Microsoft Office 2010 Now Available for Consumers Worldwide
Millions of beta users help Microsoft deliver the best experience for getting things done across the PC, phone and browser. — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft...
Apple Unveils All New Mac mini
Apple® today unveiled a completely redesigned Mac® mini, featuring up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port and a new SD card slot, all in an amazingly compact aluminum enclosure. Mac mi...
Apple iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering Is a Total Disaster
The iPhone 4's first pre-ordering day has been a total disaster. AT&T's online system has collapsed, there are account security breaches, Apple's online upgrades are down, and stores are now using pe...
Exclusive: Motorola Droid X preview
Not interested in waiting until the 23rd for Verizon's big announcement? Don't worry, we've got you covered right now! The Motorola Droid X has probably been one of the worst kept smartphone secrets...
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Available Now, Brings Safari 5 And Bug Fixes
Mac OS X 10.6.4 is currently sitting pretty in your Software Update and brings Safari 5, if you haven't already jumped on the train, and what looks to be a ton of bug fixes with it. Our update weighs...
What's Happening with Twitter?
From a site stability and service outage perspective, it's been Twitter's worst month since last October. — What's the problem? — Last Friday, we detailed on our Engineering blog that this is goin...
‘Apple Store’ iOS Application Goes Live in App Store [Updated]
As rumored, Apple's new iOS application dedicated to the company's retail store experience is now live in the App Store. Known simply as Apple Store, the free application allows users to shop the ful...
Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers in Ad Revenue
The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook fo...
Samsung Galaxy Beam: world's first Android projector phone on sale in July
Ah, here we go, Samsung's other cellphone with an integrated projector just got an official launch date. The Galaxy Beam (codename: Halo) with its 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display is now slated to hit S...
Google music store could launch this fall
With the iTunes' banner waving supremely over the digital music landscape, Google continues to build its own music service. — According to multiple music industry sources, Google could launch a musi...
Nintendo's 3DS handheld: 3D games without the glasses
Nintendo announced its new 3DS handheld to deliver 3D games without the geeky glasses required to watch 3D movies and television. — The announcement was expected, but Nintendo also announced a wave ...
Foxconn units to leave Shenzhen after wage hikes
Foxconn Technology Group, which supplies Sony, Apple and Nokia with IT components, is moving part of its major plant away from costly Shenzhen after hefty wage increases at its factories in the southe...
Kevin Rose Announces fforward, A Weekly Tech/Geek Culture Show
Verizon to Tie Cloud Storage With Computing
Verizon Business is set to announce a cloud-based storage service on Tuesday, leveraging the formidable Verizon Communications global data network as a draw for large enterprises to subscribe. — Sta...
Facebook CEO Deletes Controversial iPhone 4 Post
While I've followed the story about Mark Zuckerberg dissing the iPhone, it wasn't really of much interest to me-or to you. — Until today. — For those of you unaware, the Facebook CEO posted the fo...
Skype CEO envisions switching devices during calls
Skype CEO Josh Silverman wants to give users the ability to switch devices without interrupting voice and video calls made using his company's software. — Skype lets users make free voice and video ...
Some Game Developers Don't ‘Like’ Facebook's New Virtual Currency
Facebook Inc. has been rolling out its own currency, to be used by members to buy virtual goods in games and other applications. But the move has rankled some game developers, who say the new monetar...
Foursquare To Open Online Store
The popular social network is building an online store for T-shirts and other branded products. — It's no secret that Foursquare users are a devoted group, often “checking in” to the location-based ...
iPhone 4 Up For Pre-Order — Black Only
Black Only — Henry Ford once famously said, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” The same can now be said for the iPhone 4. — Just moments ago, Ap...
iPhone 4 Order Security Breach Exposes Private Information
Apple's iPhone 4 pre-ordering has been a total disaster, but it gets much worse: An AT&T insider claims that this iPhonecalypse may be related to “a major fraud update that went wrong.” The bug is ex...
Hacker in AT&T-iPad security case arrested on drug charges
A hacker in a group that discovered the AT&T iPad-related flaw was arrested on an FBI search warrant in Arkansas on Tuesday, authorities told CNET. — Andrew Auernheimer, 24, was being held in Washin...
Mac mini updated with HDMI, aluminum unibody, and SD card reader
Would you look at that, some love for the seemingly abandoned desktop crowd. Apple has today unveiled a freshly redesigned Mac mini, which benefits from a unibody aluminum exterior and more grunt und...
Want Swype? (yes, you do) - Get It Tomorrow For Android Phones
I just heard from Swype, the creators of an amazing touchscreen mobile application that allows text entry way faster than via normal virtual keyboards. They'll be making the Android version of their ...
Office 2010: No Upgrade Pricing, No Transfers, No Way!
I'm a Microsoft Office devotee. Sure, cloud-based apps are fine. But I like dependable, fast software right on my own computer. My life revolves fairly happily around Outlook. You can pry Excel ou...
About the Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update
Mac OS X v10.6.4 Update Updating your system — You should back up your system before installation; you can use Time Machine. — Do not interrupt the installation process once you have started to up...
Microsoft's Xbox Kinect: Pondering 6 business uses
Microsoft launched its Xbox Kinect, a gaming unit sans controllers, and this pup goes on sale Nov. 4. Will this technology make it to the business world and how would it be used? — This Kinect tech...
Is the iPad going Retina?
With the launch of Apple's iPhone 4 and its gorgeous retina display, it's a high probability that Apple will soon update their other iOS devices with better displays as well. Perhaps you don't need ...
Washington's I.T. Guy
One man's quest to liberate all government information — with or without the government's help — Shortly after Barack Obama's election, as progressive activists and Democratic operatives were jockey...
IDC Sees PC Market Grow By 19.8% In 2010
IDC reports impressive year-over-year growth for global PC shipments of 27.1% in the first quarter of 2010, which has prompted the company to revise its projection for the entire year. In light of sl...
Love Big Data? Infochimps Have an API Call for That
Austin-based data marketplace Infochimps announces the launch of their API today. The API provides access to the company's Twitter and U.S. Census datasets, giving developers, researchers, and market...