Léo Apotheker Named CEO and President of HP
The Board of Directors of HP today announced the election of Léo Apotheker as Chief Executive Officer and President. Apotheker, who previously served as CEO of SAP, will also join HP's Board of Direc...
Google URL Shortener Gets a Website
We first introduced the Google URL Shortener (goo.gl) last December as part of Google Toolbar and Feedburner. Since our initial release, we've integrated the technology into many other Google product...
Exclusive: Yahoo Email Confirms Exec Departures With an Internal Memo From Bartz's “Foxhole” (Plus 8-K!)
Finally, a funny from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, confirming what BoomTown reported yesterday about the departures of three top execs in an email memo to the company's employees worldwide.
WebP, a new image format for the Web
As part of Google's initiative to make the web faster, over the past few months we have released a number of tools to help site owners speed up their websites. We launched the Page Speed Firefox exte...
Explore the world with Street View, now on all seven continents
Update 12:01PM: To clarify, the Street View imagery for Antarctica includes panoramas of an area called Half Moon Island—such as this view of penguins and this one of the landscape. The blue dots you...
Microsoft, AT&T Set to Unveil Windows 7 Handsets
Microsoft Corp. will unveil a lineup of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system on Oct. 11, and AT&T Inc. plans to begin selling them in early November, according to peop...
Failures in mobile space cost Steve Ballmer half his bonus
Microsoft documents filed with the SEC reveal that CEO Steve Ballmer received only half of the maximum bonus available to him because of the company's struggles in the mobile market. — An annual pro...
Apple shuts flagship Beijing store as iPhone 4 scalpers run amok (Updated)
UPDATE: All four Apple retail stores in China now require customer to show his/her identity card while purchasing the iPhone 4. Every customer could only purchase one iPhone 4. Apple employees will ...
Six Months After Leaving Digg, Jay Adelson Opens Up, Hints at Stealth Project
Yesterday, at the TechCrunch Distupt conference, Digg founder Kevin Rose apologized for a recent redesign to the site that has turned off users in droves, lamented that Digg's board once turned …
Facebook CTO “Very Confident” Facebook and Apple Will Work Together On Ping
At a dinner with New York media last night, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said he is “very confident” Facebook and Apple will figure out a way to work together on Ping, Apple's music social network.
Might Microsoft break its acquisition drought with a social gaming company?
There's been a lot of analysis this week of a study that exposed the fact that Microsoft hasn't made a single acquisition in calendar 2010. (The Softies told News.com there may have been some minor, ...
Logitech unveiling Google TV product on Oct. 6
Logitech sent this invitation to journalists. — It looks as if Logitech will beat Sony across the Google TV finish line. — Sony recently trumpeted an October 12 event in New York City, at which th...
Facebook Allows High Resolution Photos, Bulk Tagging, and Makes More Improvements to Photos
Today Facebook begins rolling out multiple improvements to its photos product. Users will be able to upload and download high resolution photos, quickly view photos in a pop-up light box view without...
Microsoft releases updated Windows Live apps
Microsoft today is releasing the final version of its new set of Windows Live apps, including updates to its photo- and video-editing programs, as well as synching and blogging tools. — The Windows ...
Exclusive: Samsung Continuum for Verizon has double the displays, double the fun
The Fascinate's ride at the top of Sammy's Android lineup for Big Red might be a short one — a very short one. Feast your eyes on this monster, said to be the rumored SCH-i400 Continuum …
Feature: There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly
Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Int...
Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers
The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of popular Android applications transmit private use...
Xmarks is Dead. Long Live Xmarks?
First off, a big thanks to all of you that sent kudos and “Nooooooo's” in response to our shutdown announcement. We take enormous pride in the sync service we worked so hard to create and it means a ...
Lawyers to continue piracy fight
Lawyers are to ask PlusNet for users' data on 4 October 2010 — A London law firm has pledged to continue to target file sharers, despite controversy surrounding the acquisition and care of users' da...
Square using social media stats for credit checks and fraud prevention
On stage just now at TechCrunch Disrupt, Keith Rabois, General Manager of Square, the little cube that plugs into an iPhone that can then be used to accept payments from any credit card, just made a v...
Internet Tethering coming to iPad?
Although Steve Jobs told a Swedish DJ that internet tethering (iPhone's connection used for a WiFi iPad, in this case) wouldn't be coming to the iPad, beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad tells a different stor...
Nokia N8 is shipping (photos)
SALO, Finland and BEIJING, China - The first Nokia N8 devices have left the factories in Finland and China and are now making their way around the world. First recipients will be those who pre-ordere...
Microsoft: Windows Live Spaces already dead, WordPress.com will only get 1% of 30M users
Windows Live Spaces' shutdown may not be a big win for WordPress.com, after all. According to internal e-mail messages obtained by Betanews, Microsoft expects only about 1 percent of Windows Live Spa...
comScore: Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S.
comScore just released its latest online video data in the U.S. for the month of August; showing that viewership remained steady since the previous month. According to comScore, 178 million U.S. Inte...
Is HDR photo capability waiting to bust out of your iPhone 3GS? (YES!)
We already know Apple has a knack for throwing new features in with updates and today we discovered what looks like to be a future (or dropped?) iPhone 3GS feature. We all know and love that slick HD...
Did Peter Thiel Make The Single Best Investment In History?
In 2005, Peter Thiel paid $500,000 for a 10% stake in Facebook. — Today, with Facebook's estimated value topping $33 billion, his stake is worth between $2-3 billion. That's a 6,000x return on his ...
The Other Social Network
It launched first. It had cooler features. Why did Columbia's Campus Network lose out to Harvard's Facebook? In a parallel universe, there is a blockbuster movie coming out this weekend about a Web...
IMDb turns 20 with a refreshed, video-full website
LOS ANGELES — IMDb.com, the website you go to in order to find out who acted in what film, no matter how obscure, turns 20 next month. In addition to its extensive and unmatched database, the site wa...
Apple Wins Key Multiband Cellular Antenna Patent for MacBook +
The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 17 granted patents for Apple Inc. today. Amongst them are several major design patent wins pertaining to the original iPod touch an...
CHART OF THE DAY: Interest In The iPhone Crashes
Android has successfully destroyed Apple's dominance of consumer mindshare in the smartphone world, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research about smartphone preferences. — ChangeWave foun...
Inside Facebook security, and how to better protect your account
Facebook's Nick Bilogorskiy kicked off proceedings at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver this morning, giving the social network's view on the scale of the cybercrime problem. — Bilogor...