19 Nov 2008

An Adobe browser, briefly considered

Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand …

19 Nov 2008

Report: Swedish carrier planning iPhone MMS app

Swedish iPhone carrier Telia has apparently convinced Apple to let it offer its own MMS application.

(Credit: Telia)

Swedish iPhone users may soon have a way to send each other pictures and video via text messaging.

Telia, Apple’s carrier partner in Sweden, is going to develop its own MMS (…

19 Nov 2008

Sources: Apple, music labels talk DRM-free songs

A year after iTunes began offering music without copy protection software from EMI, Apple is in discussions with the other three top recording companies about acquiring DRM-free songs, according to two music industry sources.

The talks are still preliminary and no deals have been finalized, but one source said one

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19 Nov 2008

Wal-Mart to carry iPhone after holidays?

Apple could soon have another distribution channel for the iPhone: Wal-Mart.

(Credit: CNET)

The largest retailer in the world could be getting the iPhone.

Wal-Mart won’t have the iPhone at every location come the end of December, if a report from the Boy Genius Report is accurate. But Apple …

19 Nov 2008

iPhone calls up No. 1 ranking for mobile metrics

Apple’s iPhone jumped to the top spot on the AdMob Network for the month of October, with 4.1 percent of the mobile ads requested from the network, according to the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report released Wednesday.

Requests from advertisers for mobile ads targeted to iPhone users rose to …

19 Nov 2008

Mac OS X Snow Leopard coming early?

Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard may be on tap for the start of the new year, slightly earlier than expected.

The update appears to be slated for debut in the first quarter of 2009, according to a slide presented by Jordan Hubbard, Apple’s director of engineering for Unix …

18 Nov 2008

Facebook, Google, others sponsor youth activism summit

Alliance of Youth Movements Summit(Credit: Howcast Media)

Facebook, Google, and the Google-owned YouTube are among the sponsors for the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit, an event taking place at New York’s Columbia Law School from December 3-5.

Along with other collaborators–which include the U.S. Department of State, MTV, Access 360 Media, and …

18 Nov 2008

New game brings iPhone into Wiimote territory

The Social Gaming Network, a company best known for its Facebook Platform apps, has launched a new iPhone app that uses the handset as…a gaming controller.

Called “iFun,” the app is a takeoff on the Social Gaming Network’s existing sports apps: iGolf, iBowl, iBaseball, and the like. But …

18 Nov 2008

Will Microsoft’s antivirus move draw antitrust fire?

Microsoft’s decision to offer free antivirus software puts rivals such as McAfee and Symantec in a tough position.

To be sure, those two–and other rivals–will be able to tout products that offer a broader range of features than Microsoft plans to deliver with “Morro” next year. At the same …

18 Nov 2008

Microsoft to discontinue Office subscription version

Microsoft’s decision to discontinue OneCare in favor of a new free antivirus product also means an end to Equipt, a $69-per-year subscription version of Office and OneCare that the company had been selling on the shelves of Circuit City.

A box shot of the Equipt product, which only briefly