Facebook CEO has a Richard Nixon moment
Commentary: Mr. Social doesn't really want to share so much — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc.'s 26-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, literally squirmed in his seat...
Ballmer and Ozzie at D8 (live blog)
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are slated to speak at the D: All Things Digital event on Thursday morning. — Check back around 8 a.m. ...
Investing in exchange bidding
We're happy to announce that we've acquired Invite Media, an innovative start-up based in New York and Philadelphia. — The team at Invite Media has developed technology that enables advertisers and ...
Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft is “number five” in the mobile race
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to know full well just how far behind his company is in the mobile market. At the All Things Digital D8 conference this morning, he admitted that Microsoft is numb...
Up close with the Dell Streak
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—The tablet parade at D: All Things Digital continued into Wednesday afternoon, with Dell doing a brief onstage demo of its 5-inch Dell Streak device. — The Android-powere...
AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO will result in a cease and desist letter
Sure, Steve Jobs might be a one-man email PR machine, but his pal Randall Stephenson at AT&T doesn't appear to be quite as gregarious — as reader Giorgio Galante found out today, sending AT&T's CEO tw...
AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering
We have some bad news for the clever geeks who were hoping to take advantage of the newly announced iPhone tethering capability in the U.S. to provide an Internet connection for their iPad, avoiding p...
Court examining Gizmodo devices for iPhone info
Authorities have finally begun examining the computers, server, and other electronic gear seized from a Gizmodo editor as part of the investigation into a missing iPhone prototype. — Stephen Wagstaf...
Apple's supply of Mac minis dwindle ahead of new models
Supply of Apple's existing Mac mini lineup has become increasingly constrained over the past two weeks as the company prepares to introduce refreshed models that may serve as a harbinger for some new ...
Microsoft unveils Windows Live Essentials Wave 4
After unveiling what's next for the most popular Windows Live client application, Messenger, and the most popular Windows Live web service, Hotmail, Microsoft is now ready to zero in on (most of) the ...
HP says it's in the smartphone market, after all
HP CEO Mark Hurd certainly caused a few sad faces yesterday when he told investors and analysts that HP “didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business,” and now the company is trying to walk that b...
Google to hand over intercepted data
Google will begin handing over to European regulators the rogue data it intercepted from private WiFi internet connections within the next two days, in an effort to defuse growing controversy over its...
Kazaa/Skype founders return to online music with Rdio social startup
Rdio — pronounced r-dee-o — has some spelling problems. But it is a very ambitious startup that hopes to liberate consumers from some annoying restrictions when listening to online music.
Yelp and OpenTable Join Forces
On Thursday evening, Yelp.com, the user-generated review Web site, and OpenTable.com, the restaurant reservations site, announced an integration that will allow Yelp users to make a restaurant reserva...
The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T's New Data Plans
Good: The big plan, “DataPro”, now costs $25/month and gives you 2 GB per month. That's $5 cheaper than the previous “unlimited” plan, and, according to AT&T, 98 percent of their current smartphone c...
Google To Change Gmail, Add “Normal Email” Option Instead Of Just “Conversations”
Google is planning to offer a standard email option in Gmail in the next few months, two executives at the company say. — Currently, Gmail presents email in a “Conversations” format …
Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 tablet prototype preview
So, there may never be a Windows 7 Phone tablet, but that device above looks pretty darn close to what one may have looked like. In actuality that's just the tablet that Microsoft has been using at C...
AT&T apologizes to the guy they threatened to C&D for e-mailing their CEO
If you spend any more than a few minutes a day on the Internet, you've probably already heard the story of Giorgio G.: Upset with AT&T about his iPhone eligibility dates, he e-mails the company's CEO.
AT&T Has Fastest But Least Consistent Data Network, Study Finds
AT&T has the fastest mobile data network of the four nationwide U.S. carriers but also has the most dropped connections, according to a study by PC Magazine of networks in 18 cities across the country...
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos
Editor's note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He's one of the most popular (stalked) users of ...
First look: BlackBerry Curve 9300 images!
First look at the next generation of low-cost BlackBerry Curve, the 9300... ** images removed per request ** — Back on April 8th we outted a new BlackBerry device model by finding it's UAProf xml d...
‘Vanity’ Press Shakes Up Book Industry
Writer Karen McQuestion spent nearly a decade trying without success to persuade a New York publisher to print one of her books. In July, the 49-year-old mother of three decided to publish it herself...
Time for Apple to open up the iPhone
The company can blunt its competitors' biggest advantage in one stroke — Ever since Apple introduced the App Store, someone or other has written weekly (perhaps daily) about why Apple's tight contro...
How iTunes Genius Really Works
An Apple engineer discloses how the company's premier recommendation engine parses millions of iTunes libraries. — Ever since the feature debuted in 2008, there's been a lot of speculation about how...
Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert
PAHRUMP, Nev. — It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple — colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise — leaves his home here and heads into town.
Bill Gates on Sparring Steve Jobs and the Imperfect iPad
Gizmodo's favorite reader appeared yesterday in Larry King, along with his dad (who is quite the cool guy too). They talked everything, from his philanthropic work to the iPad and his relationship wi...
Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed
Jason Snell calls for Apple to allow sideloading native iPhone apps: … Personally, I'd welcome such a move, but I don't think it would have the effect Snell envisions. Snell's argument is that Apple ...
Bit.ly Links Now At 4.7 Billion Clicks A Month As Yahoo, MySpace And Others Go Pro
There are over 150 million clicks on Bit.ly links each day. The amount of data running through the service is massive, and continuing to grow at an incredible pace. But we've known that for a while.