Today, Apple announced several new products, and some updates to position itself for some merry holiday sales. You may have noticed retailers and manufacturers ramping up their marketing campaigns even earlier than normal this year. Given the abysmal state of the economy the past 18 months, it's no surprise that...

Verizon kicked off its cheeky marketing machine this weekend, trumpeting its new phone, the Motorola Droid. It's expected to give Apple's iPhone a run for the money. Running the Android operating system by Google, the early word (see BoyGeniusReport) is positive. The phone, according to the Verizon iDon't ad, offers several...

Mint.com and its founder Aaron Patzer have become the most recent poster child for the potential for meteoric success here in Silicon Valley when you play your cards right. It's not a Facebook or Google-size story, but it's impressive for several reasons. First and foremost, who would've though that there was room...

Hey mobile phone, that's not flashiness to see me. And so it went. That's changing. Today, Adobe announced it would ship its ubiquitous technology that transforms standard Web pages into sexy bits of  motion for mobile phones. Currently, users need to rely on separate applications to play flash-based Web sites...

The portable gaming market is a lucrative business, and just about the only game in town has been Nintendo with their DS system. Sony's PSP has never caught on with the masses. Instead, it's advanced hardware and larger size made it a favorite for movie watching on the go,...

It was too good to be true. And too absurd not to evoke chuckles. The claims were intoxicating. 230 MPG for the Chevrolet Volt. 367 MPG for the Nissan Leaf. Step right up, place your order, and wave goodbye to Mid-East oil. But wait, not so fast. Finally the EPA is...

The Apple iPhone app store is a mind-boggling success (witness all the copycats, including RIM, Palm and Google). The numbers are staggering: 2 billion downloads and 85,000 applications. Obviously choice is not a worry. Navigating the categories, and finding the best apps to use is a different matter. Part of...

Two things won't surprise most people out of today's comScore Internet video usage numbers for August. Google again tops the charts with their family of video properties, namely YouTube, with about 40% market share. The next closest competitor? Microsoft, at 2.2%. That's domination. Or is it a monopoly? For those...

At least it's here in beta form. Moblin is a slimmed down operating system designed for Netbooks. It has a nice glossy, Web 2.0 look to it. Dig deeper though and you'll discover a few things. First, it's actually based on Linux—the OS most likely to live in a garage...

According to comScore, Microsoft is making inroads against Google in the ever lucrative search market. In August, Microsoft's share grew half a percentage point to 9.3% of the total market. Even better, Nielson reported that Bing search volume grew over 20% in August meaning, perhaps, that more users are turning...