Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
Apple® today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U...
A Fond Farewell
Many of you know that TV shows and movies regularly cycle in and out of the Hulu service. When a show is about to cycle out, we try our hardest to ensure that users who have subscribed to the show or...
TiVo unveils Series4 ‘Premiere’ DVRs with enhanced online integration
NEW YORK—TiVo on Tuesday officially announced two new DVRs that offer an updated user interface and enhanced integration and search capabilities for online video. The TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere ...
First Live Images of a BlackBerry Slider; Could This be the Storm3?
Now here is something very interesting! It appears to be the first live images of a BlackBerry Slider! While we cannot confirm the legitimacy of these images just yet, they do seem ever so convincin...
Ballmer: Google leads because ‘they did it right first’
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't really know how to answer. Can Bing be No. 1 in the U.S. search market? — “There's no good answer to this question,” Ballmer said Tuesday at the Search Marketing ...
Apple Stores will get iPads on March 10th, customers on the 26th?
The Examiner has a pretty interesting iPad story for us today. According to their sources, the iPad will reach Apple Stores for employee training on March 10th. On March 15th, the television commerc...
Facebook Revenues Up to $700 Million in 2009, On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010
Facebook is tight-lipped about its revenue numbers, which is typical of private companies. The most it has said publicly is that it became “free cash-flow positive” as of last September.
iPhone ego clash costs Flash at Virgin America
As Silicon Valley titans Apple and Adobe System deck it out over the weakness of Flash, one Valley-based outfit has put Adobe's Flash in its place - and that place isn't online — Start-up airline Vi...
Apple trying to store your video in the cloud
Apple's plans for cloud computing go beyond music. — The company's representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the ...
Facebook Developers See Dramatic Drop In Traffic Following Removal Of Notifications
Just over 24 hours after Facebook turned off application notifications, developers are reporting a dramatic decrease in traffic. Speaking to a number of developers, we've heard traffic has decreased ...
Virgin Mobile USA To Kill Their Postpaid Service (Helio) On May 25th
Update: This is now confirmed. See Virgin Mobile's statement below. — According to a series of tips I've just received from multiple trusted sources, Virgin Mobile USA is planning to shut down the ...
Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone
People love their iPhone apps — after all, Apple has sold over a billion of them since it launched the phone. And a big proportion of those apps are games. But you know what else a growing number of...
Microsoft rivals push to send browser ballot on world tour
The lobbying group European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) today called on antitrust regulators worldwide to follow the European Commission and pressure Redmond into offering a browser bal...
Carol Bartz Shoots A Subtle Dig At Facebook On CNBC, Asks “What's Their Revenue?” (YHOO)
Carol Bartz appeared on CNBC to talk Yahoo since today is the company's 15 year anniversary. In the course of the interview she heard the usual questions: — Would she have sold to Microsoft for $36?
Bigger Photos for Better Viewing
When it comes to viewing photos, we think bigger is better. We've begun increasing the maximum size for photos on Facebook by almost 20 percent to 720 pixels to give you higher quality photos and mak...
APPLE AGONISTES
iTunes Tries To Steer Labels Away From Amazon's Daily Deal — Apple's iTunes store has always dictated the terms of its dealings with record labels. As such, the largest U.S. music retailer has neve...
Yahoo TimeSense: New Trends Tool Previewed At SMX West
Today's “Real Time Search & The Major Search Engines” session at SMX West took an interesting twist when Yahoo's Ivan Davtchev took the stage to discuss his company's efforts in the real-time search s...
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Speaks About iPhone and iPad
The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on comments made today by AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at an investor conference in which he noted that he expects Apple's iPhone to be an import...
IBM Fires More Than 1,700 Employees, Mostly in the U.S., Labor Group Says
International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer-services provider, fired more than 1,700 workers, mostly in the U.S., and that number may rise, according to an employee advocacy gr...
Monster and Eons Founder Jeff Taylor Starts Incubator as Protest to Startups Fleeing Boston
Erin Kutz wrote: — Monster.com and Eons.com founder Jeff Taylor thinks entrepreneurs are bluffing when they cite Boston's harsh winter weather as the reason for fleeing the city for operations elsew...
Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
Apple® today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U...
A polyglot Google Chrome beta, with new privacy features
Whether you're catching up on your favorite Arabic gameshow, getting up to speed on the latest Korean mobile gadgetry, or researching the local perspective for a dream trip to Machu Picchu, we're all ...
A confession: I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air
Daniel Brusilovsky recently asked the founder of a startup for a Macbook Air and offered coverage in exchange. That founder was me, the CEO of Divvyshot. I came forward to Mike at TechCrunch.
Striving to Map the Shape-Shifting Net
SAN FRANCISCO — In a dimly lit chamber festooned with wires and hidden in one of California's largest data centers, Tim Pozar is changing the shape of the Internet. — He is using what Internet engin...
AT&T removes Google search from Android in favor of Yahoo
Next week, AT&T customers will finally be able to purchase their first Android phone, but the carrier has decided to remove one of the most used features of Google's operating system. AT&T went out o...
With 10-fold graphics improvement, Nvidia gains dozens of customers for second-generation Ion netbook graphics chip
Graphics chip designer Nvidia is announcing today it has more than 30 customers signed up to use its second-generation Ion chip to provide eye-popping graphics to netbooks.
Netflix Is Surveying Interest In An iPhone App
There has never been a shortage or rumors that Netflix streaming is coming to the iPhone. It just makes sense that eventually, the hot device and the hot service will meet. And that may be happening...
Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP
Ignore sites that nag to press the Help key, says zero-day bug advisory — Computerworld - Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its re...
Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”
Last August, we wrote about Y Combinator's latest idea: RFS, or, Requests for Startups. Basically, this allows the incubator to lead entrepreneurs in a certain direction based on trends they think wi...
HootSuite Rolls Out Android App; Partners With 140 Proof To Serve Ads On Mobile Clients
HootSuite, the Twitter clients that dubs itself as a social media dashboard for professionals, is launching an Android app, a new version of its iPhone app with Facebook integration and is integrating...
CoTweet Acquired By Email Marketing Firm ExactTarget
CoTweet, the Twitter CRM tool used by several massive brands including JetBlue and Ford, has been acquired by ExactTarget, an email marketing firm. — In a statement, ExactTarget CEO Scott Dorsey sai...
On Weeping Second-Rate Tears
Over the weekend, I couldn't help but notice a very interesting tweet by Twitter engineer Alex Payne. I couldn't help it because a number of people in my stream were retweeting it, or talking about i...
Gmail Security Enhancements Expected Tuesday
Google will roll out a number of security enhancements to Gmail this week, and perhaps as early as Tuesday, says a source with knowledge of the new features. The changes are specifically designed to ...
Ex-Mozilla Security Chief Takes Job at Apple
Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has been hired by Apple. — Snyder started her new job Monday, where she's now working as a senior security product manager, according to sources familiar ...
Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence. — McConnell's not ...
Fighting a Flood of Counterfeit Tech Products
As distributors hunt for fakes, an “epidemic” of bogus chips, routers, and computers costs the electronics industry up to $100 billion annually — Edward Dimmler dips a cotton swab in acetone and rub...