According to an unconfirmed rumor, Apple may be expanding iPhone 3G distribution to Best Buy and Radio Shack locations in the US.

Though the information is considered "rumor status," such partnerships would make sense. Best Buy already carries a selection of Apple hardware and software in its stores, and Radio Shack sells iPods and related accessories. Both…

MobiComp is a mobile application company that offers backup and restore features, a social networking tool, and a news ticker for mobile phones. Microsoft hopes to integrate the company’s offerings into Windows Mobile and Windows Live services. Eight-year-old MobiComp offers three main mobile products

If Microsoft wants sales to grow by 50 percent, the company needs to work hard to integrate these offerings into Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to arrive in either the first or second quarter of 2009. Version 6.1, released in early April, was…

Call it a modern-day girl’s night out. Dana Shafman throws “Taser parties” to try to sell the weapons to women — civilian women. The stun-gun-type weapons have proven controversial, even in the hands of law enforcement officers, but Shafman, who heads ShieldHer.net, says it’s time they were sold to everyone.

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CreateDebate now offers fully customizable RSS & XML debate feeds. Now you can integrate a personalized debate feed into your blog, your website or your Facebook/MySpace profile. If you are a developer interested in building a CreateDebate widget or application, we would love to hear from you!

If you operate your own site, you may want to take advantage of our XML API, which offers more information and greater flexibility. The API documentation explains the parameters and values that can be used to query our servers. It also explains…

Daimler has announced that it is jumping on the growing electric car bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a Mercedes-Benz and Smart EV in 2010.

No decision has been made regarding the price for the EV models. According to Zetsche, “That depends on whether we sell the batteries with the car or lease them. The willingness (on the part of consumers) to pay more is…

Researchers have developed a robot that can create 3D replicas of objects and even replicate itself.Scientists from the University of Bath in England unveiled an open-source machine that acts like a three-dimensional printer. Instead of printing out documents or pictures on paper, this printer uses blueprints to produce 3-D plastic objects.

Smith explained that unlike a regular printer that uses ink, RepRap heats up plastic and then squeezes it out into a line. The lines are built up into usable forms as they solidify. So far, the robot has made everyday plastic objects, like door…

…AT&T is willing to pay higher than the typical smartphone subsidy of $200 because of its “faith in the iPhone’s ability to attract new subs and increase ARPU [average revenue per user].” ….. AT&T is paying Apple an additional $100 for each subscriber it signs up in the Apple Store.

Reiner says AT&T is willing to pay higher than the typical smartphone subsidy of $200 because of its "faith in the iPhone's ability to attract new subs and increase ARPU [average revenue per user]." He also says…

Though many states and localities are waking up to their water shortages and taking steps to plan for peak water?, people generally continue to waste water and to ignore the energy-water link.

If you think about it, it’s impossible to separate our energy use from our water use. If we can start thinking holistically about the systems we use in our daily lives — and get our governments to create policies that promote…

What might be the beginning of Compiz’ very own dock is a new feature demonstration plugin for Compiz that allows for gorgeous window docking. But there’s more activity on the Compiz front, such as a physics engine for Compiz, an “elements” plugin that adds snow, firefly, stars, autumn and bubbles, a sphere-deformation for Atlantis, and more…

I am looking for a physic engine to implement, I don’t like akamaru for the lack of documentation, but chipmunk seems to be good. I’ll have a look to see if I can make rectangles stay horizontal, so don’t worry if you…

You probably heard that the iPhone was dropped to $199. What you probably didn't hear is that you pay an extra $240 over two years in “increased” data plan costs. So what do you end up paying? $439 for the low end model. That doesn't sound like a price drop to me.

It also raises a question about the future of unlocking the iPhone to use on other networks. In the past, unlocking has not hurt Apple, since they still reaped the full price of the iPhone's sale. And since unlocked iPhones have typically been…

iPhone Alley will be streaming this year’s WWDC2008 Keynote Address presented by Steve Jobs. Tune in shortly before 10AM PST and watch the keynote LIVE!

As we have no idea what to expect until we actually enter the keynote hall, we may encounter technical problems that inhibit the stream's quality. In the event that the stream does get bad or simply goes down, you can go to Mac Rumors Live…

User Review Of The Day
This has to be the funniest user-review of Ubuntu ever submitted?anywhere. Thanks to [H] reader extraordinaire ganon? for the screencap:

This has to be the funniest user-review of Ubuntu ever submitted?anywhere. Thanks to [H] reader extraordinaire ?ganon' for the screencap:

A recent report from ABI Research highlights the rise of mobile Linux, estimating that 23 percent of the worlds smartphones will have a Linux operating system by 2013.

So why are Access and Palm developing their own versions of Linux rather than taking Limo or Android and flying with THEM, are they making their own versions sufficiently unique that they WON’T really be “Linux”…