Apple tablet: For video, not books?
Chatting with a Canadian analyst, Cupertino execs offer hints about Apple's future plans — Apple executives (AAPL) have strict rules about not discussing products that the company has not announced....
Introducing Cisco's FlipShare TV
How I love thee, FCC, and thy never-ending bounty of product announcements. Scanning through the filings this evening, I solved the Flip remote control radiation test report mystery. After perusing ...
Google: We're not making Android hardware
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google's Andy Rubin, head of the company's Android development, would like to clear something up: Google is not in the phone-making business. — Last week TheStreet.com reported...
Google Wave to be opened for federation today! Yes, for you to host.
We've just learned that Google might announce the opening of their Google Wave servers for federation later today. — So what does this mean? There are currently two major Wave infrastructures in pl...
Google talent search: error 502?
Google's recruiters are infamous in the Valley for dismissing Ivy-free applications* and posing highly technical brainteasers** during interviews. — But apparently these “past results do not necessa...
27-inch iMacs having performance issues?
It's not at all clear what the root cause of the problem is, but we've noticed a big uptick in people complaining about performance issues on new 27-inch iMacs on Apple's support boards. The most com...
ICANN Moves Ahead With Non-Latin Web Addresses (Video)
As expected, regulatory body ICANN has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters in a move that it calls the “biggest technical change” to how the Internet works since its...
Windows XP Phone: A First Look at its Touchscreen Interface
Remember the xpPhone? The 4.8-inch touchscreen slider has netbook-like specs, some sort of “AMD Super Mobile CPU”, and runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP. They've just sent through shots of its ph...
Total Cost of Ownership: Motorola Droid vs iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs MyTouch 3G
After months and months of blogger buzz and a heavy veil of secrecy, the new Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless is set to launch within days, just in time for the holiday season.
Mobile gaming evolves - Ovi Store is here
We've been busy evolving our mobile gaming service and building up the portfolio of games in Ovi Store. Currently, we have more than a thousand games available in Ovi Store supported by 100 Nokia dev...
Marvel Comics come to iPhone
Excelsior! Comixology, makers of the free comic-book app Comics, have brought one of the “big two” comics publishers to the iPhone for the first time. — On Thursday the company announced that, effe...
First Look: Apple TV 3.0
The Apple TV is a strange beast. Steve Jobs famously referred to his company's media-playback box as “a hobby.” In early 2008 Apple released a major software update, Apple TV 2.0, that revamped its ...
For Facebook And Zappos, Two Divergent Views Of Its Employees
For fast-growing technology start-ups, there are many approaches to employee hiring and retention. — Two of the more successful Internet start-ups, Facebook Inc. and Zappos Inc., have very different...
Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
Today we released an update to the Bing for mobile browser at m.bing.com. In addition to being a great resource for local searches, quick answers, and maps, we have some new features to tell you abou...
Microsoft Tortures Little Kids With Bing Jingle
Maybe you'll recall when I ripped apart the Bing jingle winner back in August. It was bad — real bad. But its creator, Jonathan Mann is a talented guy, and even made a jingle ripping me, which was b...
Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel Resigns
Jed Stremel, Facebook's Director of Mobile who has been with the company for four years, has resigned, according to a post on his Facebook profile. Stremel was charged with leading the company's mobi...
iPhone launches in China, faces challenges
Apple's iPhone launched in China this morning, but the introduction of the hot US product has hit a little snag - the first iterations to reach market lack WiFI, even though local law was recently cha...
BlueBeat streaming and selling Beatles albums digitally
We have to admit, we're baffled by this one. BlueBeat is a US-based site offering high-quality streams of full albums, as well as downloads for $0.25 a track. Its Facebook page promises to “stop the...
Using RSS/Atom feeds to discover new URLs
Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results so...
MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)
MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collab...
Adobe AIR 2.0 will hog less memory and add multitouch support
If you use Adobe AIR apps on a regular basis, you have a lot to look forward to in AIR 2.0. The next version of Adobe's cross-platform app framework adds a bunch of little tweaks and a few major ones...
Epix Launches Premium Movie Channel for TV and the Web (Invites)
Almost every TV channel offers some programming on the Web these days. Epix, a new premium movie channel that will launch this weekend, goes a step further. If you are a Verizon FiOS subscriber, you...
Google Wave Federation: Why it Matters
According to The Next Web, the Google Wave team is getting ready to open up its servers for federation. This announcement may come as early as today. — The Google Wave we see today is only one part...
How Sanjay Jha Overhauled Motorola's Culture
Sanjay Jha seems to be on track to pull Motorola's cellphone division out of a tailspin. — The company is hardly flying high. It reported ever-so-slightly better than expected third-quarter earning...
Construction robot inspired by sci-fi movie
Activelink chief engineer Go Shirogauchi wearing the robotic exoskeleton inspired by Aliens / Activelink — JAPANESE engineers have taken us one step closer to the robot revolution by developing a ma...
Ad man behind ‘1984,’ ‘Think Different,’ and 'I'm a Mac' stepping down
PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — Lee Clow has served as the chief creative officer TBWA/Media Arts Lab, which handles Apple's advertising business, for a long time. Clow is the man behind Apple's ...
Foo Fighters To Stream Concert Tomorrow Night On Facebook, Powered By Livestream
The Foo Fighters will be streaming a concert live tomorrow night on Facebook, direct from the band's Studio 606 headquarters in Los Angeles. You can RSVP to the event here, and stream it live here be...
1,000-plus people crowd new Microsoft Store
The Microsoft Store at the Shops at Mission Viejo officially opened. — Recommend — MISSION VIEJO - Nobody was getting into American Eagle Outfitters this morning. — More than 1,000 people were b...
Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
Starting November 16, Microsoft is ending distribution and sales of its Microsoft Office Accounting product. Company officials began notifying customers of the decision on October 30. — All Microso...
Bling Nation Raises $20 Million For Cell Phone Payment System
What recession? Startup Bling Nation just raised $20 million in Series B funding from Balderton Capital for a new cell phone payment system. This brings the startup's total funding to $33 million si...
Facebook Platform Live Status Now Up And Running
For any Facebook developer, platform downtime is a fact of life. While Facebook has built a relatively stable platform, there are many occasions where it goes down for a period of time. For develope...
RealNetworks back in the black, eyes Google tie-up
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. digital media company RealNetworks Inc swung back into the black in the third quarter as cost-cutting offset sliding revenue from music and games. — RealNetworks, which ...
One-handed computing with the iPhone
The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable networked c...