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Yahoo is beta testing a new social networking site that, among other things, allows users to annoy their friends. One of the unusual features of the new service -- currently called "Mash" and available by invitation only -- is the way it lets members fool around with other members' profile pages. In...
In conjunction with the Huffington Post Web site and online magazine Slate, Yahoo is offering users the ability to grab video clips of "debate" answers from Democratic presidential candidates and use them to make their own mashups. Billed by Slate as the "first-ever online-only presidential mashup,"...
Sun Microsystems, the company whose former CEO used to denounce Microsoft as often -- and as sarcastically -- as possible, is now selling Windows. The Santa Clara, Calif., IT pioneer has "signed on" to become a Windows Server original equipment manufacturer, meaning it will install Microsoft Windows...
Computer geeks who've quietly longed for the ability to play "Guitar Hero" on their PCs and Macs can stop fretting. A company plans to release a personal computer version of the addictive pseudo-guitar-playing game, currently available only on video game consoles. Austin, Texas-based Aspyr Media has...
Technology similar to that which propels tiny droplets in inkjet printing might soon be used to painlessly inject medicine into the skin with a patch. Inkjet pioneer HP has created the drug delivery patches and is allowing Ireland-based medical device developer Crospon to sell them. The patches are ...
Vudu, a California company that will sell or rent movies to customers with high-speed Internet access, began selling its $399 units Thursday and expects the downloads will begin in about three weeks. The company has agreements with major and independent film distributors and can offer its customers ...
A group of New York City taxicab drivers kept their cars parked Wednesday to protest the forced installation in their vehicles of devices that use GPS positioning and allow credit card payments. The 48-hour strike, urged by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, began at 5 a.m. Reports varied about the...
Sony has created a personal computer that can work as the core of a high-definition, multimedia system. The Sony Vaio LT HD PC/TV is designed to serve as a "computer entertainment center," said Sony. In addition to powerful computing capability, the new unit can serve as a high-definition television...
Yahoo launched a new version of its Web-based mail service Monday, incorporating advanced communication functions it says have not been offered before. The new version of Yahoo Mail includes "real-time communication" in the form of instant messaging and SMS text messaging as well as several other pe...
Nokia users in 11 countries can now access Windows Live services on their mobile devices, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. The pairing of the king of software and the world's largest mobile device manufacturer is a move toward "empowering the 'mobile lifestyle,'" according to the...
IBM and TDK are jointly researching and developing a new form of high-speed computer memory that should use less power, last forever and hold information when power is lost. The companies are looking into spin momentum transfer technology as a way to create the high-capacity MRAM. Harnessing the spi...
Sonos, which sells wireless, multi-room home audio systems, has introduced new software that allows users to access Sirius Internet Radio. Called "Sonos System Software v 2.3," the new offering enables Sonos owners with Sirius subscriptions to access Sirius programming and control their listening wi...
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia will replace for free 46 million batteries due to an overheating problem, even though incidents of the batteries malfunctioning have been "very rare." The company will replace any Nokia-branded BL-5C battery made by Matsushita Battery Industrial between December 2005 a...
Not to be outdone by Sony's recent -- and now somewhat controversial -- PlayStation 3 price cut, Microsoft has slashed $50 off the price of the Xbox 360. The price reduction, which goes into effect Wednesday, applies to Xbox 360s sold by retailers in the United States, said Microsoft. In announcing ...
Although it was rumored three years ago that Sony would be the first consumer electronics vendor to make a Blu-ray Disc camcorder, Hitachi won the race this week when it unveiled two models. Both units, the DZ-BD70A and the DZ-BD7HA, record about an hour's worth of 1920x1080 high definition video on...
Some laser printers release minute particles into the air that can become lodged into the deepest parts of the lung, possibly causing serious illnesses, according to scientists studying indoor air pollutants at offices. The findings were reported in a study published in the American Chemical Society...
Adult movie makers in Japan have apparently found a way to have their wares mass-produced on Blu-ray Discs, something that has been hampered, to date, by Sony's antipornography policies. A Japanese company is creating adult films on the Blu-ray Disc format at a disc production facility in Taiwan tha...
Social networking Web site MySpace has found and purged more than 29,000 sexual predators using the site, a number described by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as an "exploding epidemic." The figure is more than quadruple the amount MySpace said it found two months ago. In May, MySpa...
You can't label it a Web operating system. Don't refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey "acquired." The hard-to-describe startup, created by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, is now owned by Facebook. The deal is the firs...
A new company called "Ooma" is introducing a peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol network that will result in free domestic calling for its customers, a concept it says will revolutionize home telephony. The Silicon Valley company, which includes industry veterans such as TiVo cofounder Mike Ra...
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