The Adventure Continues
In the past 24 hours, we've been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We're working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were ...
Apple's $1.2 billion tablet computer
Apple's next gadget? Image: Piper Jaffray — Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster took another crack at the Apple (AAPL) tablet computer he's been writing about for months, issuing a report to ...
Yahoo Chief: ‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’
The dust has settled - for the moment - on the Microsoft and Yahoo search and advertising deal. So, perhaps there's room for a bit of reflection. — Last week, Brad Stone and I interviewed Carol Bar...
YouTube Gets Smarter on the Small Screen
As more and more people are using the browser on their smartphones for checking email, visiting websites, and even accessing YouTube, we want to make sure that we provide the best possible YouTube exp...
Apple's next iMacs rumored with compelling new features
A couple of new features rumored to be in the cards for Apple's forthcoming iMac refresh will up the value proposition for prospective buyers in the market for an all-in-one desktop system, AppleInsid...
Exclusive: Motorola bringing a “webOS” to Android? Called Blur?
Where would we be without our trusty Motorola ninjas? We've just got the drop on some exciting information about Motorola's Android plans and how they hope plan to make a splash. Here's what we've b...
Man: Naughty Kitty Downloaded Kiddie Porn
Florida man arrested, says cat downloaded thousands of images. — TWITTER — You've heard the one about the dog eating the homework, now hear about the cat who downloaded the kiddie porn. — Keyboa...
Source: Apple And Google Agreed Not To Poach Workers
While Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board of directors, the two companies had an agreement not to hire away each other's workers, a former Google employee with knowledge of such matters has t...
Falling Valuations: Poison for Venture Capital
Here's more proof that Silicon Valley's financing ecosystem is under assault: the value of the start-ups they are investing in just keeps dropping. — In a quarterly study of venture financings publi...
Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed
Maria Bartiromo talks to the Google CEO about where the opportunities are in the future — The news on Aug. 3 that Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt was resigning from the board of Apple (AAPL) took man...
Welcome to Hotel Yahoo: Check in anytime you want...
But the scene in Sunnyvale, California took a really odd turn …
As Apple Starts Talking About App Rejections, Another Popular One Is Pulled
The timing, really couldn't be more perfect. Just as no less than Apple VP Phil Schiller has started making comments on the record about App Store rejections, Apple yanks another very popular one fro...
Windows XP SP3 runs browsers 13% faster than Windows 7 RTM
In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft ye...
Apple to Stream First Live Concert to the iPhone Tonight
Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn't want to overwhelm th...
Pic: The Microsoft Mall Invasion Begins
The Microsoft PR team tweeted out the first image to Twitpic of the Microsoft Retail Store opening in Scottsdale and Mission Viejo. The stores are slated to open sometime in the fall, with more locat...
Sunday Times site to be paid-for testbed
• Pay-to-view website to launch in November — • Move follows plunging profits at News Corp titles — Rupert Murdoch will use the Sunday Times as a testbed for a radical new strategy designed to tra...
Target Parts Ways With Amazon.com
The move will see the No. 2 U.S. discount retailer striking out on its own for its online platform. — Target (NYSE: TGT) will build and manage its own online platform for Target.com and aims to laun...
MyMiniLife Becomes One With Zynga
Really excited to let you know about coming to a close on our acquisition of MyMiniLife. Here's the bulk of the news, but we couldn't be happier. The MML team has been so awesome and we're happy to ...
Betting on the Real-Time Web
No one knows how the microblogging site and similar online social networks will make money, but investors see a new Web revolution — John Borthwick speaks softly, but he can't hide his excitement. ...
Report: Google Voice to be retooled as Web app for iPhone
Even though Apple prevented it from listing Google Voice on the iPhone App Store, Google is planning on retooling the application as a Web-based app, according to The New York Times. — In David Pogu...
Confirmed: Spotify Now Valued At €170 million
We've done more digging on the Spotify cap table story from yesterday, and have confirmed with one source that the company did close on at least part of the new round of financing the Financial Times ...
Google's Last Dodgeball Employee Leaving To Join Foursquare
Google (GOOG) engineer Harry Heymann, who was the last employee running its Dodgeball mobile service, is leaving to join Dodgeball cofounder Dennis Crowley's new startup, Foursquare. — Today is Heym...
When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box
When Amazon paid $928 million for Zappos in July, it got a little something extra in the box: the Clothes.com domain. It turns out that Zappos bought the domain last year from Idealab for $4.9 millio...
