Mike Jennings from Google, who was giving the demonstration, covered up the phone’s branding with tape, but it seemed pretty obvious that it’s probably the HTC Dream. Not too much is revealed about the device itself, but we did get a sneak peek at what looks to be the final version of the Android [...]

Yet King placed his name on an opinion article in the Harvard Crimson in March that took the opposite position. It stated, “Most experts agree that broadband providers should be allowed to reasonably manage their networks,” and it poked fun at the “idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the [...]

That may be a little easier said than done, however. Some consumers (but not including “tech savvy” Giampaolo, of course) will still need help from the sales person to decipher the badging. A daunting challenge in the case of consumer laptops, which are typically plastered with a hodgepodge of stickers from Intel, Nvidia, Advanced Micro [...]

We also discuss the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account, and Web 2.0 reaching middle age.

On this week’s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I talk about the gyrating, uncertain financial markets. Larry says that consolidation in the financial sector could result in an IT spending decline, but notes that Oracle’s latest [...]

Darth Vader ‘chokes’ a Best Buy employee at the launch party for ‘Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’ on Monday night.

For now, however, fans of the game–and hired hands–are milling around the Best Buy here in all kind of Star Wars costumes, and every now and then I hear the easily recognized beep bleep bloop sound [...]

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So why the lingering insecurity?
Barring a real nuclear winter, I expect they’ll still be around for quite some time.
“I think it depends on your perspective–that is, where in the market you are in terms of the growth curve and users,” said Kaku Srivastava, general manager at Flickr. “From where [...]

I was one of the first to order an Open Computer, and to be totally honest, we ordered one in large part to verify whether or not Psystar was a legitimate operation, as its legitimacy was challenged by several bloggers in the frenzy surrounding its debut. I’m not a formal reviewer, leaving that business [...]

While the Praized database content is hosted, Praized itself is not a destination site. Web managers put some code in their blogs, and the Praized content will then appear locally on the site and adopt the site’s native styles. Furthermore, the ratings that people leave for locations and businesses will be specific to the [...]

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Bienvenue sur Skyrock.com, the French answer to MySpace–and Facebook's big competitor over there.
Also, Skyrock is not growing fast–ComScore says that it grew only about 34 percent from April 2007 to April 2008 in France, roughly in line with the 36 percent growth that French social networking experienced overall.
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Asked if the world has been spared a Microsoft digital rights management machine, Anderson responded in an e-mail: “Wrong–WMP (Windows Media Player) and the surrounding stuff that MS hopes will enable it to do to the HDTV market what Apple did for MP3s.”
“BitLocker hasn’t been the rage anybody expected, although there is [...]