Yahoo shutting off DRM keys for music from Yahoo Music

Yahoo has announced that beginning on October 1st of this year they will no longer be delivering DRM keys to music purchased from their Yahoo Music online music service.
If you have already authorized songs from the service you’ll still be able to play them locally, but you won’t be able to do anything else with [...]

BGR posts video walkthrough of BlackBerry Bold

The upcoming BlackBerry Bold smartphone has been getting lots of attention and since BGR has had one for a few weeks now they’ve reviewed it and now posted a video of the Bold in action so you can see what it’s like.
It’s interesting looking at some of the comments by people who have [...]

Users love Vista if they don’t know it’s Vista

Focus groups in San Francisco were recently part of a Microsoft experiment. With all of the hate for Windows Vista, what if people used Vista but didn’t know it was Vista…would they still hate it?
The answer? No.
Participants of the focus groups were all Windows XP users and they were told that they would be testing [...]

Microsoft to offer seach technology on Facebook

On Thursday at their annual meeting for financial analysts Microsoft announced a new deal with Facebook to provide their roughly 90 million members with search services from within Facebook.
Microsoft, already the owner of 1.6 percent of Facebook’s shares, also has an exclusive deal to provide banner ads to the site.
I’m not really clear on details [...]

New iPhone 2.1 firmware beta, SDK seeded to developers

A new iPhone firmware, version 2.1 (beta 1, build 5F90), has been released to developers for testing with their applications.
A couple of interesting new additions are new Core Location features and Push Notifications APIs.
The Core Locations features can be used to track direction and speed while you travel, so this *could* be a sign that [...]