Live from the Apple ‘latest creation’ event
9:43AM The setup on stage is really interesting. There's a chair with a table next to it... very unusual for an Apple event. — 9:42AM Okay! We're in our seats and there's some Dylan playing on the...
What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow
Tomorrow Apple's having an event here in San Francisco and everyone's expecting them to launch some sort of tablet computer. The specifics are still unclear, but people are expecting something that l...
Apple Wins iChat and Major Tablet Patent Prior to Launch
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 13 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. Without a doubt the granted patent that screams out this morning is one that relates...
Netflix-Backed Roku Seeks Funds for 100-Channel Set-Top Internet Service
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — Roku Inc., the television set-top box maker spun off by Netflix Inc., is planning to raise $30 million in private funding this quarter and may sell shares to the public next year...
Report: Oracle plans to hire more employees than it cuts from Sun
Larry Ellison reportedly says Oracle will slash Sun workforce, then hire 2,000 new workers — With Oracle's anticipated purchase of Sun drawing near, company CEO Larry Ellison disclosed plans to hire...
Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions
Firefox 3.6 is out, Chrome's stable version got a big upgrade, and Opera 10.5 is inching toward release. It's a great time for us to break out the timer, process manager, and code tracker for some up...
AT&T To Launch Yelp Competitor
The telco's buzz.com site lets users' “favorite” local vendors and services. — AT&T latched on early to the local search and advertising market, first with the Yellow Pages, then with an online vers...
My.live.com to be discontinued on March 15th
We've had numerous questions posed to us over the last few months about the status and future of My.live.com, the personal home page that started out as an Atlas framework (now ASP.net Ajax) project m...
Facebook may “lock in” its Internet dominance
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - College senior Alyssa Ravasio gave up MySpace on the day she got a Facebook account and never looked back. She has already lost interest in Twitter. But how does Facebook kno...
Drupal Goes Hosted With Private Beta Launch of “Gardens” (Invites)
Open source content management system Drupal is increasingly being used by organizations, corporations and governments to power their websites and communities. — To name but a few entities who rely ...
Bing on iPhone - Microsoft's Ultimate Mobile Coup?
If the recent blitz of rumors are correct, Apple is considering booting Google from iPhone Safari and giving Bing its spot as default search engine. As huge as this is from a business relations point...
Apple reveals iBooks Store and app for the iPad
Put this down as something else rumored that's come to fruition today. Apple's just announced iBooks, an e-reader app and bookstore for the iPad, using the ePub format. We're seeing prices around $1...
Yes, Virginia, HR Execs Check Your Facebook Page
Have you ever applied for a job and wondered why you didn't get it, even though you were qualified? According to a new survey, there's a good chance that the person doing the hiring found something a...
Nine years later does Google still need ‘adult supervision?’
In preparing Google for its IPO, its VC investors convinced Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to bring in an older executive to assure potential investors that there was some ‘adult supervisi...
TechCrunch hacked again. This hacker is angry.
Technology blog Techcrunch has been hacked again. Twice in the space of 24 hours. — Reports were that the first occurrence wasn't a hacking at all but rather a buggy file that had been uploaded int...
Apple Tablet Event Kills Live Blogging Site CoverItLive
Internet infrastructure still can't handle peak events. The live blogging service CoverItLive, for example, has been crushed, and is down — presumably because of all the interest in Apple's tablet ev...
A Little ‘i’ to Teach About Online Privacy
A LITTLE blue symbol is carrying big implications. — Trying to ward off regulators, the advertising industry has agreed on a standard icon — a little “i” — that it will add to most online ads that u...
Google Xistence isn't real, but it's pretty funny and not a phishing scam (despite what Google says)
Links to a bogus website called Google Xistence have been making the rounds today. The tagline: “Life is hard. Let Google live it for you.” — The site resembles a Google product page …
Is this the Apple tablet? (update: new image)
Okay, we obviously can't confirm this, but we just got two very interesting images of what certainly looks like a prototype Apple tablet, or what could be the tablet bolted down to a table. It's big ...
First Impressions of the new Apple iPad
It's about the software, stupid. While all sorts of commentators were focusing on how much Apple's new $499 iPad tablet computer looks like an oversized iPhone, the key to whether it can be the first...
Apple Event to Focus on Reinventing Content, Not Tablets
The teaser for Apple's press event, “Come see our latest creation,” has a double meaning. Content creators, not gadget freaks, will be the biggest target of Apple's Wednesday press conference. — Al...
The Apple iPad: starts at $499
After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. Apple says there's room for a third device between the smartphone and the laptop, and that it has to be better at t...
McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV
This is one of Steve Jobs' slides from this morning's iPad launch presentation. Can you tell what's wrong with it? — The awkward array of five logos used to be a tidy lineup of six. The day before...
Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions
Firefox 3.6 is out, Chrome's stable version got a big upgrade, and Opera 10.5 is inching toward release. It's a great time for us to break out the timer, process manager, and code tracker for some up...
Apple Lifts 3G VoIP Restrictions, iCall with 3G Support Available Immediately
iCall VoIP services for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch are now available for use over 3G networks such as AT&T wireless. — Apple Computer, Inc. has updated the iPhone developer SDK to allow VoIP …
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Cisco launches telepresence interoperability standard
Multi-screen videoconferencing interoperability comes a step closer — Cisco Networkers Live 2010: Cisco has announced plans to submit a Telepresence Interoperability Protocol in an effort to build a...