This Is Apple's Next iPhone
You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the...
Connecting to Everything You Care About
Facebook has always been about helping people make connections. We started with helping people connect with their friends, and over time we expanded this model to mirror more of the connections you m...
Apple said to use OLED in second-generation iPad
Apple reportedly has started development of the second generation iPad using the same design concept as for the iPhone 4G, and will use an OLED panel, according to sources in the component industry. ...
HP Slate leaks its way into the wild: ‘meh’
We've only ever seen the HP Slate in extremely controlled demonstrations and cheesy videos until now, but it looks like the Windows 7 tablet just spent a little bit of time in the wild — Conecti.ca's ...
iPhone OS 4 reveals its social side: Facebook integration?
Users of webOS and HTC Sense can skip ahead, you're already familiar with tight social networking integration on your handsets. Now Apple appears ready to join the social, so to speak. New evidence ...
Nielsen: Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well
When Social Ads Collide With Stated Interests, Awareness Goes Up — BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — It pays to have fans on Facebook if you want your ads to work there too, according to the first public ...
Facebook Looks to Extend Its Presence
SAN FRANCISCO — With about half of Facebook's 400 million users checking in daily, the social networking company has established itself as one of the Web's most popular destinations. — Now Facebook ...
Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a per...
HTC Droid Incredible for Verizon Wireless review
Is it a coincidence Verizon Wireless has consecutively had the last two most-anticipated Android handsets? With the Motorola DROID seemingly feeling like old news (Google even basically castrated it ...
Sheryl Sandberg: What She Saw at The Revolution
Nobody close to Sheryl Sandberg, now the COO of Facebook, is surprised to find her running the company that turned friend into a verb. In her case, it's an action verb. Sheryl remembers birthdays. ...
US Sees 3G iPads ‘By May 7’ Apple Confirms
We're out the block for 3G iPad sales, at least in the US, where Apple has updated its store to confirm 3G-equipped models of the hot new product will ship “By May 7”. — That's great news for iPad p...
As Abbott Flocks From Palm To Twitter, Pass Becomes The First Twitter CTO
Last Friday, news hit that Michael Abbott, Palm's head of software and services, the man in charge of its webOS platform, was leaving the company. The news, which broke via a regulatory filing …
Microsoft stealth launches ‘historic’ programming language
Hidden F# strikes right note — Launching a new language is easy - getting it used is hard. The combination of existing code and existing skills is a strong barrier to adoption, and even excellent l...
Amazon.com fights tax collectors' demand for 50 million records
Amazon.com filed a lawsuit on Monday to fend off a sweeping demand from North Carolina's tax collectors: detailed records including names and addresses of customers and information about exactly what ...
Don't Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.
It is becoming alarmingly apparent that Foursquare is strongly considering a sale to Yahoo. As of the end of last week they had put the venture capitalists vying for their attention on ice. Those VC...
Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz Drops Out of Funding Race for Foursquare
In an unusual move for a venture firm chasing a hot start-up, Andreessen Horowitz said it has dropped out of the race to be an investor in social location company Foursquare. — In an interview tonig...
NHL + Updated Beta
It's springtime, and in the animal world that means it's time to come out of hibernation, time for leaves to grow back, and time for humans to start enjoying saturday afternoons at the park and prepar...
7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers.
Personal-Finance Site Mint Expands to Allow More Banks
Starting Monday, personal-finance site Mint.com will double the number of financial institutions from which it can receive account information. … The change is important for Mint as the site seeks to ...
Radio Shack Dumping Palm?
For Palm (PALM), April is indeed proving to be the cruelest month. It began with reports that the company has put itself up for sale and continued with news of the departure of software chief Michael...
VP8: The Savior Codec
This past week, the internet picked up — and subsequently sprinted like a cheetah with — an unsourced and highly unsubstantiated rumor that Google will open source the VP8 video codec, recently procur...