Import Genius, a site that tracks shipments of goods via container ships entering the U.S., has some data that lends credibility to the release of Apple’s 3G iPhone next month.
Apple Inc’s most recent shipment of the new products, Bill of Lading # HLCUSHA0803FTFR8, arrived at the port
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Akimbo, a set-top box company, has seemingly closed down for good, according to reports.
On Friday, VentureBeat reported the San Mateo, Calif.-based company let go of what was remaining of its staff except for three people who will help oversee the closure.
Attempts to sell the company weren’t
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the media in the sunny quad of Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com)
We knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary visit to the Googleplex when we saw the Bomb Squad truck in …
Nvidia will take part in the launch of Via’s Isaiah processor slated for next week, just prior to Computex in Taipei, Taiwan.
Via will provide the central processing unit and motherboard, plus the core logic (chipset) solution, while Nvidia will provide the graphics processing unit, said Drew Henry, general …
Facebook users can now import YouTube, StumbleUpon, Pandora, Hulu, Last.fm, and Google Reader into the social network’s Mini-Feed.
By doing this, Facebook users will be opening up their actions at these sites to their friends. The service, which was announced on Facebook’s blog on Friday, is similar …
Updated at 2:49 p.m. to include the information that Red Herring’s Web site is back up.
Troubled online news site RedHerring.com was inaccessible Friday for more than an hour.
In the same week that the publication was booted from its offices in Belmont, Calif., Red Herring…
Computer scientists have pressed for e-voting paper trails for years, in peer reports and in testimony on Capitol Hill. Now it looks like Congress is poised to ignore this idea: forthcoming legislation will say that a backup “electronic” record is OK too.
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Bob Bennett (R-Utah), …
Tube TVs did best weathering an overall decline in television sales during the first quarter, largely due to a softening economy and a lower price point than their plasma display panel and liquid crystal display TV competitors.
Total North America TV shipments declined 34 percent in the first quarter over …
The MP3 player market is one where logic is thrown out the window and as long as the player is manufactured by Apple, it’ll perform quite well. Although there have been a number of solid alternatives, none have gained ground. And by the look of things, the Zune is up next on the chopping block.
According to GameStop, it will stop selling the Zune in its stores due to insufficient demand from customers. And although it may not matter to, oh, 99 percent of you, the fact that GameStop is ditching the Zune tells you that Microsoft’s media player is on its way out.
“We have decided to exit the Zune category because it just did not have the appeal we had anticipated,” said a GameStop spokesperson. “It (also) did not fit with our product mix.”
GameStop’s decision to remove the Zune from its store shelves reflects an increasingly prominent notion among retailers that suggests that only the iPod is a viable product regardless of the fact that Microsoft has sold more than 2 million Zunes and its other competitors have fought valiantly.
So what’s the deal? Is it really true that iPods are the only MP3 players that matter? You better believe it.
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The transition to digital TV is going smoothly for broadcasters, according to a government report issued earlier this week. But lawmakers are still worried that consumers may still be confused or unaware of the change.
In February 2009, TV broadcasters will vacate wireless spectrum used to broadcast analog TV signals. …