Verizon to launch HTC Imagio October 6th, Android-powered HTC Predator to follow
It looks as though T-Mobile subscribers will have two big reasons reasons to rejoice come November 11th, but they're not the only ones with cause for celebration in the near future.
The DoubleClick Ad Exchange: growing the display advertising pie for everyone
Hundreds of thousands of advertisers use search advertising — short, highly relevant text ads alongside search results on Google and other search engines — to grow their businesses.
Our complete letter to the FCC regarding Google Voice for iPhone
Back in July, the FCC sent letters to Apple, AT&T, and Google asking about the rejection of the Google Voice for iPhone app. — When we submitted our letter on August 21, we asked the FCC to redact c...
Six Snow Leopard tips
In this week's video, I delve into six Leopard tips that you may (some have been covered here in blog entries) or may not be familiar with. Why six? Consider it a tribute to the “.6” in Snow Leopard...
DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement
IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search compan...
U.S. as Traffic Cop in ‘Net Neutrality’ Fight
FCC Proposal on Bandwith a Boon for Consumers and Silicon Valley, Blow to Telecoms — The U.S. government plans to propose broad new rules Monday that would force Internet providers to treat all Web ...
The next generation bends over
Mint's sale to Intuit really pissed me off. — Why should I care? Because I think it's indicative of a VC-induced cancer that's infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don't k...
HTC Leo - review, photos, screenshots
ai.rs blog exclusive — We bring you the exclusive photos, screenshots and video preview of new HTC flagship device Leo. As you can see, we were right a month ago when we published first accurate re...
New Lawsuit Brings Clarity To Skype's IP Problem (Prognosis: Screwed)
When a group of investors pooled their resources a few weeks ago to put a bid in to buy Skype from eBay, I thought there was a good chance that Skype's legal woes were behind them. Apparently, I was ...
Mint.com Founder Happy To Sell To Intuit, VC Conspiracy Wrong
Why did 28-year-old Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer sell his company to Intuit for $170 million after two years in business? Why didn't he wait until the company's valuation was much bigger? — Becaus...
Cougar sighting at Microsoft?
Microsoft is already trying to fend off Snow Leopards. Now, it has cougars to deal with too. For the second day in a row, there's been an unconfirmed cougar sighting on Microsoft's Redmond campus ne...
Palm Abandons Windows Mobile
Jon Rubinstein just made it official during their financial results conference call, folks: Palm is only going to develop webOS devices form now on. Say goodbye to Palm-branded Windows Mobile Devices...
The Plot Thickens: Skype Founders And Joost Sue Former Chairman And CEO Mike Volpi
The Skype-eBay plot thickens. Joost and Joltid, both companies owned by Skype's founders, have filed a lawsuit against former Joost chairman and CEO, Mike Volpi. The suit also names Index Ventures, ...
Your Facebook account is worth $100
Yesterday I came across (thanks Sean-Paul!) the following site, which really attracted my attention: — As you can see, it is an online service which promises to hack any Facebook account just for 10...
AT&T to launch the Tilt 2 on October 6th; coincidence?
Oh no, we're not done just yet ladies and gents. We already know October 6th is going to be a glorious day and now it looks like AT&T subscribers will be able to join in on the fun. Have you been fe...
Pirate Bay Buyer Faces Bankruptcy
The request for bankruptcy has been filed because of an outstanding debt of 1.3 million Swedish kronor ($188,000) GGF owes to Advate Systems, a company owned by Sellstrom. — The debt should have bee...
Mashing-Up Google and Bing
In the great debate over whether Google or Bing produces better search results, a new site called Bingle lets Web users have it both ways. … Entering a query on Bingle generates side-by-side search re...
Whoops! Students “Going Google” Get to Read Each Other's Emails
A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages and some were even able to see another student's entire inbox. The issue occurred at a small handf...
AT&T's Femtocell Coming Soon
AT&T (NYSE: T - News), the second largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscriber base, is set to unveil nation's first 3G femtocell product. The device (called “3G Microcell) is expected to reach select...
