More Ways to Stay Secure
Facebook provides a number of ways to help you protect yourself and your account, and today we are announcing new features to help make your experience on Facebook more secure. — First, we're launch...
Sony's GoogleTV lineup: $400-$1,400
At a press event in New York today, Sony is showing off its lineup of GoogleTV products, including a Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi TVs with the Google software built in. — I'm not there but am watching t...
Google Executive Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location, Local Services
Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.'s vice president of search products, is taking a new role overseeing location and local services. — Mayer, who joined in 1999 as the company's first female engineer …
iPhone 4 glass breaking 82% more than iPhone 3gs - four months in
SquareTrade analyzed iPhone accidents for over 20,000 iPhone 4s covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found a 82% increase in reported broken screens compared to the iPhone 3gs. Highlights of the stu...
Walmart confirms iPad reaching its stores on Friday
Walmart this evening confirmed that the iPad would reach its stores this week. The tablet arrives in its stores on Friday, October 15, and will include all models at the same prices that Apple charge...
Kindle Singles, Which Can Be Twice
Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century—works either …
Kindle Singles, Which Can Be Twice
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century …
Greetings from the new CEO
I'd like to use this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm Matt Williams, Digg's new CEO. It's certainly been an eventful first month on the job. As many of you know, the launch of Digg v4 didn't go...
Intel Reports First $11 Billion Revenue Quarter
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 12, 2010 - Intel Corporation today reported that third-quarter revenue exceeded $11 billion for the first time, up 18 percent year-over-year to $11.1 billion. The company re...
Intel Reports First $11 Billion Revenue Quarter
Intel Corporation today reported that third-quarter revenue exceeded $11 billion for the first time, up 18 percent year-over-year to $11.1 billion. The company reported operating income of $4.1 billi...
Google The ‘Early Winner’ In Ads After Bing-Yahoo Integration
In the aftermath of Bing and Yahoo integrating their search ad platforms, the “early winner” seems to be Google, whose share of paid search spending rose more than two percent between the second and t...
Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding
Microsoft has been granted a key patent that defines one of the primary uses of graphics processors in the future: Video encoding. — Since the dawn of GPU-accelerated computing in the consumer space...
Amazon iPhone app now supports barcode scanning for price comparison
Amazon just updated their Amazon Mobile app for iPhone to now include barcode scanning. Basically, while you are out and about shopping, you can use your iPhone to scan the barcode of whatever you ar...
Android Ecosystem Infoporn Overload
As we bring our initial Android TweetDeck beta period to a close, we wanted to quickly reflect on the Android ecosystem and what might be considered extreme fragmentation. To date we've had 36,427 ac...
HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest
Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera (pictured here), the New York Times (NYT) business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chie...
Introducing Posterous for the iPhone: The Only Sharing App You Need
Effortless sharing from your iPhone has arrived with the new Posterous iPhone app. If you are looking for a fun and simple way to update friends and family while you're on-the-go, the Posterous iPhon...
Kleiner Perkins Harvests Over $100 Million From Ngmoco Acquisition
It's a good day for ngmoco, which was just acquired by Japan's DeNA for up to $400 million. But it's also a good day for ngmoco's first investor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In one deal they'v...
WP7 and Zune syncing available for Mac soon
In a surprise move, Microsoft UK's head of Windows Phone marketing, Oded Ran, tweeted that Mac users will be able to sync Windows Phone 7 devices with a version of the Zune software for Macs. This tw...
Apple Removes AirPlay From Youtube App In Latest iOS Beta
It seems like something's going on around the “AirPlay button working everywhere” so many people were excited about: specifically, we just noticed Apple removed AirPlay support in the native Youtube a...
Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to Information Obesity
Marco Arment created Instapaper, a tool that strips clutter from online articles and saves them for later reading, because he couldn't concentrate at his desk. As the former chief technology officer ...
