Apple Works on Line of Less-Expensive iPhones
Apple Inc. is working on the first of a new line of iPhones and an overhaul of software services for the devices, people familiar with the matter said, moving to accelerate sales of its smartphones am...
Microsoft to pay out ‘billions’ as part of Nokia deal
IDG News Service - Nokia on Sunday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world's largest handset maker and that the software giant agreed to pay ...
Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education (video)
Salman Khan has taken a simple idea, YouTube videos that explain math, and transformed it into the future of education. — I'm just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is the best thing th...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 official: Tegra 2, Honeycomb, dual cameras (hands-on with video)
Geez, it's been a long weekend of almost incessant Galaxy Tab II teasing, but the time has come: Samsung's finally releasing the official details of its 10.1-inch, Android Honeycomb tablet to the worl...
March 1st as Possible Date for New MacBook Pros?
As we approach the expected updates for the MacBook Pro line, we tend to start hearing about possible release dates. There are typically some false starts, so it's hard to be sure, but the first cont...
Howard Stern and Twitter Just Made Me Watch “Private Parts” Again
“Private Parts” is a 1997 movie that most Howard Stern fans have a hazy fondness for and everyone else ignores. So why is the movie's title now trending on Twitter? — Because Stern has spent the af...
Zynga's Talks With Investors Value Gaming Concern at Over $7 Billion
Social-gaming company Zynga Inc. is holding discussions with potential investors about raising around $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up at between $7 b...
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (update: video and full spec sheet!)
We'll forgive you if you thought the Xperia Play was eons before. Let's quickly run through its short-yet-illustrious history: we published first details in August last year, followed by the very fir...
HP's ‘Everybody On’ ad goes to the Grammys, causes nationwide cringing
HP told us to watch for a special new campaign during the Grammys, so watch we did — only to find this commercial and occasional on-stage pimping of the HP TouchPad. The latter is standard business p...
Search is amazing compared to 10 years ago at AltaVista
We all use web search engines a lot...about 3 Billion times a day around the world. We hear pundits say that search sucks, or hasn't advanced much beyond 10 blue links. Eleven years ago I was direct...
The machine age
This week, Watson takes on humans at “Jeopardy!” But how close are we to a computer that thinks? Google's director of research explains how far we've come ... Forty years ago this December, Preside...
Motorola Xoom up for pre-order at Best Buy this Thursday... for $1,199?
What the what?! Best Buy has just put up word on when you can pre-order the Motorola Xoom — this coming Thursday, February 17th — and a price, $1,199. There are “great” financing offers available, b...
More images and details of Galaxy S II, Galaxy Tab 10.1″
After the inadvertent leak yesterday, Samsung has officially confirmed Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1″. While all the specs from yesterday remain the same like 1GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch (4....
Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms
I just listened to Scoble's bar interview of @longview (Nick Long) and @renatto (Paul Robinett), two Dreamworks developers who are building a mobile app of their own. They're talking about the Mobile...
Intel promises, teases MeeGo smartphone and tablet for MWC
Lookie here. Intel may have been the jilted bride left at the altar by Nokia, but it's not giving up on MeeGo just yet. The above poster has been hung up here in Barcelona, in the area us humble jou...
How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act
Many foreign-born techies in the U.S. and abroad are pinning their entrepreneurial hopes on the passage of a bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), to create a st...
Geohot freestyles a message to Sony
Wow? — Geohot (iPhone jailbreaker) can rap! In case you hadn't heard, he moved his jailbreaking on to the Sony Playstation platform and Sony sued him. — Maybe they should just sign him instead. ...
StumbleUpon Hits 500 Million Pageviews A Month
StumbleUpon, the service that helps you find interesting stuff on the internet serendipitously, has hit a nice milestone: 500 million pageviews a month. — StumbleUpon is an interesting company becau...