Remember when PE firms backed out of signed deals in droves? They looked like jerks at the time, but in retrospect, they were probably smart to avoid the overpriced, highly leveraged deals they had aggressively pursued for the past three years. Taking into account the Dow’s record breaking drops l...

a burglary that did not need to happen... On Wednesday morning, a Westside business learned the hard way why Police response does not work. At about 3:45am, crooks smashed a pane of glass and forced open a set of expandable bars to steal some movies, video games and gaming consoles. The alarm did no...

Section: Video, Video Providers, Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile, Computers, Netbooks, Web, Features, Originals, Columns, Who's On Crack Everything went haywire this week.  From Twitter and GMail going down to some crazy concepts floating around the tubes to more economic woes.&...

The Palm OS is dead...long live the Palm webOS. I come not to bury the Palm OS...but, to praise it. This plucky, sturdy infinitely adaptable and flexible string of code ran longer and did more then any other OS in history. It provided processing for the first practical PDAs, and was the solid soul o...

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Mobile When it comes to touchscreen phones, the one thing nobody can agree on is the onscreen keyboard.  Some people don’t mind using it at all, while others refuse to buy an iPhone because it lacks a physical keyboard.  With t...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , which seems totally incapable of understanding that the Internet has completely and irretrievably remade their business, has ended their campaign of suing impoverished college students for downloading mp3s. Since 2003 the RIAA has sued approxima...

Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Email / IM, Smartphones, Mobile, Features, Originals Our sister site’s Jake Gaeke has been taking some rough shots over at Appletell for his post: Apple can do whatever the hell they want.  In his post, Jake laid out some thoughtful...

Section: Video, DVD/DVR/Blu-ray, HDTV, Video Providers, Gadgets / Other, Household, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, Peripherals, Storage, Web, Downloads Do you VUDU?  Apparently it’s becoming more and more popular.  And with their announcement yesterday that they are the first on-demand se...

The Internet has made it easy to find all sorts of companies online. Most businesses have a Web site these days, which makes it easier to discover them. Tracking down businesses all over the world may be one thing, but sometimes it can be difficult to find service providers in your own area, which i...

Google heeft zich verontschuldigd voor het feit dat Gmail dinsdag enige tijd onbereikbaar was, en zegt dat een Europees datacentrum een routinematige onderhoudsklus niet kon klaren door interferentie van nieuwe programmacode....