Developers mostly agreed with his original post, Farmer said, based on feedback he’s received. “There were sort of three kinds of responses. One response was, like, ‘Yes, we agree,’ and there’s lots of people who said ‘Yes, we agree’ who in public would not be able to admit that,” Farmer explained. “There’s a group of [...]

On Monday, Microsoft announced just such an agreement, with Hewlett-Packard agreeing to make Live Search the default on its consumer PCs starting in January. The computers will also carry a toolbar that uses Microsoft’s Silverlight in conjunction with Live Search.

For antitrust reasons, Microsoft can’t just make its engine the default in Internet Explorer (except in [...]

The end result is that Apple’s attempt to control third-party development might be re-encouraging the growth of the jailbreaking market once again: iPhone OS 2.1 is already open to jailbroken applications.
Over the weekend, a good old-fashioned Internet-style kerfuffle arose over Apple’s decision to reject Podcaster–an
iPhone application that lets people download podcasts directly to [...]

Of course, Republicans seized on the quotation by misquoting Gore; Trent Lott sent out a press release claiming to have invented the paper clip, and Dan Quayle joked that he “invented spell-check.” And Democrats, meanwhile, offered narrowly correct rebuttals that Gore never claimed to have “invented” the Internet–while largely glossing over a worldview that implies [...]

As reported a month or so ago, AT&T Mobile TV is the carrier’s new live mobile TV service that will broadcast television shows to compatible phones via Qualcomm’s MediaFlo network. At launch, the service will offer eight channels of programming–CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC 2G0, NBC News 2GO, and [...]

Apple patent could improve iPhone alerts
California bans texting by train operators
Holiday sales: How low with HDTV prices go?
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I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with Mozilla’s Mike Schroepfer and Mike Beltzner. One of the things we drilled into a bit was the address bar in
Firefox 3 (download). It’s being called the “awesome bar” at Mozilla, and while it will end up with an official name eventually (the “smart location bar”), what [...]