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Archive for June, 2010

Apple unlikely to unveil iTunes subscription servi

30 Jun 2010

This means of course that the rumor skittering around about iTunes offering a social-networking service similar to iMeem or Last.fm may be bunk as well. Apple would have had to cut licensing deals for things like free streaming music and this hasn’t happened either.

Music industry insiders are buzzing about the press gathering Apple is [...]

We’re from Google and we’re here to help. Really

28 Jun 2010

Click here for full coverage of the Google Chrome launch.

So much for “Don’t be evil”? That’s probably a stretch, though I have the feeling that Google was so eager to push this product onto the Web that it failed to let its wiser heads add their two cents. Nothing here that can’t be remedied as [...]

Hans Reiser likely to get reduced sentence

23 Jun 2010

Given this week’s developments, attorneys on both sides of the case plan to ask the judge for sentencing to be continued from Wednesday to a later, undetermined date, Hora said.
The prosecutor disagreed that the deal sends a message to defendants that lying under oath could get them lesser sentences. In this case, [...]

Under the Radar Eye candy that’s actually useful

22 Jun 2010

Previous coverage: CIA technology will map your face
Overlay.TV is a company that’s doing something very similar to VideoClix.TV (see coverage). It’ll link up the items, people, or subject matter that are found in videos to online stores so people can buy or get more information on what they’re watching. Some of the demos I’ve seen [...]

E-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7

18 Jun 2010

Microsoft has decided that
Windows 7 won’t include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned.

Click here for more news on Windows 7.

“It makes it much cleaner,” Hall said.

Hall said it was too soon to say if the “Wave 4″ release would precede Windows [...]

Steve Wozniak out of line at iPhone store

16 Jun 2010

Would he really pretend to wait in line for Apple gadgets?

Why mess with that?
I told them I would come at 10 AM and get in line and they told me back that the line would be short and they had talked to the people in front and that the people in front WANTED [...]

Webware Radar Washington Post teams up with Simpl

04 Jun 2010

The Washington Post and job search engine Simply Hired announced Friday that they have inked a deal that will allow Washingtonpost.com users to access Simply Hired’s database of listings on the publication’s site. According to the companies, Simply Hired’s listings will be placed in widgets on news story pages. Most of the listings will be [...]