Android is splintering, just not how you think it is...
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York — Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media ...
Motorola Droid just $119 from Dell
We love seeing hot new smartphones getting their price tags slashed mere weeks after its initial launch. The latest price reduction on the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Droid comes from Dell.com, making it po...
Meet the New AOL Logo: “Aol.” (Plus the Press Release)
The new AOL will differ than the old one in several ways: New boss, smaller headcount, different owners. — So, of course, it also gets a new logo. This one will look awfully familiar, since it is t...
Zero-Day Internet Explorer Exploit Published
A new exploit targeting Internet Explorer was published to the BugTraq mailing list yesterday. Symantec has conducted further tests and confirmed that it affects Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 as...
Here's a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter
Terrifying? Inevitable? Harbinger? In any case, it's a first: Police in Long Island, New York, have arrested a man for not using Twitter. — Someone named Justin Bieber, who apparently is a teenag...
Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy
In August, Swedish artist and composer Magnus Uggla launched a scathing attack on the owners of Spotify. After discovering that Sony BMG is a shareholder and receiving virtually no cash from his musi...
Screening The News
Editor's note: Today, being a news junkie requires not just the ability to keep up with hundreds of breaking stories a day, but the ability to redistribute those stories to your followers and news sit...
What wowed the crowd at Web 2.0 Expo
The man behind #swineflu and #HowBlackAreYou was the hit at this year's NYC webfest — Baratunde Thurston. Image: O'Reilly Media — This has nothing in particular to do with Apple (AAPL), but it's ...