Mozilla posts Firefox 3.5.5
A maintenance update fixed five stability related bugs, three of which have been labeled as critical. No major security concerns have been reported since the Firefox 3.5.4 release. — Mozilla has re...
RadioShack To Sell iPhone
In a brief press release today, RadioShack announced that it will begin selling the iPhone starting with the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City markets later this month. RadioShack plans to sell the...
Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010
A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell...
Marissa Mayer: The Visionary
You do it. Your mom does it. Nearly every American does it: We google, about 7 billion times a month. And each time, itâs like a trip into Marissa Mayerâs mind. That sunny logo, blessedly spare in...
Will Microsoft become the General Motors of software?
It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. We've seen this movie before. — By Jay R. Galbraith, president and founder, Galbraith Management Consultants — Galbraith questions ...
Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan
NEW YORK—More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid. — About 65 ea...
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10%
eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm …
Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World
This week we met Motorola's Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it's proof that Android is finally goin...
Leaked PDF Reveals Google Voice International Plans
Google Voice is arguably the US equivalent to Spotify. Nothing but good things have been spoken about the service and international Google fanatics are waiting enviously for the day Google announces ...
Essay: Steve Jobs' Legacy Is Missing Clue to Apple Tablet
If you've only been half paying attention, you probably think that the Apple Tablet is a done deal. It isn't. Outside the impervious hallways of One Infinite Loop, the tablet remains a technological...
Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible. — A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms ...
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company's games don't include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here.
Woman to Broadcast Birth on Internet
Social Network for Mothers to Stream Live Video of Delivery — For many people, it's one of life's most intimate moments. But for a 23-year-old Minnesota teacher, the birth of her first child will b...
AT&T launching white BlackBerry 8900?
One of our connects just hit us up with this shot, and it would appear that RIM has a theme going on. Step 1: make successful handset in black, step 2: relaunch said handset in white. Almost a month...
Sean Parker's “Causes” to Leave MySpace: Does It Matter?
The wildly popular nonprofit fundraising application Causes reportedly emailed users of its MySpace app on Tuesday to tell them that all Causes will be removed from MySpace on Friday morning, in three...
Splitting Up Search
Distributing a search engine's index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say. — Searching the Web could become faster for users and much more efficient for search c...
How Google & Yahoo Make Money Off A Twitter Typo Domain
Like many people, I misspelled a domain name today when I was trying to visit a web site. I typed Twiter.com (with one T) rather than Twitter.com. I wasn't surprised to land on a site with ads, as i...
Microsoft Research demo prototype glass screen PC with gesture and eye-tracking control
Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Research arm certainly know how to put together an eye-catching demo. Chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie has been doing a tour …
Brizzly Marries Groups And Twitter Lists
When it was first unveiled at our Realtime Crunchup in July, easily one of the best features of the web-based Twitter client Brizzly was Groups. Basically, it allowed you to sort your Twitter followe...