Microsoft Rank And File Felt “Embarrassment All Over Campus” From Kin Failure (MSFT)
Microsoft's Kin failure sank morale at the company's Redmond campus according to an employee who emailed us after the news broke. — “Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Ki...
Legal action against Eldar Murtazin - official statement
ESPOO, Finland - Various rumours have been circulating regarding the Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin. This is to clarify the current situation. Nokia takes all matters relating to the security of its...
YouTube Mobile Goes HTML5, Video Quality Beats Native Apps Hands Down
If you've got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you'll probably want to check out YouTube's new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It's a major upgrade...
T-Mobile's End of the Year Road Map Leaked
Well, Folks, it looks like T-Mobile has some Android devices coming our way! After the launch of the Motorola Charm and the Samsung Vibrant on July 21st, T-Mobile plans on launching 5 more Android de...
YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing
A click here, a search there, a browse on this page — sometimes it can take more than a few flicks of the wrist and finger taps to get your daily dose of video. Luckily, YouTube Leanback wants you to...
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment a...
Microsoft job cuts in hundreds, scattered across the company
As expected, Microsoft today is proceeding with job cuts in targeted areas of its global workforce, delivering layoff notices in selected groups as part of the strategic realignment that the company t...
Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo
The U.S. military's new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, one of the military's most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces....
AT&T identifies Alcatel-Lucent as slow upload culprit, fix in the works
As we'd suspected, AT&T isn't intentionally limiting upload speeds on iPhone 4s in some markets where things suddenly got slow over the weekend. Or that's the company's claim, anyhow — and seeing how...
Breaking: Facebook To Enter Into Partnership With Friendster Buyer MOL
We're hearing that Facebook and Malaysian payments company MOL Global will be holding a press conference shortly to announce a significant new partnership around gaming and payments in Asia.
Apple's IPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP
Wells Fargo & Co. spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple Inc.'s iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get cleared. — This time around, safegu...
The Superphone is unstoppable
Rob Glaser is chairman of RealNetworks and a venture partner at Accel. He will be moderating a mobile investing panel at our MobileBeat 2010 conference on July 12 — the conference theme, not coincide...
The New Digg Is More Social But Less Unique
For more than a year, Digg has been working on a major redesign of the popular link-sharing site, one that makes the social features of the site much more obvious, encouraging users to “follow” their ...
Hulu's Jason Kilar Talks About Plus, IPO, Renovations and More!
This week on BoomTown's grand summer tour of digital Los Angeles, I popped into the Santa Monica, Calif., offices of Hulu, the premium online video distributor that has been one of the few big and inn...
Googler's Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook's Armor
Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, shared a presentation a few days back that was picked up by Venture Beat among others. I am sharing it here along with my own thoughts as I th...
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine
What is your search engine of choice? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Try Twitter. — According to cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million ...
Microsoft vulnerabilities: full disclosure and no disclosure
Following on from full disclosure, Microsoft now has a new disclosure variant to contend with - no disclosure. French security services provider VUPEN claims to have discovered two critical security ...
Can Borders Unseat Amazon in the E-Book Market?
Borders today launched both an electronic book store and two handset clients — for BlackBerry and Android 2.0 devices — as it tries to compete against offerings from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple. ...
Facebook Dominates Third-Party Logins For All But News
More and more, we're logging into websites using our credentials from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo. But which one is leading in the battle of the third-party login? What login do we...
The Facebook Movie Will Not Be Using Facebook to Market the Facebook Movie
You might think a huge target audience and golden marketing opportunity for a high-profile Hollywood movie on Facebook, titled “The Social Network,” would be the 500 million members of Facebook. — M...
Viacom acquires developer Social Express as MTV Networks dives into social games (exclusive)
Viacom's MTV Networks has acquired social game developer Social Express as part of its inaugural entry into the hot social gaming market, VentureBeat has learned.
Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Percent Faster Every Day
Editor's note: The following analysis is written by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup.
Life in a Day
Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a si...
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks
Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment a...
Preview the New MobileMe Calendar Beta
A completely new version of MobileMe Calendar is now available as a beta on me.com. — To sign up, go to me.com/calendar and click “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification whe...
Apple looking for ‘iTunes Fraud Prevention Specialist’
What a coincidence; just days prior to the July 4th App Store fraud incident, Apple set out to find a specialist to deal with fraud in the iTunes store and its components. — This full time specialis...
Facebook's June 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: Users Aged 18-44 Take a Break
[Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold...
YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing
A click here, a search there, a browse on this page — sometimes it can take more than a few flicks of the wrist and finger taps to get your daily dose of video. Luckily, YouTube Leanback wants you to...
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
Canon Wonder Camera Concept displayed at Expo 2010
One of the more remarkable technological innovations amongst hundreds currently on display at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai can be found in the Japanese Pavilion where major sponsors Canon, Panasonic an...
Microsoft takes aim again at Web developers with new WebMatrix tool suite
Back in 2003, Microsoft had a plan to attract Web site developers to the Microsoft platform with a skunkworks project called WebMatrix. On July 7, 2010, Microsoft brought back that discontinued effor...
Angry Researchers Disclose Windows Zero-day Bug
An anonymous group of security researchers last week published information about an unpatched Windows bug, saying that they were disclosing the vulnerability because of the way Microsoft treated a col...
How Fast Company Confused Ego with Influence
Amber, I am really sorry that it wasn't what you expected today. Just thought you might like to know that from a listener perspective, I heard a lot of great things. Some of them I have heard before...
New Laptop From Toshiba Is Lightweight and Speedy
For all the excitement about tablet computers, the traditional clamshell laptop still rules. In fact, the computer industry is working hard to make it smaller, lighter and sleeker. — [ See post to ...
Germany takes legal steps against Facebook
BERLIN — A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the s...
Time Magazine Walls Off its Web Site: Will You Pay Up?
Want to read the cover story of this week's Time magazine? Whip out your wallet: You can only get all of Steve Brill's piece on lobbying and financial reform via Time's print edition, or its new iPa...
Google's China webpage license under review: government
(Reuters) - Google's application to renew its webpage license in China is currently under review with no set deadline, a government official said on Wednesday. — “Google's annual check-in is under w...