When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. — While rumors of Facebook's intere...
Samsung demos amazing folding phone
A video has appeared online of what's claimed to be an OLED display able to fold itself in half to become a mobile phone. — Initially, the phone - which it's thought was recently seen on a Samsung s...
IBM launches cloud computing services
IBM on Monday unveiled a series of cloud computing services including business consulting to determine return on investment, design and implementation and security architecture. — Big Blue noted tha...
2nd Generation iPod Touch Faster than iPhone
While we had generally considered the iPhone and iPod Touch to be one cohesive platform, as games have started to push the boundaries of these devices, it has become apparent that there are difference...
Blip.tv Brings Video Embeds to the iPhone
Viewing video on the iPhone is a source of consternation for users, as Adobe's flash player is not yet available (and probably never will be) and YouTube remains the only video provider compatible wit...
Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat. — Lt. Col. Gary Stephens...
RPX: Can it defend against patent trolls?
A startup on Tuesday will launch in an attempt to fix the current patent mess and defend against so-called patent trolls. — The startup-RPX Corp.-is a so-called defensive patent aggregator. RPX-sho...
Final judgment: SCO owes Novell millions (plus interest)
Federal district judge Dale A. Kimball has handed down the final judgment in the SCO case. The decision dismisses SCO's latest claims, grants declaratory relief to Novell, and sustains the court's pr...
Facebook awarded $873 million in suit against spammer
Spam marketing messages on Facebook have been getting worse over the last year as the site has grown — but maybe spamming is about to stop. On Friday, the company won a court battle against spam perp...
Zuberance Raises $4 Million
Zuberance, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of on-demand customer sales force software, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Emergence Capital Partners. — PRESS RELEASE — Zuberance, th...
Triple “Guild” play for Microsoft
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Microsoft will be filled to the gills with “The Guild.” — The software giant has an exclusive lock on the long-awaited second season of the Internet cult hit, whic...
Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected
Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that a...
For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts
It's a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. — The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and jou...
Evernote perks up its Windows Mobile app
On Monday, Evernote, a good triple-platform note-taking service for Windows, Mac, the Web, and (multiple) mobile platforms (see all), updated its application for Windows Mobile phones (download). — ...
MPAA Effectively Shuts Down Largest Fan Edit Movie Site
One of the great things about Matt Mason's The Pirate's Dilemma books is the never-ending examples of how allowing people to take content and remix it leads to greater overall creativity and almost al...
MOTO QA30 leaked: Motorola's first QWERTY slider
Why look what we have here: MOTO QA30, the very first Motorola slider that features a full QWERTY keyboard. — The QA30 has a pretty weird form factor, somehow resembling AT&T's Samsung Propel. — U...
Phishers Expand Number of Top Level Domains Abused, Policy Changes Found Effective in Prevention
The new Global Phishing Survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) this month reveals that phishing gangs are concentrating their efforts within specific top level domains (TLDs) …
New PS3 Holiday Bundle Includes Ratchet, Bond
Courtesy of a friendly neighbourhood Best Buy employee, here's a look at a new PlayStation 3 holiday hardware bundle, just in time for Black Friday. It's an 80GB console that comes packed with a copy...
Firefox China Edition: Everything A Local Browser Should Be
Did you know that the way you surf the internet may be influenced by your culture? In the U.S. and Europe, web surfers are leaning forward, one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard, typing...