Palm's Colligan Said to Reject Steve Jobs Proposal to Stop Employee Hiring
Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Former Palm Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Colligan rejected a proposal from Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs to refrain from hiring each other's employees two years ago, calling it wron...
Location, Location, Location
Twitter platform developers have been doing innovative work with location for some time despite having access to only a rudimentary level of API support. Most of the location-based projects we see ar...
The Mercenaries in Facebook's Midst
A $100 million share buyback at the social networking site has been oversubscribed as employees stampede to cash out — In 2007, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was pressed about when his compa...
Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages
Many people have asked us to make Facebook and Twitter work better together for those times when they want to share their content as widely as possible. We agree. Over the next few days, we will be ...
10 Things You Need to Know About the PS3 Slim
Sony's slimmed-down PS3 is a cute little ugly duckling, and not without its concessions. From fewer USB ports to an over-priced vertical stand, and its removed “Install Other OS” feature, here's what...
Internet Archive to Form Coalition to Challenge Google Books Settlement
Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Yahoo Inc., and a number of other library associations are joining a coalition being created by the Internet Archive to challenge Google Inc.'s settlement with author...
Besieged by attacks, AT&T dumps celebrity hacker
The perils of being Kevin Mitnick — Over the years, Kevin Mitnick has gotten used to the attacks on his website and cell phone account that routinely result from being a convicted hacker turned secu...
Google Labs Launches Listen Podcast App
Google Labs just launched Listen - an “audio magazine” that allows Android users to subscribe to programs and search terms to queue up their podcasts for easy listening. While Listen only offers Engl...
Stress tests rain on Amazon's cloud
Availability an issue for Amazon EC2, Google AppLogic and Microsoft Azure. — Stress tests conducted by Sydney-based researchers have revealed that the infrastructure-on-demand services offered by Am...
Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach
After having his AT&T wireless account breached and his personal information posted on the Web, famed hacker Kevin Mitnick thought the least the cellular service provider could do was compensate him f...
Torrented Pirate Bay Copy Comes To Life
Four days ago TorrentFreak broke the news that a copy of The Pirate Bay's entire site was being shared, somewhat appropriately, on The Pirate Bay. — The 21.3 Gigabyte torrent was created by anonymou...
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg
Forbes Magazine dated September 07, 2009 — She has overhauled Facebook and helped make it the most popular social network in cyberspace. Can she and her 25-year-old boss turn it into the Web's most...
Posterous Finally Has An iPhone App, Could Have Been Way Better
We're big fans (and users) of übersimple microblogging service Posterous here at TechCrunch, and I've been eagerly awaiting the day that the young upstart would finally come out with an iPhone app.
Hacking Suspect's Lawyer Criticizes Federal Prosecutors
Albert Gonzalez, a suspect in several hacking cases, was close to reaching a comprehensive plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Massachusetts and New York when federal prosecutors in New Jersey ...
Next Up at YouTube: Figuring Out What You Want to Watch Next
More than 100 million U.S. users watch an average of 68 videos each on YouTube every month, according to comScore. How can YouTube get them to watch just a few more? — Google — Hunter Walk, a You...
Open-source textbook co. Flat World goes back to school with 40,000 new customers
Flat World Knowledge, publisher of free, open-source online college textbooks, says it has expanded its customer-base exponentially in the last year from 1,000 students at 30 universities to 40,000 …
Scrap the CRTC, petition urges
An online petition to dissolve the CRTC has attracted hundreds of signatures in the wake of the regulator's ruling against independent internet providers last week. — The petition, at dissolvethecrt...
The watchphone: Gadget or gimmick?
Whenever some shiny new plaything arrives on the scene, it's worth asking one question: is it a gadget or a gimmick? — And when a nice man from Orange turned up in my office earlier this week, I qui...
Yes, Sony, You Are Competing With the iPhone
Sony continues to insist that it's not competing with the iPhone on gaming, even though the opposite is increasingly becoming true. — Tucked into Sony's impressively newsworthy GamesCom press confer...
‘Harry Potter’ video technology comes to US magazines
The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September. — The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment W...
The Idealism of Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is crap. Especially since the Internet faces real, tangible threats. — For the past couple years, everyone's been talking about net neutrality and how important it is. Is it really ...
Beatles: “Discussions regarding digital distribution will continue”
The Beatles may be the most successful band in history and may have captured and inspired the minds of a generation, but when it comes to the online music world, they remain a few steps away from “Rev...
Death by Discovery: The Interminable Churn of Music Startups
The more I think about it, the more I see the music start-ups space as a dog that won't ever bark..err...sing. The MySpace-iLike deal—and the price that iLike got—is a perfect example of what will co...