Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad 3G products...
iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28
Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from ...
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live
The relationship between Facebook and its biggest gaming partner, Zynga, are at an all time low, we've heard from multiple sources. The level of stress, says one source, is “intense.”
Toshiba building world's lightest 13-inch laptop with fast charging SCiB battery?
Toshiba has a long history of making highly desirable ultraportables. Now, if today's rumor pans out, it seem set to bust out another in the form of the world's lightest (less than 1Kg with SSD) 13 i...
Rivals are invading its patch, but Nintendo is ready to go to war
Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple after profits tumbled at the Japanese giant for the first time in six years. — The reversal o...
The future of O3D
We launched the O3D API about a year ago to start a discussion within the web community about establishing a new standard for 3D graphics on the web. Since then, we've also helped develop WebGL, a 3D...
Android Now Running On iPhone 3G
After just a couple more weeks of work, we've made tremendous progress and brought Android to the iPhone 3G. Although this port is slightly more rough than the previous Android on first-generation iP...
Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia
As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Interne...
Shop and Share with Bing
A lot of us don't shop alone. Going to the mall is often a social thing, so why should shopping online be any different? 75% of shoppers seek advice from others even when shopping online and now Bin...
CBS Will Have Full Slate of Web Video on the iPad
CBS may have the most aggressive plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far, that's all they are — plans. The broadcaster has made only a limited number of promotional clips a...
AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide)
You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore. But you just never mind all that …
Report: Facebook Location Coming In A Few Weeks. But Is It Foursquare Or Twitter?
Yesterday, AdAge ran a story that Facebook was preparing to roll out its first true location-based service (beyond its for-fun Presence thing). The story said that the social network was partnering …
Everybody Is Wrong About Facebook's Foursquare-Killer
To the surprise of no one, Facebook is about to launch location-aware status updates. — The conventional wisdom is that this is very bad news for location-based social networks like Foursquare, Loop...
Now Borders Has A Kindle, Too: Here's The $150 ‘Kobo’ (BGP, AMZN, AAPL)
If black-and-white “e-ink” e-readers have any chance to compete with more sophisticated tablets like Apple's iPad, they had better be cheap. — And that's the best feature of Borders' new Kindle clon...
Verizon iPhone chatter is getting harder (than usual) to ignore
Alright, stop us if you've heard this one before — but seriously, we've noticed an uptick on the tip lines here at Engadget in the last couple weeks that's becoming difficult to ignore. It's one thin...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.
I can almost hear Ben Stein saying it right now. “Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?” — It's been almost 25 years since Ferris Bueller took his day off from school. And yet, the legend lives on toda...
Apple Needs To Fix Its App Store Spam Problem (AAPL)
Even with Apple's ham-fisted control over the App Store, it's still filled with spammy applications, notes Marco Arment, the developer behind the popular “Instapaper” app. — Case in point: Marco wan...
CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising (YHOO, GOOG, AAPL, MSFT)
Yahoo plans to spend $80 million on the next leg of its big ad campaign. If that sounds like a lot, that's because it is. It's almost double the amount Yahoo spent on advertising last year …
Yahoo CMO Steele On Ad Campaign: Word Of Mouth Isn't Enough For Us
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announced the second phase of its $100 million international ad campaign this week—a series of ads that push Yahoo's services. The slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. M...
Microsoft updates Bing Maps imagery to include more bird's eye views
Microsoft has released another huge update for their Bing Maps imagery. Every few months, Bing releases another major update for their Maps application, to include new countries, cities and variation...
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy
The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said. — Temporarily disabl...
On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence
It could be that Twitter research is popular because Twitter data is free and so accessible. That's okay. Gift horses are just as good for riding. — The best, latest entry in Twitter research is t...
Exclusive: AOL Hires Microsoft Exec Alex Gounares as CTO
According to sources close to the situation, AOL has hired Alex Gounares (pictured here) as its CTO. — Gounares's departure was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) today, where he is corporate ...
Google Reader Adds HTML5 Support
Google Reader has released a slew of new updates today, the most prominent being support for HTML5-powered videos and audio. — As HTML5 gains steam, partially due to Apple's war against Adobe Flash,...
WePad is now called WeTab - under pressure from Apple?
Neofonie, the German company behind the much-hyped iPad rival WePad, has changed the name of its tablet computer to WeTab, in a surprise move. The company has announced the name change on its Faceboo...
Tim O'Reilly: Steve Jobs Is Trying To Build A Fundamental Challenge To The Web
This morning during his keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly took a look at the State of the Internet Operating System — a term he uses to describe the intertwined web services like search, the ...
5 Ways Facebook's Open Graph Will Impact E-commerce
Mitchell Harper is co-founder of BigCommerce, a leading provider of shopping cart software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide. Mitchell has written and published over 300 articles relat...
Entelligence: Meet H/Pre
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. ...
That's a problem.
I went to buy Angry Birds on Topherchris' recommendation and got this: — The first two pages of search results for “angry birds”. — The first two are real. Rocket Bird 3D and MY BEST FRIEND are o...
Are You Ready, Foursquare? Here Comes Facebook.
Okay, Dennis Crowley: Hope you've figured out the whole take-Yahoo's-money-or-not thing. Because here comes Facebook. — The social network is finally ready to start rolling out its location service...
Shop and Share with Bing
A lot of us don't shop alone. Going to the mall is often a social thing, so why should shopping online be any different? 75% of shoppers seek advice from others even when shopping online and now Bin...
The Relationship Between Facebook and Privacy: It's Really Complicated
The tension between Facebook and its users — and governments, and advocacy groups — over privacy is one of the biggest thorns in the company's side right now, as it tries to balance the demands of the...
The Future of Reading is Open
Today, Scribd is changing the way you read documents online. Over the next few weeks and months, Scribd will convert our entire content corpus — tens of millions of documents, books and presentations...
Apple and Controlling the Platform
It's almost scary how much power Apple seems to have these days. Heck, during the Gizmodo iPhone 4G saga, they apparently even had control over the police! — One thing is sure - Steve Jobs has been...
iPhone and Android Fueling Worldwide Smartphone Growth
Sales of smartphones grew 56.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to new figures from IDC, far outpacing the 21.7 percent growth of the overall mobile market. Handset makers Apple a...
Layar Introduces Layar Stream to Help You Find Popular Nearby AR Content
Amsterdam-based mobile augmented reality developers Layar are announcing today the launch a new service that will make it easy for users to discover the most popular local AR content from their iPhone...
FLASH IS NOT A RIGHT
What Gripes about Apple tell us about Computational Literacy — I've been watching reactions to Apple's controversial decision to prohibit the publication of iPhone applications created in environmen...
WWDC 2010 Sells Out In 8 Days
Apple has updated their WWDC website to indicate that the event has sold out. The event took only 8 days to sell out after being officially announced last week. — WWDC 2010 will take place June 7-1...