Google's Income Rises 32%, Topping Forecast
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has spent the last few months arguing to anyone who will listen that its new advertising businesses — including ads with images and video and on cellphones — will fuel its next ...
John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript
Here's a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs. — It's long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. — UPDATE:...
Yahoo's Outage: Not-So-Perfect Timing
Yahoo is never down. — So the fact that its massive Web site is showing a “server outage” sign and little else is pretty astonishing. — And not in a good way, since the company is in the midst of ...
Netflix on PS3 gets 1080p, adds 5.1 surround, loses the disc
Microsoft thought it was being all fancy with its dashboard update that brought search to Netflix, but Sony has just announced its own competing update to Netflix streaming. Starting October 18, you'...
U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow
If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it's probably because on average they're sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month. That's more than six per every hour they're awake - an 8 p...
Found by Ray Ozzie: Microsoft Windows 1.0 press kit
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, is blogging again. And for his first post he uploaded a gem: the press materials for Microsoft's launch of Windows 1.0. — Here's an excerpt from a n...
Exclusive: High-Profile Hires for Palm-Nokia's Ari Jaaksi and Samsung's Victoria Coleman
Earlier this month, Ari Jaaksi resigned as head of Nokia's MeeGo division, citing “personal reasons” as the cause for his departure. — Turns out “personal reasons” was actually a euphemism for “I'm ...
TED's Chris Anderson: “Video is Redefining the Spoken Word”
The emergence of Web video is a “bigger deal than people realize” and it is “redifining the spoken word” in profound ways, says Chris Anderson, “Curator” of the TED conferences and hugely successful W...
New MobileMe Calendar. Now Available to All Members.
The new MobileMe Calendar is now out of beta and available to all members. We'd like to thank everyone who took part in the beta for helping to make this the best MobileMe Calendar yet. — To start ...
Puck Yeah: This 4G Hotspot Can Replace Broadband [Review]
Clearwire's ugly little pucker proves itself to be a marvelous addition to a road warrior's weaponry. — This is the Rover Puck 4G mobile hotspot from Clearwire. If you're wondering, a 4G connection...
NYT Replaces Editors' Choice iPad App With Full Version—Free For Now
Free For Now — You expected more from The New York Times on the iPad? You're getting it—and eventually, you'll have to pay to get all of it. The NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) flagship is updating its Editors' ...
Is the Valley Falling out of Love with Options?
When I talk to entrepreneurs in other countries- whether they are other Western countries like the France or England or developing countries like Brazil and India- the biggest reason they say they env...
Skype with Facebook integration and group video calling
We're excited to announce a brand new version of Skype for Windows, which will help bring you and your friends, family and co-workers together like never before. Download it now, or read on to find o...
Following Pivot To Celebrity Tracking Site, Twitter Cuts Off Scoopler's Firehose Access
A couple days ago, we noted that real time search engine Scoopler was pivoting away from that product and transforming into JustSpotted, a celebrity tracking site. A key to this new service is the us...
Verizon Wireless Offers iPad at Stores Nationwide on October 28
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. & CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available at over 2,000 Verizon Wireless Stores nationwide beginning Thursday, Oc...
Opera Mobile coming to Android within a month, bearing hardware acceleration and pinch-to-zoom
Forget all that Mini stuff, Opera is bringing its full-flavored mobile browser to Android some time very soon indeed. To tempt people on board, the new software will support hardware acceleration …
Skype 5.0 For Windows Debuts With Facebook Integration, Call Recovery And More
Skype is about to become much more social with the launch of Skype 5.0. Today, the company announced that the new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows will include a deep Facebook integration …
Why CPUs Aren't Getting Any Faster
Making computers faster means relying on the central processing unit (CPU) less than ever before. — The Central Processing Unit (CPU)—the component that has defined the performance of your computer ...
VLC for iPhone Hands-On
The popular media player, VLC, made its way to the iPad just a few weeks ago, and the company behind the application, Applidium, has just submitted a version for the iPhone. Here's our exclusive hand...
Adobe tops 1 million Flash downloads on Android
Adobe has more than 1 million downloads of Flash Player 10.1 on the Android market, but still has a few kinks to work out on the mobile front. — Since Flash Player 10.1 launched on Android the recep...
Kiva President On The Next 5 Years And Why Zynga Is Their Biggest Rival (TCTV)
Who is Kiva's biggest competitor? — If you rattled off a list of non-profit-centric startups, the micro-lending site's President Premal Shah would tell you that you're dead wrong.
Two million US PCs recruited to botnets
Hi-tech criminals use botnets to send out spam — The US leads the world in numbers of Windows PCs that are part of botnets, reveals a report. — More than 2.2 million US PCs were found to be part o...