Apple's App Store Downloads Top Two Billion
More Than 85,000 Apps Now Available for iPhone & iPod touch — Apple® today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications s...
Apple Rehires a Developer of Its Newton Tablet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ eschipul/ | Michael Tchao — If you were gearing up to launch a tablet computer — and these days, who isn't? — who would you hire to market it? One obvious candidate w...
With Google Places, Concerns Rise That Google Just Wants To Link To Its Own Content
One of the original goals of Google has always been to help people find the information they are looking for and get out of the way as fast as possible. It was a point of pride, and in fact a design ...
Take That, Twitter: Google Hot Trends Integrated Into Google Search
Twitter and real time search continues to attract buzz, and Google's reacting by positioning its “Hot Trends” information in a place where more people will see it, within Google's regular search resul...
Xerox to Acquire Affiliated Computer Services
NORWALK, Conn. & DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX - News) and Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS - News) today announced a definitive agreement for Xerox to acquire ACS i...
Google, bank resolve issue over misfired e-mail
A bank that accidentally sent sensitive customer information to a Gmail address and persuaded a judge to order Google to deactivate the account has resolved the issue with Google and the companies hav...
Twitter Unearths A Secret: Journalists Have Opinions
“All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens. Post journalists must recognize that any content associated with them in an online social network is, ...
Microsoft confirms free security software ships Tuesday
Slates 4.7MB Security Essentials for download in the morning, Pacific time — Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that it will launch its free security software suite, which has been in develop...
Google Wave Faces Tougher Test in Rollout to 100K Users
Table of Contents: — Google's Wave collaboration platform will soon face its first true test when the company rolls it out to 100,000 consumer and business users. Perhaps the biggest mystery is wha...
CNN Launching Pay iPhone App; Live Streaming For $2 Plus Ads
While Dow Jones follows through with plans to convert some of its iPhone and BlackBerry free app users to paid subscribers, CNN is jumping right into the premium market—although in a small way.
O2 losing iPhone 3GS exclusivity: on Orange UK later in 2009
UK would-be iPhone users desperate to avoid O2's network can take heart in the fact that rival network Orange have just announced they will be offering the iPhone 3GS later this year. The Orange iPho...
Foreign Airlines Ahead of U.S. on Cellphone Use
Cellphone use on airplanes, it would seem, is on extended hold in the United States. — The national union representing flight attendants wants Congress to ban in-flight phone calls, and survey after...
The Motorola Sholes A855 passes the FCC, next stop Verizon as the Tao?
Published on: Yesterday by PhoneArena Team — According to the FCC site, the Motorola Sholes A855 has passed testing. When going through the available files, we see that the Sholes A855 will not onl...
My ongoing Kafka-esque nightmare of dealing with Palm and their App Catalog submission process.
A few days after the Palm Pre was released, I wrote a couple of programs for it: a restaurant Tip Calculator, and a port of Dali Clock. These were, as far as I'm aware, the 2nd …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer On “Moving The Needle”
Last week we showed the highlights and 10+ minutes of video footage of an exclusive hour-long TechCrunch interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. — Now for the rest of that interview. The video ...
Still doubt Apple's desire for portable gaming clout? Here's proof...
How Google Just Hurt Itself A Whole Lot
The Story — While that video might be taking things a little far, it does reflect a sentiment which a lot of people have right now. — Once upon a time (read: earlier this week), there was a little...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
Twitter just closed a massive funding round that reportedly has given it a billion-dollar valuation. Meanwhile, co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey is making investments of his own: he's one of the u...
Jobvite Lets You Search for Employees Through Social Networks
More companies are turning to social networks to recruit and vet potential employees, and Jobvite is offering a service to take advantage of this on Facebook and other sites including LinkedIn and Twi...
Online electronics store NewEgg files for $175M IPO
NewEgg, a consumer-facing online retailer that sells computer components and other electronics, including software, digital cameras, cell phones and laptops, has filed to go public, expecting to raise...