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Oct 31st

MGS4 Delayed for "Greater Enjoyment for...

Forget that Metal Gear Solid 4 was dated for “This Winter.” Today, Konami announced...

Oct 31st

Google sets up distribution network

Google sets up distribution network  SAN FRANCISCO —Google Inc. is setting up a distribution...

Oct 30th

gPhone: Verizon Fuels the Rumormill

Reuters is reporting on rumors of a potential Verizon partnership with Google on the as of yet...

Oct 30th

Why Leopard Isn't Better Than Vista

Apple’s newest operating system is at best an evolution from predecessor Tiger. Some of the...

Oct 29th

Intel X3100 Chipset support found in...

Support for Intel’s X3100 mobile graphics chipset could mean that Apple has plans for a quick and...

Oct 29th

Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist...

Online photo management application Snapmania’s Tourist Remover gets rid of unwanted gawkers...

Oct 29th

Mowser Update: Wiki, Stats and more

Updates from this weekend… * I finally got started on a Mowser Publisher FAQ, and posted it...

Oct 29th

StarOffice in world's biggest passenger...

Couple of months ago I blogged about Singapore Airlines offering StarOffice 8 to the business...

Oct 29th

Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPod Touch with...

Jailbreaking the iPod touch/iPhone is now an utterly simple, one-click affair—which means if...

Oct 29th

binarybiscuit: hmm fancy a cup of...

binarybiscuit: hmm fancy a cup of delicious coffee regurgitated by weasels… me too...

Oct 29th

3 To Launch New Skype Mobile

Sometime today, mobile operator 3 is expected to take the wraps off a mainstream Skype phone that...

Oct 29th

iPhone Rumored For Canada On December...

According to a leaked advertisement out of Canada, Rogers cable/ISP/wireless company will begin...

Oct 28th

binarybiscuit: clocks going back today,...

binarybiscuit: clocks going back today, an extra hour in bed! (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Oct 27th

Stapes and Dell Join Forces

Good new for Staples/Dell fans. Beginning November 11, You can order some computers and peripherals...

Oct 25th

OS X Leopard Reviews, Round One

When it comes to tomorrow’s release of OS X Leopard, Apple is being its usual secretive...

Oct 25th

Twitux [New Linux User]

Thanks to Chris Rohde, I learned about Twitux! So what is Twitux? It is one of them Twitter clients...

Oct 25th

Microsoft Makes a Statement; Google...

Facebook and Microsoft announced today that they are expanding their partnership to the tune of a...

Oct 24th

Sharing your photos on Flickr is...

In my previous post I announced that we partnered up with the Flickr team on a slick new publishing...

Oct 23rd

Microsoft’s InfoCard icon

A while ago, Microsoft began working on an icon to symbolize Information Cards. The download...

Oct 23rd

binarybiscuit: waiting for Tesco's to...

binarybiscuit: waiting for Tesco’s to deliver my big shop (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Oct 19th

binarybiscuit: can't see my desk for...

binarybiscuit: can’t see my desk for post it notes and empty cups, need a clean up session...

Oct 19th

It’s Official: Mac OS X Leopard arrives...

That’s right peeps, after a huge delay five months ago, we are happy to share that Apple has...

Oct 16th

Nokia Includes Spidey in N95 Release

Nokia has debuted its N95 with “Spiderman 3” film, wallpaper, and ringtones, which they feel will...

Oct 16th

Napster Relaunches - Take 57

Another year, another iteration of Napster. The pioneering file sharing program that has existed...

Oct 16th

First there was Crackbook, not there is...

First there was Crackbook, a parody of Facebook emphasizing it’s addictive qualities. ...

Oct 16th

France finally gets the iPhone

Filed under: iPhone In what’s been nothing but a busy news day for our favorite...

Oct 16th

Zune 2 battery info gets released

The new Microsoft Zune 2 battery specs have been released, and they are pretty similar to the...

Oct 16th

Bill Gates' wild $3,000 phone

Sir Bill now has a RoundTable. That’s the name of the far-out conferencing phone that Gates...

Oct 16th

Google Analytics Event Tracking, Site...

Google announced that their server traffic tracker Analytics is starting to roll out a couple of new...

Oct 16th

Hands-on with Eee PC

Filed under: Laptops Our Engadget Chinese brethren were at the official Eee PC launch event this...

