Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged
The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos-white …
This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claims
China Ontrade calls this the iPhone 4 Generation Midboard. Not very exciting, but the last time they announced a next-generation iPhone part, they were right. A month later, the iPhone 3GS appeared ...
Personal Droid Data Will Cost $30, Even With Exchange
Okay. There's a lot of confusion going on around the Internet about the Motorola Droid's service plans. Some people are saying that if you want to connect to a Microsoft Exchange account, data will ...
The First Mobile Device Dedicated Exclusively To Twitter
When the team at Twitter Inc. hatched the idea of producing a mobile device dedicated to “tweeting” they contacted Jonathan Kaplan, founder of a gadget company that experienced one of the most success...
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It's ...
Mystery of Argleton the ‘Google’ town that only exists online
Argleton, a ‘phantom town’ in Lancashire that appears on Google Maps and online directories but doesn't actually exist, has puzzled internet experts. — The town appears on Google Maps in the middle ...
Another Verizon DROID commercial, Stealth, and it's awesome
Forget the first commercial you saw, this one takes the cake. We've been told it should start airing on TV this week. Video is after the break.
Dutch hacker holds jailbroken iPhones “hostage” for €5
Though jailbreaking an iPhone certainly opens up opportunities to add functionality that Apple doesn't approve of, it can also make an iPhone less secure. Several Dutch iPhone users found that out th...
Blacksn0w unlock available now for iPhone 3G and 3GS
There's no stopping the eternal tug-of-war between the powers that be and the hackers that will, and for the time being it looks like things are back in the hands of the hackers. As of noon today gid...
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 announced, we go hands-on
The first Android device from Sony Ericsson may have undergone an upgrade in the naming department, jumping from X3 all the way to XPERIA X10 (probably to avoid confusion with Nokia's X3 handset), but...
AT&T sues Verizon over 'there's a map for that' ads
Whoa — we just got word that AT&T is suing Verizon for false advertising over Big Red's “There's a map for that” ads. We're reading the complaint and motion to stop the ads right now, but here's what...
Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era
Best Buy sells a lot of DVDs, but it is taking another step to get ready for the day when that business shifts online. — The giant electronics retailer on Tuesday is announcing a partnership with So...
Google's Music Search Launches Its Artist-Powered Promotion
Last night we broke the story that Google would be teaming with a number of well known artists to launch a promotion for its Music Onebox search, which was released last week. Turns out, it's launchi...
Spring Design Files Lawsuit against Barnes & Noble: Nook Violates Alex Intellectual Property
CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Spring Design today filed a lawsuit to protect its Alex™ e-book intellectual property. The lawsuit asserts Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets …
Was the iPhone's Launch in China Really a Bust?
Apple's internationally coveted iPhone finally arrived at market in China last week and by most accounts, it's debut was uncharacteristically muted. — There is “no sign of the sort of sellout recept...
Turkish government claims Google owes €32 million in taxes
[Turkey] Following an investigation that lasted over a year, Turkish authorities are fining Internet giant Google a total of 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 million or USD $47 million) for suppos...
Mobile browsing revolution: now available for Nokia smartphones
Opera Mobile 10 beta brings powerful features to world's most-used smartphone platform — Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets.
Cisco, EMC, and VMWare make alliance official
Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware announced Tuesday a joint venture to sell a new integrated data center product. — The venture will sell and provide maintenance and service support for the product, wh...
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Smooth Windows upgrade it ain't — Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. — Blank and flickering screen...
Why do we have an IMG element?
On February 25, 1993, Marc Andreessen wrote: … Xbm and Xpm were popular graphics formats on Unix systems. They are still supported in modern browsers. (I tested in Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chr...
RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What's Facebook Up To?
Zynga changed their lead gen scam policy this morning (the whole Scamville background is here, see updates at bottom as well). And now RockYou is taking steps to clean up their act to, according to a...
Sprint touts Palm Pixi's nonexistent WiFi
Sprint has a time-honored tradition of screwing up its ads. Remember the Palm OS-powered (yes, Palm OS, not webOS) Motorola Q2? How about the Pre's mythical tethering capability? Here's a new one t...
Pinching and the Droid
Joshua Topolsky, writing for Engadget, gives the Droid a very positive review overall. But regarding something I'd been wondering about, here's what he writes about multi-touch: … I, alas, don't have...
An App so You'll Never Forget
Adaptive-learning algorithms calculate how often people need to see information to remember it. — A language-learning application that's already big in Japan is coming to the U.S. in the form of a n...
Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With ‘Aiding Computer Intrusion’
An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a bro...
Unlimited-limited fail: Orange UK iPhone deal may ban Facebook, Spotify
Hopes that moving into a multi-carrier strategy in the UK would generate a price war have been dashed by Orange's announcement of price tariffs matching those of O2. Now the story takes a tragic turn...
Exclusive look at Apple's new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout
(ifoAppleStore) Within two weeks, Apple stores will begin retiring their current Windows CE-based portable computers and start using a custom-designed and crafted iPod touch to check out customers. A...
Turning Twitter into an application server
As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it's a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn ...
Friendsourcing the Quest for iPhone Apps
Recently, I asked a friend to show me his favorite new iPhone apps. He shrugged and said he didn't have any. He said it was too hard to find ones he wanted, and he didn't want to pay for anything he...
Ribbit Launches Google Voice Challenger
Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions. — I...
Augmented Reality Goes Mobile
The technology for meshing digital data with actual images, or augmented reality, makes a jump to smartphones, and the market is taking off — It was the shake heard 'round the world. On Aug. 27, 20...