With DECE's UltraViolet, We're About To See Just How Powerful Apple Really Is
When I hear the name UltraViolet as it pertains to Hollywood, good things don't come to mind. Namely, I think about the 2006 Kurt Wimmer film of the same name that was awful.
iPhone 4 Gyroscope Brings Silky Smooth Augmented Reality
When the iPhone 4 was unveiled in early June of this year, many were surprised by things like the antennae design or the high-resolution Retina Display. Augmented reality fans, however, were excited ...
Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum
One of the earliest bits of software that made the original Macintosh computer so interesting to use and unusual for its time was a drawing program called MacPaint. — Released in 1984 with the Mac, ...
Facebook Claimant Must Answer ‘Where Have You Been?’ to Succeed
Paul Ceglia, the western New York man who says a 2003 contract with Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg entitles him to 84 percent of the company, will have to answer a critical question to pursue h...
Beta for Next Version of Microsoft Security Essentials Now Available
Today we are announcing the beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009 and is our award-winning no-cost light weigh...
Google Unveils Google Image Search Ads
At its search event today, Google launched a new product that's a part of Google Images: Google Image Search Ads. Basically, this allows advertisers show up alongside Google Image searches. — “This...
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
All-Time Record Revenue Earnings Increase 78 Percent — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 third quarter ended June 26, 2010. The Company posted record revenue of $15.7 bil...
It's Hard To Feel Sorry For AT&T
Perhaps now you've read Fred Vogelstein's feature about the relationship between AT&T and Apple in this month's Wired magazine. If not, you definitely should, it's available online. It reads a bit l...
MOG Launches All-You-Can-Eat Music Service For iPhone And Android
After months of waiting, it's finally here. Streaming music service MOG has launched its mobile applications for Android and iPhone, giving subscribers unlimited access to its library of 8 million so...
HP Lists HP Slate 500, Requests PalmPad Trademark
Hewlett-Packard has listed the Windows-based HP Slate 500 on its website, and also applied to trademark the term Palmpad, fueling speculation surrounding the company's tablet plans. — HP, the world'...
Asus Drops Windows for Android in Eee Pad Tablet
Asus is working on a 3G Eee Pad tablet computer, and it will run on Google's Android operating system. Our friends from the German site Netbook News headed over to Asus HQ and got the details. — Th...
Users Rate Facebook Slightly Above the Tax Man
Facebook plans to announce it has reached a milestone 500 million users this week — but that doesn't mean the masses are happy customers. — The American Customer Satisfaction Index, developed by the...
FileMaker unveils FileMaker Go app for iPhone, iPad
PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — The iPhone may fit and your pocket, and the iPad may not be much larger than a hardcover book, but FileMaker thinks it can squeeze an entire database application on...
BranchOut Unlocks The LinkedIn In Facebook
Everyone you know is on Facebook, and most people have added their resume information. But you can't search by companies and even searching within your friends for company names is virtually impossib...
World's First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden
The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are planning to shake up the country's ISP market. After taking over the supply of bandwidth to The Pirate Bay...
Lenovo promises LePad Android tablet for the end of the year
Liu Jun, Senior VP and President of Lenovo's Consumer Business Group, has revealed his company's intention to deliver an Android tablet by the end of this year. To be known as LePad, this apparent re...
Adobe shows off P2P video calls on Android, calls it FlashTime
The technology, which mimics Apple's iPhone 4-based FaceTime, is cheekily dubbed FlashTime and is built using …
Google discovers Chrome can (really) block ads
AdBlock add-on of Firefox proportions — Google Chrome now includes the ability to completely block resources from loading inside the browser, and the latest incarnation of the AdBlock extension for ...
Passwords that are Simple—and Safe
and Safe — A new approach does away with the need for long strings of letters and numbers — Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords without making a syst...