PC Magazine - DEMO kicks off with a session called "Moving the Chains", which had demos designed to bring information to new devices and places. -- read full article
PC Magazine - A number of new video applications shown at DEMO this morning, including a couple of program guides, a legal DVD ripper, and an application that turns you into a broadcaster. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Nintendo has announced the Nintendo WiFi Network Adapter, due to arrive in Japan September 18 and probably here in the U.S. sometime thereafter. Wii-Fi, anyone? -- read full article
AP - RealNetworks Inc. plans to begin selling software that lets people copy DVDs to their PCs, which might be convenient for on-the-go movie buffs but could incite some wrath in Hollywood. -- read full article
NewsFactor - "Let's Rock" is the tagline for Tuesday's press event that Apple is teasing as a major product announcement. The question for the legions of Apple speculators is: What will Apple CEO Steve Jobs announce?
CNET - Google's share price took a beating Monday, pushing it down nearly 5.5 percent despite a sudden lift in the broader markets as the government stepped in to bail out mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it is updating its Zune digital media player so the product can wirelessly download and stream songs when users have access to Wi-Fi networks. -- read full article
AP - AT&T Inc. has become the first U.S. carrier to make Yahoo Inc.'s search engine the default on its cell phones, the companies said Monday. -- read full article
Reuters - Nokia's Internet offering is far from
ready and the world's top cellphone maker is seeking further
acquisitions to speed up the roll out of new services, Niklas
Savander, the head of the unit, said in an interview.
Reuters - Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc
upgraded the video recording function of its Internet-based
television service called U-verse, stepping up its competition
against cable service providers. -- read full article
Macworld.com - Mundue.net on Monday announced the release of iKeno, a version of the classic game of chance. iKeno is available for purchase and download from the App Store and costs 99 cents. -- read full article
Reuters - Come next week, owners of
Microsoft Corp's portable music player Zune will be able to
download music wirelessly and tag and buy songs they hear on
the device's built-in FM radio, Microsoft said on Monday.
PC Magazine - The RIM BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone topped U.S. consumer smartphone sales for the first half of 2008, retail researcher NPD said Monday. -- read full article
Reuters - AT&T Inc is set to begin
featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of
mobile handsets used by its base of up to 70 million U.S.
customers, the companies said on Monday.
Reuters - Blackberry maker RIM was the biggest
winner in a slowing smartphone market in the second quarter,
roughly doubling its market share from a year ago to 17.4
percent, research firm Gartner said on Monday.
