Microsoft by the numbers
You probably saw the news this week that we've sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in 8 months. That's more than 600,000 per day. And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to...
Competition Is Overrated: Stop Worrying About It And Just Build A Better Product
Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. - Garry Tan — Suppose you have an idea for a startup, and then do some research only to discover there are already simi...
Blackberry Curve 9300 Prototype - Hands On
The good folks at Negri Electronics managed to hook us up with an unannounced Blackberry Curve 9300 prototype. This little guy packs quite a redesigned punch, featuring an optical trackpad, flush con...
[Updated] The Coming Super-Seed Crash
Unnoticed by almost no-one, the startup financing landscape has been transformed: a combination of ease of entry, lower capital requirements, failing incumbent venture capital (VC) firms, and general ...
White House abolishes decade-old cookies ban
As expected, White House officials on Friday rolled back a 10-year-old prohibition on web-tracking devices called cookies, a policy that online experts said prevented agencies from personalizing onlin...
The New Digg Version 4.0 Alpha
Ever since Kevin Rose decided to take over the leadership role at Digg, there has been a lot of conversation and speculation over the coming Digg v4.0, but today we need to speculate no more, as Alpha...
iPhone 4 camera beats the smartphone competition
Camera quality is a competitive area for the current crop of smartphones. With each new device, the gap between phones that happen to have cameras, and actual point-and-shoot cameras, shrinks. — To...
The .XXX Fiasco is Almost Over
At Friday's meeting of the ICANN board in Brussels, they voted, probably for the last time, to approve the 2004 application for the .XXX domain. — Purely on the merits, there is of course no need fo...
MacRumors Poll: iPhone 4 Signal Loss by Region
The success of the iPhone 4 launched has been otherwise marred by widespread reports of signal loss. The signal loss seems to occur when the iPhone 4 is held in a certain position resulting in the br...
White iPhones appearing in UK stores?
WTF? How are these people on Sky News (1:23 and 1:31) rolling with white iPhones? Were these store models? We haven't even been able to check out white iPhones at our local Apple Store. (Thanks Co...
A New Suffix for X-Rated Web Sites
SAN FRANCISCO — What if the Web held a sex party and no one showed up? — That's what could happen now that the agency governing the Internet address system all but approved the creation of a new red...
Sprint to Update HTC EVO 4G to Android 2.2, Samsung Moment and HTC Hero Left Behind
HTC EVO will be updated to Android 2.2; Samsung Moment & HTC Hero will not. Future devices launching w/ 2.1 will be also be updated to 2.2.less than a minute ago via CoTweet Sprint — sprint
Leak: EU pushes for criminalizing non-commercial usages in ACTA
Paris, June 23rd 2010 - A document leaked from the Presidency of the EU reveals that Member States are pushing for new criminal sanctions into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a few day...