Microsoft Announces Patent Agreement With HTC
Agreement will cover HTC's Android phones. — Microsoft Corp. and HTC Corp. have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones runn...
HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion
Combination will accelerate HP's growth within the more than $100 billion connected mobile device market — HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive a...
Prosecutors defend Gizmodo search in iPhone probe
San Mateo County prosecutors are defending the search of a Gizmodo.com editor's home and seizure of his computers that are part of a criminal investigation into an iPhone prototype lost by an Apple em...
H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X
ArsTechnica recently asked Adobe if we would use the recently added video acceleration API in Mac OS X 10.6.3. The answer was yes and today we are making it available as a beta version (it was also a...
Discovering pages “similar to” ones that you like
One of the great things about the web is choice. There's a website out there for nearly everything, and sometimes there are many sites all dedicated to a single topic. But how can you find all the s...
The New Image Search for Android and iPhone
When you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results. So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ ...
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco
Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through June 11 at San Francisco's Moscone West. The five-day conference includes the first ever iPad...
iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance
AT&T's own Ralph de la Vega mentioned as early as November of 2008 that you'd be able to tether your iPhone to your computer and use it as a modem “soon,” but here we are some ten months after the ini...
Match.com No longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers.
Here is comscores worldwide ranking of dating sites for march. We are doing pretty good considering we are only in UK, Canada and US. — Last year Match launched a plentyoffish clone called downt...
Apple drops Mac category from annual design awards
Third-party developers heaved a sigh of relief this morning as Apple finally announced the dates for its 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference. But that sigh was quickly followed by a raised eyebrow of...
When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt)
Editor's note: The following excerpt is from Mastering The VC Game, a new book by Jeffrey Bussgang that goes on sale Thursday. It tells the backstory of Twitter from the perspective of founder Jack D...
AOL Sells IM Service ICQ To Russia's DST For $187.5 Million
As expected, Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies says it has reached an agreement with AOL (NYSE: AOL) to buy its instant messaging service ICQ for $187.5 million. DST, which has invest...
How I Did It: Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO
It happened six years ago, but I still remember every detail of our journey to becoming a public company. It was a uniquely “Googley” experience that to this day says a lot about who we are. An IPO ...
Tremor Media Rounds Up Another $40 Million For Web Video Ads
Remember when the pre-roll — ads that run before Web video clips — was supposed to be on its way out? Somebody forgot to tell Tremor Media. — The video ad network, which makes most of its money sel...
The Mysterious And Scary BitTorrent Monitoring Site
While many BitTorrent users operate their clients without a second thought, many are well aware that everything they can do has the potential to be monitored by someone, somewhere. The data available...
Surprise Surprise, Pre-Ordered iPad 3G Begins Shipping
Being the 28th of April, it figures that iPad 3G pre-order customers have begun receiving confirmation their iPad 3Gs are shipping. They should be dropping on doormats this Friday, or available in-st...
AOL's Turnaround Isn't Here Yet: Revenues Down 23 Percent
Web advertising is back, but not at AOL: The company says revenue declined 23 percent in the last quarter, with ad sales dropping by 19 percent. — The company reported earnings of 32 cents on revenu...