We already know Netflix users are begging for easier ways to get streaming video to their TVs--Xbox, PS3, Roku, and Blu-ray players apparently aren't simple enough solutions. Instead, more and more
people watch TV and film on their ...READ»
A new Apple patent filing suggests the company might want subsidize the price of its computers with a complex advertising program that maintains the attention of the user and can lock the computer if the user spaces out.
According ...READ»
Microsoft announced at its Windows 7 launch that Amazon is releasing a Kindle reader for Windows. An Amazon spokesperson told me late Thursday: "Yes, we are working on a Kindle app for Mac." With so many conduits for Kindle reading, ...READ»
Microsoft has a new video on the YouTubes that mocks Apple's App Store. Or means to. Inadvertently, it seems, it attempts to mock any number of companies--Google, Apple, Palm, Blackberry--for making good smartphones that run good ...READ»
Update: T-Mobile says that much of the data may indeed be recoverable on Microsoft's backend, according to the New York Times. Engineers in Redmond are "optimistic that much of it can be recovered," but individual customers have yet ...READ»
For Windows 7 to outshine the disaster that is Vista, it will have to be both a technical panacea and a marketing success. Microsoft has been splurging on TV ads, haplessly enlisting "regular" people to get you to throw parties in ...READ»
Evernote is a remember-everything notebook app beloved by obsessive developers, project managers, and generally forgetful creatives everywhere. This week the company launched a revamped Windows version, which will bring it up to speed ...READ»
Barack Obama got a big lift from social Web-inspired parties during his presidential campaign. So why not do the same with Windows 7 when it launches on October 22?READ»
Almost twenty years ago, a little company called Be created the BeOS, a robust little system that was light-years ahead of Windows and the MacOS. But the BeOS never had a future--until now.
To understand its resurrection, you ...READ»
In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as ...READ»
Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»
Jawoco.Com is going to do much more next year as this Year ends. Few days back, Xtravo Explorer 3 OS announced as update free for One Year is a Big/Major News in the Web browser industry and not to forget the Xtravo Explorer3 OS is ...READ»
Weird things happen, yes--but when technology is the cause, everything seems more confusing. Didn't we build these things? Don't we know how they work? Here are seven quiddities topping the social news sites this week.
Amazon Steals ...READ»
Last week we profiled 10 Mac apps that jealous Windows users could only pine for. Well, Windows has its share of nifty stuff too, so we'd be remiss if we didn't remind Mac users why 90% of planet Earth still runs on Redmond.
XMap 6 ...READ»
Verizon just announced the launch its own app store for smartphones, inspired by the iTunes Store, Windows Marketplace, Ovi Store, and those for Android and Palm. But Verizon's apps will be locked exclusively to its own store.
It's ...READ»
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Used to be that Windows users could admit the Mac was easy to use--they just complained there wasn't any software for the platform. Apple knew their weakness, too, so they endeavored to turn their developer tools into the envy ...READ»
Google caused a flurry of excitement last night when it revealed it would convert its Chrome browser into an operating system meant for netbooks. A chorus of OMG's burst from the tech blog network. This is a "clear shot in Microsoft's ...READ»
Netbook owners keen to upgrade their mini PCs to Windows 7 from XP may not have to buy or borrow a DVD drive to do so: Microsoft may sell the new OS on USB thumb drives.
CNET heard the rumor from a source within ...READ»
In the wake of various antitrust cases brought against it in Europe, Microsoft won't be shipping the Internet Explorer browser in the European release of Windows 7. Minor change that this is, does it indicate that IE is really on ...READ»
Here's a nasty, juicy rumor to mull-over on your holiday weekend: Microsoft will be pricing Windows 7 higher than Vista, making it the costliest OS the company has ever released, on average. Mix in news of the limiting specs that ...READ»
Microsoft posted a quarterly drop in sales and profits yesterday, which is interesting news all by itself, considering the mammoth scale of Microsoft's PC dominance. But hidden in the data is the suggestion that one of the causes of ...READ»
InformationWeek published results from an 1100-company survey suggesting that businesses will be extremely reticent to upgrade to Windows 7. According to the report, 83% of the companies surveyed ... READ»
Google's Android may soon move beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone and onto a much roomier machine: the netbook. Hewlett Packard is experimenting with the OS in an attempt to gauge how useful it might be on those tiny ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation resolved not to be fooled again. Here's today's innovation news:
1. The netbook market gets even hotter with a report that HP, Asus, Dell, and other PC makers are testing versions of the ...READ»
