The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand
Friday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 26th birthday. My guess is he won't be enjoying it as much as he should, given that the top tech story of the day is a look at a private instant message excha...
WiFi data collection: An update
Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, whi...
Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us
A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe's Flash platform. — On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John ...
God help us all, here comes 4chan 2
The above image shows what the new 4chan likely will look like. (Beta tester names blurred to protect them from other /b/-tards.) — When I write about imageboard Web site 4chan, I always worry that...
Google executives reflect on year at annual meeting
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google executives faced little hostility at the company's annual stockholder meeting Thursday, other than a familiar complaint: it's hard to call people at Google. — Chairman a...
Wi-Fi Sync app rejected by Apple, headed to Cydia for $9.99
Can't say we're surprised to hear that Apple rejected Greg Hughes' Wi-Fi Sync app. You know, the app that allows you to wirelessly sync your iPhone / iPod touch with iTunes without having to USB teth...
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls
Liza Colburn uses her cellphone constantly. She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and F...
Roommate's Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the ongoing polic...
Dell's Streak micro-tablet to hit Europe in June, US “later this summer”
I'm not sure who among you is really pumped about a 5-inch tablet when we've got phones approaching that size, but hey, diff'rent tablets for diff'rent... users, right? It looked okay when we saw it ...
Twitter Improves Trending Topic Algorithm: Bye Bye, Bieber!
Twitter has updated the algorithm behind its popular Trending Topics feature, changing the focus from the most discussed items to what is “most breaking” and “immediately popular.” — Twitter confirm...
Announcing Eclipse Labs
Many of us here at Google, along with the open source community, use the Eclipse IDE when we develop for Android, App Engine, and Google Chrome. We also have a lot of Google engineers that use Eclips...
BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider launching in June at AT&T
While June has usually been strictly roped off as “iPhone month” for AT&T, this year looks like it will be different. A couple of our RIM sources have informed us that the BlackBerry Bold 9800 slider...
AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year's end
AT&T has changed its story on its 3.5G / 3.75G strategy prior to rolling out LTE seemingly countless times in the past couple years, but the good news is that the latest policy shift is a decidedly po...
44 Workers Sue iPhone Contractor Wintek Over Alleged Poisoning
News, analysis and insights from Barron's Silicon Valley bureau. — Daily Analysis Blogs & Columns Investing Ideas Rankings & Reports — Market Data — Daily Stock Alert — Forty-four workers in S...
BT to launch tablet computer to rival iPad
Touch-screen tablet will feature video calling, email and apps — BT has unveiled plans to launch its own touch-screen, tablet style computer, which will go head-to-head with Apple's iPad. — The as...