Video Tops P2P Filesharing Traffic: Cisco
Content providers may have finally found a way to battle peer-to-peer file sharing: by making their content easily available online. That's one possible takeaway from Cisco's latest Visual Networking...
The PlayStation Phone
It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real — but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device...
Spotify says no acquisition talks with Apple
Contrary to a published report, Apple is not talked with Spotify about acquiring the European digital music service, a Spotify spokesman said today. — TechCrunch reported that it received an anonymo...
Apple delays white iPhone until next spring
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday that it would delay release of its eagerly anticipated white iPhone again, this time until next spring. The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, ...
Mac Meets PC With New Office Release
Microsoft launches Office 2011 for Mac today, bringing Mac users the latest versions of the company's productivity software. The release is the latest effort from the Office for Mac team, which has b...
White iPhone 4 shows up in Apple's ‘Store’ app, reserve yours now
Last night, Apple released an update to their Apple Store iPhone app. While there wasn't anything new in the way of features, it did contain something notable... the ability to reserve a white iPhone...
Zynga Value Surpasses Electronic Arts'
Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Zynga Game Network Inc.'s estimated worth surpassed Electronic Arts Inc.'s stock-market value, a sign of the ascendance of social-networking entertainment at the expense of tradi...
Travel Sites Ally to Block Google Deal
WASHINGTON—Several popular online travel companies are joining forces to oppose Google Inc.'s proposed $700 million purchase of ITA Software Inc., the leading provider of flight data, saying the deal ...
T-Mobile to debut tethering plan on November 3rd, $14.99
Listen up T-Mobile tetherers, we've just been sent in some intel that indicates America's fourth largest carrier will begin to offer/charge for tethering on November 3rd. The Tethering and Wi-Fi Shar...
Amazon wins fight to keep customer records private
In a victory for the free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled today that the company would not have to turn over detailed records on nearly 50 million purchases to...
Amazon Launches Brand New iPad Shopping App Called Windowshop
Amazon has just released a new free iPad app, called Amazon Windowshop that the company says is a complete “rewrite” of Amazon.com specifically for the iPad. Optimized for touch screen tablets, Amazo...
Why iPhone 4 and Android Brightness Controls Are Effectively Useless
Your phone display's brightness consumes up to half of its power. And chances are it's being horribly mismanaged, thanks to bad engineering and a backwards user interface. Here, Dr. Raymond Soneira ...
How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors
“Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,” read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are just outright false, but we dug into this one a little b...
Tech World Welcomes Digg Refugees With Open Arms
This morning most of us woke up to the disappointing news that social news site Digg, once a promising destination for Silicon Valley talent, was losing 37% of its staff as well experiencing key execu...
Apple Stores to use new Concierge app for customer check-ins [u]
Apple retail stores will soon launch a new wireless check-in service that will allow employees to manage a queue of customers using a custom iOS app called Concierge, according to a new report.
Steve Jobs ‘raged at Microsoft’ over game studio sale
Apple boss made angry Ballmer call when Xbox bought Mac experts and Halo creators Bungie — Steve Jobs' capacity to accurately detect the blockbuster potential of consumer goods may go beyond the rea...
Cloudera Raises Hefty Funding Round
Cloudera, a key distributor of software that helps companies analyze big piles of data, has raised another $25 million. — The announcement marks the closely held company's third round of funding, w...
Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?
Digg recently published a blog post titled “Digg's Algorithmic Mystery Tour” on October, 15th. While a Digg blog post is a normal thing, a post about the algorithm was very surprising to me. Why did...
The Air's Spot in the Lineup
Apple goes to great effort to eliminate “which one should I buy?” ambiguity from its product lines. Look no further than iPods: — Nano: Audio player — Classic: Audio player with massive storage — ...
To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks
You've heard it before: Digital technologies blew up the music industry's moneymaking model, and the textbook business is next. — For years observers have predicted a coming wave of e-textbooks. Bu...
The Leash Is Off: Comcast Digital Subs Can Access Xfinity TV From Any ISP
In a big step forward for the TV Everywhere concept, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is taking the beta tag off Xfinity TV and opening more than 150,000 hours of online content to all of its digital video subs—...
Lazy Hackers Unite: Firesheep Boasts +104,000 Downloads In 24 Hours
Well, that was fast. — In roughly 24 hours, Firesheep has been downloaded more than 104,000 times, as would-be-hackers — or the merely curious— downloaded the Firefox extension to test the exploit.
MacBook Air review (late 2010)
The MacBook Air has never exactly been a simple product to review. Since the laptop's launch back in the heady days of 2008, we've always considered it a niche, high-end product and much less a mains...
Autotrader.com to buy Kelley Blue Book-WSJ
Online automotive advertising company Autotrader.com may announce on Tuesday its acquisition of car pricing service Kelley Blue Book for more than $500 million, the Wall Street Journal said. — Autot...
People's Daily: iPad Cool, But Not Pirate-Friendly (UPDATED)
The ruling Chinese Communist Party is not often linked with cutting-edge technology, or tech fashion, but a recent column in its official newspaper nonetheless gives loyal readers a primer on Apple's ...