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By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
The new, much maligned "Aol." logo has upped its failworthiness. Newest buzz: A 27-year-old with no marketing expertise was the driving force behind AOL becoming Aol.; that has many people wondering what the company was thinking. Age isn't so much concern as lack of ...
Online
AOL
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Not since AT&T; gobbled up Cingular and rebranded as at&t; with that ugly Death Star-like logo has a company erred so far from sensibility. The new AOL brand, Aol., is coming soon to frighten you. AOL's attempt to be hip is anything but. Not that AOL, distributor of a ...
Online
AOL
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference, Betanews had the honor of being invited to join a small cadre of reporters -- including noted blogger Long Zheng; TechCrunch's Steve Gillmor; and our good friend from SD Times and Technologizer, ...
Online
Silverlight
Microsoft
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Gartner is just full of bad news that will suck Windows PC manufacturers' thanks out of American Thanksgiving -- and Christmas along with it. Ho Ho Ho Ba Humbug. Today, the analyst firm predicted that based on fourth-quarter PC shipment estimates, for 2009, the market ...
Hardware
PC
Windows 7
By Jack M. Germain, TechNewsWorld
Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes good on a longstanding promise from Redmond that it would make the popular .NET code base available as ...
Other
Microsoft
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
Let's be absolutely honest and straightforward about this right up front: Google Chrome OS is not an operating system . It's a device, like the iPhone, only that Google wants to license its specifications to OEMs. Any OEM that builds it is making a Chrome ...
Online
Chrome
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped into my head -- like a ...
Online
Microsoft
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Black Friday is just a week away and the demand for ebook readers looks to already be too great. Earlier this week, Sony said its 3G-connected Daily Edition Reader may not arrive in time for the holidays. Preorders for the device began on Wednesday, but it will ...
Gadgets
Kindle
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Sony yesterday discussed its plans to open a download shop similar to iTunes or Amazon Digital Downloads. Reportedly given the tentative name "Sony Online Service," the online store would make the many different types of Sony digital content available in a single ...
Hardware
Sony
By Carmi Levy , Betanews
I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at renderings of Apple's long-rumored tablet - or iTablet, or whatever name the faithful have assigned to it this week - and wishes the FedEx truck would pull up to my door with an early demo in time for the holiday season. I'm ...
Other
Apple
By Ed Moyle, TechNewsWorld
Every year around this time, everyone from antimalware companies to analyst firms line up to tell us about the top IT and security trends -- what they are and why we should care. This year, chances are they'll tell us all about cloud computing, virtualization, and ...
Other
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
It ended up being a somewhat different PDC conference than we had anticipated, and even to a certain extent, than we were led to believe. Maybe this was due in part to a little intentional misdirection to help generate surprise, but in the end, the big ...
Software
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Google announced its open source Chrome OS last July and it has been a little more than a mystery to the wondering public since that time. Now, an official first look is mere hours away. At 10:00 am PST (1:00 pm EST), Google will present a live webcast of Chrome ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
Linux
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Google announced its open source Chrome OS last July and it has been a little more than a mystery to the wondering public since that time. Now, an official first look is mere hours away. At 10am PST (1pm EST), Google will present a live webcast of Chrome OS, the ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
As Time Warner continues the process of spinning AOL off into a separate, independent company, AOL will lose a third of its workforce. The spinoff is expected to be completed on December 9. In filings with the Securities and Exchange commission earlier this month, ...
Online
AOL
Steve Jobs
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
As Time Warner continues the process of spinning AOL off into a separate, independent company, AOL will lose a third of its workforce. The spinoff is expected to be completed on December 9. In filings with the Securities and Exchange commission earlier this month, ...
Online
AOL
Steve Jobs
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
I know when I've hurt a man's feelings. In a segment of the technology business that has recently become fiercely competitive, it's difficult to report bad news about a team that tries very hard to build a good Web browser. It was very apparent from our ...
Online
Microsoft
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Nokia has always been solid on its dedication to the Symbian platform, but a report from an N900 event yesterday cast some doubt on Symbian's future in certain branches of Nokia's product line , specifically the high-end N-series of smartphones. I reached out to ...
Mobile
Nokia
Symbian
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Technology market research company Gartner Inc. has released a report which predicts what the top ten mobile applications will be in 2012 based on current activity in the smartphone field, including such factors as consumer and industry interest, potential revenue, ...
Other
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 for Windows from Fileforum now. Here's what happens when our beloved Scott M. Fulton, III is away from his test machine while covering PDC 2009: you get a Firefox beta announcement with none of the scores, charts, or metrics ...