Radical change coming to Net addresses (FAQ)
Come 2012, confused camera customers might be able to point their browsers to a Web address that looks very different from what's available today: support.canon. — That's because the organization in...
Making sense of Google's seemingly kooky concepts
SAN FRANCISCO — In its self-proclaimed drive to make the world a better place, Google has immersed itself in far more than Internet search and online ads. But driverless cars and a wind energy farm i...
Bing And Facebook Making Search Announcement Tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, Bing and Facebook will be making an announcement regarding new search offerings that make search more social. The exact details of the announcement have not yet been revealed, howev...
The Web Parenthesis: Is the “open Web” closing?
Heard of the “Gutenberg parenthesis”? This is the intriguing proposition that the era of mass consumption of text ushered in by the printing press four centuries ago was a mere interlude between the ...
Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate: Report
What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email? — According to a new report by marketing firm SocialTwist, Internet sharing ...
Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic
Microsoft may be late to the game with a consumer-savvy phone OS, but Windows Phone 7 is aiming to do right a lot of what Google is doing wrong. Based on what I saw during a visit to Microsoft's head...
Oracle-IBM pact cuts Android off at the knees
Larry Ellison's latest move could seriously undermine Android, no matter how Oracle's courtroom battles with Google turn out. — If you have only a passing interest in Java development, you probably ...
Twitter Founders: Gladwell Got It Wrong
“Laughable,” “absurd,” “ludicrous” and “pointless” were words Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone used Monday night to describe a recent Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker about the futil...
Google Launches Two New Android Apps To Help The Blind Navigate Around Town
They rarely get much press attention, but some of the greatest features to come out of the new era of smartphones are related to accessibility. A few months back, blind iPhone user Austin Seraphin wr...
Java: A Gift to Exploit Pack Makers
I have long urged readers who have no need for Java to remove the program, because failing to keep this software updated with the latest security patches exposes users to dangerous, ubiquitous attacks...
Buy a Poster of All Your Facebook Friends For $20
A new service called PrintingFacebook will put your friends' profile pictures—every last one of them—on a high-quality, 20" x 40" poster for just $20. Throw a dart at it to decide which smoldering fr...
Indian Firms in Talks to Sell iPhone
MUMBAI—Two Indian telecom operators are in talks with Apple Inc. to launch an iPhone in India based on the code division multiple access technology in a bid to tap the growing smartphone market in one...
“Done Deal” - DeNA To Announce Ngmoco Acquisition Very Soon (Confirmed)
An update to our post last week on Japan's DeNA mulling over an acquisition of San Francisco based social gaming startup ngmoco. The deal is supposedly done and will be announced shortly, possibly on...
Report: Linux makes gains in server applications
A new report from the nonprofit Linux Foundation shows that Linux continues to grow at breakneck speed and will outpace all other server operating systems over the next five years. Additionally, Linu...
Ars Technica: banned in Iran!
“403 Forbidden”: that's what Ars readers in Iran are now seeing when they try to connect to arstechnica.com. We were alerted to the block by a loyal Iranian reader late last week, and we checked our ...
Amazon's Kindle Singles e-books: One shrewd business movee
Amazon's Kindle store is getting more like a music store everyday. Now you can buy a whole book or just a single—an e-book that's about twice as long as a New Yorker feature. — In a statement, Amaz...
RIM has till Jan 31 to give Indian authorities complete access
RIM has a fresh deadline to fulfill Indian government's request for complete access to RIM's data services on Blackberry devices in the country. According to reports, Indian government has given RIM ...
Apple seeks approval to sell iPad in S.Korea: regulator
SEOUL (AFP) - US technology giant Apple is seeking approval to sell its iPad in South Korea, the telecommunications regulator said Tuesday, after the iPhone's local popularity fanned interest in the t...
Google funds power backbone for major wind farm
Google said today it's invested in a project called the Atlantic Wind Connection, an effort to create a 350-mile power transmission backbone linking wind turbines several miles offshore with sites alo...