Google Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. — “Google performed very well in the first quarter, with 23% year over year revenue growth driven b...
Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net
A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. — The Japanese trojan virus installs itself ...
Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff
One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing ...
Sony announces “division two” VAIO laptops
Sony is to launch a “division two” of VAIO laptops that are made and designed by other manufacturers. — In an exclusive interview with PC Pro, the deputy president of Sony VAIO's Business Group anno...
Developers: how will we all get along with Twitter's annotation feature?
Today at the Twitter Chirp Hack Day I talked with a ton of developers and the new feature they were most interested in. Adam Jackson echoed everyone I've heard today when he tweeted “Twitter Annotati...
A New Approach to Printing
When we demonstrated Google Chrome OS last Fall, a few folks asked us how it would handle printing. Today we wanted to give developers a little more insight into our approach for printing from Chrome...
Demand Media enlists Goldman for IPO
Demand Media, a closely watched startup that mines online search engine data to generate thousands of videos and web stories a day, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering. — P...
Apple Software Security Inferior to Microsoft's, Says Iconic Hacker
Marc Maiffret — A security expert that build his career on identifying vulnerabilities in Microsoft software now says that the company has come a long way. Marc Maiffret, a former hacker turned leg...
Video game industry finally sees a rebound
For the first time in months, video game industry executives can exhale. — That's because, according to industry analyst The NPD Group, the video games business as a whole saw a 6 percent year-over-...
Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deeper Calendar Integration
Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Gmail has also increased ...
Canadian wireless carrier claims next-gen iPhone to arrive in June
Apple will stick with its June launch for a new iPhone this year, with the next-generation handset scheduled to be released in just a few months, according to one Canadian wireless provider.
F*CK you naysayers. Twitter did NOT f*ck us and just rocks.
You guys are WRONG Twitter will keep getting huge and growing WITH its developers. — It's been a really stressful few days for the Twitter developers from the announcements of Friday to this decisiv...
Apple iPad May Support USB Audio Interfaces Via Camera Accessory Kit
In this bold, new future of computing, we don't need USB or ports, huh? Wait - scratch that - you may have your iPad and your USB, too, after all. Photo (CC) Teo. — Score one for standards.
Steve Jobs Replies To Email: “Are You Nuts?”
Once again, Steve Jobs replied to another email, and this time in quite a different mood. Paul Shadwell emailed el Jobso expressing his frustration about Apple's delays for the international iPad shi...
Social email helper Xobni raises $16.2M in new funding
Xobni, a software plug-in that helps users see social connections in their email, is raising $16.2 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — The co...
The Rest Of The Details On That Monster Groupon Financing
On Tuesday we reported on a massive new financing round for Groupon. We've been gathering more details on the yet-to-be-announced round and other financial details about the company, and the picture ...
Hands-on with the WebStation Android Tablet
Expectations are a very dangerous thing indeed. As a user, if you expect a new device to do something — however unrealistic that expectation may be — you are bound to be disappointed when you find th...
Big upgrades for premium Evernote users
It's been no big secret that I'm a fan and frequent user of Evernote. It's useful, both as a memory augmentation and as a general information collection utility that makes it easy to locate what I ne...
Demand Media enlists Goldman for IPO
Demand Media, a closely watched startup that mines online search engine data to generate thousands of videos and web stories a day, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering. — P...
Toshiba U.S. PC sales surge, slates coming
(Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's personal computer sales in the United States jumped 50 percent in the first quarter, and the company said it was preparing to roll out tablet-style computing devices later t...
Opera Mini iPhone App Downloaded 1 Million Times On First Day In App Store
On its first day of availability on the App Store since it was - surprisingly, to many - approved by Apple, Opera Mini for iPhone (iTunes link) was downloaded one million times. — Opera this morning...
Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too)
The House has passed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010” (PDF), which does exactly what its name would lead you to believe. — Under the bill, it becomes illegal “to cause any caller ID service to t...
Intel Says Its Light Peak Optical Cables May Succeed USB
Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost universal...
Q1'10 spam & virus trends from Postini
Editor's note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which processes more than 3 billion email connections per...
MySpace Gets Serious About Events
Here's a ray of product sunshine in an otherwise overcast MySpace world. Tonight they are launching a new MySpace events and calendar platform that integrates technology from MySpace Music, iLike, So...
27-Inch iMac Firmware Updates Address High Processor Usage, Display Backlight, and Target Display Mode Issues
Apple today continues its barrage of updates with the release of a pair of firmware updates for its 27-inch iMac models addressing a trio of issues.
Organic Startup Ideas
The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you? — There are two types of startup ideas: those that grow organically out of yo...