Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!
now complete with a Dashboard! — Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a...
Retweet Limited Rollout
We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting twe...
The decade of Steve
How Apple's imperious, brilliant CEO transformed American business. — (Fortune magazine) — How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s,...
Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%
It has been quite amazing to watch the global excitement build around Windows 7, especially during a tough economic climate. It was just a few short weeks ago that we learned about Windows 7 outselli...
Introducing Google Commerce Search: Finding holiday gifts faster
The holiday season is right around the corner, so online retailers are gearing up for spikes in traffic. When people go to shop online, search is big part of finding the right product, whether they'r...
Twitter Starts Curating Trending Topic Tweets
Twitter's Trending Topics area is one of the easiest things to game on the web. Even when trends start out as real items, spammers often latch onto them with bogus tweets hoping to ride the wave and ...
Has the T-Mobile HSPA 7.2 rollout begun? Yes! Confirmed.
Earlier today we reported that T-Mobile's HSPA 7.2 upgrade was still on track for 2009. One of our readers Ted left an interesting comment: HSPA has been lit up in Chicago! I just tested it and got ...
Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's past mistakes
Eric Schmidt appeared on Fox Business Network tonight for an extensive interview with host Neil Cavuto, who pressed the Google CEO a couple times over whether the company has the potential to become t...
I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning
According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow.
Introducing Closure Tools
Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, ...
Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole
Web authentication busted on Apache, IIS — Researchers say they've uncovered a flaw in the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to inject text into encrypted traffic passing between t...
iPhone Users Sue Gaming Company For Harvesting Cell Numbers
Gaming manufacturer Storm8 has been sued for allegedly collecting phone numbers of iPhone users who downloaded the company's popular games from the iTunes app store. — “The wireless telephone number...
EU Breaks Deadlock in Debate Over Right to Internet Access
After months of often bitter debate, European Union lawmakers reached agreement on how to preserve citizen's rights to Internet access in a meeting that ended in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Apple testing RFID-enabled iPhone?
Einar Rosenberg, who runs the Near Field Communications Group on Linkedin.com, has reported the following: … For more details on Apple's ‘Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader’ patent see our earlier article h...
Verizon confirms Droid tethering option, hefty price tag
Motorola Droid smartphones to match capability of Apple's iPhone — Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones, on sale t...
No Doubt sues Activision over Band Hero [Updated]
Rock band No Doubt has filed a real-world lawsuit over its virtual role in the just-released Band Hero edition of the Guitar Hero video game series, claiming that the game has “transformed No Doubt ba...
Social Isolation and New Technology
This report adds new insights to an ongoing debate about the extent of social isolation in America. A widely-reported 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated, t...
Palm Shows Ares WebOS Development Tool
Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year. — Ares got its first public demonstration on Thursday at the Open Mobile Summit ...
Moblin v2.1 project release for netbooks and nettops - it's here
The Moblin™ project steering committee today announces the project release of Moblin v2.1 for Intel Atom* processor-based netbooks and nettops. This project release includes the broadest feature addi...
AT&T gearing up to launch $99 8GB iPhone 3GS?
Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We've heard now from two sources that AT&T, and we guess Apple, are contemplating launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at the $99 price point befo...
Twitter fanatic glimpses dark side of OAuth
‘Secure’ authentication can be anything but — A mobile enthusiast and professional internet strategist got a glimpse of OAuth's dark side recently when he received an urgent advisory from Twitter. ...
Judge Halts Online Sale of Beatles Songs
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs v...
iCan't stand by and watch Droid ad smear iPhone
Verizon's ubiquitous “iDon't” commercial has been peppering TV for weeks now. It makes two conventional mistakes in advertising. It's not clear that it's an ad for the Verizon Droid phone, a remarka...
Near-final Thunderbird 3 due next week
Thunderbird 3, an update to the e-mail software that Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages of its Firefox browser has enjoyed, is due to arrive in near-final form next week. — Mozilla Me...
Private Online Shopping Sites Cash In
A Virtual Velvet Rope — The most exclusive club in town may be just a few mouse clicks away. Invitation-only shopping sites with names like Gilt Groupe and Rue La La are gaining popularity online. ...
Plumber vs. Programmer: A face-off over an online directory
For more than 30 years, Evan Conklin has practiced plumbing in the Seattle area fixing broken water heaters, leaky faucets and malfunctioning toilets. And during those three decades, Conklin has seen...
Dating habits of iPhone users revealed
Hey, fresh this morning from the spurious but strangely amusing iLifestyle desk comes a breakdown of the dating habits of iPhone users.. — According to Retrevo (remember them, they told Apple what t...
Isabella Products and AT&T launch two-way sharing digital photo frames
Isabella Products is announcing Vizit, a two-way interactive digital photo frame that will share photos via AT&T's wireless network. — Most web-connected digital photo frames can display pictures vi...
RealNetworks to Lay Off Four Percent of Staff Today
The Seattle area is going to get another jobless jolt today, with RealNetworks (RNWK) planning to lay off four percent of its workforce, sources said. — That's a small number-just about 70 people ou...
Leaked AT&T Memo: If Anyone Asks About The Verizon Lawsuit, Just Tell Them We're Awesome
Needless to say, AT&T's none too happy about Verizon's “Theres a Map for That” campaign. AT&T first complained about the ads back in October, saying they were misleading.
Tell the FCC to say no to Hollywood's insane “Selectable Output Control” kill-switch
Garmin communicates with your car via ESP
We stopped by Garmin's booth at the 2009 SEMA Show expecting a new GPS device or news of another OEM integration deal, but we stumbled upon something even better. Sometime next year, Garmin's Nuvi GP...
Research In Motion May Buy Back $1.2 Billion in Stock
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry phone, will repurchase as much as $1.2 billion in shares to compensate investors as its growth slows. — The company will buy as ...
SlingMedia Founder Invests In Clicker, Joins BOD
Ever since Blake Krikorian left Sling Media, the place shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007, he's been lying low. Instead of trying to build yet another startu...
Digital music startup Deezer debuts desktop client, premium offering
[France] Paris-based Deezer is not waiting for Spotify to expand into new territories and is moving forward with its own plans pretty quickly. The French startup recently raised $9.5 million (€6.5 mi...
Microsoft CEO eyes Yahoo partnership outside U.S
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulato...