McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet, iPhone OS Based, Going to Be “Terrific”
In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill's CEO confirms that their textbooks will be on the Apple Tablet and it will be an iPhone OS based machine. When asked about their textbooks being on the Apple t...
AT&T settles ETF case for $18m
Hey, if you're a [New Jersey] AT&T subscriber and you paid a flat-rate ETF between January 1, 1998 and November 4, 2009, you've got a tiny bit of $18 million coming your way. That's the settlement am...
Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World
Computer pioneer Alan Kay isn't known for buying into hype. Credited with inventing the concept of the laptop back in 1968, Kay has been lambasting computer makers for not maximizing its potential ev...
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to ta...
Now Trending: Local Trends
Twitter trends began as a way to shed light on popular conversations. It's interesting to know that one topic can now spread across the world in real-time, and Trends help us discover which of those ...
McNealy's bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun
Scott McNealy, the smack-talking co-founder and long-running leader of Sun Microsystems, has bid adieu to his company in a memo that mixes nostalgia with a rallying cry for employees about to become p...
IPhone game developer redesigns app for Apple tablet with no assurance of its existence
The maker of Crosswords for the iPhone dropped a news release in our inbox this afternoon touting an in-development version of its popular game for the Apple tablet. — Apple's touch-screen tablet co...
Updated Zune software drivers hints at Zune “Phone”
Coinciding with the scheduled Zune.net maintenance today, a new Zune software update was also released (version 4.2.202.0 for those playing along at home). What might appear as just a regular softwar...
PlayStation 3 exploit released, hackers rejoice
In case you ever doubted his feat, or you simply wanted to recreate for sport, iPhone hacker extraordinaire George “Geohot” Hotz has released the exploit code he devised for properly hacking the PS3. ...
Microsoft eyes clean break with Windows Mobile 7
Microsoft's long and winding road toward regaining lost ground in the cell phone business will reach an important milestone in Barcelona next month. — At the annual Mobile World Congress event, Micr...
Texas Bank Sues Customer Hit by $800,000 Cyber Heist
A machine equipment company in Texas is tussling with its bank after organized crooks swiped more than $800,000 in a 48-hour cyber heist late last year. While many companies similarly victimized over...
Digg Founder Kevin Rose Gets A Book Deal
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com, has signed a deal with HarperStudio to write a book about “the secrets to his success.” It will be titled One to One Million. — Debbie Stier, associate publishe...
Oh dear: Google flagged over logo dispute
Before and after ... (above) Jessie Du's winning logo, (below) the altered version that appeared online. — An Australia Day artwork by student Jessie Du will be viewed by millions on Google's home ...
Walmart Says It Has “No Plans” To Carry The Nexus One (GOOG, WMT)
Maybe Google's Nexus One won't be coming to Walmart after all. — Earlier today we noted that the Nexus One was featured on Walmart's wireless site. — According to Walmart, that was a mistake.
A better way to browse your LinkedIn connections
As a company that's based on the mantra “Relationships Matter”; we want to make it easier than ever for you to find, organize and stay in touch with your business connections. Over the next few weeks...
Actual News on Earnings Call: Yahoo Disables Annoying “Hover” Tool on Homepage, Restructures International Ops
News was actually committed during Yahoo's fourth-quarter earnings conference call today when CEO Carol Bartz noted that the company would disable its irksome “hover interaction” …
Square Announces Its Full List Of Angels With Some Surprises (Mayer, Crowley, Fanning)
Square, the startup that is making mobile payments for the iPhone, just announced it's full list of angel investors. Kevin Rose announced his involvement in a video demo (embedded below) …
Twitter now has 75M users; most asleep at the mouse
Though Twitter is still getting newbie users, many are inactive — Computerworld - The number of Twitter users has climbed to a lofty 75 million, but the growth rate of new users is slowing and a lot...
The Fight to Save MySQL: Interview with Monty Widenius
“I will do everything that is possible to keep MySQL alive,” says Michael (Monty) Widenius, the main developer of the well-known open source database. “I just hope it's enough.” — Widenius is talki...
In the Future We'll All Have Online Reputation Scores
In a recent interview with EMC's Stu Miniman about the future of the web, I predicted that in 20 years, we'll all have online reputation scores. Little badges, numbers that communicate our level of a...
China says won't limit Google's Android mobile platform
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not try to limit use of Google's Android mobile phone platform in the Chinese market, its information technology regulator said on Wednesday. — China would not limit a...
Everything Old Is New Again...Techcrunch Adds Interstitials
Last year, top 100 tech blog Techcrunch added a “meta refresh” to their homepage which allowed your Internet browser to refresh the homepage at specific intervals of time without your instruction. Th...
Google releases new Google Voice for iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc's gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on t...
TechCrunch Hacked
As some people noticed, at approximately 10:30 pm PST on Monday evening the main site in the TechCrunch Network - techcrunch.com - was hacked and redirected. The site was back up briefly at 11:30 pm ...
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to ta...
Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose “Disable”
Disclosure: I serve as co-counsel in unrelated litigation against Google, Vulcan Golf et al. v. Google et al. I also serve as a consultant to various companies that compete with Google. But I write ...
Report: Attackers sent Google workers IMs from ‘friends’
People behind the China-based online attacks of Google and other companies looked up key employees on social networks and contacted them pretending to be their friends to get the workers to click on l...
Facebook Investors: No 2010 IPO for Facebook
The two major investors in Facebook, speaking today at DLD in Munich, put a line in the sand: read their lips, no IPO for the company in 2010. Both Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, and Yuri Milner of DS...
Debunking: Those are NOT photos of the Apple Tablet
Saw on Mashable that some designer posted “actual” photos of the “tablet”. I'm no photography expert, but they looked wrong from the beginning. I can't say I've 100% proven it, but I'm pretty sure t...
Walmart greeters will soon welcome you to a Nexus One with Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T 3G?
Today's Nexus One may be the hottest keyboard-free Android smartphone on the market today, but it doesn't exactly have the hottest network support. That looks like it'll be changing soon thanks …
Cloudkick Rolls Out Freemium Model For Server Management System
Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, is rolling out its freemium model and additional features. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on...
Open Source is owned by the US
The open sauce website Sourceforge has managed to prove to the world that the movement is actually controlled by the US government. — While many developing countries have looked to Open Sauce as a w...
Google: Nexus One 3G issues result of poor coverage, bugs; patch possibly within a week
Looks like Google's investigation into the crappy 3G claims on the Nexus One are winding down, and it's a one-two combo of good news and bad news. First, the bad: preliminary findings suggest …
The Apple Paradox: How a Company That's So Closed Can Foster So Much Open Innovation
Wade Roush wrote: — [Corrected and clarified, 1:30 p.m. 1/25/10, see page 2] Come Wednesday, we'll learn a lot more about Apple's presumed slate device. What we know right now, first hand, is a big...
Verizon to Cut More Than 10,000 Jobs After Sales Miss Estimates
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. phone company, plans to cut more than 10,000 jobs at its fixed-line unit this year after posting fourth- quarter sales that m...
Google is Reducing Share of AdSense Publishers
The latest earnings report from Google has some not-so-good news for web publishers (bloggers included) who are monetizing their online content through the Google AdSense program. — While Google has...