NEW YORK - IBM is throwing its considerable weight behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered over ordinary power lines. The technology has been around for decades, but most efforts to...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday its next release of Windows Live online services will integrate e-mail, instant messaging, photos and Web applications from other companies into a single platform.
Best Buy, the largest U.S. electronics chain, slashed its fiscal 2009 forecast on Wednesday, driven by weak consumer spending heading into the Christmas shopping season. "Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer...
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Windows Live Gets More Lively — Microsoft is building on principles first articulated in 2005. In Washington, D.C., I remember meeting several MSN product managers who laid out a simple but profound approach: Connect people to whom they know. Recognizing that most blogs and photo shares …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Extremely literal boss demotes editor to columnist — In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleywag as a column for Gizmodo or Gawker …
If you've been craving the release of Animal Crossing Wii, then you'll know that it comes bundled with the rather-exciting Wii Speak voice chat system that works as a smart speaker and microphone, so ...
Here's something new for the tabloids to get angry about without understanding.
While global economic woes certainly aren't good news for retailers this holiday season, a report by...
If this is 'entry-level', then I'm mildly terrified to see what Denon would describe as 'high-end'. Oh wait. Now I'm scared. Anyway, back to the DVD-1800-BD. It's a Blu-Ray player. It's got HDMI 1.
It is a bit of a shame and quite an embarrassment for mankind that batteries haven't come on in leaps or bounds since the 1970s, with modern Duracells only being marginally better than the Duracells ...
Apple Inc.'s iPhone has shaken up the cellphone business. Its next target: Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp...
What with all the talk about how hard it is to manage large numbers of apps with the iPhones swipey-sidey interface, I wondered what people are doing when it comes to visualizing the things.
The vice president in charge of Apple's enterprise sales for the past four years is leaving the Mac ...
Today we are glad to release Swirls Illustrations Set, a sets of 10 high-quality vector illustrations, created with Adobe Illustrator and available as .eps source files.
Last week, scientists from all around the world leapt up from their desks and shouted, "Eureka!" But why are scientists joining in the Obama love-in? I feel the urge to do a list...
Bryan Cantrill and Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineers at Sun, dreamed up a new type of storage product and convinced executives to let them build it in relative isolation.
RIM today chose to introduce the BlackBerry Curve 8900 through T-Mobile Germany, marking a rare non-North American debut for one of its phones.
Is Microsoft going to take a revenue hit when it releases Windows 7 because of the changing mix of PCs in the market?
The blistering sales growth of flat-panel televisions has hit a wall, especially for larger sets.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has finally conceded the obvious: There is no longer a toxic asset relief program, or TARP as it was originally called.
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12 Nov 2008