- iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010) (Dan Frakes/Macworld) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:55:00
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010) — Biggest nano makeover yet gains Multi-Touch but loses features and screen size — No iPod model has received as many makeovers—both minor and dramatic—as the iPod nano. (Perhaps not coincidentally, no other iPod model has sold as well.)
- Google Changes Coming Tomorrow: AJAX Results, 30 Results Per Page … (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:10:00
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Changes Coming Tomorrow: AJAX Results, 30 Results Per Page, Streaming Results & More? — We know Google is having a big search event tomorrow and we suspect that is why Google is showing the Google Balls logo today. Google told me “today’s doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast …
- Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access (Martyn Williams/PC World) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:50:08
Martyn Williams / PC World:
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access — A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
- Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker (Melissa Petro/The Huffington Post) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:35:02
Melissa Petro / The Huffington Post:
Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker — People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money. From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the …
- iPod touch review (2010) (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:10:03
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod touch review (2010) — At Apple’s last event, Steve Jobs called the iPod touch the company’s “most popular iPod,” and it’s easy to understand why. In just a few short years, the iPhone-with-no-phone has kept in lockstep with Cupertino’s halo device, benefitting from the same kind …
- Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter (Gizmodo) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:40:02
Gizmodo:
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter — Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I’m sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.
- Dell Killing Windows XP Option This Month (Mark Hachman/PC Magazine) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:10:00
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Dell Killing Windows XP Option This Month — Dell said Tuesday that it plans to stop offering Windows XP as a preloaded OS option beginning this month, as a prelude to Microsoft’s slow phase-out of the older operating system. — Microsoft said in June that the company would prevent OEMs …
- Google’s Kinetic Logo Apparently Has To Do With Their Big Search Event Tomorrow (MG Siegler/TechCrunch) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:50:00
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google’s Kinetic Logo Apparently Has To Do With Their Big Search Event Tomorrow — By now, you’ve likely noticed the interesting, kinetic logo Google has had up today. While there is still no official word from the search giant as to exactly what it means, they are letting out some hints.
- Google Scribe – Google launched a very interesting tool … (Alex Chitu/Google Operating System) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:45:04
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Scribe — Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It’s not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type “This works sur” and Google suggested …
- Controversial Investor McClure On Doing 50 Deals This Year … (Connie Loizos/PE Hub Blog) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:35:00
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Controversial Investor McClure On Doing 50 Deals This Year, Clashing With VCs, and More — Dave McClure is rather unlike most investors in Silicon Valley. He curses like a sailor, for one thing – publicly. He tweets almost constantly, no matter the time of day.
- Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit (Oracle) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:30:04
Oracle:
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard …
- Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web (Mike Beltzner/The Mozilla Blog) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:25:00
Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users …
- ACLU, Other Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Border Laptop Searches (Grant Gross/PC World) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:10:00
Grant Gross / PC World:
ACLU, Other Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Border Laptop Searches — The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.
- With a Little Help From His Friends (David Kirkpatrick/Vanity Fair) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:20:00
David Kirkpatrick / Vanity Fair:
With a Little Help From His Friends — At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network.
- Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/Digits) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:50:00
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd — Hewlett-Packard is suing former CEO Mark Hurd, alleging breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets, a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle. Below, a look at some of the most salient points in the suit.
- Apple Confirms Game Center Compatibility: Yes on 2nd-Generation … (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:40:00
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Confirms Game Center Compatibility: Yes on 2nd-Generation iPod Touch, No on iPhone 3G — Apple has confirmed on its Game Center overview page that the social gaming network will be available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod touch models …
- Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets (John Paczkowski/Digital Daily) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:35:01
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets — Rsearch In Motion (RIM) has indeed acquired software developer DataViz — well, most of it anyway. — “RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform,” …
- Welcome to Mozilla Labs Gaming (Pascal Finette/Gaming) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:10:01
Pascal Finette / Gaming:
Welcome to Mozilla Labs Gaming — We are excited to present to you the latest initiative from Mozilla Labs: Gaming. Mozilla Labs Gaming is all about games built, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersive gaming on the Open Web possible.
