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Social Web browser Flock bases its 2.0 beta on Firefox 3
Even though the official release of Mozilla Firefox 3.0 was stealing all of the headlines, social Web browser Flock was quietly preparing the rollout of its first beta of version 2.0.
Pints of Guinness all 'round! 8.3 million Firefox 3 downloads
The early estimates from the Mozilla organization show its servers (when they were up and running) cranked out enough bytes to cover 11.07 million downloads of Firefox 3.0, and were registering as many as 283 downloads per second.
Faster burns promised by Samsung's new TruDirect external optical drives
A slimmer version of Samsung's series of optical disc drives, due next July, will connect directly to digital cameras and will enable faster burns of multimedia content than internal PC drives, the manufacturer told BetaNews today.
Samsung Blu-ray PC drives coming in Q4
Samsung officials told reporters it will ship a Blu-ray write-capable PC drive in the first half of next year, preceded by a combo drive in the fourth quarter of this year.
Amazon MP3 store challenges iTunes with dirt cheap Coldplay
Celebrating the release of British alt-pop group Coldplay's new album "Viva la Vida: or Death and All his Friends," Amazon has taken the opportunity to offer customers the band's entire back catalog for $1.99 per album.
Internet advertising falters for first time in three years
After 13 straight quarters of growth, revenue from online advertisements shrunk slightly. Either way, Internet ad revenue is up year over year.
Reddit opens everything plus the kitchen sink to the OSS community
With giants in the social networking field opening up their APIs to developers, social news sharing site Reddit is going a big step further today, opening its site's entire source code to the open source community.
Toshiba's lastest Qosmios take aim at gamers, filmmakers
To appease gamers, filmmakers and users who want a portable notebook, Toshiba introduced three new notebooks in its Digital Products Division (DPD) yesterday.
Google App Engine struggles against bug
Since early morning yesterday, Google's App Engine Web application hosting service has been forced into a limp, yielding persistent errors for users attempting to access their applications.
Microsoft enters TV ad business with Navic buy
Playing a little bit of catch-up to rival Google, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Navic Networks on Wednesday, giving it a foothold in the television advertising business.
2006 dispute of Sony-BMG merger still unresolved in EU
2008 has begun to look a lot like 2006 for Sony BMG in Europe. Publishing association Impala asked courts to overturn the EC's merger approval a second time, and joint venture partner Bertelsmann AG again expressed its desire to back away.
The winner by knockout: Los Alamos claims the Top 500 throne
The petaflop barrier was not only broken last week, it was pulverized into infinitesimally small, neutrino-sized particles. While Intel continues to blow even more horns, suddenly it's the Cell processor that has engineers talking.
EBay's Project Echo set for private and public betas
With a new application framework entering open beta early next year, eBay is working to build a kind of 'open' market for both developers and vendors to earn money, as a key eBay developer told BetaNews Tuesday.
Mozilla: 1.6 million downloads and counting
Early Tuesday evening, the Mozilla organization gave BetaNews an update on its quest to have posted the single most downloaded (tracked) software item in a single day, having exceeded Firefox 2's single-day mark in just five hours' time.
Toshiba's SSD-based notebooks double their capacity
In a move to bolster its Portege notebook lineup, Toshiba today introduced a new notebook that features a single 128 GB solid-state drive.
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