BREAKING: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Hurd; Includes Statement and Link to Full Complaint
In response to the news of Mark Hurd's intention to join Oracle, HP today filed a civil complaint in the California Superior Court (County of Santa Clara) against Hurd. HP's statement on the matter:
Google's Kinetic Logo Apparently Has To Do With Their Big Search Event Tomorrow
By now, you've likely noticed the interesting, kinetic logo Google has had up today. While there is still no official word from the search giant as to exactly what it means, they are letting out some...
Google's Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is ‘Our New Definition’
In a big-picture keynote at Berlin's IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google's new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, su...
Piper Jaffray: Android Army's Victory Over iPhone Inevitable
The battle for dominance in the smartphone market will shake out in the next five years and when it's finished, Google (GOOG), not Apple (AAPL), will emerge the victor. That's the outlook from Piper ...
Official: Samsung Fascinate launching September 9 for $199 (update: September 8 online)
Put away your leaked Verizon documents, good folks, the Fascinate finally has an official release date: September 9. Verizon's Galaxy S variant snuck up on all of us with a commercial appearance last...
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web
The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for...
Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn
(Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the deskt...
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets
Rsearch In Motion (RIM) has indeed acquired software developer DataViz — well, most of it anyway. — “RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus o...
Missed call notifications delivered to your inbox
Google Voice lets you take charge of your telephony experience, giving you one number that rings all your phones. But what if you're not around to answer any of them? — Starting today, whenever you...
Simpler sign-ups for Yahoo! users with OpenID
How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verif...
Apple Confirms Game Center Compatibility: Yes on 2nd-Generation iPod Touch, No on iPhone 3G
Apple has confirmed on its Game Center overview page that the social gaming network will be available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod touch models …
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access
A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, h...
Welcome to Mozilla Labs Gaming
We are excited to present to you the latest initiative from Mozilla Labs: Gaming. Mozilla Labs Gaming is all about games built, delivered and played on the Open Web and the browser. We want to explo...
As Digg Struggles, VP Of Engineering Is Shown The Door
Ever since Digg launched its new site design, it's been plagued with all kinds of trouble, not least of which is that it keeps going down. The problems with the new architecture are so bad that VP of...
With a Little Help From His Friends
At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he's the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be f...
Chris Sacca's Lowercase Capital Adds $20 Million To Its Coffers
According to recent SEC filings, it appears that Chris Sacca's newly launched fund, Lowercase Capital, has raised over $20 million in funding. Under the name Lowercase Industry Fund, Sacca has quietl...
The state of mapping APIs
Guest blogger Adam DuVander is the author of “Map Scripting 101,” an example-driven guide to building interactive maps on multiple platforms. He also serves as executive editor of ProgrammableWeb. —...
Controversial Investor McClure On Doing 50 Deals This Year, Clashing With VCs, and More
Dave McClure is rather unlike most investors in Silicon Valley. He curses like a sailor, for one thing - publicly. He tweets almost constantly, no matter the time of day.
Five of the Best Tablets Revealed So Far
We've seen numerous announcements of tablet computers in recent weeks, as the R&D labs of the world push out their hastily assembled attempts at competing with Apple's game-changing iPad. But are any...
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle a...
Samsung's Orion is the 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 we've all been waiting for
We still consider Samsung's Hummingbird application processor to be among the very best for mobile computers, but this morning Sammy itself is stepping up the charge to make it look real old real fast...
iPod touch review (2010)
At Apple's last event, Steve Jobs called the iPod touch the company's “most popular iPod,” and it's easy to understand why. In just a few short years, the iPhone-with-no-phone has kept in lockstep wi...
Five of the Best Tablets Revealed So Far
We've seen numerous announcements of tablet computers in recent weeks, as the R&D labs of the world push out their hastily assembled attempts at competing with Apple's game-changing iPad. But are any...
Pure-Play Twitter Startups Attract 50% Less Venture Capital and Angel Investment Than Last Year
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Ex-Googler Aims for China's Mobile Users
From China Real Time: — Ex-Google China President Kai-Fu Lee is out to prove that China can be innovative, and he's starting with two projects that take aim at China's massive mobile-subscriber popu...
Justice department probes Google's ITA Software deal: report
(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice department is looking into Google Inc's (GOOG.O) takeover of airline ticketing software firm ITA Software Inc, to determine whether the deal would exert too much influence...
How to read a patent in 60 seconds
Someone's claiming you're infringing their patent! You need to figure out how bad the situation is. — Or... your boss has asked you to take a look at an old patent you wrote, and see if someone els...
Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sal...
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter
Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite h...
Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker
People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money. From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provid...
Google Scribe
Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It's not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For exa...