Google Nexus One Gone From Verizon Lineup
Many Nexus One fans have been watching the Google Nexus One web site to see when the dreaded “coming soon” to Verizon message would go away and the phone would be available for order. That may not ev...
Wi-Fi Sync: wirelessly sync the iPhone with iTunes... in your dreams (video)
Hey iPhone, welcome to 2007. Following Opera's script in building grassroots hysteria to goad Apple into approving a contentious app, developer Greg Hughes is teasing a video of his Wi-Fi Sync app to...
RIM announces the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G
So check it out... RIM's huge BlackBerry hullabaloo, Wireless Enterprise Symposium, or “WES”, officially kicks off tomorrow in sunny Orlando, but that didn't stop the Waterloo folks from busting out t...
Video Ad Startup FreeWheel Raises $16.8M From Turner, Disney And Others
Video advertising company FreeWheel has raised $16.8 million in funding from Disney's Steamboat Ventures, and existing investors, including Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures, and Foundation...
Motorola Dumping Google's Built-In Location Feature For Skyhook On Android Phones (MOT, GOOG)
A nice win for Boston-based mobile location company Skyhook Wireless: Motorola will build Skyhook's location service into “much” of its Google Android-based phone lineup worldwide, replacing Google's ...
Pirates rewrite script for Apple's China iPad launch
(Reuters) - Just three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone Ch...
Spammers Paying Others to Solve Captchas
MUMBAI, India — Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America's playbook: they are outsourcing. — Sophisticated spammers are paying...
Rhapsody Adds Offline Listening To Its iPhone App
Newly independent Rhapsody is giving its iPhone app some bragging rights with an update that lets subscribers listen to tracks even when they're not online. Users will now be able to download their R...
Nokia N8 already reviewed, panned as poor iPhone rival
The Nokia N8 has already been given an early review that calls it a poor rival to Android and the iPhone. Symbian^3 is said to have “little change in functionality,” and the phone itself as seen as o...
Blippy Issues, Resolutions, Plan
It has been a rocky weekend for Blippy. The weekend began with a front page article in the New York Times announcing our Series A financing. The elation didn't last long. A few hours later, reports...
Intel prepares to launch more Atom processors
Intel is preparing to launch more Atom-based processors for netbooks soon including models that support DDR3 memory and dual-cores, according to sources from notebook players. — Intel launched its s...
Yahoo to be pre-loaded onto “tens of millions” of Samsung phones
App stores are no substitute for what the mobile industry calls “on deck” placement. Do you want your app in the store, or do you want it to be a button right next to the button for the app store on ...
The Wall Street Journal Partners with Foursquare
Foursquare's bread-and-butter is the partnerships that seed the location-based social network with curated content. Now, that includes editorial tips and badges from the renowned business publication...
RIM melds BlackBerry with PBX handsets
Research in Motion's latest version of its mobile voice system (MVS) allows you to morph your BlackBerry into your corporate handset. — In a nutshell, MVS does for the corporate PBX what BlackBerry ...
More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions
As a culture, we're at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech com...
Google Officially Adds TV Episode Video-Search Filter
Trying to pin down that episode where the whole group goes to that one place and the guy does that one thing? It's now pretty easy to pin it down in Google itself, which publicly announced episode fi...
Modernizing the ‘Kodak Moment’ as Social Sharing
DESPITE the predictions of naysayers, the concept of the “Kodak moment” has endured into the 21st century, even if Kodachrome film is going the way of the Brownie Starmite camera. Now, Eastman Kodak,...
Apple-part-owned Imagination teams with MIPS in blow to ARM,
Following rumours last week that Apple may (or may not) be plotting an ARM takeover, we read yet more cafuffle from the processor and graphics industry, this time involving a move by Apple-part-owned ...
McAfee promises to reimburse consumers for bad update
Security vendor will pay consumers ‘reasonable expenses’ for PC repairs, but still no word on compensation for business customers — McAfee will reimburse its consumer customers for “reasonable expen...
Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera team up on Web font standard
Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera walk into a bar...After a lengthy discussion, they put together standards proposal for WOFF — the Web Open Font Format. OK, so I doubt they really did this in a bar back...