Oct 16th

iPhone Dev Team announces free unlock

Filed under: iPhone For all of you who have been holding off on paying iPhone SIM Free $60-$100,...

Oct 16th

Google URL Spellchecker

Google started to sometimes show URL suggestions if you used the search box as “address box” but...

Oct 16th

Analyst says AT&T "likely"...

Filed under: Home Entertainment It already seemed like things were moving along quickly, and now a...

Oct 16th

Four startups ready to change the face...

In ten years, an internet eternity, web-based email has only made token improvements, moving from...

Oct 16th

RFID tags help you to choose clothes

A German department store, the Galeria Kaufhof in Essen, part of the Metro retailing group, is using...

Oct 16th

BBC moving to Adobe Flash, iPlayer on...

Reviews of BBC’s iPlayer program have been mixed. The service offers U.K. residents access to...

Oct 16th

Exciting New Products: Walmart...

The Des Moines Register would like you to know that Walmart is test marketing some talking Jesus...

Oct 16th

The Life of Chippy From a UMPC

Join in on the fun with Chippy from UMPC Portal - He is streaming from the...

Oct 16th

Nokia's S60 Touch Interface demonstrated

Nokia is showing off their new S60 Touch Interface at the Symbian Smartphone Show today. Unlike...

Oct 16th

How Twitter Made My Website Better

A few weeks ago Chris Brogan published a list of the 100 blog topics that he wished people would...

Oct 16th

Google hears our pleas: Urchin Software...

Google is preparing a significant update to the standalone Urchin weblog analysis tool at the same...

Oct 16th

Nokia adds iPhone-like interface to...

Nokia today showed off its new S60 Touch Interface at the Symbian...

Oct 16th

Apple Fires Back at Greenpeace: The...

When we said we’d elimate all PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008, we meant we’d eliminate...

Oct 16th

Google launches YouTube video ID system...

As part of its efforts to end piracy over online videos, Google has released the beta version of...

Oct 16th

Top Five Video Widgets to Fidget With...

Widget makers from across the web have gathered in San Francisco for Widget Summit 2007. In honor of...

Oct 16th

Mark Zuckerberg named most influential...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has today been named the most influential person in the high-tech...

Oct 16th

Apple drops price of DRM-free iTunes

This report has been updated to reflect that Apple has confirmed the DRM-free iTunes price drop. ...

Oct 16th

Sony Ericsson say balls to Bluetooth...

With all the iPhone wrangling, rival handsets launching and Samsung’s event, Sony Ericsson’s update...

Oct 16th

Samsung/ Bang & Olufsen launch the...

We first starting hearing last month about a smartphone being launched by a partnership with Samsung...

Oct 14th

Twitter, Jaiku, and the future of...

Dave Winer’s post on the possibility of having a Twitter Pro raises some interesting issues...

Oct 14th

binarybiscuit: Twitter toolbar for...

binarybiscuit: Twitter toolbar for Outlook http://tinyurl.com/2tuc9v (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Oct 14th

Palm Centro launches on Sprint for $99...

Palm’s first smartphone outside of the Treo family, the Palm Centro smartphone, will be launching...

Oct 14th

Create Google Calendar Events from Gmail

You probably know that Gmail detects some patterns that could be associated with an event and offers...

Oct 14th

Mouse Ballistics

Let me be completely honest with you. I have a full-blown mouse fetish. I’ve owned every...

Oct 13th

binarybiscuit: Outlook 2007 has thrown...

binarybiscuit: Outlook 2007 has thrown the teddies out of the pram again! (via Twitter /...

Oct 10th

binarybiscuit: Call Of Duty 4 PC Demo...

binarybiscuit: Call Of Duty 4 PC Demo released tmr (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Oct 10th

binarybiscuit: Listening to the new...

binarybiscuit: Listening to the new Radiohead album, sounding good so far (via Twitter /...

Oct 9th

Google buys Finnish instant-message...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has acquired the Finnish company Jaiku, one of a new class of...

Oct 9th

19 Ways to Complain About the iPhone

It seems there are two types of people in the world when it comes to iPhone: lovers and haters. ...

Oct 9th

Will the iStone Rock Your World?

If you’re looking for a unique iPod dock but the bed, grill or toilet paper holder didn’t strike...

Oct 8th

Champagne at the Googleplex: GOOG Above...

