Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed
Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
Tracking Santa's Global Traversal The Google Way
It's that time of year when people love to track Santa, trying to figure out his route to deliver gifts across the world. Google is all over it, picking up a tradition started by NORAD in 1955, which...
IsoHunt Loses Big; Court Says: You Induce, You Lose
One of the many lawsuits against file sharing sites/search engines around the world is the IsoHunt lawsuit — yet another case where the entertainment industry decided a marginal player in the space di...
Pepsi's Big Gamble: Ditching Super Bowl for Social Media
Why Pepsi Is Pulling Out of the Big Game and What It Stands to Gain — This year for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not have ads in the Super Bowl telecast. No Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears...
Early Holiday Gift For Googlers: $2.3 Billion
Like many companies, Google has a tradition of giving holiday presents to its employees — an Android phone last year, $1000 in cash net of taxes the year before. This year, they got Google's soon-to-...
Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral
Last summer, when Apple pulled third-party Google Voice applications from the App Store, one of them was VoiceCentral. Apple's subsequent rejection of the official Google Voice app spurred an FCC inv...
Security in the Ether
Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud—and prove we can trust it. — In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in th...
Our Google Government
Recently I saw an ad which read: — Google and State Gov — “Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.” — Does this mean that we've now handed the majority of our state governments'...
Texas County to Name Drunk Drivers on Twitter
If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter. — That's because the local district attorney's office has decided t...
Footprint: real-time web stats, for free
While Google Analytics is a great product, one of the most frustrating aspects of it is the lack of any data about what's happening right now with your site's traffic. — In these days of the real-ti...
The Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace Mystery Solved: A Christmas Miracle!
About 10 days ago, there was a post in this column about interest by News Corp. and its MySpace unit in Flixster, the popular social networking site for movies. — Titled “MySpace and News Corp. Eye ...
San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers
San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians...
With IPOs Popping And LPs Hopping, VCs Look Toward China
With what looks to be the world's second largest market for initial public offerings and a burgeoning limited partner base, China is going to command an increasing amount of attention from some of the...
SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures
SCVNGR, the platform that lets you build location-based games compatible with any mobile phone, is on a roll. The company has just raised $4 million from Google Ventures, with participation from exis...
XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features
Windows/Mac/Linux/and more: XBMC is a killer open-source, cross-platform media center, and today they've released XBMC 9.11, introducing a whole new default look and feel, and it's very friendly on th...
Memory chip shortage seen in H2 2010: DRAMeXchange
LONDON (Reuters) - Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs,...
Windows 7 Accelerating Corporate PC Purchasing
By Andy Golub — ChangeWave's November corporate IT spending survey points to an uptick in IT spending for 1st Quarter 2010 - midst the strongest growth rate in 2 years. — Regarding PCs, the releas...
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010
It's been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain. Earlier this year, a handful of IPOs t...
Qualcomm COO resigns to take CEO job elsewhere
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief operating officer of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, Len Lauer, has resigned to become a chief executive of another company, Qualcomm said on Thursday. — Lauer, a telecom...
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Named 2009 Executive of the Year by the San Francisco Business Times
The San Francisco Business Times has named Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce.com Inc., its 2009 Executive of the Year. — Benioff is being recognized as the executive …
Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010
Forrester outlines 7 enterprise wireless and mobility trends for next year — Android phones will make significant headway in the smartphone market and 4G service providers will zero in on apps in 20...
Year in Review: Social networks come of age
By the numbers, it's easy to say 2009 was the year social networking went mainstream. After all, if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third most populated, behind China and India. — ...
DNS Issues Cause Downtime for Major Sites
Some of the web's most prominent sites experienced downtime and sluggishness Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues were most pronounced at UltraDNS, which reported that its pe...
Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more!
Talk about a holiday gift! The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months! What's new? Offline notebooks! Speed imp...
Google Applications May Reach 150,000 in 2010 Amid Apple Chase
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android mobile software may offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010, as the company chases Apple Inc. for downloads, according to a mobile-applicat...
Mint.com beefing up for 2010, including Android app
Tis the season - the season for stressing over money and coming up with a game plan for keeping better track of spending in the new year, that is. — I'd received a couple of inquiries about Mint.com...
Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus
Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they've given it their best ranking in their performance test as we...
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010
Plus Other Predictions From Forrester — Forrester has just published our interactive marketing predictions for 2010: — Companies' use of social councils will attain budgets and power. — Listening-...
New York Daily News Takes “Major” Stake In Content Aggregator Service Loud3r
It is the year of low-cost content creators and aggregators. In that vein, Loud3r, a company that had to reboot earlier this year after some early missteps, has now raised a “multi-million” …
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle Customers around the World
Already Available to Customers in the United States, Amazon Customers around the World Can Now Download English-Language Books from Random House in the Kindle Store — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
Skout Studies What Happens When Dating Goes Mobile
Over the last decade or so, the public perception of online dating has shifted from being a bit odd to something that's pretty normal. But even as people get used to surfing the web as they look for ...
New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms
Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent busi...
Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director
Google Australia's engineering director, Alan Noble, talks to Kathryn Edwards about the building businesses, following your own path and why government transparency is so important in the world of the...
U.S. Court Rules Against isoHunt For Inducing Copyright Infringement
A U.S. federal court in California has issued a summary judgment against Canadian-based isoHunt (and its owner Gary Fung), ruling that the site violates U.S. copyright law by inducing copyright infrin...