Google Nexus Phone to Focus on Business

By Daniel Ionescu
The Nexus One smartphone might be a fun phone for consumers, but Google is aiming for the business-minded customer with its handset, says Google’s Andy Rubin, quoted by Reuters.
Manufactured by HTC, maker of other Android phones (G1, MyTouch 3G, Hero), the Nexus One is a nice addition to the consumer line-up of Android [...]

Interead intros new e-book models

by Mark Hattersley,
Stylish e-book manufacturer Interead has launched two new Cool-ER e-book devices at CES in Las Vegas. We caught up with Phil Wood, Cool-ER’s Director to chat about the new models.
“The [new] Cool-ER Compact shaves most of the size from last year’s Cool-ER model, which we’re now calling the Cool-ER Classic but retains the [...]

ShareThis Last-minute gifts for Mac lovers

We’ve all experienced some form of holiday shopping panic: “There’s only of months/days/hours left before Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa! What am I going to do?” Well, Macworld’s here to help with the Mac lover in your life. We’ve polled our staff of contributors to get their ideas for gifts that you can, if necessary, pull out of your [...]

Audi A3 TDI named Green Car of the Year

By Martin Zimmerman
LOS ANGELES — The 2010 Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car of the Year at the L.A. Auto Show on Thursday, giving the Germans and clean diesel technology back-to-back wins.

Apple acquires music service Lala

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has acquired digital music service Lala, as the dominant online music retailer explores new models for selling songs.

Twitter previews new mobile site

by Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Twitter has built a mobile site from scratch for its social networking and microblogging service, acknowledging that the current one, while reliable, has an unimpressive user interface and a modest feature set.

Mobile.twitter.com, as seen on an iPhone

EBay and Craigslist battle heads to court

By Alexandra Sage
SAN FRANCISCO - It’s a story fraught with accusations of broken promises, backroom deals and deception, leaving an established Internet giant fighting to preserve its valuable stake in a well-loved classified advertising website.

Twitter Co-Founder Squares Up With Mobile Payment System

By Clint BoultonSquare, founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey and Tristan O-Tierney, came out of stealth mode Dec. 1 with an appropriately boxy magnetic reader gizmo that plugs into an iPhone headphone jack. Users make a purchase by swiping the credit or debit card through the reader, which would be plugged into an [...]

Intel sees rush to Netbook app store

by Brooke Crothers
As Intel and PC makers prepare to launch an app store for Netbooks in 2010, the emphasis is on speed.
“We have a lot of developers right now jumping all over this and writing apps and getting them ready,” Scott Apeland, director of Intel’s Developer Network, told CNET Wednesday. “Today, you can actually [...]

Google Makes it Easier for News Sites to Opt-Out

By David Coursey
Wed, December 02, 2009 — PC World — In what will be seen as a concession to media baron Rupert Murdoch, Google has made it easier for news sites–such as those Murdoch controls–to opt-out of Google News. Where they used to have to fill out an online form to opt-out [...]