Jajah announced that their managed service platform shall cater yahoo’s 97 million IM users. That’s freaking a lot of users and indeed a great achievement for jajah folks. This doesn’t include the already amassed 10 million users of jajah. This is just phenomenal. Compared to other Voice App startups that were solely building voice widgets [...]
No doubt, Adobe System’s Flash is popular: it’s installed on 99 percent of all PCs, according to the company.
But when it comes to mobile devices and other non-PC platforms, Flash is an also-ran. One reason for that situation, according to Adobe, is the lack of good development tools and the company’s own restrictive licensing.
A [...]
Like it or not, Google must now continually sate its shareholders lust to grow even bigger, and to that end CEO Eric Schmidt has announced their goals for the remainder of the year. One of the most challenging is perhaps to turn YouTube into a cash cow, a plan that brought enough faith into [...]
This week’s edition of the regular Critical Reception column examines online reaction to Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV, which debuts this week to a Metacritic-averaged score of 99 out of 100.
Grand Theft Auto III was a landmark release for the series, its genre, and the PlayStation 2 console, earning widespread critical acclaim and a devoted [...]
Stores aren’t even done stocking their shelves with the first pallets of GTA IV boxes, and yet there are already protests rolling in against the game. One of the first such protests is coming from MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), who claim the game endorses drunk driving. The group is demanding that the Electronic [...]
Pioneer’s stylish HTIB costs a lot and doesn’t include that Blu-ray player in the picture.
Home-theater-in-a-box (HTIB) systems are usually geared toward budget buyers that don’t want to deal with the hassle of separate components. Pioneer’s new high-style HTIB, the HTS-LX70 takes a decidedly different approach, offering up HTIB simplicity with a component-level price. Here’s [...]
In what is becoming a growing trend for both public perception and the law, the Pro-IP Act that has been pushed through the U.S. Government for some time has made advancement in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, while still controversial, passed only after an even more controversial section regarding copyright infringement was [...]
One of Mozilla’s founders has spoken out against proprietary media on the web, particularly pointing the finger at ‘interactive’ technologies like Flash and Silverlight. The technologies, while necessary in many applications today, could be more than people bargained for in the end. Tristant Nitot, founder of Mozilla Europe, claims it is in the web’s [...]
What to do about millions of tons of unwanted electronics, like the heap pictured here? That’s the question that U.S. Congress members continue to ponder, albeit with little action so far.
(Credit: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)
WASHINGTON–As heaps of discarded televisions, computers, and other electronics grow ever more colossal, some members of the U.S. Congress [...]
Psystar’s Open Computer has arrived.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
The Open Computer has landed at CNET.
My colleagues over at CNET Reviews in New York have managed to get their hands on a review unit of Psystar’s Open Computer, and they’ve got all sorts of pictures to share. For those of you who just woke up, Psystar is [...]