Windows Mobile and Xbox Live coming together, according to Microsoft job ad
The hints were already pretty strong on this one, but now Microsoft has come right out and said it, albeit in a job posting — the Xbox Live gaming platform is extending beyond the console and specific...
Nine startup dreams and industries Google crushed in 2009
If you're an ambitious young tech entrepreneur with a compelling product hacked together and a slide-deck in hand, there's always one giant elephant in the room to worry about. — That, of course, is...
Google Has Big Plans for Google Voice, Cloud Computing in 2010
Google's Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at Google, said Google Voice and cloud computing will be huge plays for the search engine giant in 2010. Expect the Gizmo5 assets to bo...
2000-2009: Microsoft's decade of shattered dreams
This will be the toughest commentary I likely will ever write about Microsoft. It is toughest for me to compose because I see what Microsoft could have been in 2009 from where it started in 2000. It...
Virtual goods ‘to make billions’
Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5bn in the next five years, experts predict. — In Asia, sales are already around the $5bn mark an...
TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive
TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger's home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling's laptop Wednesday. — Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com
Engadget for iPhone / iPod touch: available now!
Good news, everyone! Our very own iPhone / iPod touch app is finally really available in Apple's much talked about and critically acclaimed App Store! That's right, all the excitement and info you'v...
Get every National Geographic since 1888 on a 160GB hard drive
From the massively-nerdy-but-really-quite- cool news department, I bring you the coolest thing I've seen since unwrapping my presents on Christmas Day. 120 years of amazing discoveries, eye-opening ed...
Facebook and Seppukoo get lawyered up
Credit: Russel A. Daniels/Associated Press — The battle between social networking giant Facebook and Seppukoo.com may spill into the courtroom over privacy violations, according to a letter written ...
Life on the List
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I'll have gained another follower or two on Twitter. Within an hour, I'll have added more followers than 99% of Twitter users ever have. On a typical ...
Nuance buys voice-to-text company Spinvox for $102.5 million
Nuance has confirmed the story VentureBeat broke earlier this morning, that it has acquired voice-to-text company SpinVox for $102 million. Of that, $66 million will be in cash, the rest in stock.
Motorola: 2 New Phones At CES?
Motorola (MOT) may be planning to announce a pair of new phones at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. — In a research not...
Siebel's Stealth Carbon Startup C3 Lands $26 Million And Condoleezza Rice On Its Board
What do Thomas Siebel, Condoleezza Rice and $26 million have in common? They are all connected to stealth energy startup C3, which may be entering the business of managing carbon cap-and-trade system...
Multitouch Screens Could Enliven New Devices
Multitouch screens have been a little slower to enter the electronics marketplace than consumers might have hoped. Since Jeff Han, a research scientist at New York University's Courant Institute of M...
Most Stumbled Sites of 2009
As the end of 2009 draws near, we decided to look back at the content that was most popular with our community in the past year. We picked out the 10 most popular topics on StumbleUpon and, within th...
Apple Censors Dalai Lama IPhone Apps in China
Buzz up! — Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China. — Those...
Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So
One of the unusual aspects of open source is the fact that the software development philosophy spills over into the way that the project is run. This means that how and why things are done, and by wh...
With Ads, Music Downloads Sing a New Tune
ON Hulu, the popular Web site that streams free television shows and other video, users have proved to be perfectly willing to watch short commercials, and a new site is betting that the same willingn...
Apple briefly cuts student price of MacBook to $728
Special reduced price of entry-level plastic notebook by 19% — Computerworld - Apple on Tuesday reduced the price of its least expensive notebook to $728 for students, teachers and educational staff...
Engadget “official blog” of 2010 CES, but retains independence, says Aol
This morning, I received a press release from Aol Communications declaring that its insanely popular Engadget blog will be the “official blog partner” of the Consumer Electronics Assocation's 2010 Int...
Apple Wins 11 Patent Designs for MacBook Pro, Expose, iPod Classic, More
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 19 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The notables within this group include a patent for an Electromagnetic Interference ...
D-Link to introduce iPhone app for Boxee Box
D-Link and Boxee plan to introduce an iPhone application to enable remote control of the features of the two firm's soon-to-be-announced Boxee-powered set-top box. — D-Link will showcase the free ap...
Verizon Wireless getting Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus?
We've heard that Verizon Wireless will be 100% carrying the Palm Pixi in addition to the Palm Pre, and that the official names will be the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. We have also been told tha...