Death Grip hysteria may end Monday with iOS 4.01
Reception issues observed by new iPhone 4 owners, derided as the “Death Grip” by bloggers, appears to actually be a software issue that an iOS update is expected to resolve early next week. — Identi...
First day sales: 1.5 million iPhone 4s?
According to one analyst, Apple has blown past all previous launch-day records — Click to enlarge. Source: Oppenheimer — “Guessing launch day iPhone sales,” writes Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner in a ...
Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure
Several evenings a week, after a day's work at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Sergey Brin drives up the road to a local pool. There, he changes into swim trunks, steps out on a 3-m...
Going, Going, Almost Gone: Foursquare Poised to Get New VC Funding, After Being “One Inch” From Sale to Facebook
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Foursquare is in the final stages of striking a funding deal with the very venture firm-Andreessen Horowitz-that had publicly dissed …
How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges. — Some simple changes to the software running on Wi-Fi access points cou...
Why Tabs are on Top in Firefox 4
Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video, but you can still watch the video over at YouTube — In the Firefox 4 nightly builds, and in Firefox 4 Beta 1, we are changing the default tab position so th...
Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr
Tumblr, the innovative blogging platform created by young web entrepreneur David Karp in 2007, had a bit of a media moment on the afternoon of Thursday, June 24. — Around 1 p.m., we reported that Th...
Google Flips “Kill Switch,” Deletes And Downplays Botnet Demo Android Apps
Turns out Google isn't a “Twilight” fan. At least, not when the film is used to cloak an Android app aimed at demonstrating how easy it would be hijack hundreds or thousands of its users' phones.
Google Isn't Just Reading Your Links, It's Now Running Your Code
It's long been observed that Google's search indexer can read JavaScript code, the lingua franca of dynamic Web applications. But for years it's been unclear whether or not the Googlebot actually und...
Texas Instruments Blaze Tablet Available This August
We've had a lot of things to cover when it comes to Texas Instruments' OMAP4, especially when it has anything to do with that Blaze name. From our hands-on time with the previously released OMAP Blaz...
Salesforce.com Sues Microsoft Over Cloud Software
Salesforce.com Inc. filed a patent- infringement lawsuit today against Microsoft Corp., escalating a fight between the two companies over the growing market for cloud-computing software. — Microsoft...
Where old iPhones go to die
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — In the wake of Thursday's iPhone 4 launch frenzy lies as trail of unloved, no-longer-needed iPhones cast off by owners trading up for the shiny new model. — Analysts estima...
EXCLUSIVE: First Teaser For “The Social Network” [VIDEO]
Columbia Pictures has just released the very first teaser trailer for its upcoming film, The Social Network. Like the poster that debuted last week, the teaser is sparse in its detail, but intriguing...
The Daily Start-Up: Carried Interest Tax Dies (For Now)
This morning's roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: — Senate Democratic leaders gave up trying to push through a spending bill that would have taxed much of the ca...
Video Interview: Conde Nast's Bob Sauerberg On Wired For iPad, Take Two
Wired sold more than 90,000 downloads of its first stand-alone app at $4.99 but what about the second issue or the third? Did Conde Nast squander an opportunity to do more with that first wave of int...
Computers Make Strides in Recognizing Speech
“Hi, thanks for coming,” the medical assistant says, greeting a mother with her 5-year-old son. “Are you here for your child or yourself?” — The boy, the mother replies. He has diarrhea. — “Oh n...
Mozilla: Our browser will not run native code
Firefox 4 beta due ‘within days’ — Velocity Mozilla VP of products Jay Sullivan says that unlike Google, the open source outfit has no intention of bundling Firefox with Adobe Flash — or with a plu...