Apple To Demo Tablet In January, Asks Developers To Get Apps Ready (AAPL)
Is the long-awaited Apple tablet just weeks away? — Apple is preparing to show off a new, larger mobile device with a higher resolution display in January — probably a version of the Apple tablet we...
Exclusive: Nexus One full specs detailed, invite-only retail sales starting January 5th?
We know you're itching to get your hands on a Nexus One — Google's managed to build buzz here the way only a couple companies in the world know how. Unfortunately, it sounds like you're going to need...
Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St
In August, we previewed expanded location support for developers. Last month we launched our Geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients. When current location is added to tw...
Research in Motion Statement Regarding December 22nd Service Outage - BlackBerry Messenger to Blame!
* Update: Been getting lots of tips, and we've received the same message ourselves, from the BlackBerry Network Administrator pushing you to upgrade to the latest version of BlackBerry Messenger.
Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007
As my colleague Mary Jo Foley reported earlier today, Microsoft has lost a crucial court judgment over technology used in Office 2007: … Registered OEM partners got a tip-off that the judgment was on ...
An update on our AdMob acquisition
Since we announced our plans to acquire AdMob, we've been excited about the positive reaction — particularly from advertisers and publishers who have told us that they're enthusiastic about the possib...
Next-gen iPhone w/ 5-Megapixel camera for second half 2010 - WWDC launch?
Taiwanese sources suggest the debut of an all-new model iPhone, equipped with a 5-megapixel camera, could coincide with the currently mooted WWDC 2010 event in June. — Industry sources report orders...
Got Baggage? Let Yahoo Pick it Up
Web giant helping out at the airport — Technology companies love to help the community. It's part of what makes them beloved to Silicon Valley residents (well, that, along with their stock options ...
Jajah bought by Telefónica for $207m
Jajah has become the latest internet phone company to be snapped up by a bigger player, with the Silicon Valley company announcing it is being acquired by Europe's Telefónica for $207m €145m) in an al...
Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending?
As Facebook roars past the 350 million usermark, it's become so ubiquitous that literally everybody I know has a profile. And even though I've accepted precisely 1,252 of their friend requests over t...
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’
A look at some of the high-density server and networking gear inside the Weta Digital data center used to render the animation for the new James Cameron movie “Avatar.” (Photo: Foundry Networks Inc.)...
Facebook's Sandberg Nominated To Disney Board
A big-name Silicon Valley addition to the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) board. The company just nominated Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. In a statement, Disney...
Strapped to Android, HTC Takes a Dizzying Ride to the Top
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is on a tear. This year alone, the company has released five Android handsets. Its next phone, the HTC Nexus One, aka the Googlephone, is among the most anticipated de...
Apple looks at internet TV foray
By Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple is courting owners of US television networks, including CBS and Walt Disney, in the hope of launching a subscription television ser...
Apple thrives despite Jobs being away
2009 was a year for the record books for Apple. — Besides recording three of the most profitable quarters in company history and ending the year with $36 billion in the bank, Apple had its biggest i...
Ex-Microsoftie: Company today ‘a lot like IBM was in 1985’
Don Dodge made headlines last month when he was caught up in the tail end of Microsoft's first-ever round of mass layoffs. He had been at Microsoft for five years, and as a start-up evangelist had be...
FCC commish says Verizon's ETF response is ‘unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling’
A member of the FCC's five-person commission, Mignon Clyburn, has sent out a letter today in response to Verizon's earlier reply regarding questions surrounding its gargantuan $350 early termination f...
With Increasing Staff, Facebook Expanding Offices Again in Palo Alto
Facebook left its disjointed cluster of offices in downtown Palo Alto, earlier this year, and moved across town, consolidating into a big old former Hewlett-Packard manufacturing building next to Stan...
23AndMe Completes $27.8 Million Series B Round
Personal genomics startup 23andMe has recently raised another $14.2 million to close out its $27.8 million Series B round, according to regulatory filings with the SEC. The filing indicates that the n...
Project Alesia: News Corp.'s Roman Battle Cry-Does That Cast Googlers as the Gauls? (Plus Video!)
