Sure, it’s still big. Yes, it still competes vigorously. But with the odd exception (Bing, perhaps), Microsoft just doesn’t seem to have the energy to compete anymore. One indication of this is that most of the dirt that Roy Schestowitz digs up on Microsoft is from old court records. It’s as if Microsoft struggles even [...]

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My contacts at Comcast and TiVo tell me that a software update is in the works, but they’ve been vague on timing. “Coming soon” is as close to a date as I’ve received. I hope it arrives before the finals of the U.S. Open in September.

This last outcome is most intriguing. I [...]

Doubtless there are incredibly talented people with great ears and hearts and souls who are also voting members of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. To their credit, they gave Amy Winehouse and Kanye West–two of the more talented mainstream artists making music today–plenty of awards. But there’s just something perpetually out of [...]

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One thing missing is change to the telephony package, laments one developer on the Android Developer discussion on Google Groups.

The new SDK has a new user interface, a geocoder that lets developers search for businesses as well as translate an address into a coordinate and vice versa, support for new [...]

One factor could be the launch of the new 32GB iPod Touch, which could have caused Apple to reduce production of older models of the iPod Touch in anticipation of demand for the higher-capacity model. The report was issued at almost the exact same time that Apple announced the new iPods, and it’s not [...]

A statement from Photobucket cited that demand for mobile photo-sharing access is high. According to an internal survey by Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp. division that runs Photobucket, 80 percent of users who responded to the survey own camera phones, 36 percent use the camera every day, and 52 percent access the mobile Web [...]

Consider the idea of social networking or gaming across your plane. Kinda cool.
The Aircell Gogo service, which will be on the first planes this fall, will run $9.95 or $12.95 for trips under or over three hours, respectively, and will allow connection of any Wi-Fi device. It will be interesting to see what ports [...]

Over the course of this year, and progressively over the next few years, you’ll see the principles and scenarios laid out in this document come to life through many new and service-enhanced products and services for individuals, businesses and developers. As you do, I hope you’ll share my excitement and optimism as you experience how [...]

In June, TorrentSpy was ordered by a federal judge to provide the film studios with user information found in the company’s computer RAM. TorrentSpy filed an appeal and argued that data in a computer’s RAM was too temporary to be considered “stored information,” and that it was impractical for companies to produce such material as [...]

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Here’s the current state of the art for Eee PC. Next up: a touch screen.
Because of their small size and inexpensive nature, Netbooks are hot items right now. Asus’ Eee PC is one of the more recognizable lines available.

Samson Hu, the general manager, also remarked that future models would get [...]