Google had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early — it’s not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products — but that’s the first official screen shot right there, and the big features are all [...]

It looks like Office Mobile 2010 was captured on a Microsoft Office Mobile website strutting its stuff. Under one of the screenshots, the Office Mobile team used a picture of what looks like the UI from the leaked renderings of Windows Mobile 7.

While some researchers are focused on making batteries that are both safer and longer-lasting, it seems like the folks at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (or KAERI) are simply concerned with making ‘em really, really safe. To that end, they’ve now announced that they’ve managed to develop a new type of “separator” that [...]

Good news on the eBook front: they”ll soon accept Barnes & Noble gift cards as payment in their eBook store.
This change — effective in mid-December — will allow customers to use physical gift cards and online gift certificates to purchase eBooks through their site, through nook, and through other devices using the B&N eReader software.
We’ll have [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that beta versions of Adobe® AIR® 2 and Adobe Flash® Player 10.1 software are now available from Adobe Labs for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Flash Player 10.1 is also available for x86-based netbooks, and expected to be available across a broad [...]

New York: Motorola Inc on Monday said that it would buy privately held BitBand, an Israel-based video-on-demand technology provider, to expand its home video business.
Motorola said it would integrate BitBand into its Home and Networks Mobility unity, for which the company has reportedly been looking for a buyer willing to pay $4 billion to [...]

Affiliate marketing is 15 years old this month—CyberErotica is said to have launched the first program in 1994. The adult industry has always been ahead of the curve, but I digress. Despite 15 years of existence, which is essentially an eternity in “online years”, the performance based marketing method is still in its infancy. [...]

NEW YORK–Apple hopes to grow its market share with an increasingly aggressive retail strategy that includes opening bigger stores in more locations.
At a media preview of its fourth store here, which is located on the Upper West Side, Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail, said Apple’s retail strategy is all about getting [...]