Google gained 15.57 today to close at $609.62/share today, breaking the 600 point barrier for the...

Oct 8th

Vonage and Sprint settle for another $80...

Vonage and Sprint have settled their latest patent dispute by entering into a licensing agreement....

Oct 8th

Windows Vista SP1 beta gets previewed

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops While at least some of you out there have likely already put the new...

Oct 8th

Man to sue over 1.1.1 iBricking

Filed under: Bad Apple, iPhone ComputerWorld reports that Timothy Smith, an iPhone owner in...

Oct 8th

Silverlight Ink SDK Sample Available on...

There’s a new sample live on downloads.microsoft.com that I wrote a while ago that...

Oct 8th

Found Footage: Apple TV Composite Hack...

Filed under: Hacks, How-tos, Apple TV Apple Hacker Maurico Pastrana discovered a way to export...

Oct 8th

Microsoft Launches HealthVault

Two months after after the initial coverage, Microsoft launched a health web site recently called...

Oct 8th

Google phone will take on Microsoft, not...

Rumors about a Google phone have been flying for months. And since they started around the time that...

Oct 8th

Advertising: Apple's new iPhone ads...

Why is Apple’s advertising so successful? Because, one could argue, it doesn’t let its...

Oct 8th

We get it: you want to be able to hack...

How many times will this rant be ranted? “Apple should let its customers do whatever the hell they...

Oct 8th

Steve Ballmer Attacks Google’s Gmail Ads

During a speech at the Microsoft Accelerator Programme in the UK last week, CEO Steve Ballmer...

Oct 8th

Optimus Maximus passes tests but still...

I know, I know, we said we’d take it easy on the Optimus Maximus coverage, but Art Lebedev’s cunning...

Oct 8th

Halo: Movie is dead, Halo 4 coming

I’ve been playing Halo 3 all weekend and it got me thinking about the Halo movie that’s been talked...

Oct 8th

Manhunt 2 is still too violent for UK

Re-editing did not help Manhunt 2 to enter the UK market at this moment. The game is still banned by...

Oct 8th

Dell XPS M1530 notebook leaked

Dell has done pretty well with its XPS M1330, aside from some delay and being unable to fulfill...

Oct 8th

Focus Your Attention On the Current...

Distractions are always present when using a computer. For instance, you are watching a YouTube...

Oct 8th

Nokia N800 price drop of 30% = $279.99

ThoughtFix got a reader tip over at Planet Maemo and it’s a hot one! The Nokia N800 Internet...

Oct 8th

McDonald's goes McWireless -...

dBTechno McDonald’s goes McWireless Register - 5 hours ago By Chris Williams → More by this...

Oct 8th

McDonald's goes McWireless -...

Half Life Source McDonald’s goes McWireless Register - 7 hours ago By Chris Williams → More...

Oct 8th

Rumor - iPhone to hit Canada soon, for...

I’ve had the pleasure of making friends with some of our neighbors to the north. In my conversations...

Oct 8th

Office for Mac 2008 packaging revealed:...

It’s hard to believe the same people who released Office for Mac 2004 in an innovative and stylish...

Oct 8th

McDonald's goes McWireless -...

dBTechno McDonald’s goes McWireless Register - 8 hours ago By Chris Williams → More by this...

Oct 8th

New Zune 80 with support for DVD quality...

Another nice bit of information about the new Zune 80. The Zune will now be able to natively...

Oct 8th

IE7: IE7 Drops Windows Validation

Microsoft removed the Windows Genuine Advantage validation requirement from Internet Explorer 7...

Oct 8th

UK McDonald's to serve up free Wi-Fi...

dBTechno UK McDonald’s to serve up free Wi-Fi CNET News.com - 1 hour ago Outlets across the...

Oct 8th

binarybiscuit: Seeqpod is Awsome!!:...

binarybiscuit: Seeqpod is Awsome!!: http://urltea.com/1oui (via Twitter / binarybiscuit)

Oct 8th

Camtasia Studio 5 Comes Tomorrow, Read...

TechSmith will release Camtasia Studio 5 tomorrow. The software works on Microsoft Windows 2000,...

Oct 8th

Google and IBM scaling up UW program

A computer science study program that Google and the University of Washington developed last year...

Oct 7th

Revealed: Halo 3 First Week Sales...

