Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet?
That's right, y'all. We're back at it, and this time we've received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects. — Here are some iPhone OS 4.0 features, according to ...
Google Hopes to Retain Business Unit in China
SAN FRANCISCO — Few people say they think Google's Chinese-language search engine will survive the company's confrontation with China. — But as Google prepares for talks with the Chinese government ...
H-P Testing a Touchless “Wall of Touch”
Hewlett-Packard is testing out a new design of its TouchSmart technology that doesn't actually require customers to touch the screen. … The new design, called the “wall of touch”, is an interactive to...
Lockheed Martin introduces ‘PC on a stick’ flash drive — yes, Lockheed Martin
yes, Lockheed Martin — Our coverage of Lockheed Martin here on Engadget normally focus on things like laser weapons or futuristic airships, but it looks like the mega-defense company is now trying it...
Helping computers understand language
An irony of computer science is that tasks humans struggle with can be performed easily by computer programs, but tasks humans can perform effortlessly remain difficult for computers. We can write a ...
Bill Gates Joins Twitter - Uses The Web Interface
Bill Gates has joined Twitter and is tweeting away using the web interface. — Twitter employee @caroline has confirmed this. — Of course, Bill Gates is the famed man from Microsoft who brought us ...
Apple updates Boot Camp with Windows 7 support
Apple on Tuesday updated its Boot Camp software and issued new drivers and utilities to allow users to run Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. The Mac maker also issued its first security...
Apple, Microsoft Discuss Giving Bing Top iPhone Billing
Amid an accelerating rivalry with Google, Apple is discussing ways to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone — In 2003, when Apple said its iTunes music software would work on PCs using t...
Apple's Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical
This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music lock...
The Internet is about to get a lot safer
DNS, the Domain Name System, is one of the major pillars of the Internet. It's a critical service, and without it we would all have to use IP addresses instead of handy domain names like “Pingdom.com...
The iPhone & the Lack of Voice Over 3G: Alternative Theory
Apple and AT&T have come under continued criticism for not allowing VoIP over today's 3G mobile broadband connections when using the iPhone. So much so that the matter got the attention of the FCC ba...
Bing Maps Goes Silverlight
Microsoft just announced that it is taking the Bing Maps Sliverlight version out of beta and making it the default version for Bing Maps. The Bing Team is rolling this change out slowly. Within a fe...
Verizon Cuts Devices From $350 ETF List
Verizon Wireless has discretely cut ten handsets from its list of devices subject to a $350 Early Termination Fee (ETF). No official annoucement has been made on the change, but the carrier's list of...
Twitter goldrush on the way. Old usernames to be released
Twitter tells us it is planning to release all of its old, neglected usernames from inactive accounts for others to grab - and some of them are bound to be in big demand. — Many early users of the s...
Microsoft to Launch Zune Phone in Two Months?
Microsoft has long claimed that its mobile strategy is to provide a software solution, not devices. As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees of a McGraw-Hill (MHP) media conference last spring: ...
You've Been Yelped
Yelp, the rambunctious and burgeoning customer-review website, can make or break a small business. It can also drive a business owner slightly insane. — On October 30, 2009, Diane Goodman logged on...
Bing Autosuggest - Keeping You Current
Over the past couple months the Bing team has been working hard to make your search journey a bit easier. One of the ways we have tried to do that is through improvements to autosuggest. Autosuggest...
Report: 44% Of Google News Visitors Scan Headlines, Don't Click Through
Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users' report, which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. — The Outsell report uns...
China's Baidu sues US web firm over hacker attack
Buzz up! — BEIJING (AFP) - China's top Internet search engine Baidu said Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit in the United States against the firm that manages its US domain registration following a ha...
How To Hide From Google
Hacker Moxie Marlinspike debuts a tool for using Google services while foiling its data collection techniques. — Google offers Web users a simple trade-off: Let the search giant track a substantial ...
Firefox Soars on Germany's Browser Warning
Germans appear to be heeding the advice of their government and seeking out alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. — Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, say they've seen a ...
Microsoft confirms plan to release out-of-band IE update
I just spoke with George Stathakopoulos, General Manager of Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft, regarding the ongoing security issue affecting Internet Explorer. (For background, see my earl...
Google scraps China cell phone launch amid dispute
Buzz up! — BEIJING - Google on Tuesday postponed the launch of its mobile phone in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail h...
Yelp Taking Big Investment From Elevation Partners
Yelp, fresh off of leaving Google at the altar, is closing a hefty fifth round of financing from Elevation Partners, say multiple sources. The deal isn't closed yet, says one source, but the guys at ...
Microsoft to Erase Search Records After Six Months
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said it will delete Internet Protocol addresses associated with search queries after six months to comply with demands from E...
New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability and Targeted Attacks
News of targeted attacks on Google, Adobe and other large companies were made public last week. The initial assumption was that the attacks were done with malicious PDF files but on Thursday Microsof...
Tablet computers will sell in their millions this year claims Deloitte
Tens of millions of tablet computers could be sold this year, kick-starting a £600 million industry, business advisory firm Deloitte has predicted. — Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecomm...
comScore slams Gartner mobile app stats
‘Hard to believe’ that Apple's App Store accounts for 99.4 per cent of app revenue — ComScore has questioned this morning's Gartner research report, which claimed that Apple's App Store accounted fo...
Skype's share of international calling minutes jumps 50%
New data released by TeleGeography shows that Skype's share of international calling minutes has jumped to 12%, a 50% increase on last year's figure of 8%. ‘The volume of traffic routed via Skype is ...
US IT brands may be gone in 20 years: Acer founder
TAIPEI — US computer brands may be gone in 20 years' time due to an inability to produce the low-priced PCs the market demands, the Taiwanese founder of computer maker Acer was quoted as saying Tuesda...
State Of The #Twittersphere: User Growth Slows Down To 3.5% Per Month
Marketing software startup HubSpot has put together its third ‘State of the Twittersphere’ report, which is based on an analysis of more than 5 million Twitter accounts and 6 million tweets, collected...
Everything you need to know about Windows Mobile 7
MWC is a few weeks away - it starts on February 15 - and we're expecting to see a new version of Windows Mobile, version 7, to be launched with hardware soon to follow. We've heard some rumors about ...
T-Mobile SIM Unlock Policy Changes
If you're one that travels quite a bit you probably unlock your T-Mobile handset so you can use it overseas with another GSM carrier, and save yourself some of hard earned cash. Thanks to our trusty...
Mobile Payments Startup Boku Lands $25 Million In Funding; Rebrands Service As Paymo
Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are steadily gaining traction. This morning, the space received more validation as several prominent venture capital firms made a significant a inves...
NYT: Microsoft in talks with ESPN to stream content on Xbox
The New York Times reports that Microsoft has “held in-depth discussions” with the Walt Disney Company to stream ESPN programming through Xbox Live. According to anonymous sources, ESPN would provide...
Rumour - PS3 Motion Controller is called Arc [Update]
VG247 has it on good authority that Sony has named its PS3 Motion Controller “Arc”. — The information comes from a concrete source speaking under conditions of strict anonymity. — Sony has never s...
How The New York Times Should Charge For Content
A storm has been brewing at The New York Times for a while now. Ever since TimesSelect—the paid digital version of the Times—was canceled back in 2007, the “content wants to be free” crowd has danced...
Is Twitter's First Conference Coming April 14th? Twitter's #1 User Says So
If you're hoping to go to Twitter's first-ever developers conference, Chirp, you might like to know when it's scheduled for, right? Twitter hasn't publicly announced the date, but we wanted to know s...
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous's ass
Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. — Bu...