Microsoft looking into Windows ‘black screen of death’ problem
Microsoft says it's looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some Windows machines to stop working and display a mostly black screen with no desktop icons, taskbar, sidebar or...
Check Out Google's Favorite Android Apps
Google named the winners today in its second annual mobile apps contest. — The top prizes for this year's Android Developer Challenge went to: — Sweet Dreams, which lets you avoid late-night phone ...
What's powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated]
Of all the things Google is really good at, patience isn't necessarily one of them. — To prove Web applications like Gmail and Google Docs could be as sophisticated as desktop apps …
Droid Nears Its Million-Device Target
Motorola and Verizon's $100 million marketing push seems to be paying off: The much-ballyhooed Droid smartphone made by Motorola and powered by Google's Android 2.0 OS is inching toward its goal of a ...
The End Of The CrunchPad
It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people pl...
Apple Takes Control of ‘TabletMac’ Trademark
A couple of years ago, a company called Axiotron announced an aftermarket modification for the MacBook that converted the Apple laptop into a tablet. The modification remains for sale at $699 and tak...
Apple iPhone May Go to T-Mobile Next
Stock quotes in this article: AAPL , VZ , MOT , T — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple's (AAPL Quote) path to U.S. smartphone dominance may take an abrupt detour as the iPhone's next destination may be De...
Edmonton company sues Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft
EDMONTON - Wireless processor company Eleven Engineering is taking on the three giants of the gaming industry in a patent infringement case. The Edmonton company is suing Nintendo Co., Sony Corp. and...
Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June
After several Web sites today claimed to having seen a possibly inadvertent notice from Microsoft claiming June as the release month for its forthcoming Office 2010 (we looked hard and couldn't find i...
hi5 recruits a beastly gaming veteran as its president
Social network hi5 has hired a pioneer in the video game industry to kick its social gaming strategy into high gear. It remains to be seen if hi5 truly realizes what it's getting in the hiring of Ale...
IBM Tivoli Now Available on Amazon EC2
Adoption of the AWS Cloud by mainstream ISVs is underway as you read this. There are numerous posts about IBM's work to bring their product line into the AWS environment, and today's is no exception....
Kindle Outsells Every Other Product On Amazon (And What This Really Means)
According to a breathless press release, the Kindle ereader is the “#1 bestselling product across all product categories on Amazon.” That means it sold more than the iPod Touch. More than the Wii. ...
LEAK: The Google Phone “Is a Certainty”
According to a trusted source who's seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone “is a certainty.” — And by “Google Phone” we don't simply mean another Android handset. We're talking about Google-...
M.I.T., Google, And Umberto Eco Want To Erect a Realtime Cloud Over The 2012 London Olympics
What is it with architects that they feel the need to glom onto the latest buzzwords to justify their projects? A group from M.I.T.'s Senseable City Lab is looking for funding …
Exclusive: Digg Steals A Google Exec As New VP Product
Digg has poached Keval Desai away from Google as their new Vice President of Product, we've confirmed from the company. Desai's last day at Google is today. — Desai is a long time Google employee, ...
Kindle Breaks Record for Sales in a Single Month During November
Kindle is the Hottest Gift This Holiday Season Across All Amazon Product Categories—Not Just Electronics — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced that November...
Apple Online Sales Huge On Black Friday, Apple Retail Mac Down
Update: Munster has issued a new Black Friday report that includes e-commerce information. — It looks like Apple's Web business was huge: Sales were up 39% year-over-year on Black Friday, according ...
Droid Doesn't: It's Not Ready For Prime Time
The Motorola Droid is truly terrible, in part because it has such promise (and has been amazingly well reviewed — I worry I'm missing something). Ironically, most of the blame for the cruddiness of t...
Top Bing Searches in 2009
Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles, mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine. Oh and there may have been something about Vampi...
Study: Males vs. females in social networks
Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter's users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? — We have tracked down this informat...
The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction
Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven't gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience wil...
Features Chrome For Mac Beta Will Be Missing
As we've noted, Chrome for Mac is getting very, very close to its official beta launch. The team is down to a mere 8 bugs to fix before it's ready (and it looks like the list has been trimmed to 7 as...
AOL Automates Its Story Factory. Does that Kill an Associated Content Deal?
A couple of weeks ago, AOL told Wall Street it will be cutting its payroll by one-third, via buyouts and layoffs. Now comes its plan to make the remaining employees more productive: New technology th...
7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year
An e-reader seems like a sweet, substantive and long-lasting gift. But so is a fruitcake. — Computerworld - Two years ago, the best holiday gift was an Amazon Kindle — if you could get your hands o...
More On Seesmic's Vision of Programmable Twitter clients
I announced during Ray Ozzie's keynote at the Microsoft PDC that Seesmic is building a programmable Twitter client so I am glad that Dave Winer likes this idea too and might be interested in building ...
Google This!
The tech giants duke it out—again. … From the magazine issue dated Dec 7, 2009 — For some reason, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google never got the memo explaining how everyone is supposed to be te...
Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of vol...