9
Jan

Stop the presses: Google gets another new favicon

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google

Reports are lighting up the web that Google has a new favicon. I just reloaded my iGoogle homepage, and sure enough, there it is. Gone is the boring silver and blue “g,” now we get a more colorful “g.”
It was only this past June that Google last changed its favicon after not doing so for […]

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9
Jan

Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth — literally

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google, co:nintendo

Google used its booth at Macworld this year to show off some of the things it was working on with Apple, particularly for the iPhone. But the coolest thing at their booth didn’t have much to do with Apple at all: A hacked Nintendo Wii Balance Board (from the game Wii Fit) used to control […]

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9
Jan

Change Chrome’s channel to get beta features

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google

“Release early, release often,” that’s apparently the creed the Google Chrome team lives by, as it describes today on its blog. To that end, Google is taking a bit of a different approach when it comes to launching new features for its Chrome web browser: It’s splitting features up into three different channels, depending on […]

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8
Jan

DECE gets some new members for its league of extraordinary DRM — still no Apple

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium attempting to set new standards for the transfer and storage of copyrighted digital content, announced that six new members signed on board today at CES. Deluxe, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung, MOD Systems, Sonic Solutions/CinemaNow and Widevine Technologies join a roster that already included many of the prominent names […]

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8
Jan

A quad-core iPhone?

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology

Well, the post-Macworld keynote slowdown in Apple rumors lasted a day. Today brings a hot one: A multi-core iPhone.
Imagination Technologies is set to announce its PowerVR SGX543, a multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) tomorrow at CES, according to TG Daily. Apple enthusiasts may recognize the company: It was disclosed that Apple had invested $5 million […]

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8
Jan

Palm wows one crowd for sure: Its investors

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google

While reactions to Palm’s new Pre device are still trickling in, it’s already pretty clear that one group liked what Palm offered up at CES today: Its investors.
Palm’s stock is currently up over 30 percent on the day. While it opened the day at $3.36 a share, it currently stands at $4.30 a share. The […]

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8
Jan

The new prolific iPhone app developer: Microsoft

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google, co:microsoft

For a company whose chief executive laughed off the iPhone when it was first announced, Microsoft is sure making a lot of iPhone applications. The company unveiled another app, Tag Reader [iTunes], at CES today, marking the second time it’s released an app to Apple’s App Store in the past month.
Just like Seadragon Mobile, its […]

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8
Jan

Details about Google’s layoffs — actually, no, none

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google

Rumors circulated late last year that Google was planning to make significant cuts to its temporary workers to cut costs. That definitely did happen, but details remain murky, even after a new regulatory filing showed up this week. Interestingly, Google seems to be going to some lengths to keep some of this information under wraps.
The […]

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7
Jan

Newsflash: Apple has been charging for iTunes Plus upgrades since 2007

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology

Following yesterday’s announcement that Apple had reached agreements to convert the entire iTunes library to “iTunes Plus” format, a format without digital rights management (DRM), some people seem surprised that Apple is charging users 30 cents to upgrade a song. Well guess what? They have been since 2007, when iTunes Plus first launched.
To me, this […]

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7
Jan

Fair weather fanboys

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology

Apple’s final Macworld Expo keynote today drew reviews that universally seemed to range from boring to awful. For a company that has been no stranger to praise from the press in recent years, there’s a growing concern that they can no longer live up to expectations and that it may be a sign of a […]

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