Android Market grows up, hits 20,000 apps milestone
Rest assured that 2010 is going to be a big year for the Android operating system, with many new handsets finding their way to stores around the world (including Google's own phone) and an increasing ...
Bing Crushes Yahoo Again In November
Another good month for Microsoft's Bing, and another very bad month for Yahoo, according to comScore's November search stats just delivered via a note from JPMorgan's Imran Khan. — Yahoo search is g...
Chrome Mac, Linux betas push browser into No. 3 spot
Passes Safari, may beat Firefox at its own game on Linux — Computerworld - The release last week of betas of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux pushed the Google browser's share past Apple's Safari and i...
Facebook Suggests You Lie, Break Its Own Terms Of Service To Keep Your Privacy
Here's a new one. As Facebook continues to grapple with the negative press over its privacy overhaul, it's now suggesting a new way to protect your personal information: lie about it.
Comcast Launches Its “TV Everywhere” Plan Nationwide, with An Awful Name: Say Hello to “Xfinity”
As promised, Comcast (CMCSA) is opening up the trial of its “TV Everywhere” program, which gives its subscribers — but only its subscribers — access to extra TV programming, streamed via the Web.
Apple wins permanent injunction against clone Mac maker Psystar
First on AI: Apple and Psystar concluded 17 months of litigation Tuesday when a federal judge issued a permanent injunction against the unauthorized Mac OS X hardware creator, banning it from selling ...
Details concerning the Xeon processors with 6 cores
New information shown by Intel lets us learn some more on the future Intel processors in 6 cores engraved in 32 nm that we soon expect to see equipping the Mac Pro. To start, contrary to the forecast...
Microsoft's Bing App Debuts on iPhone (So When's the Android Version Coming?)
Microsoft's feisty little search service, Bing, has finally made an iPhone app, which is now up on the Apple iTunes app store tonight. — Bing showed off the free app at a party thrown by its mobile ...
A Word About Twitter Commercial Accounts
Many people have asked us about Twitter's planned commercial account offering and what it means for CoTweet. Twitter has been planning for commercial accounts for a long time. Today Anamitra Banerji...
Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology
Square, a new company that makes a small device to let anyone make a credit card payment from their mobile phone, has probably stirred up more excitement than any other startup launching in recent mon...
The Nexus One: A Non-Story
Over the weekend the rumors of a Google Phone were confirmed in the guise of the whimsically named Nexus One. It's an unbranded HTC-made carrier-unlocked handset running Android 2.0, and it looks lov...
Top Twitter Trends of 2009
My name is Abdur and I'm part of the Research team here at Twitter. As Chief Scientist, it's my job to interpret data so we can understand and appreciate how Twitter is constantly evolving. Since it...
Toshiba announces 64GB NAND packages: Apple winks, gives a nudge
Outside of the occasional leaked roadmap, one of the best ways to predict the future of consumer electronics is by looking at the evolution of the components within. Take this Toshiba NAND package fo...
AT&T Responds to Fake Steve's Operation Chokehold
AT&T has dismissed Fake Steve's Operation Chokehold protest as an attention-getting stunt. — Fake Steve is calling on disgruntled AT&T customers to bring AT&T's data network “to its knees” at 12 noo...
Is Bandwidth.com the Future of VoIP and Voice?
Bandwidth.com, despite having a name only a late '90s investor could love, has built a profitable all-IP network and expects to bring in $85 million in sales this year. Today it also is announcing th...
France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged nearly $1.1 billion on Monday toward the computer scanning of French literary works, audiovisual archives and historical documents, an announcement that under...
Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, others sued for patent infringement
BetaNet on Monday filed a lawsuit against 18 companies, including Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. — Filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, the lawsuit claims the companies violate th...
Google Fusion Tables API
Today I'm excited to announce that Google Fusion Tables is releasing its own API. — What is Fusion Tables? A product launched recently in Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing an...
Cherrypal Launches World's First $99 Laptop
New 7-inch Netbook Helps Bridge the Digital Divide; Redesigned Intel N280 Bing laptop features 13.3-inch wide screen; New Cherrypal Open Store Launched — Cherrypal, the company that brought the worl...
JS-Kit Finally Ditches Its Name, Rebrands As Echo With Some Big Partners In Tow
Last July, we covered the initial debut of JS-Kit's Echo, a real-time commenting system.This morning during a media conference call, the CEO Khris Loux announced that in light of the success of the pr...
Google's reCAPTCHA busted by new attack
Significant success rate — A security researcher has devised a successful attack on a Google-owned system for blocking malicious scripts on web-based email services and other types of sites. — The...
AlikeList Raises $5 Million For Local Business Reviews Site
A new local business reviews site has raised $5 million in a funding round from Syncom Venture Partners. The startup, AlikeList, is trying to distinguish itself from existing competitors by making it...
Voiding the Constitution
FCC rules could counter freedom of speech — The Federal Communications Commission has proposed new regulations to force broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) like Time Warner and Verizon to ad...
Paramount to Start Online Service to Sell Movie Clips
LOS ANGELES — Paramount Pictures, looking for new ways to turn its old movies into cash, especially as DVD sales continue to decline, is creating an online video clip service that will allow users to ...
Zillow launches rental listings and search service
Real estate website Zillow.com, one of the most popular vehicles for U.S. home sales searches, on Tuesday said it expanded its services to include the rental market. — Zillow.com added a rental list...
Chinese mobile Internet firm buys game maker for $80M
Beijing-based mobile Internet company KongZhong said today it is buying Shanghai Dacheng Network for $80 million. — Shanghai Dacheng Network is a developer of 3-D massively multiplayer online (MMO) ...
Ebooks For Dummies: Wiley Joins 150 Publishers In The Scribd Store
Book publishers are increasingly embracing digital books, and not just on Amazon's Kindle. Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the Universit...
iPhone and Snow Leopard Server's failure to communicate
Imagine if the iPod worked with a Windows machine but not on a Mac. Would make zero sense, right? Amazingly, this scenario describes the current reality with the iPhone and Apple's server edition of...
DEMO Winner Liaise Opens Doors, Debuts Mobile And Team Services
The winner of DEMO's enterprise category and people's choice award, Liaise, is moving from private to open beta by launching their much anticipated mobile calendar integration and introducing their Te...
Microsoft's server chief talks cloud (Q&A)
It's been a busy year for Bob Muglia. — Microsoft's server and tools boss shipped an update to Windows Server, got promoted to division president, and prepared Microsoft's operating system in the cl...