Some Thoughts On Foursquare
Our portfolio company Foursquare closed a second round of financing yesterday. This was a much covered financing process and also much criticized. I think it makes an excellent case to talk about so...
First iPhone 4 Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple and AT&T
The first iPhone 4 class action suit against Apple and AT&T has been filed today in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The lawsuit focus on the antenna design problems, ma...
Apple Will Sell 12 Million iPhones To Verizon Subscribers For $7 Billion — Analyst
Analyst — Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner runs the numbers on the reported Verizon iPhone. — Here, from Philip Elmer-Dewitt of Fortune, are some of his key points: — Over the last year, Apple sold 11 mi...
Microsoft Kills Kin
Just six weeks after launch, Microsoft's Kin phone is dead. Microsoft is pulling the plug, sources close to Microsoft tell us. — There won't be a separate Kin product anymore. Effective immediatel...
Verizon to launch LTE network on November 15th, handsets on Black Friday
This information comes from a new tipster, but we have very good reason to believe that Verizon will begin rolling out its LTE network in 25 markets starting on November 15th. While 25 markets might ...
Finland makes broadband a ‘legal right’
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen. — From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband ...
Android Gaining on Apple, Says Report
Mobile analytics and tracking firm AdMob has just released its latest mobile metrics report, a monthly snapshot of the smartphone industry based on data generated by ad requests within its network of ...
Woot's Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million
Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million — Woot has been acquired by Amazon, as they briefly note on their blog today with a big “woot!” Well, okay, their exact words were “Holy crap!” — This is a gr...
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar: We're No Cable Killer! We Swear!
If you're planning on swapping out your expensive cable TV service for Hulu's $10 a month subscription offering, Jason Kilar has advice for you: Don't do it! — The Hulu CEO insists that his “Hulu Pl...
State of the Art: Big Body, Big Screen: Droid X Is This Month's Superphone
You think technology moves too fast now? You think your camera, camcorder and computer become obsolete quickly? — Try buying an app phone. In this business, the state of the art changes as often a...
Facebook Clarifies Policy On Site Scrapers As Robots.Txt Gets Updated
Want to scrape Facebook's site for content? You may want to reconsider how you do so as Facebook has updated their Robots.txt file to be a bit more restrictive. If you aren't aware of what a Robots....
Extra! Extra! Google News redesigned to be more customizable and shareable
There's an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors.
Android 3.0 Gingerbread details: 1280×760 resolution, 1Ghz minimum specs, mid-Oct. release
We've been hearing about the upcoming Android Gingerbread release in Q4 for a while now. And also how the new Android user interface will blow our socks off.
The State of iPad Satisfaction
Long before anyone knew much of anything about the iPad, people were expressing strong opinions about it. But the opinions that matter most didn't begin to get formed until April 3rd, the day Apple's...
Google to Push Android Deeper into Asia
Stepping up its rivalry with Apple and Nokia, Google outlines plans to court developers and put its operating system on lower-priced phones in China and India — Google (GOOG) plans to push its Andro...
4
The first thing you notice is that the iPhone 4 feels smaller in hand — the decrease in width, even more so than thickness, is quite noticeable. It feels tight. — Then you turn it on, and you see t...
iPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown
Apple's latest creation — the iPhone 4 — features a MEMS gyroscope within its pretty shell. But how does that little chip work, and what does it do? We partnered with Chipworks to bring you an in-de...
Cisco and video: Wi-Fi for Flip, end to Flash debacle, video client for App Store
For Cisco, video technologies ‘are definitely a pervasive play,’ says exec — Computerworld - LAS VEGAS — If you didn't realize how pervasive video technology research is at Cisco Systems …
Viacom Fights YouTube in Court, but That Won't Stop It From Selling YouTube Ads
Google and Viacom are still fighting in court. But in the real world, they're about to be partners, in a way: The cable network's MTV unit is going to start selling ads on Google's YouTube …
Amazon Introduces 70% Royalty Option For Kindle Digital Text Platform
Right off the heels of announcing an expansion of its Kindle Digital Text Platform to authors and publishers around the world, Amazon announced back in January that it would introduce a new 70 percent...
Applications Ask, You Receive: Simplified Permissions Launch
Last month, we announced a number of changes to make privacy simpler and to give you more control over the information you share with other people. Today, we're taking the next step by providing more...