Mint Is Yodlee's YouTube
A lot of people at Adobe weren't all that happy when YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006. After all, YouTube was just a pretty front end to the core Flash web video technology cr...
FCC's Net Neutrality Push to Boldly Go Where Congress Has Failed Thrice Before
Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a set of rules to define network neutrality in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, according to th...
Burglar leaves his Facebook page on victim's computer
MARTINSBURG - The popular online social networking site Facebook helped lead to an alleged burglar's arrest after he stopped check his account on the victim's computer, but forgot to log out before le...
I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn't for lunch anymore
In just the last month I've really started using Twitter's favorite feature. I've used it 3,571 times so far in just the past month. What is it? Well, I read thousands of tweets every day and I pic...
The Perfect App To Start Your Weekend Off With A Drink - Or Several Drinks. Fast.
I love the fact that Power Music Hour, a new app for the iPhone, never once mentions drinking in its App Store page description. But anyone who has been to college in the past decade will know exactl...
Closing In On Launch, Twitter Tweaks Its Retweet API And Shares A Picture
In the Twitter API Announcement Google Group today, developer Marcel Molina posted a couple interesting updates about the upcoming Retweet API. — First, the launch of the new API is “close at hand.”
The Pirate Bay plugs defense fund for former ISP
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is urging its users to support Open Internet, a newly formed defense fund that is collecting money for its former ISP Black Internet. — File-sharing site The Pirate ...
Hulu Already Working On The Technical Requirements For Subscription Service
On Tuesday, News Corps. chairman Rupert Murdoch and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference, indicated that one day, Hulu may indeed have a subscription based service.
Helping People Upgrade Flash
As mentioned by Johnathan, with last week's 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 releases, Mozilla started warning users if their version of Flash is out of date. Coupling the following two facts tells us that such an e...
Facebook: Twitter is “in the rear-view mirror”
Twitter may still be the media darling of the day, getting all kinds of attention amid its huge user growth earlier this year. But Facebook, once considered Twitter's most fierce competitor because i...
PC demand takes off ahead of Windows 7
IDG News Service - People are snapping up new desktop and laptop PCs long before the launch of Windows 7, a sign of strong demand in the market, analysts say. — Demand for PCs improved in July and A...
Mint's iPhone App: Now With Budgets, Push Notifications, and an Extra Layer of Security
Mint, the popular personal finance site that was just acquired by Intuit, just released a major update to its iPhone application (iTunes link). While Mint's iPhone app was always quite good …
Dorsey Talks About His New Venture, and Why Twitter Wasn't Called ‘Twitch’
Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, said Friday that his next venture would be based on themes similar to the microblogging service's and may focus on health care and financial services.
Customers Unhappy With Early Clearwire Launches - Poor customer support, low speeds, and high latency...
Google ready to unleash spiders and expose your Google Docs
Google just announced in an email to Google App admins that starting “in a few weeks” Google Docs published and shared to users outside of one's domain and linked to from a public website will be craw...
At Amazon, Designs of Its Own
Amazon.com Inc. is quietly expanding its private-label business in a bid to diversify away from its online bookstore roots and become more like a general retailer. — The latest sign: The Seattle-bas...
Sprint President Takes a Shot (Or Two) at AT&T 3G
4G World Conference, Chicago - A Sprint exec speaking here today used AT&T as the poster child for 3G wireless networks that can't keep up with the increasing data demands of smartphone users. — Spr...
The DoubleClick Ad Exchange: growing the display advertising pie for everyone
Hundreds of thousands of advertisers use search advertising — short, highly relevant text ads alongside search results on Google and other search engines — to grow their businesses.
Our complete letter to the FCC regarding Google Voice for iPhone
Back in July, the FCC sent letters to Apple, AT&T, and Google asking about the rejection of the Google Voice for iPhone app. — When we submitted our letter on August 21, we asked the FCC to redact c...
Valuing Web Media: For the Rest of Us, It's Like Fantasy Football
Deal Journal just can't get enough of this whole Twitter valuation story. Especially since it came on the same day Facebook said it has become profitable. — So Deal Journal spoke to Adam Penenberg ...