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Thirty-one years after the first internet protocol structure was put in place, the internet is in danger of running out of IP addresses – at least according to Google’s chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf. The man often referred to as “the father of the internet” recently talked up the next-gen IP addressing scheme, IPv6, and [...]

Microsoft has confirmed that applications for simple activities such as e-mail and photo editing won’t be included with Windows 7. Specifically, Photo Gallery, Windows Mail and Movie Maker will be ditched in favor of optional downloadable apps that tap into Windows Live and offer the same functionality. The company argues that this will ensure a [...]

After many months of speculation, the first Google Android-powered mobile device has finally been announced: the T-Mobile G1, also known as HTC Dream. The G1 targets both the iPhone and the Blackberry – with touchscreen functionality and a slide-out QWERTY keypad – and will be the first phone to provide access to the Android Market.

Specs [...]

Remember when Google used to be the underdog? Those days have long since passed. So far gone, in fact, that Google has been rated as one of the 10 most valuable brand names in the world. It is now sitting up there with huge brand names that go back decades or even over a century [...]

Despite growing signals that Google’s advertising pact with Yahoo might be challenged by antitrust authorities in the US and EU, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company expects to implement it, as planned, in October – even if government regulators need more time to assess whether the alliance will diminish competition.
Google already delayed the deal [...]

Confirming earlier reports, Intel has officially unveiled its six-core server microprocessors. Codenamed Dunnington, the new chips are part of the Xeon 7400 family of processors, which comes in four-core and six-core versions designed to be used in systems with four or more processors.
Intel says the new chips deliver 50 percent better performance and 10 percent [...]

Today Google announced their progress and mission plan for taking care of the current and future security issues with their new Chrome browser. In particular, they revealed some details about the two biggest known flaws. Those have been fixed, along with some other minor issues.
Google also has opened a Chrome Releases blog, which they are [...]

Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s music event today in San Francisco to announce a handful of new products, including new and updated iPod nanos, touch and classic. As expected, the new iPod nano will be the thinnest model ever made by Apple, boasting a longer body and curved display similar to those pictures [...]

Last month, Dell claimed to have achieved an impressive mobile-computing milestone by getting its E-Series Latitudes to operate continuously for 19 hours on a single charge – albeit using a combination of a giant 9-cell internal battery and a whopping 12 cell external one. Today, however, HP is upping the ante by introducing a machine [...]

Google has  released a new web browser built from the ground up and based on WebKit, the same rendering engine that Safari uses. The browser, dubbed Chrome, is open-source software built with security, compatibility and speed in mind – and of course it’ll integrate various Google services in it.
Google chose a rather interesting way to [...]