Verizon Wireless is jumping on the application store bandwagon and taking on Apple and its App Store with its own Vcast application store, which it announced at its first ever developer conference in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday.

Apple, which launched the App Store just over a year ago, is the hands-down leader in the smartphone application market. It’s unclear exactly how much money the company makes from the App Store. But there is no question that the virtual storefro

This alpha photo was leaked last April.

This statement suggests the company might fear the possibility that negative press could plague the product before its sanctioned beta release. A Skyfire spokesperson told CNET that the leak was not internal.

Skyfire has not said when it will reinstate the alpha testing program for its BlackBerry browser.

On Monday afternoon, Skyfire announced it would put a temporary halt on its alpha program for BlackBerry. The m

In Google Earth (Google’s globe software) this layer of information is something you can turn on and off, however for Maps, Google has decided simply to bake it in. It’s definitely a logical next step, considering Google recently added nearby businesses on top of the results of your original search. This made it far easier to discover a local business, even if it wasn’t at the top of Google’s index.

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Google Maps has added additional local landmarks and “promin

4. Client-side virtualization was also a hot area even with Citrix and Microsoft–in many respects the top dogs in this space–in semi-exile from the show.

3. So was anything both new and real? Yes. A couple things. One was I/O virtualization, which can be thought of conceptually as separating computing from I/O (network and storage connections mostly) and allowing that I/O to be shared and dynamically allocated. It’s not really a new concept. Like many things, it has its

On Sunday evening, Scribd issued a comment to CNET in response to the suit.

“Ms. Scott’s lawsuit is without merit,” Scribd said in its statement. “Scribd is an online service provider that complies with–and goes above and beyond–the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Scribd therefore is entitled to the full protection of the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions.”

By now, anyone following online copyright issues at YouTube, Veoh, Project Playlist

Just when you were getting used to the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the skies over your city, they’re beginning to enter buildings.

Entering its 20th year, the small but venerable IARC proposes challenges that cannot be met with current technology, military or otherwise. In its next mission, the sixth, MAVs will have to penetrate a simulated security compound, steal a flash drive and replace it with a dud before exiting safely and undetected.

The idea is that users will be able to save whatever they’re doing on the phone to Box’s cloud storage service, as opposed to their servers or the device itself. It’s similar to the way the smartphone can natively send some files to places like Apple’s MobileMe service and Google’s YouTube. Users can then make edits to those files using other applications, subsequently syncing back up the next time they launch the iPhone app.

What's missing here are Box's servers, w

Researchers found that the three platforms “delivered wildly variable performance results as Amazon, Google and Microsoft trialled, added and dropped new features.”

Response times on the service also varied by a factor of 20 depending on the time of day the services were accessed. Anna Liu, associate professor in services engineering at the University of New South Wales School of Computer Science responsible for the study, also noted the immature monitoring tools and the inabilit

Has Linux failed?

Update @ 6:43 A.M. on Tuesday, September 22, 2009:
One thing that I forgot to mention, but which is critical to the success of Linux, is that there really is no such thing as monolithic “Linux.” Linux is highly modular and can be trimmed down/beefed up to fit a wide variety of applications…on the developers’ terms, not Red Hat’s, Novell’s, Canonical’s, etc.

Will we meet in the middle? Probably. For now, Linux may be getting

Though not yet a done deal, a tentative change in accounting rules could have a dramatic effect on the earnings reports of tech companies, and in particular, Apple.

Apple only applies this practice to the iPhone and Apple TV, but not Macs or iPods, and it’s the reason why
iPod Touch owners have to pay a fee to upgrade to each new iPhone OS software update, whereas iPhone owners do not.

New accounting rules could see boost Apple's reported iPhone revenue.