How to watch Facebook's F8 developers conference live on the web
Fans of social networking site Facebook can stay up to date with the latest information streamed straight from the company's f8 Developers conference. — During the April 21 conference Facebook devel...
AT&T earnings propelled by iPhone activations, connected devices like e-readers, GPS systems
Updated: AT&T said Wednesday that it added 1.9 million wireless subscribers in the first quarter as the company continued to benefit from smartphone adoption and a bevy of connected devices such as e-...
Mac & the iPad, History Repeats Itself
For those of us around Apple for the launch of the 1984 Mac, things are awfully familiar. In bringing that original Mac to market, Steve hit on a formula that worked for him. He keeps repeating it, ...
Visa Picks Up CyberSource For $2 Billion
Payment network operator Visa has agreed to acquire e-payment company CyberSource for $26 per share, or total consideration of approximately $2 billion to be paid with cash on hand. The price represe...
Google brings free turn-by-turn Navigation to UK Androids (updated)
Talk about random gifts from the ether. British Android device owners are waking up this morning to discover their robot-themed operating system has gone and upgraded itself overnight.
Google Said to Hold Talks to Buy ITA; Travel Program Firm Seeks $1 Billion
Google Inc. is in talks to acquire ITA Software Inc., a maker of travel programs used by companies including Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and Microsoft Corp., three people familiar with the matter said.
Will Wall Street require Python?
SEC considers regulations expressed in popular programming languages — 17 I like it! — Failure is difficult. Sometimes success is even more so. — What if, for example, Python not only: — becom...
Skype By the Numbers: It's Really Big
We all marvel at Facebook and its number of users, which at last check stood at around 400 million. For context, consider Skype, which at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009 had 560 million registe...
Salesforce Buys Business Directory Jigsaw For $142 Million In Cash Plus Earn-Out
Salesforce.com has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jigsaw, which provides crowd-sourced data services in the cloud, for approximately $142 million in cash …
Microsoft prepping next Windows Live
Microsoft is getting ready to start public testing of the next version of its moviemaking and photo-editing software, but the company confirmed this week that the products won't run on Windows XP. — ...
The keyboardless Office: a review of iWork for iPad
The validity of the iPad as a casual device—something you can use to check your e-mail, surf the Internet on the couch, or watch a movie in bed—has never really been in question. The real question is...
ACTA treaty deputizes Internet providers as copyright cops
Internet service providers could become copyright Net-cops encouraged to block access to suspected pirate Web sites, according to a draft of a previously-secret treaty made public on Wednesday. — On...
Microsoft's long-awaited SQL Server 2008 update finally ships
IDG News Service - Microsoft today released to manufacturing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, the new version of its relational database management system software. — The software, a major update of th...
iTravel: Apple's Future Travel Centric App for the iPhone
Christina Warrens of Mashable covered our iTunes Concert Ticket + report last week and added that “Delta Airlines, which is headquartered in my hometown, supports digital boarding passes at some of it...
Oxford University Press launches the Anti-Google
Crowdsourced knowledge repositories like Wikipedia are great for finding the answer to questions that aren't particularly urgent or critical, but their problems are legion, well-documented, and oft-la...
Bill Gates on Journalism and Social Media (and the iPad, too)
Bill Gates strikes me as a guy who rarely says anything other than what he wants to say. And these days he's largely talking about the big, multi-billion dollar philanthropic work of his Bill and Mel...
Dell Lightning: the ultimate Windows Phone 7 device leaks out
Hot damn, people. The mother of all Dell leaks just dropped into our laps, and the absolute highlight has to be the Lightning, a Windows Phone 7 portrait slider. That's right — a portrait slider.
Live-Blogging Facebook's f8 Developer Conference
We're at Facebook's f8 developer conference. Here's our live blog. Founder Mark Zuckerberg is on stage: — Three years ago at our first f8, we launched Facebook platform. Together we started an in...
Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service
Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. — Under the proposal, H...
Android running on iPhone!
I've been working on this quietly in the background. Sorry about the initial video quality, but YouTube promises that the quality will get better as the video gets processed more. The back part of t...
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Revenue Comes From (AAPL)
Apple's iPhone business, which didn't exist three years ago, now represents a whopping 40% of the company's revenue, and has been the company's biggest revenue generator for three quarters in a row.
Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over ‘Lost’ iPhone Story
How hard must the finder of lost property try to return it to its owner before deciding it's his to keep or sell? The answer to that question could determine whether Monday's iPhone scoop results in ...
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code
As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We...
Apple to Make an Offer to Acquire ARM?
The London Evening Standard reports that there have been rumors in London's financial district that Apple may be interested in acquiring ARM Holdings. ARM's shares shot up today based on the strong f...
Adobe AIR on the Android Platform
Partnerships have been at the very heart of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive mobile platform, since we first introduced it with the Open Handset Alliance. Through close relationships w...
Risky Business: Omidyar's Hawaiian News Startup Civil Beat Comes With Steep Price Tag
It sounds as idyllic as the scenery: an online civic square launching May 4 where Hawaiians can, as founder Pierre Omdiyar explains, “learn about and better understand our home, the challenges we face...