Apple tablet seen nearing $3 billion business in first year
Selling an estimated 5 million units in its first year as a “base case” scenario, Apple's tablet would earn the company $2.8 billion in additional revenue and solidify it as more than a niche product,...
Understanding the web to make search more relevant
Last year at our second Searchology event, we announced Google Squared and Rich Snippets, two approaches to improve search by better understanding the web. Today, we're kicking off the new year with ...
Internet 2009 in numbers
What happened with the Internet in 2009? — How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more....
Mac OS X 10.6.3 to enhance QuickTime, 64-bit Logic, printing
A third planned maintenance and security update to Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include significant enhancements to QuickTime X while also improving printing and Logic perf...
Google's Brin And Page To Sell Off Shares; Give Up Majority Voting Power Over Five Years
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) just put out an SEC filing indicating that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will soon begin to sell off some of their holdings in the company, as part of a predetermined trad...
Microsoft shakes up its Entertainment and Devices unit
Microsoft has made some major organizational changes to its Entertainment and Devices unit — the part of the company responsible for its mobile, Zune, Media Center and Mediaroom IPTV products. — Ear...
Google's Nexus One muzzles the foul-mouthed
One of the most innovative features of Google's new Nexus One is the built-in voice recognition. But there's one major limitation that Reuters discovered while putting the smartphone through its pace...
Journalists' Social Media Sideshow Will Prove Nothing
Why do so many journalists and traditional media outlets see social media services like Twitter and Facebook as a threat? Maybe it's a result of too many breathless headlines about how they're going ...
comScore Reports Global Search Market Growth of 46 Percent in 2009
Google Sites Accounts for Two-Thirds of 131 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in December while Introduction of Bing Helps Microsoft Post Significant Gains During the Year — comScore, Inc. (NASDA...
Dave Morin Leaves Facebook, To Launch New Startup With Napster Creator Shawn Fanning
Long time Facebook employee Dave Morin (pictured left), an early member of the team that led the launch of Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect, is leaving the company today, we've confirmed.
Judge reduces $2M music-sharing verdict to $54k
IDG News Service - A Minnesota judge reduced the $2 million in damages that a jury ordered file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay, calling the original verdict “monstrous and shocking.” — Thomas-Ra...
Motricity files for $250 million IPO
Motricity, which moved its headquarters from Durham, North Carolina to Bellevue in 2008, has filed to raise up to $250 million through an initial public offering. The 6-year-old company, which has ra...
Ursula Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement
As opt-out deadline approaches, writer launches petition asking for US to be exempt from controversial agreement — The family of John Steinbeck has reversed its decision to oppose Google's controver...
A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple And Yahoo
On Wednesday, I wrote about a battle looming between Apple and Google as discussions take place over the possibility of Apple making Microsoft's Bing the default search engine on the iPhone. — Stepp...
Microsoft's Ballmer Calls Out Google Over China Stance
Christopher Helman is the Southwest Bureau Chief of Forbes, based in Houston — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in a speech to oil company executives in Houston on Thursday, criticized Googl...
Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends (Pictures)
As you can see in the picture, Twitter has started to roll out its new Local Trends feature which takes the standard Trending Topics data and uses Twitter's geolocation functionality to make it based ...
Enable Multitouch in Nexus One Web Browser
Like the Motorola Droid on Verizon, US version of Nexus One which was launched by Google earlier this month didn't ship with a multitouch capable web browser even though the hardware and Android 2.1 O...
Why cloud exchanges won't work
As cloud computing in its various forms increasingly happens rather than just being talked about, I'm starting to hear the idea of a cloud-computing exchange floated. There are certainly things to li...
Facebook, Twitter and P&G
This afternoon I attended an event sponsored by Proctor & Gamble called the “Innovation Outreach Venturing Day.” The event was an effort by executives at P&G to connect with the investment community ...
Why Open Source is the New Software Policy in San Francisco
This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. In this guest post, Mayor Newsom announces a new open source software p...
Don't let Twitter, Facebook, Google be the only game in town
Editor's note: Anil Dash is the director of Expert Labs, an independent nonprofit that is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and uses the web to let policy makers listen t...
Twitter's Revamped SUL Has Greatly Crippled The SUL Advantage
As you probably heard, yesterday, Twitter rolled out its revamped suggested users list (SUL). The list was a source of much controversy because those on it (including the @TechCrunch account) were as...
Windows 7 growing faster than Vista, overtakes Mac OS X
Windows 7 sold well during the 2009 holiday season, and the results are showing up, not only in sheer revenue, but in the OS market share numbers as well. Nevertheless, in December 2009, Linux was th...
Looks like Netflix is dead. Again.
Once again, Netflix has been placed on a death watch. But I'm not buying it for a second. We've heard that too many times over the company's history. And each time, the company has nimbly defeated ...
Adobe Flash 10.1 allows private browsing
The next big release for Adobe Flash Player, 10.1 will allow private browsing while web surfing in supported browsers. Flash Player will automatically clear your flash history data off your computer ...
The Macbook Air to Be Updated After the MacBook and MacBook Pro?
While most computer manufacturers have already announced and/or released their Intel Core i3/i5-based notebook models, Apple is still offering Core 2 Duo-based units and will most likely quickly move ...
China: Clinton Internet speech harms ties with US
Buzz up! — BEIJING - China rejected Friday a call by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for the lifting of restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism...
Microsoft to announce date for Windows Mobile 7 at MWC 2010
Alongside the launch of Windows Mobile 6.6 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010, Microsoft is also expected to announce a date for the commercial availability of WM7, according to sources familiar with...
As VC Industry Shrinks, First-Time Investments Plummet
It's been suggested that the venture capital industry needs to shrink to as little as half its former size, and new data from the National Venture Capital Association shows that it's almost there — wi...
BBC gets back into games
Broadcaster's commercial division Worldwide wants to turn key IPs into DS, Wii, iPhone and online games, MCV can reveal — After spending years sat on the fence, the BBC is returning to games in a bi...
‘Drastic’ Digg overhaul could ‘shock’ users, says Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, says the site will undergo a major redesign later this year to better embrace the real-time web — Rose said that the new version of Digg, which will go live in the next ...
Android tops iPhone 7 to 1 in free wallpaper and ringtone downloads
Hip-hop/R&B dominate the sound of Android devices; iPhone users like a little more rock — Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer's Boombox report — Here's an interesting peek into the world of free Web-...
Comscore's Gift to Web Publishers: (Almost) Free Traffic
Hey Web publishers! Want to boost your traffic overnight? Talk to Comscore, which is handing out millions of unique visitors. — The Web's dominant traffic counter is in the midst of overhauling it...
Lenovo Stands By Google Android Phone
HONG KONG—Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday its new smart phone using Google Inc.'s Android platform is on track to be launched in May in China and the U.S. search engine giant's ongoing spat with China w...