An Apple representative in China would not say how many products are available on the site. But the store was featuring such items as an
iPod shuffle for 308 yuan ($45) and an iMac for 14,000 yuan, according to Reuters.
Apple has launched an online store in China to sell used products, including iPod shuffles.
The new [...]

SAN DIEGO–Tikitag, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, demonstrated a new product at DemoFall that enables people to use RFID wireless technology to link any type of offline device or paper with information online.

For instance, someone can put all their social network and identity information onto a tikitag and affix that to their business card that can [...]

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EA drops $2 billion bid to acquire Take-Two
Best Buy nabs Napster for $121 million
Berners-Lee project aims to ensure ‘One Web’

There’s a developing whodunit, but this much is known: Russian hackers suspected of ties to organized [...]

On the one hand, I don’t want to be a parody of Dilbert, carrying a bag full of gadgets that have to be charged, synchronized, and corralled. On the other hand, I’m inclined to agree with this statement from a column by travel writer Joe Brancatelli:
One such specialization is clearly pocketability. There are many functional [...]

Office Labs’ only other offering to date is the Community Clips add-on designed to facilitate finding and sharing how-to videos relating to Office 2007. The site describes three other projects: one that creates a wiki on a SharePoint server, one that is intended to improve the Tablet PC pen interface, and one designed to serve [...]

Larry offers his take on the battles among Comcast, Verizon and AT&T to win over each others’ customers. With three major players, they can compete and divide up the spoils amongst themselves…like the oil companies.
On this week’s EIC Squared podcast ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I discuss Dell’s ambitions to get into the crowded music player [...]

MySpace, acquired by News Corp. in 2005, got its start as a hub for all things independent music before it turned into the world’s largest social-networking site–only to be usurped by Facebook last year. Since midway though 2008, we’ve seen a lot of signs that MySpace has changed its strategy to reflect a return to [...]

Biocatalysts are used in cellulosic ethanol production to break down the agricultural by-products into sugars so that they can then be fermented and distilled into biofuel.

Royal Dutch Shell and Codexis have expanded their partnership to see if biofuels made from non-food sources can be commercially viable.
Shell is certainly just one super-player with its eye on [...]