Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox
Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio ...
Techmeme now has a share button. Read this post if you can't find it.
Frequent Techmeme readers may have heard of both “Facebook” and “Twitter”, up and coming social networking services where, among other activities, users tend to share links. Sharing is in fact a core...
Ballmer: More Xbox Form Factors in the Future?
On Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington supposedly on the topic of cloud computing. But the conversation also wandered into other topics, one that m...
Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier.
But Prettier. — It's hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. O...
Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored
Websites are gaining increasing recognition as being culturally valuable — as snapshots of our cultural history. But could a change in the law be the only way to preserve them? — An investigation b...
Police get Webcam pictures in school spy case
Two IT employees at Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District have been put on administrative leave, and pictures taken from Webcams on school-issued computers have been turned over to the local pol...
Gowalla 1.0 finally hits the Android Market. Nerds, bar goers rejoice
We've been following Gowalla for some time now. And judging by the funding they've picked up and how quickly they are making progress we can't be the only ones. For months now Gowalla has been avail...
New York Isn't Silicon Valley. That's Why They Like It.
THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just another Sunday brunch set in Ne...
‘Mariposa’ Botnet Authors May Avoid Jail Time
Three Spanish men were arrested last month for allegedly building an international network of more than 12 million hacked PCs that were used for everything from identity theft to spamming. But accord...
Why Google Android Favoritism Isn't Punishing Consumers and Partners
Late last night, Mark Spoonauer of Laptop Magazine penned an editorial about Google. It's a smart opinion piece with the stance that Google is showing favoritism for their own platform and specificia...
Microsoft sends flowers, card for Internet Explorer 6 funeral
Say this for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, they've got a sense of humor. The people who make the Redmond company's web browser sent flowers and a card to the widely publicized “funeral” being h...
Apple approaches $200 billion
With its record close Friday, it's now the 4th largest publicly traded U.S. company — With its stock trading at $218.95 a share when the markets closed Friday, Apple (AAPL) broke into the top five l...
Bluetooth 4.0 to reach devices in fourth quarter
The new specification will be used in more devices than its predecessors — The Bluetooth 4.0 wireless specification could start to appear in devices such as headsets, smartphones and PCs by the four...