iPod Touch is out! We first scooped the news of the launch of the app a few weeks ago. Shortly afterwards, Rock Band for the iPhone/iPod touch...
Twitter hits five billion tweets
Former Current Media executive Robin Sloan appears to have posted Twitter's five billionth tweet, in the form of a reply to another user that otherwise read only “Oh lord.” — The landmark status of ...
Bigger News for Verizon Than Motorola's Droid
This weekend was chocked full of Verizon and Motorola news. Earlier this month, Verizon and Google had a joint news conference debuting the new Motorola Droid and announcing a partnership to leverage...
Spring Design Announces Dual Screen E-book Reader,
Hyperlinking Text with Multimedia — Secondary color touchscreen supplements text with web-based or any linked multimedia content; Enables users to enhance original text with their own embedded video...
Flying in a WiFi wonderland: Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights
We know the holiday season seems to come earlier every year (sorry, Halloween), but before you make your final travel plans, we're excited to let you know that we're partnering with Virgin America …
Microsoft Update on Sidekick Data Restoration
The Danger / Microsoft team is continuing to work around the clock on the data restoration process. We apologize that this is taking so long, but we want to make sure we are doing everything possible...
Vevo Gets Its Investor: Abu Dhabi Media Joins “Hulu for Music Videos”
Vevo, the music industry's version of Hulu, now has its own version of Providence Equity, the outside investor that took a flyer on the Web TV and movie joint venture: Abu Dhabi Media Company has purc...
NY Times all but says it: Ballmer must go
Ashlee Vance gets access to Ballmer and delivers a death blow. The Borg, Vance says, is on a “long and winding course toward irrelevance.” Seriously, this is a devastating piece. Money quotes (lots...
Photo-Blogging Site DailyBooth Raises $1 Million
Money continues to rain down on “real-time” start-ups-Web sites, like Twitter, that are devoted to helping users share details about their lives as they happen. The latest example: a fledgling two-pe...
.NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce support) unblocked
We received confirmation from Microsoft this evening that the Framework Assistant add-on is not a mechanism for exploiting the vulnerabilities detailed in the earlier post, so we've removed it from th...
Sony's 360-degree 3D display prototype makes virtual pets more lifelike, expensive
In case you missed it, Sony's got a thing for 3D with big plans to push the technology into your living room next year. While the first application will be applied to the flat screen TV …
Microsoft to open Apple store rival in Arizona
Microsoft's first dedicated high-street store will open in the trendy US town of Scottsdale, Arizona, on Thursday — The opening will coincide with the launch of Microsoft's new operating system, Win...
Zoho Projects Now Integrated With Google Apps
Web-based productivity suite Zoho has continued to integrate its products with Google in order to make it easier to use Gmail and Zoho apps simultaneously. Last summer, Zoho, a web-based software sui...
Google loses Europe COO Ben Legg to European Directories
European Directories has announced a big win this morning with the appointment of Ben Legg as Chief Operating Officer. — Legg joins the Dutch/British company from Google, one of its main competitors...
Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post
Twitter and Facebook ask users to answer the question: What are you doing right now? — But for many urbanites in their 20s and 30s, two other questions are just as important: Where are you, and can ...
24 years of Windows package design
A history of Microsoft's OS in card and plastic — Software packaging isn't exactly the epitome of great design. And, as the world's most used operating system - and being from Microsoft - Windows h...