The real Facebook burglaries story
I did a little reporting to get the real story behind the reports of a Facebook burglary spree that supposedly used the service — right after its launch of Places — to find victims who were away on va...
Windows Phone 7 will be GSM-only in 2010
When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks. Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its majo...
‘Halo: Reach’: $200M in 24 hours, biggest game in Microsoft history
“Halo: Reach,” the new installment in the blockbuster Xbox 360 series, topped $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in its first 24 hours, according to data released by Microsoft tonight.
Yahoo's Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue
Yahoo unveiled a bevy of new product features today at a press event, and Yahoo product chief Blake Irving told the crowd “You're going to see things over the next few years that will feel a little bi...
Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP
Chrome and Firefox always an option — Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated ri...
New in Labs: Video chat enhancements
If you use video chat in Gmail, you might be interested in a new Labs feature we just rolled out that allows you to preview new video chat features before they're turned on for everyone. Visit the Gm...
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme
SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that eve...
AT&T to launch LTE by mid-2011
AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch commercial LTE service by mid-2011, and will cover between 70 million and 75 million POPs by the end of next year, a top executive said. — Speaking at the Bank of ...
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook
Google wants the data in Facebook and CEO Eric Schmidt isn't afraid to say that they'll find a way to get it. Facebook isn't just winning the battle for web users' time (comScore says Facebook passed...
Netflix works over AirPlay
We tested Netflix on our iPad and it works with Apple's AirPlay service. We connected some speakers to an Airport Express and the audio from the Netflix film wirelessly streamed and played perfectly ...
Justin.tv's Newest App Now Broadcasts Live Video From Your iPhone
Time spent watching live video is up 650 percent in the U.S. over the past year, thanks to the proliferation of a number of live video publishers including Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik and Livestream.
View Near Real-time Flights over the U.S. in Google Earth
Thanks to our friends at Flightwise.com, we've published a new, dynamically updating KML file of commercial flights over the U.S. Turn on the layer to see the current location and altitude of thousand...
Motorola Acquires Location-Based Mobile Software Startup Aloqa
Motorola this morning announced that it has bought Aloqa, a privately-held startup that develops location-based software and technologies designed to enable the discovery of relevant web content by mo...
U.S. Tech Probe Nears End
Several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies are in advanced talks with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each...
Look Out Dropbox, Here Comes Verizon's Mobile Cloud
V CAST Media Manager, a Verizon Wireless (z vz) subscription service to offload media and documents from mobile phones on to Verizon's servers, is available for Android and BlackBerry smartphones. Th...
Look YouTube, No Hands! Looxcie Introduces Wearable Camcorder
Just when you thought our digital culture was bumping against the limits of oversharing, Looxcie steps in with a device that makes it even easier for oversharers to document every mundane moment of th...
Nokia Is the McDonald's of Phones
Didn't you notice? It was just Nokia World! But with sales plummeting and executives fleeing—both at alarming rates—maybe it should be a reckoning instead. — Let's not confuse things: Nokia still ...
Sony Taps MySpace to Market Facebook Movie
We Know ‘The Social Network’ Isn't Helping Facebook. But MySpace Is Another Story — When you've established yourself as the social network for music and movies, that means serving up all the latest...
Microsoft Bullish on Kinect
TOKYO—Microsoft Corp. is targeting global sales of more than three million units of its new Kinect motion-sensor gaming accessory for its Xbox 360 console in the first two months after the Nov. 4 laun...
HTC HD7 resurfaces on a T-Mobile accessories list, could be with us by November 1
Aha! The phone you heard about here first has made its second document-based appearance, this time crossing the Atlantic and showing up on a T-Mobile inventory sheet. We can apparently look forward ...
Nokia Developing 3D Rival to Google's Street View
Nokia and its mapping division Navteq are developing a rival to Street View, one that offers full three-dimensional computer models of villages, towns and cities, and could one day allow those urban c...
Russian 4G Android smartphone appears to have front-and-back screens
We don't know quite what to make of this YouTube video, which shows Russian president Dmitry Medvedev handling a new 4G handset. Our Russian isn't quite good enough to understand what's being said in...