Is Adobe the next (pre-2002) Microsoft?
If you are a criminal and you want to break into a network a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers, has its fair share of holes and isn't automatically up...
Verizon Diamond 2, HTC Mega and more Tachi
Well look what dropped in our mailbox. Some images and deets on the upcoming Verizon Diamond 2 (aka ‘Whitestone’ aka XV6975), the HTC Mega and a bit of an update to the Tachi image. — First up is t...
Garmin Nuvifone Due In Q4
Olathe, Kan. - After many delays, the Garmin GPS/smartphone, or Nuvifone, is on track to launch in the U.S. in the fourth quarter and will be accompanied by an advertising campaign, said Garmin. — O...
Where ‘Ramen Profitable’ Startups Host
Where do budget-conscious startups host their sites? The Y Combinator venture incubator, renowned for its “ramen profitable” approach to bootstrapping new enterprises, provides an interesting case st...
Astak's 5-Inch Pocket PRO eBook Reader Collaborates with Adobe Systems and Makes Its Debut
Astak Inc.'s new 5-inch Pocket PRO eBook reader collaborates with Adobe Digital Editions to provide a strong contender that will give Amazon's Kindle a run for its money.
Clueless Murdoch Move: Without Subscriber Names, Might Break With Kindle
When you go to a kiosk and buy that day's Wall Street Journal, you can be fairly certain that no one's going to request your name and address and send that information back to News Corp.
Microsoft backtracks on free Office Live domains
In a reversal, Microsoft says it will now charge all small businesses an annual domain registration fee, even those whom it had promised free Web site registrations for life. — Starting Oct. 1, all ...
Eee PCs rumored to ship with Moblin in October, Chrome OS on the horizon
How about a minor spy story to kick-start your weekend? According to our man Sascha at netbooknews.de, a “safe source” who shall remain nameless but who most certainly has ties to Stasi (or, at the v...
iPhone Undermining Microsoft in Enterprise?
Microsoft best get Windows Mobile 7 to market, and soon, because its delay may be causing the company to lose traction in the enterprise market. In a note to clients Thursday, UBS Securities analyst ...
New Entry in E-Books Is a Paper Tiger
Suppose there are two rival companies — let's call them A and B. Each wants to dominate the blossoming world of electronic books. — Company A (that's A as in “Amazon") began life selling physical bo...
Google Wave dev preview hands-on and impressions
After an impressive debut at Google I/O, the company's newest experiment and collaborative chat client has been making its way into the hands of developers in the lead-up to a torrent of new testers o...
This Is Quite Possibly The Spotify Cap Table
Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today. On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid rou...
Microsoft blunders with a confusing Windows 7 upgrade chart
Someone at Microsoft is secretly working for Apple. — That's the only possible explanation I can come up with for why they sent this “Official Windows 7 Upgrade chart” to Walt Mossberg of the Wall S...
New data in Google Earth show wider swath of destruction in Darfur
On the side of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum west wall is a quote etched into the rock from General Dwight D Eisenhower, who witnessed firsthand the conditions in the concentration camps in 1945,...
Does Google Want On2 for a Gaming Console?
Table of Contents: — Google's acquisition of On2 Technologies prompts punditry and blog posts from all over the Web. Some say buying the video compression specialist was a YouTube play. Others bel...
Chinese Microsoft Office rival launching on Web soon
IDG News Service - A Chinese company that offers a rival suite to Microsoft Office is following industry trends by turning its software into a Web-based service. — Evermore Software, based in the ea...
Pressure-sensitive keyboard lets you express fury, tenderness
Microsoft's hardware division has always pushed the envelope, and its latest prototype is no exception: this pressure-sensitive keyboard looks exactly like a normal 'board, but each key can register u...
Urbanspoon looks to take a bite out of OpenTable's reservations
Urbanspoon — the wildly popular online restaurant directory — is hosting a big bash tonight in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. No specific reason was given for the party in the invite, but the c...
In five years all browsers will block internet advertisements by default.
If you want to earn money through publishing content on the Internet you only have a few options. The first is to put up a paywall where people can only access the content after they have paid a subs...
Microsoft releases Open XML fix for Mac Office 2008 SP2
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released a minor update to Office 2008 for Mac that fixes a bug when opening Open XML files. The update, version 12.2.1, has just been posted to the Office for Mac d...