By , Afternoon of July 23, 2009 • David Letterman's comments about Twitter being "a waste of time" earlier this week gave fans of the service , but the 62-year old chat show host who doesn't "know anything about the

By , This episode of Recovery is brought to you -- literally -- by the free Wi-Fi at the Sacramento Amtrak station. Isn't it funny how the train station can offer it but most airports don't. Funny. Ha.I spent some

By , Only nine days ago, Palm Inc.'s flagship touchphone, the Pre, lost its unofficial compatibility with iTunes when to fix "an issue with Verification of Apple devices." After users updated the software, and plugged in their Pres, they found

By , Thanks to Apple's well-publicized complaint about Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" advertisements (Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer "the greatest single phone call in the history that [he'd] ever taken in business,") the ads have been changed. Apple's legal department

By , The software maker with the ability to rectify everything for the open source community in the field of free video is Google. Right now, its YouTube division relies upon Flash video, whose codecs require Web browsers including Google's

By , Yesterday's introduction of Google Latitude for iPhone could have been a big deal if the product being announced was actually an application. Instead, Google's social Geolocation product is a Web app that must be run from inside Safari.

By , In a public memo this afternoon, the European Commission has stated that Microsoft has offered to include a "ballot screen" with choices of Web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8 and others, as a way for the company to

By , It's a very big slice of a shrinking pie. As the netbook form factor serves as a much-needed lifeboat for most PC manufacturers, driving average selling prices (ASPs) lower across-the-board, premium PC maker Apple is left with almost

By , Just released figures from research firm NPD seem to suggest that Apple has a firm handle on the rich and famous.In June, of the so-called premium computer market -- machines costing $1,000 and up. That's up three points

Summer is update time, as every school IT person knows. These couple of months are when we get as much done as humanly possible when major updates and upgrades won't affect students. While my list of projects is insurmountably long,

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft

Google launched its Latitude app for Apple's iPhone and a interesting window on the Web vs. native decision process was open. The search giant's Latitude app tracks you anywhere you go if you want and it has been a no-show

Tech companies would love us all to be early adopters. Ideally they want us whipping out out wallets or purses and flexing our credit cards as soon as there's a new OS, cellphone, graphics card, CPU, or other bit of

High-performance computer builders Maingear on Thursday announced its eX-L 18 desktop replacement laptop, 'the world's most powerful' notebook, according to the company. The system features dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs (1080p HD resolution, of course), Intel Core 2 mobile

Kingston Technology has introduced the world's most expensive USB memory stick. The memory company has introduced a £566 256GByte USB flash drive....

What semiconductors famously did for computers and digital communication, they now promise to do for solar energy. Bring more efficiency, speed and lighter weight. European researchers are working on thin film solar cells using semiconductor materials. Some day those heavy

The annual back-to-school shopping trip is just around the corner. Load the family in the mini-van, drive over to your local Walmart, and watch as your shopping cart fills with new clothes, shoes, pencils, notebooks, protractors, calculators, and a million

On the one occasion I've had to use AppleCare, the Apple extended warranty, abut 5 years ago, I had a good result. This time I had a very bad experience and I'm wondering if Apple is getting way too arrogant

The rumors around the arrival of a tablet computer from Apple have been out there for a while, but the latest one from the AppleInsider blog seems to have some meat to it. [caption id="attachment_21735" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Image Credit: AppleInsider"][/caption]

A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups are saying that Google Books could become "one-stop shopping" for law enforcement to track people's reading habits. The ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson law clinic at