HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns
PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced that Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his positions effective immediately.
Here's the Big IPO You've Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC
Fun weekend reading for the tech and media set: Demand Media's S-1 filing, the first step it will take on the road to a public offering. — The S-1 doesn't include lots of important information …
Bill Gates: Better software modeling is a key
LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—The key to many hard problems, from nuclear power to modeling diseases, is better software modeling, Bill Gates said on Friday. — While it's not surprising that he's a fan of usin...
Google and Slide: building a more social web
We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For G...
Beatles and iTunes Deal Still at Impasse — Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. — The Fab Four have long resisted t...
New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan
We don't have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only i...
Best Buy's CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet. Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet.
Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet.
MTV loses Web videos from Universal Music
MTV, once the king of music videos, has failed to reach an agreement with music portal Vevo, for the rights to Universal Music Group's Web music videos. — Negotiations between MTV and Vevo over vide...
AT&T Downplays iPhone Pact Risks
Carrier Says Any Loss of Exclusivity Won't Have ‘Material’ Impact — AT&T Inc. said Friday it doesn't expect to suffer a “material negative impact” from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry...
Apple Adds Email-Based FaceTime Support in iOS 4.1 Beta 3
Apple's latest beta version of iOS 4.1 released earlier this week has offered the strongest evidence yet that the company is planning to roll out FaceTime video calling functionality to future non-iPh...
Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
When World of Goo came to the PC with no DRM, it eventually turned out that 90 percent of the people who played the game did so by pirating it. Now it looks like Machinarium—an excellent point-and-cl...
Facebook on ‘lockdown’ as it prepares for war with Google
It looks like Google isn't the only one gearing up for a social network battle. — Rumors surfaced in June that the search giant was developing a Facebook competitor called Google Me, and the company...
Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years
Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with a panel including Bill Joy, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, and Willie Smits. The topic was basically the f...
Apple Adds ‘Genius’ Tab to iPad App Store
Several readers have noted that Apple has rolled out a new “Genius” feature for its App Store application on the iPad. Similar to other Genius offerings from Apple, the new tab offers automatic sugge...
Sean Parker, of Napster & Facebook, Sees a Bright Future for Chatroulette
Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and the first President of Facebook, spoke on stage at the Techonomy conference today and disclosed that he is now working with the live video service Chatroulette.
Controversy erupts over Apple software patent “copying” existing app's home screen
Today's Apple controversy: Apparently, a recent mobile app patent filed by Apple is blatantly copying the home screen of an existing application — the local search app Where To — reports GigaOm.
Beatles and iTunes deal still at impasse: Yoko Ono
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Don't hold your breath waiting for Beatles songs to go on sale at iTunes or other online retailers, Yoko Ono said on Thursday. — The Fab Four have long resisted the allure of...
Google and Slide: building a more social web
We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For G...
Apple in talks to buy China's Handseeing
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is in takeover talks with Chinese software maker Handseeing, an executive of the Chinese company said on Friday. — The deal would be the iPhone maker's first major acquisition ...
BlackBerry Torch 9800 Teardown Photos and Video of Slider Mechanism in Action!
Tear down posts of a new smartphone don't normally happen until the new device is available for commercial purchase and somebody is crazy enough to sacrifice it to the tech gods.
Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. — No, it's not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get ...
Apple Introduces us to the Smart Bike
On August 5, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind a newly advanced Smart Bicycle System in development. The premise is...
Kinect patent detailed; American Sign Language supported
The patent for Microsoft's Kinect console has been unearthed, describing the “gesture keyboarding” system that's tracked by the special PrimeSense-developed depth camera. Kinect builds a dynamic wire...
Private browsing modes in four biggest browsers often fail
You've been warned — Features in the four major browsers designed to cloak users' browser history often don't work as billed, according to a research paper that warns that users may get a false sens...
Google Loses Discrimination Ruling
The California Supreme Court ruled that an age-discrimination lawsuit filed against Google Inc. should proceed to trial, potentially paving the way for more lawsuits that previously were blocked under...
Saudis block BlackBerry messaging
Saudi Arabia suspended BlackBerry messaging services on Friday, users said as concerns spread across the Middle East and parts of Asia over security issues with the popular smartphones. — BlackBerry...
Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market
The short history of the computer industry is dominated by two well-known stories of business triumph and defeat. The first is the story of how mainframe makers failed to take the personal computer s...
Rdio Gaga: How Spotify's Inferior Rival Is Playing America Like A Violin
Poor old Spotify. Less than a week after Billboard magazine reported that the music-on-demand service had “rebooted” its negotiations with US labels, rival service Rdio has just opened its doors in b...