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Verizon Denies Palm Snub, Will Add Pre in January

Verizon and Palm are reportedly scrapping over terms of a contract that would give the carrier the right to offer Palm's Pre smartphone. Back in May, Lowell McAdam, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, said the carrier would offer the Pre in January Reports that Verizon changed its mind appeared in the media Thursday, kicking off speculation that...

Google Wends Its Way Into Web Annotation With Sidewiki

Google on Wednesday launched Sidewiki, a Web annotation tool that serves as a comment forum for Web pages Sidewiki ranks entries according to their relevance, as determined by Google's own algorithm. It will also place those comments on Web pages that carry the information which sparked the comments....

Intel Gravitates to Graphics With Larrabee

Intel on Tuesday demonstrated the first chip based on its Larrabee architecture for graphics-centric coprocessors It held the demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum, which is being held in San Francisco through Thursday....

Pink Haze Surrounds Microsoft Smartphone Rumors

Microsoft is reportedly getting set to show off two new smartphones early next year as part of its so-called Pink project Writing on the 9to5Mac blog, Cleve Nettles cites an unnamed source in reporting that the devices will likely debut at the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas Jan. 7 through 10....

MS Tests the Web App Waters as Google, Zoho Swim Laps

Microsoft on Thursday launched an early technical preview program for Microsoft Office Web Apps -- lightweight versions of its Office suite of applications Participation is by invitation only, and the preview is initially available in English and Japanese. It will be available in additional languages later this fall....

ARM Targets Intel’s Linux Zone

In the latest phase of its battle with Intel for the notebook and netbook markets, ARM has unveiled two new 2GHz capable Cortex-A9 dual core processor implementation These give silicon manufacturers a way to develop high-performance, low-power Cortex-A9 processor-based devices, ARM said....

Interpretation Sought for HP’s Strange DreamScreen

HP unveiled on Thursday a line of wireless, Web-connected screens called "DreamScreens." ...

Seagate Lifts Home Networks to the Cloud

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has come up with a new way to attack the chaotic home entertainment market: Let users create their own personal information clouds On Tuesday, it unveiled its FreeAgent Theater + high-definition media player; and on Wednesday it announced the FreeAgent DockStar network adapter and new FreeAgent Go portable drives....

Lenovo Touches Up Laptop, Tablet Screens

Lenovo on Tuesday unveiled two new computers with multi-touch capabilities that let users employ four fingers on the screen The new PCs are the ThinkPad T400s laptop and the X200 tablet PC....

FOSS Fans Wary of Microsoft’s New CodePlex Foundation

On Friday, Microsoft announced the CodePlex Foundation, which will support the open source community The foundation is initially being funded by Microsoft and will be temporarily headed by departing Senior Director of Platform Strategy Sam Ramji....

Motorola’s Cliq Joins Android Army

Motorola unveiled its much-anticipated first Android phone on Thursday, together with a new service it calls "Motoblur." ...

New Sprint Plan Creates Giant Calling Circle

Sprint on Thursday announced a new calling plan featuring unrestricted wireless calling to any mobile phone on any U.S. wireless carrier Sprint describes its Any Mobile, Anytime plan as a new feature to the carrier's Everything Data plan. The Any Mobile, Anytime plan's price starts at US$69.99 per month....

HTC Adds Tattoo to Android Lineup

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC on Tuesday announced the Tattoo, the latest in its line of Android-based handsets unveiled this year ...

OPINION

Is the Internet Killing Critical Thinking?

Like Alice's Restaurant in the Arlo Guthrie song, the Internet lets you get anything you want -- from views on politics or science and technology or religion to recipes and gossip. Oh, and of course, news However, few people do more than skim the surface -- and as they do with newspapers, most people tend to read only what interests them. Add to th...

Toshiba Kisses the Blu-ray Ring

Toshiba unveiled its first Blu-ray disc player on Thursday at the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in Berlin The announcement comes less than one month after Toshiba applied for membership in the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and announced it will introduce products supporting the Blu-ray format.

Big-League ISPs Press FCC to Lower Bar on ‘Broadband’

Several telephone companies have suggested to the FCC that it change its definition of broadband Verizon, AT&T and Comcast are asking the government to define broadband transmissions as anything over 768 Kbps (kilobits per second) downstream and 200 Kbps upstream....

EC’s Long, Hard Look at Sun-Oracle Deal Gets Longer, Harder

The European Commission on Thursday expanded its investigation into Oracle's plans to purchase Sun Microsystems The EC wants to study the potential antitrust issues arising from proprietary database vendor Oracle's takeover of Sun's open source MySQL database application....

Nokia Expo Ushers In Fresh Phones, Facebook Features

Nokia on Wednesday unveiled three new smartphones at Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany ...

eBay, Skype Annul Mismatched Union

Online auction site eBay has finally managed to divest itself of Skype, the VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) company it bought back in 2005 for US$2.6 billion A group of venture capitalists led by Silver Lake Partners has purchased 65 percent of Skype for $2.1 billion in cash and a note, eBay announced on Tuesday....

Samsung Leaps Into Roiling App Store Arena

Korean electronics giant Samsung on Monday announced that it will launch a mobile application store in Europe on Sept. 14 This follows the release of its mobile widget software development kit (SDK) around mid-August and its unveiling in July of the Samsung Application Seller Site, a portal geared toward mobile app developers and resellers....

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