Search: now faster than the speed of type
Search as you type. It's a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or ...
Check Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1
Now you can put your iPhone into field test mode, which will allow to easily and precisely test your cell signal reception quality. You just need to follow these two easy steps: • First, upgrade you...
HP's Bid to Block Hurd's Oracle Move Is Long Shot, Lawyers Say
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s lawsuit seeking to block former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd from working at Oracle Corp. may be hard to win because California's courts favor letting employees move freely,...
My Classmate Mark Zuckerberg
As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O'Brien writes about Zuckerberg's reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit. — Hollywood biop...
Will “Google Instant” Distract From Google Ads? That's What Eye-Tracker Data Shows...
Google's Brin: Make smartphone apps searchable
For more than a decade, Google has reigned supreme as the main gateway to online information. — But with consumers increasingly accessing the Internet through specialized apps on smartphones like ...
FarmVillains
Steal someone else's game. Change its name. Make millions. Repeat. — One of the Internet's greatest success stories in 2010 can be found in a former potato chip factory on Vermont Street in Potre...
R.I.P. Waledac: Undoing the damage of a botnet
Earlier this year, we wrote in this blog about Operation b49 - the groundbreaking legal and technical efforts led by Microsoft in cooperation with academic and industry experts around the world to shu...
Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants
Fears about loss of privacy and government abuse abound as India gears up to biometrically identify and number its 1.2 billion inhabitants. — Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India ge...
Incubator Coaxes Start-Ups Out of Their Shells
Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator recently held a daylong pitch session that underlined the organization's growing clout in the region. — At the event last month, 36 new companies that completed...
Boxee Embraces HTML5, Switches to Webkit
Boxee is going to switch its integrated web browser from Mozilla's Gecko to Webkit with its next major update, I was told by Boxee Lead Apps Developer and Community Evangelist Rob Spectre. The switch...
Google: Chrome OS still focused on netbooks
Touch experiments but don't expect tablet — Google Chrome's senior product manager Anders Sandholm has told TechRadar that despite the rise of the tablet, the forthcoming Chrome OS is still very muc...
Apple Pulls Back the Curtain for One Company
Apple is famous, or infamous, for not working well with others. It would rather make its own digital music player than let iTunes play on a different device. Ping doesn't connect to Facebook. Flash...
Kno Raises $46 Million More To Build “Most Powerful Tablet Anyone Has Ever Made”
Marc Andreessen is normally enthusiastic about the startups he's invested in. Still, when I spoke to him last week about Kno, he surprised me by saying it will be “the most powerful tablet anyone has...
Google Bypassing “Search” Button: More “Streaming” Search Results
Several people are reporting seeing Google automatically take them to the search results page from the Google home page, as they type a search query. Imagine you are on Google.com and you begin typin...
Amazon Buys Amie Street's Digital Music Store, Shuts It Down
Add another digital music startup to the bonfire: Amazon is buying up the retail operations of Amie Street, the online music store it helped fund four years ago, and will then shut it down. Meanwhile...
iTunes app total downloads to overtake songs this year
Last week I posted the iTunes download rate graph that showed how Apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs and revealed an inflection point in the song rate. — Based on the recent upda...
Salesforce Takes Chatter Mobile With iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps
As Salesforce's foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform.
Why iTunes song samples are still only 30 seconds
Apple's plan to extend the length of song samples doesn't appear to be dead. — “We are in active negotiations with Apple,” about the length of song samples, said Hanna Pantle, a spokeswoman for Broa...
How Ping Might Grow
Matt Drance on Ping: … Agreed. Ping on the iPhone feels like a decent native client to a social network. Ping on the desktop (Mac/Windows) feels like an afterthought to iTunes — one little source li...
In Facebook's Crosshairs
It was not an invitation that Dennis Crowley could have been thrilled about. Mark Zuckerberg wanted him to do what, exactly? Fly to California and stand onstage while Facebook unveiled the launch of...
Here's Why Microsoft Needs To Make Office Apps For The iPad
One thing has been consistent since Apple's iPad launched in April: Apple's iWork apps, its versions of Microsoft Office apps — Word ("Pages"), Excel ("Numbers"), and PowerPoint ("Keynote") — are near...
Apple forecast to sell 28M iPads in 2011, chipping away at PC sales
Apple's competitively priced iPad is expected to reduce sales of low-end notebook PCs in 2011, when consumers are projected to buy at least 28 million of the touchscreen tablet, one analyst believes.
Do People Want ‘Amateur Hour’ on Their TVs?
Last week Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new version of the Apple TV, which is smaller and, at $99, less expensive than the previous model. — Before showing off the new device, ...
Is Google's Mobile Loss in China Kai-fu Lee's Gain?
Former head of Google China, Kai-fu Lee, insists—insists— that he is not happy that Google imploded its business in China. “Seeing the work that I put in, how could I be happy to see that?” he says. ...
Nokia N8 officially for sale last week of September, UK shops October 1st
At last, an official date for Nokia's N8 flagship Symbian^3 handset. This one's been a long time coming, featuring the first of two major Symbian updates meant to bring Nokia's smartphone division in...