The crowd gets ready for the Chrome OS announcement. Photo: Jon Fortt.
I'm at Google (GOOG), ready for the Chrome OS press event to begin. Refresh this page for updates.
They're telling us they're getting started a little late because attendees got caught in traffic. That's nice of them, I guess.
Sundar Pichai is at the lectern. He says Google is a year away from launching Chrome OS, but they want to MORE
Jon Fortt - Nov 19, 2009 12:59 PM ET
The women-centric collection of sites is shaking up the web -- and traditional media.
Lisa Sugar's celebrity blog morphed into an online empire. Photo: Sugar Inc.
The state of affairs in publishing is beyond depressing. Unless, of course, by publishing you mean the shiny new online-only startups who are behaving as if it were boom times for journalism. An example is Sugar Publishing, the 3 1/2-year old blogging company that MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Nov 19, 2009 10:34 AM ET
Steve Jobs' next big thing is being retooled, Asian supply-chain sources report
Artist's rendition. Image: Silicon Alley Insider.
Live by the rumor, die by the rumor. Or at least go on life support.
The Apple (AAPL) tablet computer that all Silicon Valley has taken as a given -- but no one outside of Cupertino seems to have seen -- won't be arriving early next year, as widely rumored, and may not appear MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 19, 2009 6:18 AM ET
The New York Times' columnist entertains IT types with a parody of "Ooops!... I did it again."
Pogue at Interop. Photo: Philip Elmer-DeWitt
David Pogue may review technology for a living, but give him half a chance and he'll revert to his first love: show tunes.
He did it again Wednesday, ending his Interop New York 2009 keynote at the Javits Center with one of his patented song parodies: "Apps!... I MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 18, 2009 12:17 PM ET
Get over it: There's good reason to share data with your customers, suppliers and subcontractors.
By Jim Lawton, senior vice president, D&B
Lawton calls for a new kind of collaboration. Photo: D&B
Toothpaste, dog food or children's toys: Which one of these tainted products could have been prevented from coming to market?
The fact is that all of them could have been stopped – well before any consumers were harmed. MORE
Nov 18, 2009 9:00 AM ET
South Korea could be getting Apple's smartphone as early as next week
Image: iPhonAsia.com
According to wire service reports, government regulators finally cleared the way Wednesday for the launch of Apple's iPhone in South Korea.
The Korean Daily News reported Wednesday that KT Corp. (KTC) -- the country's second-largest carrier -- plans to start taking Internet orders for the iPhone on Thursday and begin sales on Nov. 28.
South Korea's largest carrier, SK MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 18, 2009 7:35 AM ET
The No. 2 telco responds defiantly to AT&T's claims that its ads are false and misleading
"AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon's 'There's A Map For That' advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon's ads are true and the truth hurts."
So begins Verizon's (VZ) legal reply to a pair of lawsuits filed earlier this month by AT&T (T) demanding that Verizon pull five disputed ads from the air. The MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2009 9:30 AM ET
iPhoneAsia's Dan Butterfield takes readers on a tour of China's electronics jungle
A bogus Apple reseller in China. Photo: Dan Butterfield
"There's no room for the meek," writes Dan Butterfield in a dispatch from Beijing's Zhongguancun-region electronics malls.
"Picture four or five Manhattan-sized Macy's department stores filled to the rafters with electronics outlets and sundry other goods. Untold thousands of shoppers fill these stores each day. From the moment you walk in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2009 8:31 AM ET
Before getting into gaming, Farmville's father was a player in the glam world of online tech support.
Before Zynga, there was SupportSoft.
Pickus (not Pincus) discusses his company's new model. Photo: Support.com
Prior to launching the hot social gaming outfit that spawned Farmville and Café World, Mark Pincus founded a trio of companies: Social networking company Tribe.net, downloading service FreeLoader, and SupportSoft, a company that began providing support software for enterprise companies in 2001.
Today, MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Nov 17, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Burglars in Antwerp make off with $3 million worth of smartphones
Over the weekend, someone used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a huge warehouse in Willebroek, a Dutch-speaking municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, cut a hole in the roof, and made off with 3,000 to 4,000 brand new Apple (AAPL) iPhones, according to reports in the Belgian press.
The crime, believed to be the largest iPhone MORE
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