Top Items:
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm review — By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon. Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends …
RELATED:
PC World:
BlackBerry's Storm: Awkward and Disappointing — Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm looks handsome enough, but it will disappoint prospective buyers hoping for a credible touch-based iPhone alternative. — Yardena Arar, PC World — Recommends — BlackBerry fans who've been yearning …
Discussion:
MacDailyNews
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm review — The BlackBerry Storm. It feels like ages ago since we first broke news of this bad boy, but the release is finally right around the corner. Literally, it's tomorrow! Need we say more? Heck yeah! We've got a pretty substantial review on the device …
The Official Google Blog:
Lively no more — In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products …
RELATED:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Kills Lively — Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-based virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31 …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions — With fewer consumers than hoped for signing up for all-you-can-eat music subscriptions, Microsoft and the record industry are trying to make the option more appealing. — As of Wednesday, those who pay for the $14.95 a month Zune Pass subscription …
RELATED:
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces New Zune Pass Music Subscription Model — Consumers can now keep the tracks they love. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s digital music and entertainment service, today announced landmark agreements with major and independent music labels to bring significant new value to the subscription music model.
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web — You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages. Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta.
RELATED:
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive — Samsung on Wednesday night said it has begun mass-producing 256GB solid-state drives. This size tops the largest-capacity SSDs found in laptops today. — Samsung currently offers 64GB and 128GB SSDs for laptops.
RELATED:
Apple:
Apple TV: About Apple TV software updates — Products Affected — Apple TV — Refer the table below for Apple TV Software Update 2.3 features: — How To — AirTunes Streaming from Apple TV — Music can be streamed via AirTunes to Airport Express speakers or other Apple TVs in your house.
Discussion:
Alley Insider, Podcasting News, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, TheAppleBlog, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, MacRumors, Appletell, Macworld, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacBlogz and iLounge
RELATED:
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs — Google's just-released and much-publicized update to their Google Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but …
RELATED:
Mobispine AB:
Mobispine Delivers First Ever True MMS for iPhone — Mobispine AB (MOBS) the market leader in delivering mobile solutions to operators announced the availability of the world's first true Multimedia Messaging (MMS) for iPhone. Mobispine is now offering a “white label” MMS service for iPhone to global operators.
New York Times:
Web Retailers Are Waging Seasonal Price Wars — SAN FRANCISCO — As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts this holiday season, a similar and even more ferocious price war is being waged online. — Internet retailers …
Discussion:
Alley Insider
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing — Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. — “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging …
Discussion:
Techdirt
crtc.gc.ca:
CRTC denies CAIP application, but will examine — Internet traffic management practices — OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers' (CAIP) …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
‘Grand Theft Auto’ yields road to the ‘Lost and Damned’ — The upcoming episode of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV looks to be a wild one. — GTA IV, which was released in April for the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3, focused on former Eastern European soldier Niko Bellic …
Discussion:
Kotaku, Joystiq, Destructoid, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Blue's News, GamesIndustry.biz and videogaming247
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks, USB Drives — The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices from their nets …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Makes Up 88 Percent Of Mozilla's Revenues, Threatens Its Non-Profit Status — Today, the (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million …
IEBlog:
IE8: What's After Beta 2 — The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback. The team is providing detailed information and answering questions about the product in many different places.
Discussion:
All about Microsoft, Windows Connected, The Windows Blog, The Microsoft Blog and Spyware Sucks
Nicholas Carlson / Alley Insider:
Want In The Obama Administration? Get A Blog — Obama is staffing his administration with bloggers. — New Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle's last post to “Travels With Tom” — a “travel web log” — is from August 2003. It features a long quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail movie.
