Kinect for Windows - Building the Future
Since announcing a few weeks ago that the Kinect for Windows commercial program will launch in early 2012, we've been asked whether there will also be new Kinect hardware especially for Windows. The ...
FCC Chief to Seek Hearing on AT&T Deal
WASHINGTON—The head of the Federal Communications Commission will seek an administrative hearing on AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile USA, according to a person close to the ma...
Production starts for iPad 3 QXGA display: Analyst
A 10-inch-class 2048x1536 display is not easy to make in the volumes that Apple demands. Will Apple brand the next-generation iPad display ‘Retina’? — Production has started on the high-resolution ...
Apple Expands Subscription Service to Games
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is letting a video-game company offer its titles by subscription on the iPad, expanding the role of a feature typically used by magazine and newspaper publishers. — Big Fish Games,...
BlackBerry PlayBook Native Email, Contacts and Calendar Screenshots and Details
Today at the BlackBerry Innovation Forum, RIM gave a demo of the native email, contacts and calendar functionality on the BlackBerry PlayBook. We can't yet post video of the demo but we do have scree...
An MIT student is developing a lie detector for the Internet
I'm as bad as the next writer when it comes to making a spelling error now and again. Fortunately, ubiquitous spell check has made that a lot less of a problem. For some writers, however, a grammar ...
At Apple, Cloud Experts Wanted
Apple Inc. has been taking small but important steps toward a shift in the way its customers access their digital content beyond the downloadable software that has been vital to the company's success....
50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook
Ecommerce sites should consider how they can personalize their sites using Facebook data, as a new study shows 50% of visitors to ecommerce sites are currently logged in to Facebook. Using Facebook s...
Android Researcher Hit With C&D After Dissecting Monitoring Software
Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart has recently found himself in some hot water after performing a deep dive into mobile tracking software from a company called Carrier IQ. He managed to figu...
Google Announces Plans To Shutter Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, And More
Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company's most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven't taken off. These have included Aardv...
HP surprisingly emerges as No. 2 tablet maker
At least for now, Hewlett-Packard can lay claim to as the second most-popular tablet manufacturer behind Apple. — Too bad, it'll be a short-lived reign. — Sorry, Jon, the Touchpad is no more. — ...
Spotify, Rdio, And MOG On Artist Payments: Don't Blame Us
In the beginning, music industry watchers hailed subscription streaming services such as Spotify, MOG, Rdio, and Rhapsody as saviors of the industry, an alternative for listeners and labels to the tyr...
Google mail crypto tweak makes eavesdropping harder
‘Forward secrecy’ protects data for the long term — Google engineers have enhanced the encryption offered in Gmail, Google Docs, and other services to protect users against retroactive attacks that ...
Apple gets control over porn domain names
Owner of domain names agrees to give domain names to Apple after company filed complaint. — Apple is now the proud owner of iphonesex4s.com and six other (mostly) explicit domain names. — The comp...
Apple Seeks Executives for Cloud-Based Services
Apple Inc. has been taking small but important steps toward a shift in the way its customers access their digital content beyond the downloadable software that has been vital to the company's success....
As Palm bidding continues, HP wants a sweet deal to keep webOS in printers (exclusive)
For some strange reason, HP is still really hot on the idea of mating webOS with its printers — to the point where it has become a crucial part of its negotiations to sell off its Palm assets.
Apple Announces (Black Friday) Holiday Sale for Friday, November 25th
As noted by MacStories, Apple has started posting teaser announcements about their Black Friday holiday sale for Friday, November 25th. The teaser first appeared on their Australian online store and ...
iPhone and Surface: The moment Apple and Microsoft diverged
Takeaway: In June 2007, both Apple and Microsoft were poised to reinvent computing. Only one of them delivered, and it changed the destiny of both companies. — When the news broke recently about Mi...
iPhone 4S Becomes Second Most Popular Cameraphone on Flickr
Apple's newly launched iPhone 4S has quickly shot up to become the second most popular Cameraphone on Flickr.com. Flickr's Camera Finder page shows graphs of the popularity of both smartphones and Po...
Microsoft acquires video search co VideoSurf
VideoSurf was founded by four Israelis and investors include Pitango and Orbotech. — Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) has acquired VideoSurf for tens of millions of dollars in an effort to impro...
NETFLIX: Oh, And By The Way, We're Going To Lose Money Next Year
Five months ago, Netflix was a $300 stock. — Now it's a ~$75 stock. — It's raising $400 million at its new, clobbered stock price to fund all its new content investments. — And... it's going to ...
Penguin Group USA to No Longer Allow Library Lending of New Ebook Titles
(This story has been updated from an earlier version to include comment from OverDrive.) — The number of ebooks available for libraries to loan has just shrunk as Penguin Group USA has decided, for ...
Kyobo, Qualcomm make Mirasol color displays a reality, with the Kyobo eReader
Don't look now, but Mirasol has just arisen from the dead. Today, Korea's Kyobo Book Centre and Qualcomm jointly unveiled the world's first Mirasol-coated e-reader, just a few months after CEO Paul J...
Google News Now Features Limited Social Recommendations Based on +1s
Google today announced a small but important new Google+-powered feature for Google News. While there are currently a plethora of startups that are trying to provide their users with personalized new...
With iPad 3, Apple could ship more PCs than HP
According to new estimates by analyst firm Canalys, Apple could sell more PCs than current market leader HP during the first half of 2012. The key to Apple's market dominance, however, is counting th...
BlackBerry PlayBook dropping to $199 in time for holidays
The Playbook's price has dropped $300 since its launch earlier this year. — It's official—the price of BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet will soon be dropping into the Kindle Fire range at a number of bi...
EU regulator “concerned” over cellphone patents war
(Reuters) - EU regulators investigating Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) over their patents dispute are worried intellectual property rights may be unfairly used by some firms ag...
Steve Jobs talks PC vs. TV
Fortune blogger Philip Elmer-DeWitt uncovered this gem recently — a segment of Steve Jobs' appearance at the CAUSE 1998 Conference in Seattle. — The video quality is terrible, and the black turtlene...
Feature: AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe
The desktop benchmark scores for AMD's new Bulldozer architecture didn't make happy reading for fans of the chip company, with the new design sometimes failing to beat AMD's own predecessor architectu...
Online-Services Firms Catering to Businesses Look Good Again to Venture Investors
Online-Services Firms Catering to Businesses Look Good Again to Venture Investors — After taking a back seat in recent years to consumer Internet companies like social websites and mobile-apps maker...
Xbox 360 fall dashboard going public December 6, Metro to the masses
Microsoft's new Xbox 360 dashboard will be made available on December 6. — The software giant announced the date on Tuesday. The Verge reports that starting December 6, the update will be made avai...
Piper Jaffray's Estimate of Android Vs. iOS Ecosystem Revenue is Flawed
Piper Jaffray produced one of the first cracks from a research firm at overall revenue for developers from the iOS and Android platforms today, saying that Google's platform has generated 7 percent of...