Apple has traditionally been an underdog. Now they're a giant; entrenched as one of the marquee tech companies of the 21st century.

While Android is designed for smartphones it seems only natural that Google targets the next large market opportunity: mobile computing.

Facebook earned approximately $800 million in'09 according to reports this morning. The six-year old service, with nearly half a billion users across the world, exploded last year, becoming the largest social network in the world. News of the strong financial performance surprised many. Facebook traditionally underplays its financial performance,...

It's a perfect storm of cultural transformation: social networking, micro-communication, and a societal premium placed on content consumption.

It's often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in an increasingly bloody death match. Killzone indeed. NPD estimates the annual market for video game hardware and software is in excess of $20B. That...

"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film director.

To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.

All of a sudden Google looks a lot more colorful this morning. Staid be gone. And it seems that with Bing, Microsoft can still throw a hay-maker, and influence a certain Silicon Valley nemesis on occasion. In case you missed it, background photos are now available on the previously minimalist...

You can add yet another personality to Ed Norton, star of Fight Club. Although this one is not related to project mayhem, it does share one thing in common with that effort: he's trying to rally people to support a common cause. In this case, fundraising for non-profit organizations....

This is the little ThinkPad that could. It's so full of potential, and so close to greatness, it's hard not to cheer it on, even if the anemic AMD processor wheezes and sputters along the way. As it is, the ThinkPad X100e by Lenovo is a decent 11.6-inch portable...