- Missed call notifications delivered to your inbox (Brian Peterson/Google Voice Blog) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:55:02
Brian Peterson / Google Voice Blog:
Missed call notifications delivered to your inbox — Google Voice lets you take charge of your telephony experience, giving you one number that rings all your phones. But what if you’re not around to answer any of them? — Starting today, whenever you miss a call, you can see a notification …
- Five of the Best Tablets Revealed So Far (Gary Cutlack/Gizmodo) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:20:00
Gary Cutlack / Gizmodo:
Five of the Best Tablets Revealed So Far — We’ve seen numerous announcements of tablet computers in recent weeks, as the R&D labs of the world push out their hastily assembled attempts at competing with Apple’s game-changing iPad. But are any of them up to the job?
- Simpler sign-ups for Yahoo! users with OpenID (Eric Sachs/The Official Google Blog) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:10:00
Eric Sachs / The Official Google Blog:
Simpler sign-ups for Yahoo! users with OpenID — How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.”
- Google’s Sci-Fi Now: Voice-Control TV, Eternal Memory, An End To Loneliness (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:00:04
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Google’s Sci-Fi Now: Voice-Control TV, Eternal Memory, An End To Loneliness — Never accuse Google (NSDQ: GOOG) of not thinking big. During CEO Eric Schmidt’s IFA keynote in Berlin on Tuesday… —Mobile product director Hugo Barra demoed a forthcoming update to Android’s Google Translate …
- New Internet Explorer (IE9) Beta UI Video Sneak Peek (Marius Oiaga/Softpedia News) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:00:04
Marius Oiaga / Softpedia News:
New Internet Explorer (IE9) Beta UI Video Sneak Peek — With approximately a week left until Microsoft will debut the public Beta of its revolutionary Internet Explorer 9 browser, new leaks allow users to get a better idea of what the company has in store for them come September 15th, 2010.
- Breaking News on EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require … (Bankston/Electronic Frontier Foundation) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:25:00
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Breaking News on EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records — This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case.
- As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:45:05
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door — Ever since Digg launched its new site design, it’s been plagued with all kinds of trouble, not least of which is that it keeps going down. The problems with the new architecture are so bad that VP of Engineering John Quinn is now gone …
- BREAKING: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Hurd; Includes Statement … (Hani Durzy/Data Central) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:35:25
Hani Durzy / Data Central:
BREAKING: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Hurd; Includes Statement and Link to Full Complaint — In response to the news of Mark Hurd’s intention to join Oracle, HP today filed a civil complaint in the California Superior Court (County of Santa Clara) against Hurd. HP’s statement on the matter:
- HP Sues Mark Hurd For Violating Severance Agreement (By Joining Oracle) (Jay Yarow/Business Insider) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:15:05
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
HP Sues Mark Hurd For Violating Severance Agreement (By Joining Oracle) — HP is suing Mark Hurd for violating his severance agreemment. In the lawsuit against Hurd, HP says Hurd puts, “HP’s most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril,” by accepting the job of President at Oracle.
- Top Microsoft game employee jumps to Amazon (Don Reisinger/CNET News) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:55:00
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Top Microsoft game employee jumps to Amazon — Feeding speculation that Amazon.com is planning a gaming push, the company has snagged Microsoft’s director of game platform strategy. — Andre Vrignaud announced his departure Friday on his personal blog. “Can’t really talk about details at this point …
- Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales (Reuters) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:25:00
Reuters:
Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales — (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sales. — The downbeat comment …
- Google’s Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is ‘Our New Definition’ (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:25:00
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Google’s Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is ‘Our New Definition’ — In a big-picture keynote at Berlin’s IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google’s new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, super-quick…
- Samsung’s Orion is the 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 we’ve all been waiting for (Vlad Savov/Engadget) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:30:06
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung’s Orion is the 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 we’ve all been waiting for — We still consider Samsung’s Hummingbird application processor to be among the very best for mobile computers, but this morning Sammy itself is stepping up the charge to make it look real old real fast.
- Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn (Nicola Leske/Reuters) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:23:58
Nicola Leske / Reuters:
Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn — (Reuters) – Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room.
- Official: Samsung Fascinate launching September 9 for $199 … (Vlad Savov/Engadget) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:50:22
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Official: Samsung Fascinate launching September 9 for $199 (update: September 8 online) — Put away your leaked Verizon documents, good folks, the Fascinate finally has an official release date: September 9. Verizon’s Galaxy S variant snuck up on all of us with a commercial appearance last night …
- Samsung Electronics May Use Google’s Android Software in TVs (Bloomberg) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:35:01
Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics May Use Google’s Android Software in TVs — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest television maker, said it may equip its TVs with Google Inc. software, and compete with Sony Corp. in offering sets that surf the Web and double as computers.
- Apple iPod touch (4th Gen. with Camera)
An even-better Apple iPod touch retains its designation as the best portable media player you can buy—and for the price, it should be.
- New iPod Touch more like iPhone 4; Ping isn’t quite there
The iPod Touch is the standout among the trio of new iPods, but Ping, the music social network inside iTunes 10 software, feels incomplete.
- Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets
Research In Motion has indeed acquired software developer DataViz–well, most of it anyway. Confirming an earlier report at CrackBerry.
- Extended iTunes Store Song Samples Held Up Over Licensing Issues
Just two days before Apple’s media event last week, CNET reported that Apple was set to extend the length of song samples in the iTunes Store from 30 seconds to as much as 90 seconds, offering …
- Screenshots of car damage in Gran Turismo 5
Gran Turismo 5 attempts in-game car damage for the first time. The results? Well, lets just say that they didn’t attempt this earlier for a reason.
- Windows Phone 7 trailer gets Lawrence of Arabia treatment
Ahhhhh snap! Microsoft is officially bringing “it” by touting the Windows Phone 7 as the next revolution in smartphones.
- Piper Jaffray: Android Army’s Victory Over iPhone Inevitable
The battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it’s finished, Google, not Apple, will emerge the victor.
- University of Michigan develops missile blinding technology
It’s always good news to hear of a military device intended for war that isn’t branded “death from above,” and that actually saves lives instead of taking them.
- Samsung May Deploy Google TV After All
Samsung could build TV sets with the Google TV Internet and video platform built in, despite concerns about the high cost of components necessary to run the software.
- Nokia names N8 release date, pricing
Much in demand, apparently Nokia’s N8 smartphone will go on sale at the end of this month priced at £429 for the SIM-free version, the Finnish phone giant said today.…
- iPod Nano and Touch In Stores Tomorrow, Early Reviews
We’ve heard that the new iPod nano and iPod Touch will be arriving in Apple retail stores tomorrow, and the first reviews are starting to filter in.
- Apple Releases Safari 5.0.2
Apple today released a small software update for Safari, bringing it up to version 5.0.2. The update contains “improvements to compatibility and security” and includes the following:- Fi…
- Game Center is live… mostly
iPhone developers report that Apple’s Game Center has finally gone live.
- Retro new iPhone dock has pricey, film noir feel
If you’re feeling nostalgic and have US$250 burning a hole in your pocket, perhaps we’ve found the iPhone dock for you.
- Fourth-Generation iPod Shuffle Teardown Unsurprisingly Reveals Tiny Components
Earlier today, we posted some photos of the new fourth-generation iPod shuffle, showing off the unboxing and some comparisons to other iPod models.
- Dell Killing Windows XP Option This Month
Dell said Tuesday that it plans to stop offering Windows XP as a preloaded OS option beginning this month, as a prelude to Microsoft’s slow phase-out of the older operating system.
