Digg: The Digg iFrame Toolbar is Dead / Unbanning Domains
Here are a couple updates regarding the DiggBar (iFrame toolbar) and banned sites. Note: These changes will not take place until the launch of Digg v4, sign up for the beta here. — DiggBar: — Fra...
We're Increasing Transparency and Eliminating ‘Favorite Review’
User trust is the foundation on which Yelp is built and the reason 31 million consumers turned to the site last month to find a great local business. Today we're announcing two important product chan...
Apple Announces Mobile Ad Plans Thursday, and Google Can't Wait to Tell the FTC
Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans. Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally...
Will FCC Choose “The Nuclear Option” In Net Neutrality Fight?
Today's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals to strike down the FCC's authority to order Comcast (CMCSA) not to throttle down traffic from BitTorrent and other file-sharing services poses a fundament...
Apple confirms iPad Wi-Fi issues, suggests fixes
If you feel like your brand-new iPad isn't working with wireless networks the way you think it should, the problem may not be in your head. Apple's support forums contain a number of comments from fr...
A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time
My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment. — As you can see, after geeking out on my Sut...
Yahoo buying Foursquare for $100 million? Let's check in.
A report surfaced today that Yahoo is considering buying Foursquare for $100 million. The story, put out by Silicon Alley Insider, seems pretty preposterous, considering Foursquare is the hottest nam...
Gmail for mobile integrates with Google Buzz
When Google Buzz for mobile launched in February, we created the mobile web app at buzz.google.com so you could post buzz on the go. Depending on your inbox integration settings buzz gets sent to you...
Here's The Real Story Behind Apple, Newsweek, Dan Lyons, And Steven Levy
Earlier today, we covered a flare up between Steven Levy of Wired and Dan Lyons, a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, tech columnist at Newsweek. — Over the weekend, Dan had appeared on CNN and said that Apple's...
Fusion Garage JooJoo review
We're not sure what's harder to believe: the fact that after months and months of the soap-opera-like drama that the JooJoo (formerly known as the CrunchPad) has finally landed in our hands, or that w...
How “Dirty” MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM
All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don't know about the marking o...
The iPad's Not So Revolutionary Inside
The inner workings of the iPad reveal that Apple has learned much from its iPhone development, using many of the same components and cramming those chips onto a pretty small board behind the device's ...
AOL Admits Bebo To Be Sold Or Shut Down; Memo Sets May Target For Decision
AOL (NYSE: AOL) told employees today that it may sell or shut down social network Bebo this year after deciding it would take too much additional investment to make keeping it worthwhile. Here's the ...
Redbox Could Take On Netflix in Streaming
Redbox could get into the online video streaming business, if a recent survey is any indication. According to High-Def Digest, Redbox has reportedly asked customers if they would be interested in a s...
iBooks and private APIs
iBooks' use of tons1 of private APIs is frustrating on a few levels, the biggest that it makes all third-party reading-related apps second-class citizens. — I won't be able to offer some features th...
Google search: more links are malicious than you realize
It is not uncommon to find malicious links in 15% to 20% of the first 100 results returned by Google for any popular search term (according to Google trends). If Google doesn't take the Blackhat SEO ...
Verizon CEO has told Apple of iPhone interest
NEW YORK - Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says the company has told Apple that it wants to carry the iPhone. But he declined to say when — or even if — the popular smart phone will be available for Veri...
Is iPad a game-changer?
If you're old enough to remember the vice-presidential debate between Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle, you're also old enough to remember the PC jr. — Quayle, a fit young man, probably chosen as a runn...
Privacy and Control
In January, Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment. Add Scott McNealy's and Larry...
IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator
IBM is threatening to pursue legal action against TurboHercules, a company that sells services relating to the open source Hercules project, an emulator that allows conventional computers with mainstr...
The Reason No One Is Bragging About iPad App Sales: The Numbers Are Too Small (AAPL)
Around Christmas, iPhone app developers LOVE to brag about how many apps they sold. The numbers are often huge. — But in the early days of Apple's iPad app market, no one's bragging about anything.
Crippled iWorks apps for iPad causes confusion and frustration for new owners
It seems that the iPad's crippled support for iWorks documents is causing frustration for some users. — The problems relate to the Keynote and Pages apps for the iPad and how these apps support cert...
Nokia Aiming a Tablet at Apple: Exclusive
Stock quotes in this article: NOK , AAPL , MSFT , GOOG , HPC — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Nokia(NOK) is out to prove again that it can be late, wrong and yet still willing to stick its neck out in areas...
John Doerr: The Next Big Thing
This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP's increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additio...
We're Increasing Transparency and Eliminating ‘Favorite Review’
User trust is the foundation on which Yelp is built and the reason 31 million consumers turned to the site last month to find a great local business. Today we're announcing two important product chan...
Understanding the iPad's Industrial Design
Apple's iPad embodies Dieter Rams' famous Ten Principles for Good Design, the ten commandments that every company should follow before manufacturing any product. It feels like the future in your hand...
Skype updates for iPad, no Push Notification, no 3G
Skype updated their iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad app today to 1.3.1 with the below improvements. — Tested with iPad, iPhone OS 3.2 Improved stability in the following areas: - When switching between tabs...
Android App Growth on the Rise: 9000+ New Apps in March Alone
According to recent statistics from AndroidLib.com, the Android Marketplace saw 9,331 new mobile applications added to its app store during the month of March, 2010. This number is even more phenomen...
The IPad's Charging Challenge Explained
Anyone taking possession of a shiny new iPad this weekend may have noticed an odd message when connecting their gadget to some computers or USB chargers: the words Not charging in the iPad's menu bar....
Apple Splits The App Store - iPhone & iPad Apps Now Separated
It didn't bother me much personally, but the way Apple mixed up together iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store, and more particularly on its front page wasn't really optimal in terms of user experienc...
Is permission needed to retweet hot news?
When an aggregator like Google News publishes newspaper headlines, is the company treading on thin ice? What about aggregators that publish headlines and a one-line excerpt? What about those that si...
Google Chrome Cracks 6% Market Share, Could Hit 10% in 2010
Google's Chrome Web browser held 6.1 percent market share through March 2010 and is on pace to top 10 percent by the end of 2010, according to data from Net Applications. Chrome's gain comes after it...
AT&T plans $1 billion investment in enterprise cloud services
AT&T said Tuesday it will allocate $1 billion of its capital spending budget to focus on its cloud computing services for companies and expand small business services. — The 2010 enterprise investme...
Elemental Live: the cure for lousy streaming video?
Watching live video on the Internet remains a hit-or-miss experience, with buffer delays and stream glitches ruining the show. Elemental Technologies is launching a hardware system today that makes i...
Exploits not needed to attack via PDF files
Jeremy Conway created a video to show how his PDF hack works. — Portable Document Format (PDF) files could be used to spread malware to clean PDF files stored on a target computer running Adobe Acro...
Uncle Sam Wants You (To Fight Hackers)
The U.S. government is stepping up recruitment of engineers who can help wage cyberwar — Kyle Osborn does a good job impersonating a technical support rep. On a recent day in Southern California, th...
Venture Funding Doubled To $12.8 Billion In First Quarter
Venture capital is flowing once again to startups at a steady pace. During the first quarter of 2010, the total value of venture funding doubled to $12.8 billion from $6 billion a year before, when i...
Rhapsody, Now Independent, Reboots With a Price Cut
Rhapsody has officially become an independent company, two months after former parent RealNetworks revealed plans to cede majority control of the music subscription provider. Now a standalone entity ...