Google Voice with your existing number
Google Voice is all about enabling choice: which phone you pick up your calls on, where to review your voicemail messages, how to send and reply to text messages, etc. So when it comes to your phone ...
Similar Images graduates from Google Labs
Today, we're happy to announce that Similar Images is graduating from Google Labs and becoming a permanent feature in Google Images. You can try it out by clicking on “Find similar images” below the ...
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service
We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don't spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operat...
Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc., making it the largest city in the nation to make the move and handing the Web search giant a major v...
Apple shops tablet around Australia
Apple is preparing to release a groundbreaking tablet computer in Australia and around the world early next year and has been in discussions with media companies about including their content on the d...
Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!
I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair). — Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync...
It's Official. Google Wave to Get Its Own App Store (with potentially more than just apps)
My fellow writer James Glick attended the Google Wave GTUG (Google Technology User Group) meeting in London yesterday and came away with a few interesting nuggets of information regarding the future o...
Apple Soars Behind iPhone 3GS Momentum
By Paul Carton, Director of Research, ChangeWave Research — These are heady times for the smart phone market, with consumer buying plans near record levels. Moreover, electronics spending in genera...
Microsoft's Outlook Opens Up To An Uncertain Future
While most of us were too engrossed today in the somewhat ephemeral news around Google's new attempts at becoming social, something much more profound transpired — something that can have an impact on...
HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones
It looks like Motorola aren't the only people to get a taste of that yummy Eclair - otherwise known as Android 2.0. The Android 2.0 software launch is going very oddly. Google hasn't announced the O...
Spotify CTO Is Leaving, Door Won't Hit Him On The Way Out
Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn tweeted about leaving the company this morning, in a surprise move that might signal the direction of things at the Stockholm (er, Luxembourg) based startup. — When a CTO lea...
Why Windows 7 Costs so Much
I've had a couple days now with Windows 7 and it is certainly an improvement over both Vista and XP, requiring slightly less resources than either (significantly less than Vista), booting faster, and ...
Report: Stray jet's pilots were on laptops
(CNN) — The pilots of the commercial jetliner that last week overshot its destination by about 150 miles have said they were using their laptops and lost track of time and location, federal safety off...
Exclusive: Microsoft's MSN Is in Early Talks With MySpace About Music Tie-Up
Microsoft's MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social networking site's music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal. — While sources at both...
Chrome, Not Chromium, For Mac Has That Solid Feel
We've spent the past several months closely tracking the progress of Chrome for Mac. Well over a year after its release for Windows, there hasn't been so much as a beta version for Mac (or Linux, for...
Tech Firms Make Bet With Ad Blitz
Technology companies are launching big advertising campaigns as they wager on a pickup in business spending and jockey to have their products stand apart in an environment where new customers are hard...
Apple Reportedly Bumps iPhone 3GS Manufacturing Orders Nearly 20%
DigiTimes reports on claims from several sources indicating that Apple has recently increased manufacturing orders for the iPhone 3GS by up to 20%, suggesting continued strong demand for the device.
Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons
Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 ...
SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning...
Qualcomm Invests in Open Source
Qualcomm has joined its rival Intel in jumping aboard the open source bandwagon. The San Diego-based chipmaker today unveiled the Qualcomm Innovation Center, a subsidiary created to “optimize open so...
Microsoft's Many Multitouch Mice
Apple's Magic Mouse might be slick, but Microsoft is working on five multitouch mouse designs. — Last week Apple released the Magic Mouse, a new computer mouse with a “multitouch” interface that res...
Apple: How Long a Rally?
Most analysts see further gains in Apple's stock price, but the bigger the company gets, the harder it will be to achieve game-changing growth — The rally that propelled Apple's shares to a record h...
A Presidential Hacking Hoax
A hacker appears to have used BarackObama.com to gain access to a Chicago area university. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — An anonymous blogger is claiming to have gained full access to the databases behind ...