Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce
Apple announced on Wednesday a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand new Internet-enabled video streaming device and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10. However, t...
The new Apple TV for $99
Steve Jobs just pulled out the world famous “one more thing” for nothing other than... a new Apple TV. It's now a streaming-focused device (as we predicted months ago) in a small matte black enclosur...
Apple Announces The New iPod Touch: Dual Cameras, Retina Screen
Apple unveiled the new iPod touch today at their special event, along with several other music- and media-related devices. Of course, we've been hearing murmurs and leaks about it for some time now, ...
Windows Phone 7 - Released To Manufacturing
Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we're very excited to say that we've reached the biggest milestone for our internal team - the release to manufacturing (RTM)...
Double rainbows in Redmond
...as I said, “more to come”. — You may have heard of the Double Rainbow Video. The guy who filmed this, Paul “Bear” Vasquez, lives in Yosemite and in the past month has gotten huge traffic for his...
The Future of Silverlight
There's been a lot of discussion lately around web standards and HTML 5 in particular. People have been asking us how Silverlight fits into a future world where the <video> tag is available to develo...
Google Testing Full-Featured Google Apps
Google Apps users got a step closer to full Google-personhood this week, as the company sent invitations to select users to test out a version of Google Apps that includes all the features regular Goo...
Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook
Facebook is in what's called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That's when employee growth expands at the...
Sony's latest e-readers: Understanding the trade-offs and global strategy
Sony's new e-readers are a vast improvement over its previous versions. The latest Sony Readers are lighter, show off touch navigation on an E-Ink screen and could be worthy choices in the e-reader w...
Sony rises to digital-media challenge
Sony will begin its latest attempt to fight back against Apple's dominance in the digital media field, when it unveils a new music and video subscription service to run across a range of its devices
How Microsoft Research foresaw Google's ‘Priority Inbox’ feature
It's not uncommon for me to hear about some new technology product or feature, from some company other than Microsoft, and realize that it sounds very similar to something I've covered before.
Motorola Milestone 2 arrives, 720p HD video, Android 2.2, and Motoblur Enhanced in tow
Even without yesterday's premature video promo, you had to know Motorola wouldn't leave its international audience without a successor to the Milestone, so today — surprise, surprise — we're being tre...
Gmail's Permanent Failure: Only Humans Can Build Software For Humans
Editor's note: Guest author Adam Rifkin is a Silicon Valley veteran who organizes a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers called 106 Miles. In this post he argues that Gmail is perhaps not t...
Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is coming to a Target (TGT) store near you. — The social-network giant is getting into the gift card business, starting Sunday, with Facebook Credits cards. — The new Face...
EBay To Ban Google's Checkout Service From Its Sites
Starting next July, eBay (EBAY) will no longer let Google (GOOG) provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won't allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. ...
Steve Jobs ‘very happy’ at Intel's Infineon purchase, says Otellini
Intel's $1.4 billion takeover of baseband chip maker, Infineon's wireless unit, is being seen by some as a potential threat to Apple, but Steve Jobs doesn't see it that way, at least according to Inte...
Orange HD Voice service and handsets go live in the UK, we go ears-on (video)
Good news for UK mobile addicts: Orange's long-anticipated HD Voice service has officially made it to the Land of Hope and Glory. Starting today, British customers can pick up a HD Voice-enabled hand...
Udemy Scores $1M In Seed Funding, Aims To Democratize Online Learning
Udemy, which aims to democratize learning on the Web by basically letting anyone teach and school themselves through online courses, has raised $1 million in seed funding from a host of top notch inve...
Is There a Gender Divide in Startups?
The blogosphere has renewed the debate about the gender disparity in the tech industry. Leah Culver, co-founder of a successful microblogging site, shares what it's like on the frontlines of the star...
Game-addicted man scores rare win over software lawyers
Lineage II and the unenforceable EULA — A Hawaii man who sued a company over his crippling addiction to the computer game Lineage II has gone where few litigants have managed to go, defeating the en...
Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California
Scary news from California's Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding.