Google Acquires AppJet
We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team. — For Current Users and Cu...
Apple Said to Be in Talks to Buy Online Music Service Lala
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is in talks to acquire online music service Lala, according to two people familiar with the matter. — The terms of the deal for privately held Lala weren't known.
Now on Google Finance: streaming news
Ever since we launched real-time and streaming quotes on Google Finance last year, we've heard from users how vital that up-to-date information has been. Especially in today's volatile financial envi...
Apple sued for infringing digital camera patent with iPhone
St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming the company is violating several of its digital camera patents. — Filed in the United States District Court in Dela...
Apple Quietly Adds 3.33 GHz Quad-Core Option to Mac Pro [Updated: Xserve]
Apple has quietly upgraded its Mac Pro offerings, adding the option of a 3.33 GHz quad-core processor and adding the ability to configure both the quad-core and 8-core models with 2 TB hard drives …
Spyware threat haunts squeaky-clean iPhones
Research finds rogue app privacy risks to regulation models — Apple's line that iPhone users who toe the line and resist any temptation to jailbreak, unlock or otherwise desecrate their smartphone a...
Yahoo! and Microsoft Finalize Search Agreement
Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corporation today announced that the companies have finalized and executed the definitive Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement in accorda...
FCC Wants to Know Why Verizon Increased Termination Fees
Updated with Verizon's response: The Federal Communications Commission wants to know why Verizon decided to double its early termination fee (ETF) for new customers who sign on to the wireless service...
Personalized Search for everyone
Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be abl...
FCC admits CableCARD a failure, vows to try something else
The Genachowski-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems to delight in dropping bombshells on a weekly basis, but we didn't see this one coming: the FCC admits that its CableCARD mandate has ...
Apple Told To Pay Patent Troll OPTi $21.7 Million
Apple was told to pay $21.7 million in a patent case against OPTi Inc., a semiconductor vendor-turned-patent troll. — The patent (no. 6.405,291) regards “pre-snoop” cache memory technology. — The ...
CEO Eric Schmidt Reveals ‘Centerpiece’ Of Google's 2010 Strategy
On Thursday President Obama summoned Corporate America to the White House in an attempt to help tackle the problem of unemployment. — And among the many corporate leaders who answered the President'...
HTC Droid Eris To Get Android 2.0 Update
Verizon Wireless has said that the HTC Droid Eris will receive a significant system update at some point in the fist quarter of 2010. The update will boost the Eris' version of Android to at least 2....
Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010
Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010, comply...
Apple clears first hurdle in bid for new Cupertino campus
Apple Inc. is one step closer to building a second campus in Cupertino after waiting eight months for city planners to rezone its 7.78-acre property on Pruneridge Avenue to allow office use. — The p...
First commercial tool to crack BitLocker arrives (Updated)
BitLocker Drive Encryption can now be successfully cracked with Passware Kit Forensic version 9.5, though it will set you back $795. — Passware, a software firm that provides password recovery, decr...
Sources: Facebook Connect Will Be “Everywhere” on MySpace Next Year
Yahoo announced that it will be making Facebook Connect a deeply-integrated part of its site earlier this week. The move surprised some people, because Yahoo itself has historically been the largest ...
Five Years of Digg...and counting
Five years ago today, Digg.com went live. What started as a simple idea has certainly come a long way. From a vision of a new way to surface news, and a team of three, to 40+ million monthly visitor...
PayPal Admits to Phishing Users
Yes, it is true, I am not making this up. I do not believe that PayPal has stolen anything from users, but they have told me that their own email is phishing. — Here's what happened. I sent them o...
Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled
Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only. — This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch i...
Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale
As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories. — “Mom, you don't understand. I don't need it,” her 19-year-old responded, sayi...
An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft's Newest Data Visualization Tool
At Microsoft's PDC event a few weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs introduced a new technology, called Pivot, to make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web. The underlying premise of Pivo...
Microsoft is making progress on search: You noticed Bing's glitch
It's a happy day for Microsoft's search team. Bing had a half hour outage late Thursday and a few folks actually noticed. — Bing went down for a half hour between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. PST over a co...
Apple Strikes Deal to Buy the Music Start-Up Lala
SAN FRANCISCO — In the most recent sign that Apple is looking at alternative ways for people to store and play their digital music, the company has agreed to buy Lala, a four-year-old start-up based i...
CrunchPad partner plans media event
The man whom TechCrunch blog network founder and editor Michael Arrington blamed for killing his CrunchPad hardware project has scheduled a video call with reporters and industry analysts for Monday, ...
Barnes & Noble's Nook gets a brief and early hands-on
Thanks to a very generous anonymous tipster, we've gotten a number of hands-on pics of Barnes & Noble's soon to be released (for some) Nook e-reader. The impressions we've been given, however, weave ...
Now on Google Finance: streaming news
Ever since we launched real-time and streaming quotes on Google Finance last year, we've heard from users how vital that up-to-date information has been. Especially in today's volatile financial envi...
CrunchPad Litigation Imminent
It has been a busy week for our former partners on the CrunchPad. The company has deleted their corporate blog, taken the time to hire a PR firm and schedule an event Monday morning to “give their si...
Personalized Search for everyone
Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be abl...
Apple announces free iTunes Christmas give-aways for Europe
Apple UK has announced the ‘iTunes 12 Days of Christmas’ promotion, offering free songs, music videos, apps, TV episodes and films on a daily basis during the promotion. — The promotion run from Dec...
Geez, Google Wants to Take Over DNS, Too
Google now wants to be your browser's phone book, launching a DNS service Thursday in hopes that users will let the ad and search giant take over yet another part of their net experience. — Browsers...
New Droid ad: iPhone is ‘digitally clueless’
Perhaps you have already become used to Verizon's Droid tossing names at the iPhone like an 8-year-old boy behind his teacher's back. — However, the latest ill feelings directed at Apple's little cu...
Oracle Denies Report About Offering Compromise on MySQL to Quell EC
The company denies a New York Post story claiming that CEO Larry Ellison is now willing to create a separate entity within a combined Oracle-Sun that houses Sun's MySQL open database software business...
Friendster to be sold by month's end -source
* More than half of Friendster's 100 mln users from Asia — * Industry blog values Friendster at $210 million (Adds background, details) — Friendster, one of the world's earliest social networking ...
Web inventor: ‘Snooping’ authorities threaten Internet
Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. … To read a sh...
Acer Takes No.-2 PC Rank in Q3; Market Returns to Annual Growth
Marking a major milestone in the history of the computer industry, an Asian OEM has captured the No.-2 position in the global PC market on a quarterly basis for the first time, according to iSuppli Co...
Google Chrome now bundled with Avast
You wouldn't necessarily expect it, but Avast and Google Chrome might be the next peanut butter-and-jelly combo in the software world. Google's nascent browser has paired with one of the most popular...
Verizon VZ Navigator Developer Gets Acquired
TeleCommunication Systems, a messaging and location-based service provider, has agreed to acquire Networks in Motion, the company behind Verizon's $9.99-per-month VZ Navigator GPS app, for $170 milli...
With Redesign, Reuters.com Goes After Consumer Audience
With the general business magazines that are still in existence trying to keep their heads above water, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) believes this is a good time for a major overhaul of its consumer-fa...
Google Visual Search Coming for Android Phones
Table of Contents: — Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location from their Android-powered smartphone and trigger a Google search th...
Amazon and Vente-Privee in talks over 2 billion Euro acquisition, say sources
[France] US retailing giant Amazon is in deep and secret negotiations with Vente-Privee, the French private sales club which has taken the ecommerce and fashion industries by storm, our sources say.