What Did Microsoft and Adobe Chiefs Talk About?
Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe's offices to hold a secret meeting with Adobe's chief executive, Shantanu Narayen. The m...
With Antennagate over, is Glassgate next for the iPhone 4?
Whether or not you've experienced the iPhone 4's famed death grip, or even believe it's a real phenomenon (and based on extensive personal experience I can assure you that it is), the whole Antennagat...
Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Now Available
Our first Firefox 4 beta for mobile is now available to download and test. It's built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop and optimized for browsing on a mobile phone. Firefox...
Debunk: Leaked iPad photo doesn't show next gen design
By now you may have seen some photos of an alleged iPad casing doing the rounds that is purported to be the next generation of Apple's tablet. In the pics, you can clearly see that there are two dist...
Man Who Somehow Failed To Delete Facebook Account Complains About New Feature
Wait a second. It seems that everyone is missing one key element of the latest faux-controversy about Facebook. What is Jason Calacanis doing back on Facebook? — Calacanis kicked off the latest bi...
Spotify crashes into Apple on way to U.S.
These are some swinging Swedes, the guys at Spotify. — Founded in Stockholm in 2006, Spotify has already conquered Europe's digital music scene with the help of a revolutionary desktop service and n...
Verizon prez: ‘Microsoft is not at the forefront of our mind’
Some juicy remarks today from Lowell McAdam, president and COO of Verizon Communications and CEO of Verizon Wireless, about Microsoft and its standing — or lack thereof — in the mobile business.
No Free Stuff Here: At Angie's List, Members Pay
After graduating with an economics degree in 1995, 22-year-old Angie Hicks thought she'd work for a small business, preferring a close-knit environment that meshed with her small-town roots. When ven...
Former FTC Employee Files Complaint Over Google Privacy
A former Federal Trade Commission employee has filed a complaint with the agency accusing Google Inc. of not adequately protecting the privacy of consumers' search queries. — The complaint was filed...
AT&T U-verse customers can use Xbox 360 as a set-top box starting November 7th
If you'd given up hope of using your 360 to watch AT&T U-Verse after over three years of waiting, we wouldn't think any less of you; but for those still holding on to the dream of one less set-top box...
Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy
It looks like short links are here to stay, at least for a while longer. Bit.ly, the largest independent link shortening service out there, closed a $10 million Series B financing. The round was led...
The Twitterati very much mind the Gap
You never really know what will get social-media marketing chatter going. Film directors getting kicked off planes, for one, or that Old Spice Man sensation. This week, it was when retailer The Gap—...
MongoDB CTO on Foursquare's Scaling Issues
Eliot Horowitz is a co-founder and CTO of 10gen, makers of MongoDB, an increasingly trendy database that's used by Foursquare, among others. He's just released a statement on what went wrong this wee...
Stuxnet
Computer security experts are often surprised at which stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Sometimes it makes no sense. Why this particular data breach, vulnerability, or worm and not oth...
Xmarks Victory for the Users, by the Users
The past ten days have been an amazing lesson in the power of community. Not in the “web 2.0 social graph” sense - I'm talking about old school community with users speaking up, speaking out and band...
Verizon, Apple quarreled over iPhone retail options, digital content
Major sticking points in negotiations between Verizon and Apple have reportedly been the wireless carrier's interest in allowing retail partners to sell the iPhone, and Verizon's promotion of its V Ca...
Sizes And Pricing for Sony Google TV Family Leaked
Many of our readers out there are pretty excited about the Sony Google TV. We've written about it nearly a dozen times and it's basically a television with an Intel processor and the ability to fully...
Sorry Facebook, Google Already Had A Patent On Location-Based Social Networks
Facebook created quite a stir yesterday when it emerged that the company has a patent on location-based social networking, a very competitive and crowded field Facebook has just entered.
Lockdown: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg & Justin Shaffer On Today's Facebook Launch
Earlier today, Facebook held a special event to unveil a totally revamped Groups product, a new data export option, and a dashboard to help you monitor third-party apps that you've linked with Faceboo...
Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features
Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It's part...
CollegeNET sues Google over ‘Speedbook’
Google Inc.'s heavily-anticipated tablet PC dubbed the “Speedbook” is being challenged in federal court by Portland-based software firm CollegeNET Inc. — In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District C...
Dual-OS to become a standard for Acer dual-core netbooks
Acer, at its new netbook launch press conference, noted that the company plans to adopt dual-operating systems (Windows 7 and Android) as one of the standard specifications for its future dual-core ne...
Mark Zuckerberg's Take on “The Social Network”
Despite previous statements that he had no plans to see The Social Network, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did, in fact, watch the film on the company's field trip to the movies last Friday....
comScore: Android Continues Assault On RIM, Apple
It looks like there is yet again more data to support the trend Google's Android platform is eating away at the share of other smartphone operating systems, including RIM and Apple. ComScore's smartp...
Sony's 16.41MP Sensor Shoots 1080p Video and Will Be in Phones Next Year
Sure, it's not all about the megapixels, but Sony's just trumped Panasonic's Lumix phone with their 16.41MP Exmor R-based CMOS sensor—seen in a phone near you shortly. — Shooting 1080p video at 30fp...
FriendShuffle: StumbleUpon for Facebook Likes
FriendShuffle is a delightfully simple service just launched tonight. Log in with Facebook Connect and it will create a web-framed slideshow of the pages “Liked” by your friends on Facebook. Shuffle...
From Covering Parties to Hanging with an Algorithm
Megan McCarthy's journey to Mediagazer, a media news aggregator with a heavy tech flavor — David Saleh Rauf (drauf@ajr.umd.edu) is an AJR editorial assistant — Megan McCarthy's career as a reporte...
Ellison's Rants Expose Oracle Anxiety as IBM, HP Add Software
Thank heavens for Larry Ellison. Without the Oracle Corp. co-founder and chief executive officer, the $1 trillion-a-year enterprise computing market would merely be huge, crucial — and boring.
HootSuite Mobile Apps Go Free for iPhone and Android on Oct. 13
Mobile HootSuite fans will enjoy an added bonus next week - as of noon PST on October 13, the full version of HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for Android will be absolutely FREE to download.
Sprint's New ID Service Is Not About The Apps, It's About Targeted Ads
Sprint (NYSE: S) unveiled a new service today at CTIA called “Sprint ID,” which bundles packs of applications together around a theme, so that first-time smartphone users don't have to search tireless...
Skype's Android shackles are broken, 3G calling hacked into reality
Well, that didn't take long. Just days after the official Skype application finally landed in the Android Market, along comes an .apk that's far more salacious for Americans. Thanks to xeudoxus over...