iPhone prototype goes missing; Chinese worker investigated, commits suicide
Last Thursday, 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. It's a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me...
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Best Non-Holiday Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.34 ...
Nokia 6760 Slide unveiled
GLOBAL - Finger tappers everywhere will soon have new buttons to press as the Nokia 6760 slide messaging device is coming to Europe. The Nokia 6760 slide shares many (but not all) traits with its US ...
When will you get Windows 7 RTM?
When will I get Windows 7 RTM? — I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM. Last Mon...
Barnes & Noble to Amazon: Mine is Bigger Than Yours
Six years after shuttering its first e-book effort, Barnes & Noble (BKS) has embarked on another one. On Monday afternoon, the bookseller announced what it describes as “the world's largest eBookstor...
Ning Raises $15 Million More at a-Yes, Really-$750 Million Valuation
In a quiet fundraising effort, Ning has raised $15 million more, a round that is valuing the social networking start-up at an eye-popping $750 million valuation. — In its last fundraising $60 millio...
Conde Nast Says Goodbye to Men.Style.com, Hello to GQ.com, Details.com
Publisher Decides Magazine Brand Is Better Web Brand, Too — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast will shut down one of its web-only brands, Men.Style.com, when it gives two of its titles, GQ and Detail...
Probably Not The Palm Pre Chart Roger McNamee Wants To See
“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” Elevation Partners (which owns a huge portion of Palm) co-founder Roger McNamee told Bl...
Adobe Unveils New Open Source Initiatives Targeted Towards Media Companies
Adobe has rolled out two new open source initiatives aimed specifically towards developers for media companies and publishers. Adobe's Open Source Media Framework lets developers build more robust …
How Much Is That Apple Tablet Going To Cost? Not $399 Or $499.
There are always good bits of data you can pry from Apple's cold fingers during the Q&A sessions of its quarterly earnings conference calls. Today was no different. — As usual, a question came up a...
UAE Blackberry update was spyware
Middle East business reporter, BBC News, Dubai — An update for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates could allow unauthorised access to private information and e-mails. — The update was pro...
Artists Find Backers as Labels Wane
There was a time when most aspiring musicians had the same dream: to sign a deal with a major record label. — Now, with the structure of the music business shifting radically, some industry iconocla...
Khosla Bucks VC Fundraising Drought
He's set to close $1 billion in new funds—though some new deals may pass through a “conflicts committee.” — BURLINGAME, Calif. — It's a tough time to raise a venture-capital fund. But not if you're...
The tipping point: iPhone users turn against AT&T
The iPhone crowd has turned into an anti-AT&T mob. Spend 30 seconds on Twitter or perform even the most basic search for iPhone and AT&T information and you're sure to run into some serious rancor fr...
Wonga: How the Net Should Kill the Finance Industry
What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them. It happened with softwar...
Digg: New URL-shortening system is here to stay
After two days of silence, Digg has gone on the record to officially acknowledge the change in how its shortened links are redirected, as well as clear up how links will be handled in the future. — ...
Hotseat: The Creator of Facebook's Most Annoying App Explains Himself
By now, you probably know your Facebook friends' five favorite albums, TV stars, and sodas. Blame Tim O'Shaughnessy, creator of LivingSocial, the site's most-used and most-annoying application ever. ...
Microsoft closing YouTube rival
Last month, Microsoft told CNET News it planned to significantly scale back Soapbox. Now it turns out Soapbox will be scaled all the way down to nothing. — “We have decided to shut down the Soapbox...
Digitimes Insight: Intel Pine Trail launch to delay
Intel showcased its next-generation netbook CPU, the Atom N450, at Computex Taipei 2009, with plans to launch it later this year. But since then nothing much has been heard from major PC vendors abou...
From Closed To Open: iPhone App Developer Skepticism Highlights Platform Trajectory
I've been getting into some interesting discussions with people lately concerning open vs. closed platforms — especially in light of the supposed “success” of Apple's iPhone app store, which is a very...
Verizon's HTC XV6975 turns out to be the Whitestone: 5 megapixels, no keyboard
Remember way back in March when HTC's 2009 lineup first started to come apart at the seams? You might recall that there was a “Whitestone” in there, rumored to be packing a wide VGA display, 5 megapi...
Sharing on Facebook Now More Popular than Sharing by Email
How do you know which social sites are most popular? Aside from looking at the raw traffic numbers, a good indicator is data about which sites are seeing the most content shared on them. — Among th...
The Gap Widens in Online Population
Asia's share of the world's online population will swell to 43% in four years, while North America will represent just 13% of Internet users, according to a new report by Forrester Research. — Assoc...
Cloud Computing and the Morning After
I just read a very interesting op-ed about the opportunities and hazards of cloud computing and it resonated with me on several levels. … In recent weeks we have seen the downside of relying on third ...
New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct
A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf. ...
A Race to Provide Wi-Fi (but Not the Voice Part)
THOUGH it is not yet clear how extensive the market is for in-flight Wi-Fi service, the competition to provide it is heating up. Row44, a California company whose in-flight Wi-Fi technology uses sate...
Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web
Government uses both blunt and surgical tools to stifle dissidents, hacker says — One month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country's government has ini...