Windows 7 is more than Vista done right, but you can’t deny that it’s based on Microsoft’s embattled operating system. Despite improvements made over two service packs, users never took … Originally posted at The Download Blog Read the rest here: Windows 7 RTM reviewed

Episode 43 of the Digital City, where special guest Natali Del Conte joins us to talk about the ethics of news organizations uploading street fighting videos; the CrunchPad vs. Apple’s hypothetical tablet, … Originally posted at Digital City Podcast Here is the original post: Digital City...

I got a few minutes of hands-on time with Microsoft’s forthcoming Zune HD at a Microsoft event on Thursday , and I came away thinking that Microsoft might finally have a contender. Of course, it inherits all the benefits of the current Zune–a more visually interesting (if not always more...

(Credit: Matt Hickey) So Apple on Friday released an update to the iPhone OS (3.0.1) that takes care of an SMS vulnerability . It’s a fairly important patch, and usually when Apple updates the iPhone OS, jailbreakers have to wait until the Dev Team comes out with a … Go here to read the...

The Federal Communications Commission has sent letters to Apple and to AT&T and Google seeking information about the rejection of the Google Voice Application from the iTunes store. The letters ask why the application was rejected, and whether or not Apple removed other applications like it. I just...

Windows 7 rates my unibody MacBook Pro at 5.3, which is very high for a laptop. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) I have had Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (release to manufacturer) for a few days. This is, of course, a legitimate copy, not the leaked copy that you can download from the Internet. That’s the good...

My, how the tables have turned. Earlier this week, we learned that Apple had suddenly begun to pull third party iPhone applications for Google Voice, citing the unconvincing rationale that they “duplicated” some of the iPhone’s functionality. We then broke the news that Apple had also...

August will be an important month for Android. (Credit: Google) Starting Saturday, August 1, we’ll begin to see many new applications appearing on the Android Market. We reported several weeks ago on the second Google Android Developers Challenge (ADC2), and August 1 is the day submissions begin....

Facebook’s legal woes just won’t stop coming. Last November a company called Leader Technologies , which makes business communcation tools, filed suit against Facebook alleging that the social network had infringed on a patent that “relates to a method and system for the management...

(Credit: CNET) When we last saw JVC’s El Kameleon car audio receiver, we awarded it our Editors’ Choice award for its innovative interface and expandability. However, we wished that the unit featured a touch screen instead of a touch pad. With the new El Kameleon KD-AVX77, we get our …...

Image search is an area of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to make it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing), and file size. Most of these filters were available before in advanced search,...

The week’s big news, a philosophy of watermarks, and the clockwork photography contest. Plus, an assignment experiment: what happens in 1/30th second. Listen now: Download today’s podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio) | RSS (audio) Episode 57 … Originally posted at Indecent Exposure...