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Rupert Murdoch Sides With Apple?

Rupert Murdoch Sides With Apple?

As someone who is under 60 and has used the internet at least once, when I hear the name Rupert...

AutoCAD Returns To Mac With A Bang

AutoCAD Returns To Mac With A Bang

It's been 18 years since AutoCAD ran on Macs, but now they're back - and boy are they back. After...

Google Introducing “Priority Inbox”

Google Introducing “Priority Inbox”

Let's face it, even in a world where spam is a daily occurrence, we still receive a load of email...

Google Pitching Pay-Per-View – And Maybe This Time It’ll Work

Google Pitching Pay-Per-View – And Maybe This Time It’ll Work

So Google is pitching a YouTube pay-per-view service to Hollywood studios that would enable video rentals for five bucks a...

Because You Still Want An iPad Right The Hell Now

Because You Still Want An iPad Right The Hell Now

In case you wanted a giant phone, you'll be tickled previously-undefined shades of pink to know that you no longer...

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

H.264 Standardization, The Final Nail In Flash’s Coffin

The big news announcement of the day is that MPEG LA, license holder for a number of high profile video...

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

Microsoft Works With Microsoft To Bring ActiveSync To Hotmail

The tech world is a heated place, with cutthroat competition and backstabbing commonplace. Microsoft has been known to be as...

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

New Gmail Feature Racks Up A Million Calls

Google's new calling feature, typically poorly named and chucked out there to exist somewhere between Google Chat and Google Voice...

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

September 15th, Official Switch From Facebook Day

If you hate Facebook, mark the date September 15th in your calendar. The guys from Diaspora, the anti-Facebook, have announced...

Net Neutrality Not Just About The Web; It’s About a Free Society

Net Neutrality Not Just About The Web; It’s About a Free Society

Net Neutrality - the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally regardless of source or purpose - is,...

If The Rumors Are Real, Apple’s iTV Will Be A Runaway Success

If The Rumors Are Real, Apple’s iTV Will Be A Runaway Success

Though the Apple rumor mill is always a fickle beast that's more often wrong than not, when rumors from a...

Scammers Target iTunes and PayPal.. Maybe

Scammers Target iTunes and PayPal.. Maybe

There has been some concern over the past few days about a potential security hole in iTunes, although reviews by...

iMac May Go MultiTouch

iMac May Go MultiTouch

It's been talked about for a while. It's been hypothesized, contemplated, dissected, discussed and dismissed, but it might actually see...

Patent Shows How Apple Might Brick Your Jailbroken iPhone

Patent Shows How Apple Might Brick Your Jailbroken iPhone

Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod or iPad might now be legal in some areas of the world, but Apple still ain't...

Kevin Rose Outs Apple’s iTV

Kevin Rose Outs Apple’s iTV

Digg founder Kevin Rose has had varying degrees of success when it comes to Apple rumors. As a tech industry...

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

Facebook Predicts Its Own Immortality with Places

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX_ZQag1BM Chances are, by now, you've taken Facebook Places for a spin. If you haven't, Facebook really, really wants you...

Places, Please: New Facebook Location Service is Here

Places, Please: New Facebook Location Service is Here

The new Facebook geolocation feature is here, and it is called "Places". The new service will let Facebook users tag...

iPad Mini Due For Christmas?

iPad Mini Due For Christmas?

The iPad is about to get a Mini Me, according to rumors on the web this morning. Apple's annual iPod...

Three Reasons an Android PSP Phone Will Succeed (And Three Reasons It Won’t)

Three Reasons an Android PSP Phone Will Succeed (And Three Reasons It Won’t)

When rumors of a possible Playstation-branded "PSP Phone" recently broke, the tech world was, more than anything, a bit baffled....