Microsoft has put its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system out for technical preview. "Starting today, thousands of prototype phones from Asus, LG and Samsung are making their way into the hands of developers over the next few weeks," Terry Myerson, corporate vice president, Windows phone engineering, announced on the Windows Phone blog Sunday.

The DNS root zone was signed on July 15th, 2010. Did you feel it? Did you even notice? The root zone of Internet is now more secure, signed cryptographically w/ DNSSEC. Unless you are really focused on DNS, you probably didn’t notice. Frankly, this is …

Back in 2005, we wrote about the rather crazy case of Leo Stoller, the “trademark troll,” who claimed incredibly broad trademarks on single words (sometimes through questionable means) and then tried to shakedown pretty much anyone who used those words…

Glyn Moody points us to the news that BP has apparently been hiring up a bunch of local scientists associated with various Gulf Coast universities to study the impact of the oil spill. While some might suggest at least BP should be paying for some of …

Nimble Storage has unveiled the Nimble CS-Series, which is intended for
midsize companies of 200 to 2000 employees. The CS-series combines primary flash storage and secondary SATA storage, providing high-speed flash access at a reasonable cost along w…

Google continued its acquisition spree Friday, snapping up a company that it hopes will set the stage for continued improvements to its search results by better understanding queries and web pages. Analysts said Metaweb could help Google shore up areas…

At this point, we’ve written enough about the look and feel of Limbo that writing a full review of the finished game almost seems redundant. There aren’t any major shifts in gameplay, nor is there a midgame plot twist that we didn’t…

At Apple’s press conference Friday about the iPhone 4′s antenna problems, CEO Steve Jobs said devices made by HTC, Research In Motion, Samsung and others also had reception problems. Now those manufacturers are countering that charge.

On Monday, HTC i…

It seems that no matter what area of the content creation business we talk about, when we talk about business models that work for smaller, indie content creators, which focus on connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy, we almost always ge…

Nokia Siemens Networks said Monday it agreed to acquire most of Motorola’s network equipment business in a $1.2 billion cash deal. Nokia Siemens is eyeing the assets to expand its opportunities in North America and Asia.

In the deal, Nokia Siemens exp…