FTC Challenges Intel's Dominance of Worldwide Microprocessor Markets
FTC Charges Anticompetitive Tactics Have Stifled Innovation and Harmed Consumers — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Intel Corp., the world's leading computer chip maker, charging that the com...
Browser Size: a tool to see how others view your website
In a newspaper, the most important story is featured on the front page. If it's a really important piece, then it's placed “above the fold,” which means you can find it on the top half of the first p...
VLC for Mac development on verge of demise?
All work on the Mac version of VLC may soon have to come to a halt, says VideoLAN. VLC is an open-source media playback application, notable for supporting both audio and video, and formats missing f...
Zune HD Twitter app now live UPDATE: it censors tweets!
It was a slow rollout today, but the promised Zune HD Twitter app is now live in Marketplace. We've been playing with it a little since we got it, and while it's definitely one of the more attractive...
Facebook releases first-ever demographic look at users
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first-ever study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latin...
Morgan Stanley: Mobile Internet Market Will Be Twice The Size of Desktop Internet
Morgan Stanley has released a couple of bulky documents about the mobile Internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a 424-page report which explores eight major themes; and 'The Mobile Internet Report Ke...
More great news sources to discover in Fast Flip
Three months ago, we launched Google Fast Flip, a service that seeks to make reading articles online as fast and simple as flipping through a magazine or newspaper. It's still early in this experimen...
The iPhone Goes to War
Is the iPhone going to war? — On Wednesday at the 2009 Intelligence Warfighting Summit in Tucson, Raytheon, the military contractor, announced an iPhone application that tracks friends and foes, sho...
Craigslist Unclogs Yahoo Pipes
Two weeks ago we wrote about the story of developer Romy Maxwell, who had built a Craigslist mashup using Yahoo Pipes. A few weeks after sending his app to Craigslist founder Craig Newmark (who forwa...
The Times and Bit.ly Roll Out ‘nyti.ms’ Short Links
Eagle-eyed fans of Twitter and The New York Times may have noticed a change in the Web addresses used to share some articles from The Times's Web site on Twitter. Beginning Wednesday, the links are c...
RepairPal Grabs $4 Million For Google Health For Cars
Startup RepairPal, an auto repair and maintenance information site, has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Tugboat Ventures, with Rick Keister, David Strohm, Mark Goines, and Michael Torres ...
Introducing Personas 2.0
Personas 2.0 offers a cleaner look, clearer navigation, and easier ways to discover and engage new art. Check out the new site here. — The Mozilla Labs team launched Personas 1.0 in March with the ...
Google: Actually, We Count Only 16,000 Apps In Android Market
Yesterday, I wrote a post on our sister site MobileCrunch about the estimated amount of applications that were available on Android Market according to AndroLib, which aims to serve as both a comprehe...
Motorola Backflip/Enzo Pictures & Details!
We just got a big scoop from an anonymous tipster that will leave you doing backflips... or, uh... Enzos. If you remember our first Motorola Backflip article, you'll remember a unique/odd form factor...
How Facebook Squeezes More From Its Machines
Back in June, during an onstage conversation with me at our Structure 09 conference, Facebook VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger lamented how chip makers such as Intel and AMD don't quite un...
WIND goes live in Canada with $35 unlimited data
Canadian provider WIND Mobile formally launched today and became the fourth major cell carrier in the country. The company pitches itself as the antithesis of typical cellphone carriers and promises ...
Smule, creator of hit iPhone music apps, raises $8M more
Smule, the company behind popular, music-based iPhone apps like Ocarina and I am T-Pain, has raised $8 million in a third round of funding. — The Menlo Park, Calif. company's apps usually take advan...
Lawyers: Google execs not liable for abuse video
ROME — Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court. — ...
FBI makes arrest in ‘Wolverine’ uploading case
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was uploaded to a file-sharing network last spring, before its release to theaters. — The FBI has accused a man of copyright infringement for allegedly uploading to the We...
Amazon's New Video Streaming Service Will Disrupt The CDN Industry (AMZN, AKAM, LLWN)
This morning, Amazon announced that their CloudFront content delivery service now supports Flash streaming as long as the videos are stored on Amazon's S3 service. — Amazon has deployed version 3.5....
