Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store
Apple® today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 countries ca...
Motorola's Droid Is Smart Success for Verizon Users
Verizon Wireless customers tend to love the company's fast 3G network. But many tech-oriented Verizon loyalists gripe about the carrier's high-end smart phones, which haven't matched the cachet and v...
EMI Sues BlueBeat for Selling Beatles Tunes Online
The record label EMI has sued a little known online music site called BlueBeat.com for selling Beatles songs without permission, an EMI source told Wired.com. — The Beatles catalog, including dozens...
Testing new tweet notifications
We're starting a limited test of notifications on twitter.com for when you have new tweets. So if one of the folks you follow has tweeted since you loaded your homepage, you'll get a little notice sa...
Google Friend Connect, now more personalized
(Cross-posted with the Social Web Blog) — On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local gui...
CrunchPad Dead? Delayed By Higher-Than-Expected Costs?
The CrunchPad, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's entry into the gadget business, is still missing in action. — Are higher-than-expected costs to blame? — One story we heard from a few people ...
Amazon Turns On The Twitter Pump To Fuel Referral Fees
Tonight, Amazon sent an email to members of Amazon Associates letting them know about a new feature: Twitter integration. Basically, when you're logged into your Associate account, you'll see a new “...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future
For all the bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers,...
Exclusive: More Microsoft layoffs
We're hearing from unofficial but reliable sources tonight that Microsoft is poised to make additional job cuts this week, with the affected employees expected to be notified as early as Wednesday mor...
Microsoft Courier's Swipes, Snips and Scribbles: The Leaked Interface
We've seen slides and videos of Microsoft's Courier booklet in action, but nothing has quite explained how all of these things actually work. This document explains Courier's interface, gestures and ...
Parallels launches latest software to blend Mac and Windows apps
Parallels is one of those little companies that could make some big companies very nervous. The Renton, Wash.-based software maker is launching its Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac today. — The software...
Confirmed: Verizon Wireless to charge up to $350 early termination on “advanced devices”
Here's what Big Red is working with: they've offered up a BOGO sale on all new BlackBerrys for the holiday buying season, and where some see a great deal, others see a great opportunity.
Oracle braced for EU objection on Sun deal
By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels — Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn acquisition of fellow US technology company Sun Microsyste...
Apple Unveils Music-Themed Movie Push
Apple today will launch a new marketing and promotional effort designed to drive music buyers to music-themed movies in its video store. — The most visible change to the iTunes service will be a Mus...
Linden Lab launches enterprise version of Second Life virtual world
Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into ...
Cuomo Files Antitrust Suit Against Intel
Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world's largest chip maker. — The lawsuit charg...
NBC Prepares For The Winter Olympics With Silverlight, HD Video, And Facebook Connect
NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site, NBCOlympics.com, scheduled to go live tomorrow. (See screenshots below). Once again, just as it did with the …
Kaspersky Offers Macs a Security Blanket
Antivirus software designed to thwart growing malware threat to Macs. — Macintosh computers have long been thought to be overlooked by malware and phishing attacks, but they are becoming more and mo...
Foursquare launching 14 new European cities today
Good news for those of you desperate to play Foursquare, the hugely popular location-based game: new European cities are being switched on today. — Until now London and Amsterdam were the only Europ...
Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer Before Bombing Mysterious Facility
Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel.
USB 3.0 thumb drive pops up
Super Talent goes SuperSpeed — Flash vendor Super Talent is leading the pack again and has come up with a USB 3.0 thumb drive. — Its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDRive comes in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capa...
Hands-On: Spring Design's Dual-Screen Android Alex eBook Reader
There's good news and bad news for eBook fans. First up: new eBook readers using Marvell's ARMADA 166E chip could see triple the frame rate of first generation devices. The bad news: the faster fram...