A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Inter...
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone
There's no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it's all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson …
Dell Streak Pricing: $300 With Two-Year AT&T Contract, $550 Without
That's almost twice as much as a good iPod Touch, and if you wait a few weeks to buy the Touch, you'll get one with a Retina Display and dual cameras. If Dell can't make an iPod Touch competitor, who...
Exclusive: Upcoming Apple TV loses 1080p playback, gains apps... and will be renamed iTV
You might remember that we broke news of an updated Apple TV headed to market just a few months ago. If your brain isn't working right, let us jog it: a trusted Engadget source asserted that the gang...
Updates to Contacts and a (slightly) new look for Gmail
We're constantly reviewing user feedback about Gmail, and for a while now the number one request has been for a better contacts experience. You've asked us to generally make Contacts easier to use, a...
What Happened to Yahoo
When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to b...
Facebook Had Offered Foursquare $120 Million, Foursquare Asked For $150 Million, Then Facebook Walked Away
Here are some numbers we hadn't seen before to go along with the Facebook-Foursquare acquisition chatter from earlier this year, before Foursquare raised its big round.
Flipping for Gesture Search
You may already be familiar with Gesture Search, our Android app from Google Labs that lets you search by writing out characters on the touchscreen of your device. Today we're happy to announce a new...
Mark Hurd Had The Lowest Employee Approval Rating (34%) Of Any Major Tech CEO
Softcore-porn-actress-turned- marketing-consultant Jodie Fisher wasn't the only person who failed to be enamored by HP CEO Mark Hurd, who was forced to resign as a result of an investigation into his ...
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Let's concede for the moment that Amy Thomson's report for Bloomberg back on June 29 is correct, and that Verizon is going to start selling iPhones in January 2011. Let's further say that this first ...
You've got friends: Facebook, AOL quietly talking online ad hookup
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong are quietly discussing a strategic alliance aimed at boosting their online ad businesses, The Post has learned. — The two companies...
Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed
“Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig. — I'd love to pull out some well-worn meta-media analysis about how m...
What Happened To Demand Media's Traffic?
Take a look at the Quantcast traffic data for Demand Media, the VC-backed online content creator that on Friday filed for a $125 million IPO: — The massive drop-off occured a few days prior to the I...
Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors
The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new a...
How Black People Use Twitter
As far as I can tell, the Twitter hashtag #wordsthatleadtotrouble got started at about 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Sunday morning, when a user named Kookeyy posted this short message: “#wordsthatleadtotro...
Setback for BlackBerry in India
(Reuters) - India may temporarily shut down BlackBerry services if New Delhi's concerns about security are not addressed in a meeting between the government and mobile phone operators on Thursday, gov...
Qualcomm's E-Ink killer: How do you mass produce Mirasol?
Qualcomm's Mirasol, a color screen that has the battery life of E-Ink and can play video, is a likely candidate for a future version of Amazon's Kindle. Now all Qualcomm has to do is manufacture it p...
Samsung tablet to be unveiled in Berlin
Speculation has been swirling for months around a tablet PC from Samsung Electronics, and the waiting may finally be over next month. — Korea's top mobile phone maker will unveil the device at the I...