Earthtimes.org Revealed: Halo 3 First Week Sales Results Sky News - 44 minutes ago Microsoft has...

Oct 7th

Apple to offer limited 3rd party iPhone...

Filed under: Cellphones Look, there’s simply no way Apple isn’t eventually going to...

Oct 7th

Online Status Sanity with Moodblast

Moodblast by Circle Six Design is exactly what I’ve been looking for recently—a simple application...

Oct 7th

MSNBC buys social news site Newsvine

Normally we don’t report acquisition news, but this one is pretty interesting. MSNBC has...

Oct 7th

ITN Delivers Content to Joost

UK-based news service ITN will expand its online offerings through a new partnership with...

Oct 7th

binarybiscuit: Watching the new advert...

binarybiscuit: Watching the new advert for the Sony Bravia, pretty good as ad’s go...

Oct 7th

iPhone v1.1.1 exploits starting to...

Filed under: Cellphones As if anyone expected it to stay locked down forever, the layers of...

Oct 6th

Porn Biz Ready To Go After P2P Pirates...

The gay porn studio Titan Media filed a round of 22 lawsuits this week against porn bloggers and...

Oct 6th

Why does Microsoft want to make Divx and...

Not too long ago I upgraded my wife’s computer to Vista. My huge pet peeve with IE7 is a sneaky...

Oct 6th

binarybiscuit: touch screen macs are...

binarybiscuit: touch screen macs are coming, maybe not from apple though (via Twitter /...

Oct 6th

iPhone gets tricked out, now gold

As if the iPhone didn’t look good enough already, GoldStriker, a company based in the UK has added...

Oct 6th

New Version of Google Desktop Gets...

Google is out with a new beta version 5.5 of its Google Desktop application, and after using it I...

Oct 6th

binarybiscuit: Woz & Jobs in brick...

binarybiscuit: Woz & Jobs in brick format, just like the iPhone:) http://www.podbrix.com/...

Oct 3rd

binarybiscuit: ultimate German geek...

binarybiscuit: ultimate German geek restaurant: http://tinyurl.com/ysjl6m (via Twitter /...

Oct 3rd

binarybiscuit: Just "donated" money for...

binarybiscuit: Just “donated” money for the new Radiohead album (via Twitter /...

Oct 3rd

FCC spills Zune 2 information; 4GB, 8GB,...

Oh, by the way, readers, today is Zune day. Why is it Zune day? Because the Zune 2 is launching...

Oct 2nd

Mowser update - Techmeme 100 and more

Since Gabe has helpfully included an OPML list in Techmeme’s new Top 100 list, I threw...

Oct 2nd

Microsoft's 4GB / 8GB flash-based Zunes...

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Well, would you look at this. Thanks to the...

Oct 2nd

Bloglines Makes Announcements, Including...

Bloglines, the IAC owned online feed reader, made a number of different announcements this morning...

Oct 2nd

Microsoft Acquires Jellyfish...but What...

Microsoft gave its official nod to the social shopping boom today, with news of the acquisition of...

Oct 2nd

Guild Wars Razer gaming mouse

Any Guild Wars players in da house? Razer, the gaming mouse people, have announced a Guild Wars...

Oct 2nd

Learning: Read Books On Your DS!...

Genius Sonority has teamed up with a Japanese publishing company Chukei to release Bunagku Zenshuu,...

Oct 2nd

Update: Samsung+Bang & Olufsen F310...

This Samsung F310 Serenata is real. I asked one of my friends at Samsung and he’s like, “I’m...

Oct 2nd

iPhone owner sues Apple for $1 million

iPhone owner sues Apple for $1 million  SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A New York woman is so...

Oct 2nd

Techmeme Launches Top 100 Leaderboard, A...

2006 - 2007 saw the rise of new media and it has been nothing short of disruptive for journalists,...

Oct 2nd

Microsoft Acquires Social Shopping...

We’ve just caught wind that Microsoft has acquired Jellyfish, the Wisconsin-based social shopping...

Oct 1st

Microsoft Prepares to Launch Second...

Bill Gates will join Design and Development Chief J Allard to introduce a next generation Zune at...

Oct 1st

binarybiscuit: I read somewhere that 10...

binarybiscuit: I read somewhere that 10 mins of sunshine a day makes you a more pro-active person,...

Oct 1st