Microsoft Kinect gets official, Video Chat announced
You knew it was coming, right? Hot on the heels of getting leaked a wee bit early Microsoft has made official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a new name: “Project Natal” is no more, rep...
Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It
GLEN ROCK, N.J. — In a class full of aspiring engineers, the big bad wolf had to do more than just huff and puff to blow down the three little pigs' house. — To start, he needed to get past a voice-...
Apple relaxes iOS SDK terms to allow Lua but block Flash
Apple's iOS SDK rules for iPhone developers have relaxed the restriction of section 3.3.2 pertaining to interpreted code, enabling Apple to forbid Flash and other middleware platforms while still enab...
The Twitter Devolution
Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture. — Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in...
Yelp Co-Founder And CTO Russel Simmons Is Out
(Psssst. I'm leaving ...) — Yelp co-founder and CTO Russel Simmons, pictured here (left) with fellow co-founder and chief exec Jeremy Stoppelman, is leaving the company. Simmons will be transition...
RIM Tests A Tablet And New BlackBerry to Rival iPhone
Research In Motion Ltd. is readying a slate of new devices and software as it looks to keep its BlackBerry smartphone from losing more ground to touch-screen devices like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad.
Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets
If you're like everyone at the Twitter office, you're going crazy about the World Cup. When turning to Twitter to keep up with the current game, it helps to know where a Tweet is coming from—is that ...
Samsung's 7-inch ‘Galaxy Tape’ to run Android 2.2 on 1.2GHz A8 processor?
More details about Samsung's new tablet have emerged courtesy of Tinh te and from what it claims is a highly reliable source. This time around, the Vietnamese site is claiming that Samsung's 7-inch T...
Facebook CEO Disses iPhone
Mark Zuckerberg recently bought an iPhone. But the mobile phone is not very mobile, and not much of a phone, the Facebook CEO says. — In a post to his Facebook wall, Zuckerberg explained that, with...
Yahoo Settles Lawsuit and Gets Flicker.com Domain Name
Yahoo now has Flicker.com for Flickr.com web site. — As Michael Berkens pointed out today, Yahoo now owns the domain name Flicker.com. — But this wasn't your typical domain name sale. It was actu...
Zynga Said to Get $147 Million Softbank Investment
Zynga Game Network Inc., the biggest provider of Facebook games, received a 13.5 billion yen ($147 million) investment from Softbank Corp., according to two people familiar with the agreement. — Sof...
Sprint cans employee for leaking EVO 4G sales numbers
The tales surrounding the launch of the EVO 4G have been intriguing, to say the least. On June 4th, the device launched. By June 7th, Sprint was touting the phone's sales as mammoth, claiming that i...
Exclusive: Droid 2 and Droid X Commercial Slides, New Juicy Details
Over the weekend we got a hold of the commercial slides and scripts for the new batch of Motorola Droid 2 and Droid X commercials that are slated to run as we get closer to launch next month.