OpenID Ends 2009 With 1 Billion Users
At the close of a whiz-bang year, OpenID has a lot to be proud of. — With a community of 9 million sites that use OpenID logins and 1 billion individual users, OpenID has effectively revolutionized ...
EXCLUSIVE: Screenshots of Twitter's New Contributors Feature
It's official. Twitter's making a play for big business with features and services that distinguish select accounts from regular accounts. After laying the foundation in 2009, the social networking ...
Diabetes Meter Mates With PC to Track Trends
This week's column was, in a sense, written in blood. It's a review of a new consumer medical device, and to test it, I had to prick my fingertips several times a day to produce a droplet of blood th...
Fake Steve Jobs Waffles on Plan to Take Down AT&T
Internet users and AT&T customers were immediately riled up when Fake Steve Jobs — as written by the real Dan Lyons — called for a digital flash mob to take down AT&T. — With the crusade date and ti...
Photobucket and Ontela Announce Agreement to Merge Operations
Combined Company to Leverage Photobucket's 22 Million Users, Ontela's Leading Edge Software and Wireless Carrier Partnerships — DENVER & SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Photobucket.com, Inc., one of the Web...
Google's Nexus One: World-Changer or Just a Bad Idea?
Google's Nexus One smartphone is a shot across the bow of many entrenched competitors, enough to make us wonder whether Google has some master plan for world domination or has merely gone loopy. — I...
FTC Challenges Intel's Dominance of Worldwide Microprocessor Markets
FTC Charges Anticompetitive Tactics Have Stifled Innovation and Harmed Consumers — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Intel Corp., the world's leading computer chip maker, charging that the com...
What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009
This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big...
Europe Drops Microsoft Antitrust Case Over Browsers
BERLIN — European regulators dropped their antitrust case against Microsoft on Wednesday after the company agreed to offer customers a choice of rival Web browsers. The settlement ends what could hav...
Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks
They call themselves the Worldwide Loyalty Team. Among some employees, they are known as the Apple Gestapo, a group of moles always spying in headquarters and stores, reporting directly to Jobs and O...
iPhone developers abandoning app model for HTML5?
Lots of iPhone application developers are frustrated with the process to get new apps into your hands. It takes about three weeks lately for an app to get approved and into the iTunes store. — Late...
Russians Buy Stake in Web Games
SAN FRANCISCO — The Russian firm that invested more than $200 million in Facebook this year is making another bet on the United States Internet industry. — Digital Sky Technologies, or D.S.T., an in...
Which Is the Top Tech Company to Work For?
Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson. Photo courtesy of Juniper Networks — Looking for a tech job? Well read on for the results of a new poll from Sausalito, Calif.-based Glassdoor.com as to the best — and w...
Bar-code Scanning RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads, over $1M in revenue
Yep, it's still happening. You can still become a millionaire on the iPhone without a marketing budget and a brand name. Occipital, the company behind RedLaser [iTunes Link], has struck gold with it...
Worth Remembering: Evernote App Hits Android Market (Screenshots)
Digital memory aid and note taking service Evernote already has mobile applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry, among others, but so far it wasn't part of the now more than 20,000 applications for ...
Vimeo Sued Over Lip Dubs
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo. — A few years ago, video-sharing site Vimeo hit the big time with a viral video of its employees lip-syncing along to Harvey D...
Foursquare rival Rummble acquires wi-fi finder Total Hotspots
Rummble, the U.K.'s answer to the location-based services craze, has bought wi-fi finder Total Hotspots. — It's largely a talent acquisition: Total Hotspots managing director Alex Housley becomes Ru...
Amazon adds media streaming to content delivery service
Amazon's CloudFront supports on-demand streaming and next year the company will add live events to its Web services platform — Amazon Web Services has added support for audio and video streaming to ...
A Future iPhone will Control Your Desktop Remotely
Today, The US Patent and Trademark Office published a unique granted patent of Apple's which has yet to surface that could prove to be a very powerful tool for consumers and professionals on the go. ...
Is the Google Phone an Unauthorized Replicant?
Motorola tugged at the hearts of science-fiction fans everywhere when it announced that its first smartphone using Google's Android software would be called Droid, the name given to the lovable robots...
VCs Down On Industry's Future But Bullish On Investing
When it comes to investing, venture capitalists are far more optimistic about next year's prospects than they were about 2009, but they're still just as downcast about their industry's future, accordi...