Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on November 6th, the same day as Motorola’s DROID. That means Android 1.5 “Cupcake,” Sense UI, [...]

BOO! It’s Halloween and it’s also a Saturday, so let’s not hear any pathetic excuses for not carving pumpkins. While we’re no experts, we’ve got a few tips for making your jack-o’-lanterns better looking and more unique:

Always mark where you’re carving first instead of freestyling, especially for the lid. Once the knife’s in there’s nothing [...]

Surface? What Surface? Ideum, which popped out a rather gigantic MT2 multitouch table earlier this year, is now introducing another model that makes that fellow look like child’s play. The 100-inch MT-50 is an outright beast, boasting 86 viewable inches, a 16 x 5 aspect ratio and a stunning 2,304 x 800 resolution. It was [...]

On Thursday, Facebook won a victory for social-networking users everywhere. The U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, aka the spam king.

Facebook said Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw broke the law by sending unwanted messages and wall posts to people on Facebook, violating the Computer [...]

With the Internet video-on-TV space heating up, Apple on Thursday introduced its new Apple TV 3.0 software. The update features a revamped main menu that takes better advantage of widescreen TVs and offers iTunes Extras, iTunes LP, Genius Mixes, and Internet radio.

iTunes Extras offer extra content to movie fans, such as interviews, interactive galleries, [...]

Apple and Palm continue to play a cat-and-mouse game, and this time it was Apple’s turn to do the chasing. Apple on Thursday released an iTunes software update that once again blocks the Palm Pre smartphone from syncing DRM-free music, photos and videos from the iTunes Store.

Apple’s iTunes 9.0.2 update is part of Apple’s [...]

We’re hearing that the PC version of this here software still beats out the Mac counterpart, but equality is slowly but surely becoming a reality. The main new feature over on the OS X side, however, is a good one: the ability to stream iPhone and iTunes media directly to your TV via your FiOS [...]

Woe betide the Black Friday bargain hunter; where once there were stellar deals on giant televisions and hard disk drives now there are slight discounts on underwear and handbags. Sears’ ad for this year has been unearthed and, while it naturally has an eclectic selection of goodies on sale ranging from power tools to KitchenAid [...]

Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker, hasn’t even registered as a blip on most Americans’ radars for years now. Not since Neo’s 8110i fell out of a FedEx envelope has the public as a whole coveted anything the company had to offer, but that could be changing very soon. According to VentureBeat, Nokia has signed [...]

In its latest competitive move against Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks unveiled new software, silicon, systems and partnerships that aim to propel a “new network” for enterprise and service-provider customers. Juniper made a slew of announcements Thursday at a launch event at the New York Stock Exchange on the Internet’s 40th birthday.

Juniper’s just-announced capabilities combine technology [...]