Analyst: iPhone 4 recall would cost $1.5 billion
The iPhone 4's antenna design has been blamed for reception problems. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET) — In the wake of Consumer Reports announcing that it would not be recommending the iPhone 4 due ...
With Google as Partner, Verizon May Not Need iPhone
It is a question that the nation's early adopters keep hearing from friends: when is the iPhone coming to Verizon? — The combination of the biggest cellphone carrier in the United States and Apple's...
Apple acquires online mapping company Poly9 - report
Apple has purchased a Web-based mapping company from Quebec, Canada, that creates interactive 3D software for use in a browser, according to a new report. — French-Canadian news site cyberpresse.ca ...
How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
How do you take the social web by storm in a day, winning over even the coldest of hearts and gaining international acclaim - with commercials? — A team of creatives, tech geeks, marketers and write...
Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!
The RIAA's “business plan” is even worse than I'd guessed it was. — The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 milli...
Squarespace Gets $38M to Compete With WordPress and Six Apart
Squarespace, a hosted content service that competes with companies such as WordPress (see disclosure below) has closed a $38-million financing round from two leading technology VCs — Accel Partners an...
Old Spice Man Answers Tweets On YouTube—Ropes In Kevin Rose, Alyssa Milano, And Justine Bateman
Ropes In Kevin Rose, Alyssa Milano, And Justine Bateman — What if commercials really did talk to you? What if a familiar spokesperson addressed you by name and responded to your thoughts and feeling...
Google Maps can now send destinations directly to more than 20 car brands worldwide
When we started the “Send-To-Car” service on Google Maps more than three years ago with BMW, only a few car makers offered connected services to their drivers. The industry has come a long way since ...
Facebook's Russian investor gets $388 million infusion
Naspers, a South African international media group, says one of its subsidiaries is taking a nearly 30 percent stake in Digital Sky Technologies. — Russia-based DST has made a splash in Silicon Vall...
Amazon's MP3 Store On Hiring Spree, May Be Planning Major Relaunch
When it comes to buying music online, there's iTunes, which is ahead by a mile, and then there's everyone else. According to a recent report published by Billboard, iTunes accounts for 26.7% of US mu...
Reports: alleged 12th Russian spy worked at Microsoft
The Russian spy ring scandal is rippling through the Seattle technology community. News reports indicate an alleged 12th Russian spy, identified as Alexey Karetnikov, worked at Microsoft and lived in...
Windows Live Introducing Centralized Contacts
Some interesting news coming out of the Windows Team Blog today. With the recent Microsoft push into the cloud, it's no wonder we're seeing this, however. — According to the blog, you can now acces...
Automated Debt-Collection Lawsuits Engulf Courts
As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment. — Few have been as prolific as Cohen & Sla...
Microsoft Pays Mobile App Developers to Help It Catch Apple
Microsoft Corp. is paying developers to build mobile applications for its Windows Phone 7 system to help it narrow a lead by rival products from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. — The company is providing...
Apple Responds to Psystar Appeal in Mac Clone Battle
News about Psystar's appeal battle against Apple over Mac clones has been thin thanks to the PC maker's move to keep its Opening Brief sealed. Apple's Answering Brief, however, wasn't sealed and offe...
China's plan to use internet for propaganda
BEIJING: The Chinese Communist Party has detailed its ambitious but secretive strategy for transforming the internet into a force for keeping it in power and projecting “soft power” abroad. — An int...