New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real
U.S. pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history this quarter, according to new data from SNL Kagan. The business intelligence company reports that cable companies lost 711,000 s...
Microsoft beats Intel, AMD to market with CPU/GPU combo chip
At Hot Chips today, Microsoft's Xbox team unveiled details of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) that powers the newer, slimmer Xbox 360 250GB model. Produced on the IBM/GlobalFoundries 45nm process, it's fa...
The Real iTunes Fraud Vulnerability: Gullible Users
So these reports of a major security hole in iTunes, one through which people have had their PayPal accounts drained? — Not much to them, I'm told. Or, rather, not much to their assertion that Appl...
The Mother Lode: Welcome to the iMac Touch
While most of us were getting ready for the iPad's arrival in January and Patently Apple hard at work preparing our major series called the Tablet Prophecies, a major iMac Touch patent was being quiet...
Understanding Private Browsing
Private Browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5, giving users the option of browsing the web without keeping track of their history. A recent Test Pilot study recorded - among other things - the time ...
Exclusive: Windows Phone 7 Web Browser Comparison (Video)
Following up to some previous thoughts about Windows Phone 7, we present a short video showing how the browsing experience on the upcoming smartphone platform compares to iPhone and Android 2.2. Plea...
Motorola's Android 2.2 Rollout: What a Mess
Delays, missing features, cease and desist letters, oh my! Verizon's rollout of Android 2.2 to Motorola Droid phones is becoming an exercise in frustration. — Motorola's Froyo problems started with...
Why Intel bought McAfee
There's been quite a bit of head-scratching over Intel's decision to purchase McAfee, but, despite all the breathless talk about mobile security and ARM and virus-fighting processors, the chipmaker's ...
How Google Goggles works to deliver visual search results for mobile phones
Google Goggles is one of the more interesting experiments being done in visual search. If you have an Android phone, you can already use the Google Goggles visual search app to take a picture of some...
The Sofa Wars: Plenty to Watch Online, but Viewers Prefer to Pay for Cable
It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video. — Some are finding that the reality is ...
Samsung Galaxy Tab seen in the wild [video]
Electronista today had the opportunity to spy a Samsung Galaxy Tab in live testing in Sydney, Australia. The device, spotted in the hands of an anonymous telco worker at a train station, matches up w...
Fraudsters Drain PayPal Accounts Through iTunes
Reports are appearing this morning about a major security hole in iTunes accounts linked to PayPal. At least one group of scammers has found a way to charge thousands of dollars to iTunes accounts th...
The dirty little secret about Google Android
Google Android began with the greatest of intentions — freedom, openness, and quality software for all. However, freedom always comes with price, and often results in unintended consequences. With A...
Free of Freemium, Things Are Starting To Look Up At Ning
Ning, provider of on-demand social communities, has recently been one of Silicon Valley's most interesting companies. Five months ago the company announced the sudden exit of chief executive Gina Bia...
Mac enterprise sales surged in June
Apple scored its biggest gains in government, big business and the European home market — Click to enlarge. Source: Needham, IDC — Given the Mac's tiny share of the worldwide PC market — roughly ...
The Fight For 3PAR: HP Outbids Dell, Offers $1.6 Billion In Cash
HP has proposed to acquire data storage company 3PAR for $24 per share in cash, or roughly $1.6 billion. Thus, it trumps Dell's offer to buy out the company for $18 per share or $1.13 billion.
North Korea Tells Forbes That It Is Not Using Twitter, Facebook Or YouTube
For the last two weeks, North Korean propaganda has flooded the Internet-courtesy of the Internet, interestingly enough, and not North Korea. — A North Korea government official tells Forbes …
LG E900 Windows Phone 7 smartphone caught on camera
The oddest things show up on youtube, such as this video of the LG E900, the keyboard-less version of the LG C900, likely destined for Europe. — The handset looks relatively sleek, but still could d...
Analyst: Verizon iPhone Deal Still Not Sealed
Apple (AAPL) will likely bring the iPhone to another U.S. carrier in the next year — but it may not be Verizon (VZ). While the company is said to be a front-runner for the device, Kaufman Bros. analy...
HTC taps Israeli technology for its iPad-slayer
N-trig's screen software to go into Google's new tablet computer — The Kfar Sava-based startup N-trig will provide the touch-screen technology for the tablet computer that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC...
Chrome's bundled Flash results in much faster update
Chrome's bundling of Flash resulted in a dramatic drop of out-of-date users after the latest update, according to our stats. — On Aug 10, 2010, Adobe released a security update for Flash. On the sa...
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity
A little over a week ago, I closed down all of my social media accounts, with the exception of Twitter, which I locked. The explanation I gave was that, in an age when everyone and their dog is shari...
Nimbula Raises Another $15 Million in Funding
Nimbula, one of the LaunchPad finalists in this year's Structure conference, today said that it has secured $15 million in funding from Accel Partners. The funding is set to continue Nimbula's invest...
Celebrating A Year Of Apple Pondering Google Voice
My, how quickly things change. It wasn't much more than a year ago that Apple and Google were happy partners — at least from the public's perspective — working in tandem to push technology forward at...
ViewSonic to unleash Android and dual-boot Android and Windows tablets at IFA
ViewSonic has put the feelers out ahead of IFA next month by giving the assembled hacks the heads up to what it will be showing off at the massive tech expo. — And amongst all-in-one PCs (VMP74) …
White House May Overhaul Some $30 Billion in Troubled Tech Projects
Obama's administration is getting a taste of running the government more like a business each day. — Its latest brush comes with approximately $30 billion in technology projects that are running ove...
Intel Releases First Mobile, Dual-Core Atom
Netbooks have been in the market and thriving well for over two years, and yet the Atom processor, the brains behind your average netbook, has been running on a single core - until today. — On Monda...
Reinventing E-Mail, One Message at a Time
My e-mail inbox is a dejected, endless morass. It's a desolate wasteland of unanswered messages that continue to appear like a never ending game of Tetris. I can confidently say I hate my inbox and ...