Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus Are Coming to Verizon Exclusively January 25
The Palm Pre plus removed the navigation button, has 2x internal RAM, 16GB storage, and a built-in inductive back cover for Touchstone inductive charging. — The Pixi Plus is still “thin and lightwei...
Finding places “Near me now” is easier and faster than ever on Google.com
Last month, Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated at the Computer History Museum the ability to search by using your location as the query. Starting today, you can try this yourself by going ...
Boxee Beta Goes Public, Download Now
The Boxee Beta is officially out. You can grab it here. — The Beta is available for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu (including 64bit.. ). The version is still not available for Apple TV, yet, but we are...
Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop
When you own domain names associated with the trademarks of a large company, more often than not, they're going to file a complaint with the ICANN UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy)....
USGS Develops Twitter-Based Earthquake Detection System
Seismologists say Twitter is the fastest way to get information out of an earthquake area, especially in those less densely populated. — People love to Twitter about what's going on around them, esp...
Forget TV Everywhere, How About Netflix Everywhere?
It seems Netflix has already reached a tipping point in the consumer electronics market, as it signed up five more CE manufacturers to enable its streaming services on their devices. Panasonic, Sanyo...
Plastic Logic (Finally) Shows Off The Que, Its (Very Expensive) Kindle Competitor
After promising to deliver its take on Amazon's Kindle for a couple of years, Plastic Logic is finally delivering: Here comes the Que proReader, which the company promises is “more than an eReader"-it...
Microsoft: Google's Phone Plan ‘Very Difficult’
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.'s Robbie Bach, head of the division that makes mobile-phone programs, said Google Inc. will have a hard time attracting partners to its wireless software after int...
Some Observations on Rootkits
Getting hit by a live rootkit infection is among the more unfortunate fates that can befall an unsuspecting computer user. A rootkit burrows deep into the system, modifying it at a low-level in order...
Surprise, surprise: HTC's Euro-spec Nexus One does multitouch
Alright, Google, we get it: you hate America. That's the only conclusion we can reach for why the company's last two Android version hero devices — the Droid for 2. and the Nexus One for 2.1 — have m...
The Other HP Slate Runs On Android
Last night, during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a prototype for a new HP Slate computer running on Windows 7. It was suppo...
Why Twitter is Digg's biggest threat
The launch of the social news site Digg in 2004 was the perfect example of a good idea at the right time. That was the year the term “Web 2.0″ started being thrown about to describe the rise of new w...
Toshiba Satelitte E205 is first laptop with Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) technology
Toshiba seems to be the first out the door with Intel's just announced Wireless Display technology. Actually the $999 Satellite E205 seems like one big group hug between Intel, Toshiba and Best Buy.
768-bit RSA cracked, 1024-bit safe (for now)
With the increasing computing power available to even casual users, the security-conscious have had to move on to increasingly robust encryption, lest they find their information vulnerable to brute-f...
EA Reveals The Sims 3 World Adventures Details And Screenshots
It looks as if EA is going to try and ride the Sims brand all the way to the bank on the iPhone and iPod touch just as they have on the PC. The company has revealed a brand new iPhone and iPod touch ...
Apple Reveals New Touch Screen Technology for iPhone & MacBook Tablet
On January 7, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's multi-touch screen technology. Apple's patent generall...
Google muses about ads in Street View
It might have been just a trial balloon, but last year Google floated the idea of putting ads in Street View. — Could virtual billboards one day show up in Google Street View? — A few months ago, ...
HP updates Envy 13 and Envy 15 laptops, lowers prices significantly
HP's Envy lineup was introduced way back in the dark ages of last decade, so it's clearly due for a significant update. In all seriousness, the refresh that popped up today for both rigs probably has...
Dell confirms Android-powered tablet device
CES 2010: New slate-like 5-incher shown off — Dell has teased with a new tablet/slate PC at its keynote speech at CES in Las Vegas.? — Giving virtually no details, as per usual with Dell's teasers...
Borders in deal with Alex e-reader for e-books
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Borders Group Inc said on Thursday it has reached a deal with the maker of the upcoming Alex electronic reader that will prominently feature the U.S. bookseller's e-bookstore on t...
CES: The Network Is Our Top Priority, AT&T Says
AT&T's comments late last year about iPhone owners' data habits set off a firestorm among its customer base, some of whom interpreted it as AT&T being more interested in persuading customers to cut th...
Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards
LAS VEGAS — To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated Internet-connected computers: the...
Apple enables browser-based iTunes music previews
All this Lala.com talk and Apple still won't let us even preview tracks using a Web browser, why? Well, the news here is that that just isn't true any more - Apple has at last fully -enabled Web brow...
Breaking: Google And On2 Technologies Revise Merger Agreement
In August 2009, Google announced that it had agreed to acquire On2 Technologies for - then - roughly $106 million. At the end of last year, On2 - not for the first time - postponed a meeting at which...
2 Million Downloads and Counting: Why Such Loyalty for Microsoft Office?
In the past seven weeks, more than 2 million people have downloaded the beta for Microsoft Office 2010. That's a whopping 40,000 downloads per day. It's a record breaking pace, surpassing the beta r...
Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl
THERE is a scene in the movie “He's Just Not That Into You” in which Mary, played by Drew Barrymore, laments the numerous technological ways she is being rebuffed by a potential beau. E-mail. Text m...
Happy birthday to me! I'm joining Google
Yes friends, I'm turning 29 and I've decided to go work for The Man. — In all actuality, I've been mulling over such a move for some time, considering a number of compelling opportunities for my nex...
The Real Value of Tweets
Google and Microsoft are paying millions for tweets, but even they can't tell whether their deals will pay off — Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) are paying Twitter $25 million to crawl the short ...
Sprint 3G/4G Overdrive mobile hotspot gets official
What, you don't remember? For all you road warriors out there, the new Sprint Overdrive sure seems like a no brainer. In addition to offering up Sprint 3G's network a la MiFi style, the Sierra Wirel...
Mobile Phones Eliminate Single-Serving Devices
This tiny sensor, from OmniVision, is capable of capturing 14.6-megapixel images and 60-frames-per second HD video. — As chips and sensors become smaller and more advanced, mobile phones are beginni...
‘Google Energy’ subsidiary considers clean power
Google took a step toward entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy and a request with a federal agency to buy and sell electricity on the wholesale market. ...
EXCLUSIVE: MagicJack to Announce World's Lowest-Priced Femtocell
I spent this morning with Dan Borislow and Y.W. Sing, the CEO and Vice Chairman of MagicJack. In mid-November, I met with Dr. Sing in his Silicon Valley office for a preview of what we discussed toda...
Jive Software Acquires Social Media Monitoring Startup Filtrbox
Businesses and brands have already caught onto the immense power of the social stream that runs through Twitter and Facebook to track the pulse of conversations around consumers. Both tech giants and...
Panasonic blows it out with 3D Blu-ray deck, HDTVs, channels and $21k camcorder
Had enough of the CES barrage? Nah. Panasonic just cut loose a few new releases of its own, with the highlight of the bunch being the planet's first integrated Full HD 3D camcorder.
T-Mobile, 3 Cosy Up To UK Nexus One
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) only announced Vodafone as an upcoming UK Nexus One carrier, in its Tuesday unveiling. — But, true to its wish that more carriers should join in, T-Mobile and 3 UK are also aimin...