Preview: Instapaper on iPad
I'm probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone's anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I'll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple's next revolutionary computing platform....
China Counters Google Move by Restricting Hong Kong Site
BEIJING — As Google began redirecting tens of millions of Chinese users on Tuesday to its uncensored Web site in Hong Kong, the company's remaining mainland operations came under pressure from its Chi...
Opera Mini submitted to Apple's App Store
Opera Mini for iPhone was officially submitted to the Apple iPhone App store today. A select few first saw it at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Now, the “fast like a rocket” browser is taki...
HTC EVO 4G is Sprint's Android-powered knight in superphone armor, we go hands-on
We've been rumoring a WiMAX “HTC Supersonic” for a while now, and Sprint just dropped the hard news: the phone will be dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, will be released this Summer and it's easily the best spec...
Amazon: You Need To Change Your Idiotic Customer Reviews Policy Right Now
It's hard to feel sorry for a wildly successful author, but in the case of Michael Lewis I'll make an exception. Just this once. — Lewis' latest book - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine …
Dudes can pay hot girls to play online video games with them
If you're a lonely gamer dude, then GameCrush might be your ticket to meet a hot girl. — That's the basic pitch of this social networking service, where guys scan pay cash to play hardcore video ga...
Jobs on a roll, drops three more emails; expect universal iPhone mailbox
Okay, who hasn't gotten an email from Steve Jobs this week? Yesterday we reported on an email Steve sent to a user regarding Google's Picasa. Also, a MacRumors reader emailed Jobs yesterday about hi...
Microsoft: Want to Learn About Our Secret Tablet? Read Engadget.
Want to get the latest news on “Courier,” Microsoft's rumored-but-not-confirmed answer to Apple's iPad? Microsoft doesn't want to talk about it. But Redmond does have a suggestion for you: Read the ...
The Contract-Free iPhone Is Simply The First Sign That A New iPhone Is Nearing
This morning, the Internet was abuzz with the news that Apple would begin selling unlocked iPhones. The only problem? It's not true. In fact, it's no different from what Apple did last year at this...
Twitter Starts Rolling Out Contributors Feature, Salesforce Activated
Back in December, Twitter noted a new feature it was testing out, Contributors. Basically, this allows multiple people to tweet from one account (with individual attribution below the tweet).
Nintendo announces 3DS — the glasses-free 3D successor to the DS
the glasses-free 3D successor to the DS — Whoa, now this is a whopper coming (almost) out of nowhere. Nintendo has just slipped out a press release in Japan informing the world that all-new 3D-capab...
Exclusive: How Google's Eric Schmidt Lost His Mistress, His Partner and Steve Jobs
Eric Schmidt hates camping. Which is why, when Steve Jobs broke up with him, Google's CEO was at a payphone on a lonesome desert road, 45 minutes from Burning Man, with only his mistress Kate Bohner ...
Clearwire: We'll cover 120 million people by the end of 2010, speeds will increase 20% to 30% too
Clearwire, one of the world's few WiMAX network operators, has announced that by the end of 2010 their service will be able to reach 120 million people. That's actually quite meaningful since Verizon...
How the Tablet Will Change the World
Everyone who jammed into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27, 2010, knew what they were there for: Apple CEO Steve Jobs' introduction of a thin, always-on tablet device ...
The Startup Visa Bill Debate
I'm on vacation this week skiing with my family. I got back from the mountain yesterday afternoon, checked in on email, made a few phone calls, and took a quick look at Techmeme. I saw a headline th...
OpenDNS Now Serves 1% Of The Internet (That's A Big Number)
When you think of one percent of something, it's usually not a very big number. But in some cases it is. Like when you're talking about all of the users of the Internet in the world. — Today, Open...
Google Says Local Intent is Behind One-Third of Mobile Searches
Speaking at a Mobile Marketing & Advertising event in Las Vegas to coincide with CTIA Wireless 2010, Diana Pouliot - director of mobile advertising at Google - revealed that one-third of all Google se...
CTIA: AT&T Exec Says U.S. Leads The World In 3G Subscribers
Ralph de la Vega, chief of AT&T (T) Mobility and Consumer Markets, asserted today that the U.S. leads the world in 3G subscribers, with 117 million, 18% of the world's total, and ahead of Japan at 101...
Offerpal Media Acquires Tapjoy, Gains Beachhead For Mobile App Monetization
In late 2009 we wrote about Tapjoy's evolution from a mobile app developer to a mobile app monetization platform. — Tomorrow, Offerpal Media, one of the giants in social gaming monetization, will an...
Foursquare goes to the ‘Jersey Shore’
DJ Pauly D, MTV superstar and new Foursquare power user. — We already knew that in the heated battle among location-based social-networking start-ups, Foursquare already had Ashton Kutcher on its te...
Malware delivered by Yahoo, Fox, Google ads
These charts show incidences of malware distributed by a number of ad delivery platforms over a six-day period last month that were detected by Avast. Yahoo and Fox have the highest counts. — Malwa...
Yahoo's Display Ad Target: Neighborhoods
Yahoo wants to remain the top display ad seller. Its strategy is to go local. — National advertisers spend more than $120 billion on advertising in local markets and Yahoo wants it. — This year t...
Palm moving to Android to stay alive? Not according to Palm
You may be seeing a rumor doing the rounds today about Palm throwing in the towel and moving to the Android platform as a means of survival — but just hang on. Most reports are citing an email that m...
Mozilla Stops Firefox Development For Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7
Mozilla has been building a version of Firefox for Windows Mobile devices for quite some time now with anticipation that Microsoft might increase it's market share. The Windows Phone 7 announcement w...
Bill Gates, Toshiba to build nuclear reactor
Text: — BANGALORE: Toshiba Corp and Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates would team up to develop a next-generation nuclear reactor that can operate for up to 100 years without refueling, the Nikkei b...
Nuance copy and pastes Swype's new touch screen input method, they're calling it “T9 Trace”
Swype showed the world a new way to input text on touch screen devices. Rather than pushing buttons on a soft keyboard, one simply had to touch the screen once, on the first letter of a word …
Blockbuster To Get New Warner Bros DVDs Four Weeks Before Netflix/Redbox
This surely isn't the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs. It has a new windowing deal with Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) …
Twitter Forces Facebook To Open Up Beyond “Friends”
At Facebook's developer conference (f8) next month, the company is expected to announce a number of services that continue the opening of the platform as well as expanding access to disconnected user ...
Palm's not dead, so why write its epitaph?
Wall Street's vultures are circling over Palm, screeching for its death. Tech pundits are joining the death watch, in one of the more morbid displays of graveyard tech journalism ever. As I've asser...