Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23
Verizon will release Google's Nexus One Android device on March 23 according to sources familiar with the matter. — The Nexus One, originally released on T-Mobile in January, has passed FCC inspecti...
Competition Authorities and Search
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — Government competition agencies are increasingly focused on Google's growing power in search and online advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, t...
iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?”
When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he'd won Apple's iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer first thought was that he was being pranked.
Cellphones Let Shoppers Point, Click and Purchase
Shoppers will soon be able to stand outside the designer Norma Kamali's boutique in Manhattan, point a phone at merchandise in the window and buy it — even late at night when the store is closed. — ...
The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix
The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it's been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged ...
How Digg Found a Way to Make Money
Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn't a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring search or brand ads onto sites li...
Apple Stacks The Deck Against Amazon's Kindle App (AAPL, AMZN)
When Apple's iPad goes on sale in a few weeks, its iBookstore will have a distinct user-experience advantage over e-book competitors like Amazon's Kindle App. — That is, the iBookstore will let you ...
Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam
Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users. The company just announced that it has deprecated “application notifications” and will require apps to use other, less intrusive ...
Lady Justice Needs a Lawsuit Filter....
There has been a long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around with reviews in exchange for money.
Military Announces New Social Media Policy
Many months behind schedule, the Department of Defense on Friday issued a new policy that, on the surface, seems likely to expand access to popular social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook and T...
Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga
I love this whole unfolding future-of-Flash saga because it's a wonderful mix of politics and technology. It's complex and multivariate, but not too complex to get a handle on the basic gist. It occ...
Intel to introduce faster Atom chip Monday
Intel plans to release a faster version of its “Pine Trail” Atom processor for Netbooks on Monday, bringing a little extra performance to this popular segment of the laptop market. — Major PC makers...
Checking out Symbian^4: Nokia's response to the iPhone
During last week's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, I had a very interesting discussion with the folks at the Symbian Foundation. Long story short, I got a very brief look at wha...
Twitter phishing hack hits BBC, PCC ... and Guardian
An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter - but only leads to identity theft and malware (updated x2, with video) — Thousands of Twitter users have seen their ac...
Nokia CEO Stinging From IPhone Aims to Out-Jobs Apple With Apps and Maps
Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Sitting in a meeting room that looks out on a frozen Baltic bay, Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo mentions a biography he's reading. It's about Mauno Koivi...
Uncovering Microsoft Office Labs
Earlier this year, I covered a new tool out of the somewhat mysterious Microsoft Office Labs called Ribbon Hero. Developed with input from Microsoft's XBox group, the Facebook-based social learning g...
School administrator boasts to PBS about his laptop spying
especially (as Scott notes) the absence of any questions about student privacy from the interviewer. I keep trying to imagine what my education would have been like if all my conversations …
Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad
On Feb 25, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's iPhone. Today's patent reveals yet another innovative con...
FriendFeed Goes Down Hard. Both Remaining Users Pissed.
FriendFeed is down right now. It has been down for the past 30 minutes or so. Sadly, that's not news anymore. Not because, like Twitter of old, it's down all the time, but rather, because it seems ...
Online Music Service Mog Raises About $10 Million; UK Expansion Planned
Berkeley, CA-based music service Mog.com, which recently launched its subscription music service with good review, is taking a new VC round to finance an entry to the UK market, promising to undercut ...
Sprint confirms Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update coming tomorrow (update: full changelog!)
Just hours after we wrapped our mitts around what looked to be Palm's official webOS 1.4 changelog, along comes this: confirmation from none other than Sprint itself.
Ron Conway Raising $10 Million Angel Fund To Expand SV Angel
Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own c...
Adobe kills Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile 6.5, smitten with Windows Phone 7 Series
There are a couple certainties when it comes to Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 and the prospects for integrated Flash support on smartphones - Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won't ever allow native Flash on the iPhone...
Google Patent Auto-Converts Print Publications to E-Articles
A patent application by Google (GOOG), filed in August 2008 and only made public last week, shows that the company is working on an automated way to split printed magazines and newspapers into individ...
Publish and be deleted
He couldn't take it anymore. — When Hong Kong writer and poet Liao Weitang found his online photo album had been deleted by douban.com, he quit, leaving behind the 3,000 friends he had made over two...