While Internet companies such as Google use baked goods as names for their key strategic initiatives-recent ones related to its Android mobile operating system were called Donut and Eclair …
Daily Text Messages Exceed 4 Billion
One thing that hasn't faded during the Great Recession is our need to talk to each other — via cell phones. But increasingly that chatter is in the form of text messages. — The latest figures from ...
Report: Facebook Ad Revenue To Surpass MySpace Next Year
A new report released from eMarketer today, states that Facebook “will surpass its former rival, MySpace, in ad revenues in 2010, when marketers worldwide will spend $605 million on Facebook versus $3...
Qik Live Recording Finally Makes It To The iPhone (Legally)
The live video streaming application Qik has just been approved in the App Store and should be available shortly, we've learned. The company submitted the app a couple weeks ago following the approva...
2010: The Year of the Tablet
An image from an Apple tablet patent. — Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine. Time Inc. teamed up with design company The Wonder Factory to create a fun concept video...
Apple tablet definitely coming in 7″ size?
We're really going out on a limb here, but one of our very connected sources let us know that they've heard very solid information about Apple's upcoming tablet. It has been widely reported recently ...
F.T.C. Steps Up Scrutiny of Google's AdMob Acquisition
The Federal Trade Commission has stepped up its antitrust review of Google's proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up. — In a blog post, Google revealed that it had ...
Apple looks at internet TV foray
By Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple is courting owners of US television networks, including CBS and Walt Disney, in the hope of launching a subscription television ser...
NVIDIA Ion 2 coming in early 2010, compatible with Pine Trail
Well, here we go: NVIDIA just gave us the heads-up that the next generation of Ion chips (which we'll be calling Ion 2 until it gets a proper name) will be compatible with Intel's new Pine Trail platf...
Internet Users Now Spending an Average of 13 Hours a Week Online
Half of adult Internet users bought something online in last month — A new Harris Poll finds that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. Of course, people's usa...
Firefox 4 Windows mockup provides 5 UI hints of things to come
Want a hint as to where Firefox will go next? As a product visual designer at Mozilla, Stephen Horlander is the kind of guy who can make things happen — so when he shares updates and mockups on Firef...
Barnes & Noble Will Ship Around 60,000 Nooks This Year
A lot more people have ordered the Barnes & Noble Nook, first announced on October 20, than the company expected (despite getting panned by the official reviewers). The company had Foxconn, their ODM...
Sesame Bringing E-Books to the iPhone
Two weeks after Sesame Workshop said it would launch a line of digital books for children 2 to 6 years old, the nonprofit organization has launched an iPhone app that will let kids read Sesame books o...
2009 Year of the Status Update: Spending more time on fewer sites
To wrap up my blog for this year, I thought I'd look at how Australian Internet users divide their time online. This is a pertinent question as marketers battle it out for the precious attention span...
Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Grow 103% Y/Y in 2009; Revenues Up 72%
Mini-Notes Take 19.6% of Portable PC Shipments and 10.4% of Revenues; Share to Remain Stable in 2010 — Notebook PC revenues are expected to be $109 billion in 2009, down almost 7% Y/Y, according to ...
Startup Automates Display Advertising
PaperG has been testing a platform with a handful of companies that lets small businesses automatically create and place ads on participating publishers' sites. The platform — PlaceLocal, scheduled t...
Magellan updates RoadMate for iPhone with Touch support
Magellan has updated RoadMate for the iPhone to v1.10, adding several new features. The app handles turn-by-turn navigation, with extra help in the form of voice guidance, lane directions and 3D land...
NPR News App Comes to Android
In August, NPR released its own iPhone app. Not only does that app allow users to read through the latest stories, but it also supports listening to any NPR station or NPR program live, and makes pas...
Story Something Quietly Opens Up, Turns Your Kids Into Heroes
I don't have kids (yet), but I'd be all over this if I did ... and if I were a native English speaker: TC50 finalist Story Something is cautiously opening up to the masses during the holidays - intent...
Nortel accepts $282M bid for VoIP unit
Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business to Genband for US$282 million, it said on Wednesday. — Nortel Networks has e...
4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED
Christopher “moot” Poole, the young founder of the irascible online forum 4chan, will speak in February at the TED conference, the elite gathering of thought leaders whose video-taped talks have becom...