Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4
Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones. Here's what we've discovered so far. Updating. — The default home...
Sprint 4G Phone Hits New Speeds, but Battery Lags
The major wireless phone companies have begun building out the next generation of cellular phone systems, called 4G, or fourth-generation, networks. These networks are designed to offer much faster d...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17 Per Cent in First Quarter 2010
RIM Made Its Debut into the Top Five Mobile Handset Manufacturers — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17 per cent increase from t...
Google debates face recognition technology
Google executives are wrestling over whether to launch controversial facial recognition technology after a barrage of criticism over its privacy policies. — Eric Schmidt, chief executive, said a ser...
Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007
May 30, 2007. Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device. Then watch Jobs saying...
Investor Dave McClure: ‘Open is for losers’
A group of investors argued heatedly about the value of open versus closed technology on a panel today at Google's I/O conference in San Francisco. Dave McClure (pictured), who oversees the seed inve...
iPod touch with 2 megapixel camera leaked in Vietnam (video)
Guess who has another Apple scoop? Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam have first pics of the mythical iPod touch with a camera. The “DVT-1” stamp on the back makes it clear that this is an early desi...
Sneak Peek: The Obama Administration's Redesigned Data.gov
One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government's vast stores of data available to the public. The ...
AT&T exec doesn't see mass exodus to Verizon iPhone
AT&T's wireless chief Ralph de la Vega today dismissed talk of a Verizon iPhone triggering a rush of defections to the rival carrier. He explained at a JP Morgan conference that 70 percent of all of ...
Amazon Branches Out with Publishing Arm
Amazon.com Inc. said it plans to launch a publishing imprint that will produce English-language translations of foreign-language books. — The imprint, AmazonCrossing, will acquire rights to books an...
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patents
Microsoft on Tuesday fired a major shot across the bow at Salesforce.com, filing a federal lawsuit against the online software company claiming it infringes on nine patents. — The lawsuit, filed in ...
Watch Out Rivals, With Latitude API Google Starts Taking Location Very Seriously
Google Latitude has 3 million active users, but you wouldn't know it by the amount of buzz they get in the location space these days. (Which is to say, just about none.) The problem is that Latitude...
Yes folks, the official iPhone Twitter app is here
We already knew it was hours if not minutes away - see TechCrunch US report - and it's perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year's day). — Y...
Google I/O: mSpot streams personal music collections from the cloud
A Silicon Valley company is trying to get a jump start on what many suspect may be Apple's next music move: an online streaming music service that unleashes your personal library. — The company, cal...
Facebook fixing embarrassing privacy bug
Facebook worked with Alert Logic to fix the cross-site request forgery bug — IDG News Service - Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or mak...
Sprint's Hero finally gets official Android 2.1 upgrade
Assuming you resisted the temptation to either root your Hero or update it with the recently leaked 2.1 firmware, this is your very first chance to finally slap a dash of Android future on your senesc...
Apple, Adobe, and Openness: Let's Get Real
There's a huge debate online about who's “right” between Apple and Adobe in the dispute over allowing Flash on the iPhone. Both companies portray their actions as protection of users and developers, ...
Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P
The Flash team from Adobe has been working on their P2P Flash implementation for a while, but with the release of the 10.1 player it can really make a difference for online media distribution. — Kev...
Computer Algorithm Can Recognize Sarcasm (Which Is Just Soooo Cool)
Recognizing Sarcasm with Computer Algorithms — The pursuit of machine intelligence means we have to come up with ways to communicate with our computers in a way both entities can understand.
New: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS)
I've got a cool new Amazon S3 feature to tell you about, but I need to start with a definition! — Let's define durability (with respect to an object stored in S3) as the probability that the object ...
Google, Mozilla, And Opera Take On H.264 With The WebM Project, A New Royalty-Free Video Codec
Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera …
Larry Page: Your Android battery should last a day
If it's not, then blame your apps, says Google co-founder — If your Android phone's battery doesn't make it through the day, there's “something wrong”, says Larry Page, co-founder of Google. — Spe...
Barnes & Noble to open ‘PubIt!’ self-publishing portal this summer
Self-publishing has long since been possible through Amazon, but you won't catch us kvetching about a little competition in the market place. In an attempt to do for indie writers what InstantAction ...