1080p HD Comes to YouTube
We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending ...
Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?
Intel and AMD on Thursday said they will settle all legal disputes, including antitrust litigation, for $1.25 billion. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer said the settlement ushers in a “new era” in the chip industr...
Google welcomes Gizmo5
Today we're pleased to announce we've acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. While we don't have any specific features to announce r...
a Boxee Box is coming!
We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES. During the show we met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated...
Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October
Ever since last summer, Twitter's growth in the U.S. has been stalling. But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. actually declined for the first time by 8 percent mo...
Palm Pixi Makes Early Appearance in Walmart Display
Tom, a reader and apparent late-night shopper sent in this photo of the Pixi on display at a Walmart in Tennessee. It looks like Walmart has them listed for $400 retail, but sadly the kind folks at t...
AT&T Sets the Record Straight on Verizon Ads
To Our Customers: As the U.S. market leader in wireless data service, we typically don't respond to competitors' advertising. However, some recent ads from Verizon are so blatantly false and misleadi...
Motorola Droid Teardown Images!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived. Dr.Wreck has fully dissasembled his Brand New Motorola Droid from Verizon. — Stay tuned to his Twitter, and RSS feed for ...
Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices
Verizon Communications customers who pirate music files may soon receive an unwelcome letter from the company. — Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the United States, is expected to begin ...
Apple patents improved digital ink recognition techniques for pen-aware tablet
The rumors about he upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around far and wide lately. — Well, actually, the rumors about the upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around for years now.
Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple
“For every dev that leaves iPhone in frustration, 1000 new ones join up. iPhone is an unstoppable train regardless of how much we complain.” - Joe Hewitt in a tweet yesterday. — How right he is. —...
Apple's Global Retail Invasion
Apple Inc. has opened lots of stores over the past couple of years, but today's New York City event is a little different than most. — That's because senior vice president Ron Johnson, Apple's retai...
Start-up claims its DVDs last 1,000 years
The DiamonDisc uses standard DVD players and burn software — Computerworld - If you really, really need to make sure those precious photos of yours last virtually forever - or at least longer than t...
Is Infochimps' Aggregated Data a Boon to Researchers or a Privacy Nightmare?
A pair of slices from a massive scrape of Twitter's API could be of great use to programmers and researchers alike — as long as users don't mind. The company behind the mining effort, Infochimps …
CNN.com Shutters Anchor-Driven Newscasts
First on WebNewser: CNN.com Live is shutting down its anchor-driven newscasts as of tomorrow. — WebNewser has learned Reggie Aqui, Nicole Lapin, Naamua Delaney and Melissa Long, the four primary anc...
Follow your waves
We've received lots of feedback from Wavers that the public waves they read were clogging up their inboxes. Today, we've introduced a new concept to Google Wave—"following" waves. Now, clicking on a...
What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night?
At the risk of getting randomly harshed on by the Internet, I cannot keep quiet about my obsession with Late Night Black People Twitter, an obsession I know some of you other white people share, becau...
Ultimate mobile deathmatch: iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Droid vs. Pre
Despite the Droid, the iPhone and BlackBerry remain on top; use our ratings calculator to determine the best smartphone for you — The Android 2.0-based Motorola Droid does — but not as much as Motor...
Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Tuesday
The next update to the Xbox Live network will be coming Tuesday, November 17 according to Live's General Manager, Marc Whitten (left). The new features are contributing to “turning Xbox and Live into...
Wistron: Readius-like ereader with pull-out flexible display launching in 2010
We've had a soft spot for Polymer Vision in the fetid hollows of that place you call a heart ever since we pressed flesh to its Readius back in February 2008. Unfortunately, we had to let go of any h...
Tech Sector Employment Still in Slump
As Silicon Valley rides a recovery in the technology sector, local companies such as Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. have said they will beef up their work forces. But judging by California's empl...
Windows Mobile Marketplace Adds Non-Mobile App Store
Microsoft added a few nice new features to its Windows Mobile Marketplace today, including enhanced security and a nice-looking store that can be accessed from your computer's browser, much like Xbox ...
Google's movie showtimes, digitally remastered
Did you know you can immediately discover movie times and locations by typing a simple search on Google? For example, search for [where the wild things are] and you'll see times and places to watch t...
AT&T demands Verizon pull its ads comparing coverage
AT&T on Wednesday upped the ante in its legal spat with Verizon, accusing it in an amended complaint of twisting facts in a trio of holiday ads to make AT&T's wireless network coverage look a lot wors...
Qualcomm CEO: AT&T To Launch First Smartbook
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- AT&T Inc. (T) will sell the first smartbook using Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) Snapdragon chip, according to Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs. — Jacobs, speaking at the company'...
Full Streams Ahead: Clicker's TV Search Engine Is Now Open To The Public
Clicker, the startup that looks to be a comprehensive video search engine for television content on the web, has launched to the public. The site made its public debut at TechCrunch50, where it gener...
Sneak Peek At NYT's Latest Online News Reader Prototype
The New York Times Company is considering the launch of a brand new online news reader that would let people experience the consumption of NYTimes.com content in an entirely new and fairly innovative ...
Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!
Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. — Here it is, patent number7617530. Thanks, USPTO, for giving Microsoft, w...
Broadcom goes open source and hell freezes over
When the rock group Eagles broke up in 1980 they said they would get back together “when hell froze over.” They did get back together, in 1994. The album was called Hell Freezes Over. — Point is y...
Microsoft sends out invites for Office Starter 2010 Beta
While we still wait for the public beta of Office 2010 to release, hopefully at PDC09, Microsoft has sent out invites to Office Live Workspace users to try out the new Office Starter 2010 Beta SKU.
TomTom, Navigon update iPhone apps with new features, improvements
Navigation vendors TomTom and Navigon this week announced significant updates to their respective turn-by-turn navigation apps for the iPhone. — TomTom on Thursday revealed a major update to the com...