Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4
Lab test: Apple iPhone 4 design defect confirmed — It's official. Consumer Reports' engineers have just completed testing the iPhone 4, and have confirmed that there is a problem with its reception...
Google's Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software
Google is bringing Android software development to the masses. — The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its An...
Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 slates are coming this year
Microsoft isn't going to sit idly by and let slates from Apple and various Android backers run away with this market. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the 14,000 partners during his July 12 keynot...
Skype Blocks, Threatens To Sue Fring (Update: Skype Says Fring Is Lying)
Late last week, mobile communication services provider fring released an updated iPhone app that enabled iPhone 4 owners to engage in unrestricted 2-way video calling over Wi-Fi or 3G internet with ot...
Microsoft extends Windows XP downgrade rights until 2020
With 74% of business PCs running XP, the move is more proof that it's the OS that won't die — Computerworld - Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the compa...
BlackBerry 6: Another Sneak Peek
In the almost ten years I've worked at Research In Motion (RIM), I've never been as excited about a BlackBerry® software launch as I am for BlackBerry 6, which is on track for release this summer. I'...
June ComScore Search Numbers Out: Google Share Down, Bing And Yahoo Up
ComScore's June U.S. search data is out. — Once again, Yahoo and Microsoft gained share at Google's expense because of contextual search tricks on the sites that turn users' click-by-click browsing ...
Man Claims Ownership of Facebook
A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, following a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84% stake in the social-networking...
Diffable: only download the deltas
There were many new products and projects announced at Velocity, but one that I just found out about is Diffable. It's ironic that I missed this one given that it happened at Velocity and is from Goo...
Apple Rolls Out Four More iPhone 4 Ads — Each About FaceTime
Each About FaceTime — Yesterday, I broke down Apple's minute-long FaceTime commercial for iPhone 4, noting how it seemed almost as if Don Draper from the hit AMC show Mad Men had created it. Now App...
Blackberry Tablet confirmed, will support Flash
Rumors of a BlackBerry tablet have been circulating for months, and statements from Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar on Friday have rekindled the discussion with a little bit more accuracy. — A ...
Google Working On Secret New Ad Format: “Interactive Video Ads”
Google is still casting around trying to find another revenue stream that will carry the company now that search is maturing. — The latest idea? — “Interactive video ads.” — Eric Schmidt pitched...
Boom! Foursquare Crosses 2 Million Users
It appears that Foursquare has just crossed the 2 million users mark this morning. The location based social network has been growing fast, adding 100,000 users per week. Only three months ago, Four...
AT&T CTO: ‘We will move heaven and Earth’ to improve our network
AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan described his vision for a future where more and more data is flowing through mobile networks. He made the comments at VentureBeat's MobileBeat 2010 confere...
It's Alive! Taking Android's App Inventor For A Spin
By now you've probably heard of Google's App Inventor for Android, a web-based development environment that's meant to make it possible for non-developers to build their own Android applications. The...