The video site has quietly launched a streaming rental service, after some earlier experiments. The streaming rental industry is getting ever more crowded, and now it’s going to have to make room for at least one more. YouTube has...
Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple’s iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology. The decision reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on the gadgets. Flash is very...
Microsoft has finally announced the next major release of Windows Live, referred to as Wave 4. The software giant has had “several thousand people” inside the company running internal builds for the last few months, and has...
Even though Dell has lost a bit of its footing in the PC race–sliding behind Acer in overall shipments–the company does appear to have a plan to hook consumers another way, by expanding beyond its core consumer business of laptops...
A programmer has managed to run the Google Android mobile operating system on an iPhone, with features like browsing the Web and making phone calls functional on Apple’s hardware. David Wong, who goes by the handle “planetbeing,”...
The leading online radio service and world’s biggest social network have forged a bond that will solidify both companies’ dominance, while offering music fans a way to share music with each other that appears...
World of hurt Enterprise customers of a widely used McAfee anti-virus product were in a world of hurt on Wednesday after an update caused large swaths of their machines to become completely inoperable. The problem started around 2 pm GMT...
Bluetooth 3.0 may still be a rarity on devices, but the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) aren’t letting that stop them from whipping ahead with the next spec in line. Bluetooth 4.0 has been finalized, and it delivers...
Good news for those of you who are still plugging along on Windows XP and Vista. Microsoftis bringing Fix It to said operating systems; it’s already available on Windows 7. Fix It tries toâ€â€wait for itâ€â€fix...
Gizmodo said Monday evening it is making arrangements to return an errant device that is believed to be a prototype of the next iPhone following a request from Apple’s legal department, which it calls verification of the device’s...
Facebook will host its F8 developer conference this Wednesday, outlining its plans to further its influence across the web. Those plans include a web-wide “Like†button and a social toolbar for your website,...
The iPhone 4G saga blows up over the weekend “Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?” Over the weekend, Engadget posted pictures of what it claimed to be the next generation iPhone 4G. The pictures sparked quite a debate over...