In the Works: A Google Mobile Payment Service?
“You'll be able to walk in a store and do commerce,” says Google's Eric Schmidt. “You'd bump for everything and eventually replace credit cards” — Google (GOOG) is considering building a payment an...
What's happening with Windows Phone updates in 2011
I can finally reveal a number of details about the first Windows Phone 7 update, a future major update, and how Microsoft intends to roll out updates generally. It's not necessarily great news. But ...
SCVNGR Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation
Location based game SCVNGR has raised another $15 million in a funding round led by European VC firm Balderton Capital, with participation from previous investors Google Ventures and Highland Capital ...
Sales Are At A Trickle On Google's Chrome Web Store
In December, after months of anticipation and discussions with third-party developers, Google finally unveiled the Chrome Web Store — an online portal that lets users purchase and ‘install’ web applic...
Microsoft Supposedly Showing Off Its Answer To Apple TV And Google TV At CES
Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been a big hit for entertainment and online video, and we've heard that Microsoft is trying to court more media companies to the Xbox. — But it looks like the company is als...
Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead
Just Like the Web Is Dead — A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance. It seems to have s...
Honeycomb to Require Powerful Processor, Screen: OEM
Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly, said Bobby Cha, managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert. — That means...
Consumer Electronics Show comes to Las Vegas this week
At CES, more than 2,500 companies are presenting new electronics and tech products. At least 120,000 attendees from 130 countries are expected to peruse the show floor. — You'd think people would h...
Who owns your digital downloads? (Hint: it's not you)
Steve Jobs once said, “People want to own their music.” — Someone better tell the folks who run the iTunes Store and its competitors. If you buy a digital music track or album from the iTunes store...
Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe in browser wars
Internet Explorer loses crown in major market for first time — Boston, USA and Dublin, Ireland; Tuesday 4th January, 2011: Firefox overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to become the number on...
Boxee partners with Iomega, NAS device running Boxee is coming
We are happy to announce that Iomega will be bringing out a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device running the Boxee software. — Boxee is a software company (even though some people mistake us for a ...
Sprint's HTC EVO Shift 4G On Sale January 9th
After flurries of leaks, HTC's EVO Shift 4G smartphone has been introduced by exclusive carrier Sprint, which'll have it on shelves January 9th at $150. As expected, it's a slide-out QWERTY keyboard ...
Netflix' Next Destination: On Your Remote Control
Brilliant idea: Netflix and a number of consumer electronics companies have joined in a development effort to put Netflix-branded one-click buttons on remote controls that operate Internet-connected T...
Facebook Considering A Leaseback Deal Worth As Much As $420 Million For New HQ
Faceook is considering moving its headquarters to the old Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, as we previously reported. Some new details about the transaction have come to light.
The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic
Ask a computer to add 100 and 100, and its answer will be 200. But what if it sometimes answered 202, and sometimes 199, or any other number within about 1 percent of the correct answer? — Arithmet...
With Fusion, AMD plans to stop being the underdog in chips
Making good on plans it laid in 2006, Advanced Micro Devices is finally announcing that its Fusion family of computer chips, which combine graphics functions with general computing power, are ready fo...
Ditch Your Wallet and Pay by Phone
Using 200 of its San Francisco staff, the bank will test mobile-phone payments for six months—and may launch a commercial service soon after — Wells Fargo (WFC) is again trying to make mobile paymen...
Big Data Giant Joins InfoChimps to Save the World's Structured Information
Sometimes highly accomplished people just have to join crazy little startups. It's always exciting to see what happens when they do. Data scientist Kurt Bollacker is one of those people; he's decide...
Skype's partner says it is legal in China
(Reuters) - Skype's partner in China, TOM Group, said the web-based calling service is complying with Chinese law, even as a crackdown on illegal Internet telephone providers could complicate Skype's ...
Garmin announces nüvi 2400 series GPS units, StreetPilot iPhone app
Today, via a barrage of press releases, navigation company Garmin announced its nüvi 2400 series of personal GPS devices and its first iPhone navigation application, StreetPilot.
A Google Like Button: Adsense for Social Network Sharers?
A Google patent application published last week describes how Google might enable visitors to websites to share information that they've found with others on social networking sites such as Twitter, F...
How sticky is Android?
There is an assumption floating around the debates in this and other forums that the “battle” between mobile platforms is a land grab. The unspoken implication of this assumption is that once a user ...