Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week
Google's Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS ...
RIM takes smartphone fight to rivals
Jim Balsillie headed to San Francisco Bay Area conference to try and prove the BlackBerry can keep up with its U.S. competition — Personal Tech - Back to School Laptop Guide - The Download Decade - B...
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google ‘in months’
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google' search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.
Google: Page Speed May Become a Ranking Factor in 2010
Algorithm Change Would Make Slow Sites Rank Lower — Over the course of 2009, a consistent theme that Google has been involved with is that of speed. In announcement after announcement, Google has t...
Office 2010 beta leaks early
Those who can't wait until next week for the beta of Office 2010 can apparently find the code already on torrent Web sites. — According to Neowin, the beta code has popped up on peer-to-peer sites i...
Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license
Microsoft officials confirmed on November 13 — a few days after pulling a Windows 7 download tool that allegedly contained improperly-licensed open-souce code — that the company did …
App Store dejection process - now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock
The App Store rejection process continues to infuriate even long-term Apple developers, and something will have to change - today we see long time Mac developers, Rogue Amoeba, announce they will no l...
Don't make me a target
The augmented reality view in Brightkite's mobile app. — Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding th...
Dell officially enters smartphones with Mini 3
Dell today formally entered the smartphone race by launching the Mini 3. The full-touchscreen phone depends on a customized version of Android and will have different features based on the region. W...
How Google Voice Violates Google's Own Privacy Policy
I've had a nagging frustration in my otherwise perfect relationship with Google Voice. The service systematically replaces my friend's phone numbers with their Google Voice numbers when they call, ev...
Sleek Vega Tablet with Android 2.0, Touchscreen, and 3G Arrives Next Year
I'm psyched to see Android moving into tablets. Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-, 11-, and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier o...
My world has changed (and I get to share with you)
Twitter's new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored. — But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community. —...
Yes, A Beta Version Of Chrome For Mac Is Just Weeks Away
Yesterday, there were a number of stories suggesting that a beta version of Chrome for Mac was due in early December. These stemmed from CNET's Stephen Shankland digging around a Chrome Extension Goo...
A CNET Conversation with Eric Schmidt
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—It has been quite a year for Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and upon the close of his interview this week with CNET, he ruefully shook his head in acknowledgment that the world is not ...
The Apple iPod touch you can't buy
Hands on with Apple's iPod retail card scanner in store — Apple has started rolling out its tricked out iPod touch to its stores, to allow its salespeople to swipe your credit card regardless of whe...
Microsoft opens up Windows 7 to advertisers via downloadable themes
The same way that it already allows advertisers to buy placement on various Microsoft sites and properties, Microsoft may allow them to extend their brands onto Windows 7. — The ads aren't being foi...
Boo.com Got Sold Again!
This is big news for people who experienced the dotcom crash, survived and brought home a t-shirt: Boo.com, once an online fashion retail outlet that went spectacularly bust in early 2000 after burnin...
Swiss Privacy Agency to Sue Google Over Street View
GENEVA — Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. — The country's privacy watchdog announced ...
How to Secure Your Jailbroken iPhone
Earlier this week, the news of the first iPhone worm made its way around the net. Since the worm only targeted jailbroken devices and then only those which had the SSH program installed, there wasn't...
BBC iPlayer launches Wii channel
The BBC iPlayer is relaunching on the Nintendo Wii in the form of a dedicated Wii channel on 18 November. — Only consoles with a broadband connection in the UK will be able to run the channel. — T...