Update on Google Wave
We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users' lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our develop...
BlackBerry Chief Fires Back
Research In Motion Ltd. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis lashed out at governments seeking to ban his company's BlackBerry phones, saying they risk undermining the growth of electronic commerce by demanding a...
Facebook Buys Friendster Patents for $40M
Facebook bought the entire Friendster portfolio of social networking patents earlier this year. The seven patents and eleven patent applications had been transferred to MOL Global when it bought Frie...
The NPD Group: Motorola, HTC drive Android to Smartphone OS lead in the U.S.
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, August 4, 2010 - Riding the wave of new handset introductions and wide carrier distribution in the second quarter (Q2), the Android smartphone operating system (OS) …
Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games
We've just learned that Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million, in a deal to be announced Friday. And sources also tell us that this is not the last move Google is going to be making to cobb...
Microsoft releases final IE9 preview, beta due in September
Internet Explorer 9 continues its steady pace toward a final release. Today's milestone is an important one. The fourth and final Platform Preview, like its predecessors, is intended for developers ...
Control Your Information: Anywhere, Anytime
You are in control of how you connect and share on Facebook. Recently, many of you said you wanted more streamlined controls, so we made a number of changes to provide them. As of today, you can use...
Google, Verizon Said to Have Reached Deal on Web Traffic Rules
Verizon Communications Inc. has reached a deal with Google Inc. on how to handle Internet traffic, striking their own accord on policy being weighed by U.S. officials, two people briefed by the compan...
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last ...
iPhone 4 Owners Tell Us What They Really Think About Their Smart Phones
The iPhone 4 launched in late June and was initially heralded as one of the most successful product releases in Apple's history. But within days the firestorm over reception and antenna issues unleas...
Leaked Details On 2010-2011 iPods, iPhone 5, Bumper 2 + iPad mini
Take this report with the requisite grains of salt, but here's what we've heard about the upcoming late 2010/early 2011 iPod, iPhone, and iPad lineups from a highly reliable source. If you remember o...
Google CEO Schmidt: “People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution”
Eric Schmidt spoke at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe today and dropped some serious rhetorical bombs. “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 200...
Apple Quietly Enables Online Streaming To iPhones, iPad and iTouch
Buried in the release notes of an updated iPhone app is significant new functionality which lets Apple devices stream music from its online storage in a useful manner for the first time. This is in d...
Why Clear's 4G iSpot is cheap: it's limited to iOS devices
Cell carriers that are not AT&T continue to try and piggyback on iPhone and iPad success by offering wireless hotspots marketed towards users of those devices. Clearwire is the latest to take that an...
Dish to stream live TV on iPad, other devices
PHILADELPHIA — Dish subscribers will soon be able to watch live satellite TV on their mobile devices at no extra cost. — Dish Network Corp. is planning to offer the feature on the iPad, iPhone, iPod...
[ABT Exclusive]TMobile's “Project Emerald”
With the evidence that we present to you below we can safely say now that TMobile's fabled “Project Emerald” is in fact the rumored HTC Glacier.
Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free
Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivat...
Apple readies fix for iPhone browser security hole
Apple says that it has a fix for the browser security flaw discovered earlier this week on its iOS-powered devices. — After the iPhone Dev Team released the latest jailbreak software hack for the iP...
Google Buys Java/Ajax Tool-Maker Instantiations
Instantaitions has been known for their popular Java/Ajax development tools and in particular their Google Web Toolkit (GWT) designer. They're so closely associated with it that at the top of their p...
Clearwire Announces LTE Trial This Fall - Will work with Huawei Technologies on Phoenix tests
Will work with Huawei Technologies on Phoenix tests — Clearwire has repeatedly stated they want to leave the option open to migrate to LTE should they see that the Mobile WiMax future …
Update on Google Wave
We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users' lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our develop...
Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority
WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if t...
It's official: Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerrys
The rumors are true: Saudi Arabia has become the second country inside of a week to block access to Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices on grounds of national security. — The ban goes into effec...
WAR! It's Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook
Google has chosen a General in their War With Facebook - VP Engineering Vic Gundotra, we've heard from multiple sources. This is the person who will control overall product strategy …
The New Clutter
There's a new kind of clutter littering Web pages. It's not just the obnoxious “Refinance your mortgage” ads plastered atop and alongside articles. It's also not just the animated nonsense that floa...
Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free
Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivat...
HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel more like native applications than sites. Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and tex...
Tim Mayer, Who Worked For Practically Every Search Engine, Leaves Yahoo
Earlier I wrote about the depature of Yahoo's Srinija Srinivasan. Yahoo's lost another person, and another big figure in search, that of Tim Mayer. — Tim just tweeted, as shown above, that he's enj...
Facebook Advertisers Boost Spending 10-Fold, Sandberg Says
Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s biggest advertisers have boosted spending by at least 10-fold in the past year as the social network crossed the half- billion user mark, becoming more alluring to...
LinkedIn Acquires mSpoke For Its Recommendation Technology, Team
Professional social network provider LinkedIn has acquired mSpoke, a small startup that aims to make content more relevant through recommendation technology. Terms of the acquisition were not disclos...
Samsung thinks about putting touchscreen on a tablet's back
Now that Apple showed how a real tablet device should look and work, everyone else is scrambling to make their own tablet that will be at least on par with the iPad. — Samsung is no stranger here, ...
iPad clears government hurdle in China
The popular device moves closer toward being cleared by the Chinese government for sale in the mainland market — Apple's iPad has received a safety certification mark from Chinese regulators, puttin...
Facebook Gains an Android Facelift
Facebook for Android (s goog) got a long overdue update tonight (perhaps the final push was Mark Zuckerberg's installing the Android app himself last week?), after playing second fiddle to the iOS ver...
iPhone 4 unlock available now (update: video!)
It's the moment that many of you have been waiting for: the Dev-Team's ultrasn0w carrier unlock for iPhone 4 is out. You'll find version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w in Cydia on jailbroken devices. If not, ju...
BlackBerry's New Torch Makes a Leap From Drab
Millions of people love the BlackBerry, relying on it especially for email and text messaging. But this classic smartphone, while still dominant in the U.S., has been slipping in popularity as consum...
Hey, Dick Blumenthal, Stop Bashing Tech Companies To Boost Your Campaign
Connecticut Attorney-General and U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal is back in the news bashing tech companies, this time Apple and Amazon. — Blumenthal announced that his office had launched an...