J Allard's goodbye note: ‘No chairs were thrown’
Microsoft Chief Experience Officer J Allard sent out a goodbye note of his own on May 25, the date that Microsoft announced officially that both Allard and Entertainment and Devices President Robbie B...
Chrome Brings Stability, Syncing and HTML5 Across All Platforms
Since Google Chrome's release in September of 2008, Mac and Linux users have been playing catch-up with Windows users for features and stable releases. As of today, all three versions of Chrome are n...
U.S. Is Said to Scrutinize Apple's Online Music Tactics
SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to ...
US ranks 26th in new broadband index
IDG News Service - South Korea has the fastest home Internet service in the world, with a downstream speed 100 times faster than the average in Sudan, the operator of Speedtest.net reported on a new W...
Holiday Inn to test smartphone as hotel-room key; some guests prefer to skip front desk
InterContinental Hotels Group next month will begin testing new technology at two Holiday Inns that lets guests use their smartphones to unlock their hotel-room door, Hotel Check-In has learned.
Intel Kills Larrabee GPU, Will Not Bring a Discrete Graphics Product to Market
Bill Kircos, Intel's Director of Product & Technology PR, just posted a blog on Intel's site entitled “An Update on our Graphics-Related Programs”. In the blog Bill addresses future plans for what he...
Amazon CEO: Color Kindle ‘still a long way out’
A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon. Speaking Tuesday at the online retailer's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, founder and CEO Jeff B...
Whither Verizon?
Speculation over the iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless will continue until it actually happens. Loyal Verizon customers want iPhones, and AT&T continues to take it on the chin. The promise of a huge...
Confirmed: Apple's next iPhone will have video chat, feature to be shown in ads directed by Sam Mendes
Well this can't be tremendously surprising. Apparently American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's next iPhone …
Bach, Allard leaving Microsoft in big shift for consumer business
Robbie Bach and J Allard, founding fathers of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, are leaving the company as part of a broader restructuring that will give CEO Steve Ballmer more direct over...
New “Drastically Simplified” Facebook Privacy Controls Start Rolling Out Tomorrow
On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Facebook's vice president of product Chris Cox announced that starting tomorrow, Facebook will be rolling out “drastically simplified” and improv...
Motorola Droid Shadow Found In Gym
The story goes that this phone was left in a corporate Verizon gym in Washington, but before it was remotely locked the finder saw a text message confirming it was “unreleased”. What is it? Why, the...
A new Chrome stable release: Welcome, Mac and Linux!
In our most recent beta release, we fired up all engines to bring to life our fastest version of Chrome to date. — Today, we're bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it's ava...
Dell Streak official: exclusive to O2 UK in early June
Let's all feign surprise now, as Dell has just gone official with its worst kept, though perhaps sexiest, secret ever. The former Mini 5 has been christened the Streak and is launching at the beginni...
The new Hotmail gives Gmail a run for its money.
To Top Off A Busy Day, Yahoo Acquires Foursquare — Well, The Asian Foursquare
Well, The Asian Foursquare — Yahoo has had a busy day. Not only did they announce a new cross-branding deal with Nokia, and struck a partnership with Match.com, and had their CEO spar onstage with M...
Mayor Bloomberg Calls For More NYC Startups At TechCrunch Disrupt
Today, TechCrunch Disrupt attendees were treated to a very special guest: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg addressed the audience of entrepreneurs, urging them to make their way to Ne...
Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along?
Time for Chrome OS to Move Along? — Google with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, dominated the technology conversation last week. Whether it was taking jabs at Apple, launching a competi...
About those M&A rumors: Forbes to acquire True/Slant
For me, True/Slant began a long time ago. — It didn't have a name when I scribbled the beginnings of an idea on a calendar page during an interminable flight from Washington to New York. There was ...
Phase One Acquires Microsoft's Expression Media Product
Digital photography company Phase One, which offers in open-platform based medium format camera systems and solutions, is taking over Microsoft's Expression Media product. — The acquisition of the p...
AOL's Armstrong: Bebo deal ‘really fell apart’
NEW YORK—AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wasn't yet at the company when it paid $850 million for social network Bebo two years ago, a purchase that's now considered to be one of the biggest tech industry M&A bl...
Google offered Viacom $592 million for content
Not long after Google acquired YouTube, the search engine offered $500 million in guaranteed revenue if Viacom, parent company of MTV Networks, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, licensed its TV s...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile PC Shipments Grew 43 Percent in First Quarter of 2010
Mobile PC Market Experiences Strongest Growth Rate in Eight Years — Worldwide mobile PC shipments totaled 49.4 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 43.4 percent increase from the first quar...
Protecting Privacy with Referrers
Late last week, we quickly fixed an issue after being contacted by a Wall Street Journal reporter regarding an unintentional oversight in the data shared with our advertisers by your browser when you ...
Greater choice and transparency for Google Analytics
Many website owners use Google Analytics and other web analytics tools to make business-critical decisions about how to improve their websites by understanding how users engage with their webpages. W...
AT&T Brings Free WiFi to Customers in New York's Times Square
This is definitely a bold move from the United State's second-largest wireless carrier. And, we've got to give them credit: at least they're officially confirming that the network congestion in New Y...