“The Tablet” and gadget portability theory
I haven't written about the supposed Apple tablet yet because nobody knows anything (including whether it even exists), so everyone's just talking out of their asses about it. — Normally, I'm perfec...
TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers
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 —...
HTC To Launch Apple iSlate Competitor
Smartphones, tablets and netbooks are set to be high on the agenda at this year's Consumer Electronics Show as traditional PC vendors look to compete with the new Apple iSlate which is due to be relea...
Kaifu Lee said Apple Tablet looked like a bigger iPhone
Kaifu Lee, the Ex president of Google China , who also ever worked for Apple, revealed some information about the Apple tablet today through a Twitter alike microblog launched by Chinese news portal S...
Google: Never Mind the Nexus One, How About a Cheaper Cell Plan?
Based on this week's flurry of media reports, it appears that Google will introduce its Nexus One smartphone right after the New Year. This HTC-built handset sounds like a very good Android phone, a ...
Fresh out of China emerges the Motorola Shadow/Mirage, yet another Motorola Android handset
Our Chinese is a bit rusty and the details are sparse but it looks like Motorola may be brewing up another Android-powered handset. This handset, codenamed the Mirage or the Shadow …
This is why Apple denied Google Latitude from the App Store...
ChaCha Makes Its Crazy Business Model...Profitable
We've always had a lot of fun with Indianapolis-based startup ChaCha. They launched in 2007 as a human powered search engine - meaning a human found you answers when you typed in a query. Pranksters...
Silicon Valley: Top 10 of the 2000s
It's all too easy to view the first decade of the 21st Century as just an unmitigated series of disasters: September 11th, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and the meltdown of the global financial sys...
Top 10 objectively biggest tech stories of 2009
Ignore all the other lists! As we did last year, Techmeme has distilled its very own Top 10 story list, utilizing headline ranking data archived throughout the year. While we employ a terrific team ...
Like Convergence, Aggregation Is Better In Theory
There always seems to be a tug of war in technology between those who want a converged, multi-purpose device that does everything, or those who want a dedicated device that does one thing (or just a f...
What's strategic for Google?
Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It's one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side project. It's another thing for Google to put gobs of time and...
Internet Radio Stations Are the New Wave
Early fans of the iPhone bemoaned that, unlike many of its competitors, their favorite “do anything” device couldn't do one obvious thing: play local radio stations. — They didn't get it. FM tuners...
YouTube's Top 10 Launches of 2009
Did you know that we released more features in 2009 than in 2007 and 2008 combined? This made it the busiest year on record for the YouTube product and engineering teams. Some of these launches, lik...
Your Photo in Times Square - When You Want It There!
Will you be visiting Times Square in the heart of New York City soon? Perhaps you will be in the crowd on New Year's Eve? If so, we have got something cool for you to try.... We recently upgraded o...
Web Sockets in Tornado
I have been playing around with HTML 5 Web Sockets for a personal project. The Web Sockets API enables web browsers to maintain a bi-directional communication channel to a server, which in turn makes...
Asustek reportedly considering removing departments making Eee Stick and LCD displays
Asustek Computer is reportedly considering closing down the departments that handle the development of its Eee Stick, LCD TV and monitor product lines due to unsatisfactory shipments and profits, acco...
We All Live In Public Now. Get Used To It.
As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla...
John Mayer Wants You To Defragment Your Brain With A Digital Cleanse
Anyone who follows John Mayer on Twitter knows that he's a smart guy. A bit kooky at times, sure. But he's definitely not just shooting his mouth off with self-promotional drivel. He's built up qui...
Apple TV 3.0 update not helping sales as AirPort routers lose share
Though it was given a software upgrade to version 3.0 in October, Apple TV sales have remained relatively flat over the past 12 months. Similarly, sales of AirPort base stations have struggled to gai...
Live Stream: Times Square 2010
With a bit of rain and snow in the forecast for the New Year's Eve festivities in the Big Apple, the team at Hulu HQ can't blame you for wanting to stay warm and dry inside. The good news? You can c...
Google Updates Toolbar PageRank For New Years 2010
To kick off the 2010, Google is currently exporting the PageRank values to the Google Toolbar. Yes, there are major reports of a Google Toolbar PageRank update taking place right now. — This may be...
A Weight-Loss Resolution That's Light on the Wallet
For most people who resolve to shed pounds after the holidays, the decision means shelling out cash — on packaged foods, books, health club memberships, a scale, liposuction consultations. Problem is...
Apple misses Boot Camp update deadline
Promise to support Windows 7 by ‘end of year’ unfulfilled on Dec. 31 — Computerworld - Apple has less than 24 hours to meet a self-imposed deadline to produce a version of its Boot Camp software tha...