With the recent release of Google’s Gadget utility for Mac OS X, the company is encouraging developers to make sure their developed gadgets run on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms and to tag those which only run for a particular platform.
Does the tagline "what you need, when you need it" ring a bell? Try visiting guugle.com if you need a reminder, but don’t click on any links or images! That tagline should be familiar to anyone who surfs the web regularly and runs into the periodic slumfest of advertising and phishing scams. While Dell certainly isn’t the first target of this kind of black market campaign, they’re mixing things up by taking the cybersquatters to court.
There are unsettling, and as yet unsubstantiated rumours flying around that long time Gamespot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann has been fired after giving Kane & Lynch a mediocre review. Why would that be worthy of a firing? The site had recently started running a pretty all encompassing advertising campaign for the game, and those two elements don’t combine very well.
The BlackBerry 9000 specs are out, and they’re lookin’ pretty good. The iPhone rival features a large touch screen, which we already knew, but it’s the Intel inside that gets us all hot and bothered. It turns out the device is packin’ some real heat, and I’m not talking about its core running temperature.
While it shouldn’t come as any big surprise to people, Google has officially announced it will bid in the upcoming 700MHz auction.
MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.
Despite the fact that users are expressing their dislike of the new Beacon advertising News Feed, Facebook is saying it will stick by the new feature.
It’s easy to forget that every purchase made online creates a unique record stored on a remote server somewhere. Follow enough of those footprints and it’s possible to learn a lot about someone, including insight into their buying habits, location and hobbies. In 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s office ordered Amazon to turn over records for thousands of customers who had purchased books from a reseller on Amazon’s system. While pursuing their case the government decided civil liberty was secondary to . . .
NBC recently killed its iTunes contract with Apple, so the company’s been searching for a way to offer new and old episodes of its large catalog of shows. Today, Netflix announced that it will help to fill that need.
Though Google is at the top of the search engine food chain, the mega site is taking a page from successful social indexing sites like Digg by testing out a new feature that will allow users to vote up their favorite search results and ignore results that aren’t individually pertinent.
IBM is suing a company that is allegedly selling unsafe counterfeit laptop batteries.
Facebook recently debuted two new ad platforms in an attempt to take media to new levels; however, the ad platforms may be shortlived, as the Electronic Privacy Information Center will be filing a suit protesting the way Facebook is using its users to spread free advertising.
The first cell phone related death in Korea was recorded yesterday when a man was found dead, presumably killed by the explosion of his LG cell phone’s battery which was stowed in his breast pocket.
It’s no secret that Microsoft wants a juicy bite of Google’s market share, they’ve been trying to catch up for a couple of years now with their Live.com suite of services. More recently they’ve smartened up with a few projects like their Live Writer software for bloggers and their shared source initiative with .NET. Google hasn’t been idle either. They’ve been busy improving Google Docs and that puts Microsoft’s home turf between the crosshairs. In response, it looks like Microsoft is making a good decision by adding iPhone syncing to their Office 2008 for Mac release.
No such luck for the US market or other European markets but a German court ordered Apple to sell an unlocked iPhone, the company did so but at a marked up 999 euros instead of the standard T-Mobile locked price of 399 euros. German mobile services reseller Debitel has decided to pay customers back the difference in price.
It’s been a year of plenty for Intel, while AMD has squandered too many opportunities. The company has struggled to keep up with the hectic pace of Intel’s product roll-out and is falling behind in the processor race. Research firm iSuppli has predicted what we pretty much already know – that Intel will top the processor charts this year while AMD falls to the wayside.
Today, Google released version 2.0 of its popular mapping software, Google Maps for mobile phones. Most of the update isn’t a big deal, although one feature stands out: My Location.
Windows news Mac news iPad news iPhone & Touch Mobile technology news Tablet computer news Buying guides PS3/Wii/Xbox 360 Green technology Photography
