Archives: 2008 October

Almost as soon as Sen. Barack Obama declared that he was running for president, Chrisi West signed up to volunteer. The Fairfax County resident was dissatisfied with the status quo on income inequality, domestic violence and the Iraq war. What she heard from Obama during his speech at the 2004 De…

DENVER (Billboard) - Now that “Rock Band” publisher MTV Networks just scored the Beatles catalog for a new videogame, announced days after the October 26 release of Activision’s “Guitar Hero World Tour,” the stage is set for another battle of the bands between the two music-based game franchises.

(Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp <IBM.N> sued a top executive on Thursday to prevent him from joining Apple Inc <AAPL.O>, court documents showed.

Sprint Nextel yesterday appeared to call a halt to plans to sell its iDen push-to-talk network, saying it intends to refocus on the technology it inherited with the company’s acquisition of the carrier.

The maker of the Jawbone headset is the latest victim of the economic downturn.

As klutzy Apple laptop users know, damage from spilt water, coffee, or other liquids is not covered under the standard warranty. To uncover any potential for warranty fraud, it's rumored the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has installed liquid sensors in its new line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros. CNET's Kara Tsuboi looks into the rumored move […]

A proposed partnership between Google and Yahoo for the sale and distribution of online advertisements has been a hot topic in tech circles this year, drawing scrutiny from privacy groups, European regulators and the Justice Department. Now reports are circulating that the long-delayed deal might fall apart.

In an article in the online version of the […]

Google has rarely included scanned documents in its search results because it had no way to determine the nature of the content, but that’s about to change. The search engine giant says it will use optical character recognition (OCR) software to make it possible for Web surfers to search any Web-hosted document stored in the […]

On occasion, Google’s Gmail service has gone dark, in some cases for hours at a time. Predictably, users of the free service flipped out and took to the Web to sound off. Google’s response, up to now, has merely been to issue apologies and get the system up and running again. However, for users of […]

Sony issued a recall Friday for roughly 100,000 notebook batteries. Conducted in partnership with the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission, the recall affects laptop users worldwide. The lithium-ion batteries can overheat and pose a fire and burn hazard to users. There have been 19 reports of batteries overheating, including 17 instances in which flames […]