Microsoft Announces Office 365
New cloud service brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync for organizations of all sizes. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft Office 365, the company's next generation in cloud...
RIM Responds to Apple's ‘Distortion Field’
For those of us who live outside of Apple's distortion field, we know that 7" tablets will actually be a big portion of the market and we know that Adobe Flash support actually matters to customers wh...
Bartz On Blogging: “An Extremely Hard Engineering Feat”
Carol Bartz was almost subdued on today's earnings call. Missing were the salty outbursts of previous conference calls, but she did manage one zinger. Apparently, one of Yahoo's problems before was ...
Google ditches all Street View Wi-Fi scanning
Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of privacy probes after the company said it uninte...
webOS 2.0 review
When it comes to webOS 2.0 (now actually called HP webOS), it almost felt like we'd never see the version number, let alone get to review it. It's been an intense few months for Palm: after flounderi...
ATD Welcomes Ina Fried As Our New Mobile Reporter
Here at All Things Digital, we've always prided ourselves on our journalism efforts, while also fully embracing the fast-paced new world of blogging. — So we could not be more thrilled to announce t...
Google adds shared by number to Google news results
Google seems to be experimenting with adding a “Shared by [number]” stat next to Google News results - so you can see how popular each story is on Twitter etc. Here's a screenshot - you can see “Shar...
First Look: Starbucks Digital Network Is Here
Beginning Wednesday, Starbucks customers who use the free Wi-Fi at more than 6,800 U.S. company-operated stores will be greeted with the Starbucks Digital Network (SDN) — an exclusive content network ...
New photos claim to show Apple's prototype CDMA Verizon iPhone
Photos, possibly from a repair shop in Vietnam, have surfaced allegedly showing a prototype CDMA iPhone in Device Verification Test phase. — The photos, which were obtained by the blogger Richy Rich...
Verizon Wireless to Offer $15 Data Plan
Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a less expensive, but restricted, data plan for smartphone customers next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a move that follows AT&T Inc.'s o...
Drag and drop images in documents
When writing a document, it often helps to augment text with images and diagrams. Google documents already has three ways to add images: you can choose them from your hard-drive, add them by URL, and...
Prototype of an Open Web App Ecosystem
The open Web is a great platform for rich applications. It would be even better if it had additional capabilities to ease discovery, acquisition, installation and use of apps, while also enabling mon...
The New Funding Landscape
After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we've seen dramatic changes in the funding envi...
Sprint admits losing WiMax users early on
Officials say problems with spotty WiMax coverage have now been largely addressed by Sprint and Clearwire — Computerworld - CHICAGO — Sprint Nextel lost some potential customers due to spotty WiMax ...
Chrome Web Store to Be Launched Soon?
Google Chrome's extension gallery started to display the price for each extension, which suggests that Chrome Web Store is going to be launched soon. All the extensions uploaded to the gallery can be...
Salesforce.com's Benioff unplugged: Supervendors suck, Oracle, Zuckerberg as Gates
Salesforce.com Marc Benioff knocked so-called supervendors, their long lists of acquisitions and approach to innovation in a Gartner keynote that walked the line between a stand-up act and a pep rally...
Exclusive: Biz Stone on Twitter and Activism
The New Yorker recently published a thoughtfully written article by Malcolm Gladwell titled, “Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” Citing research done by Stanford sociologist Doug ...
Facebook Changes Photo Memories to No Longer Show Your Ex-Boyfriends or Ex-Girlfriends
In response to numerous complaints, Facebook has changed its Photo Memories sidebar module to no longer display friends who a user was formally listed as in a relationship with.
Exclusive: Yahoo's Head of Mobile, North America Leaves, As U.S. Unit Reorgs
Today at Yahoo's third-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said tersely of a flood of exec departures at the Silicon Valley Internet giant:
How Google dominates the Web
Google began strictly as a search company, and it's still their bread and butter. However, as the company has grown, it's spread its tentacles like a giant octopus out to most parts of the Web. A be...
Android Chief Andy Rubin Sends His First Tweet — And It's Aimed At Steve Jobs
And It's Aimed At Steve Jobs — Well would you look at that. Earlier today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs went on a bit of a tirade against Google and Android in particular. And you know that couldn't have m...
HP introduces feature-packed webOS 2.0
webOS is moving up to version 2.0 and bringing along with it a whole host of new features sure to please even the most jaded of webOS users. There's the stuff that we've already covered: card-groupin...
Does Microsoft really need a chief software architect?
Ray Ozzie announced yesterday that he plans to step down as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, after five years at the company. — The question for Microsoft now is not “Can Ozzie can be replaced?...
Intel investing up to $8B in new U.S. factories, creating thousands of jobs
Intel said it wil invest $6 billion to $8 billion on its new chip factories in a move that will create thousands of construction and engineering jobs. — The world's biggest chip maker said it will c...
Engineer samples of Android 3.0-loaded tablet PCs to be ready in December
Google has recently notified its partners that the Android 3.0 operating system (OS) will soon be completed with the related tablet PC engineer samples set to show up in December, according to sources...
60 percent of Apple's sales are from products that did not exist three years ago
This chart speaks for itself. Note the bottom two bands and the proportion of the total that they make up. — Also note the seasonality with the holiday spikes. This last quarter is not a holiday q...
Google to end contracts with 7 ad agents
(Reuters) - Google Inc said on Tuesday its termination of contracts with seven large Chinese advertising resellers goes into effect on Oct 27. — Google, which faced many operational hurdles since it...
Microsoft delivers Windows Embedded Automotive 7
Another day, another Microsoft product with “7″ in its name launches. — On October 19, Microsoft unveiled Windows Embedded Automotive 7, the latest version of its Embedded Automotive platform. — W...
How Google tested Google Instant
Google's John Boyd (standing) and LaDawn Jentzch, user experience researchers at Google, explain to CNET's Tom Krazit how Google's usability lab works, as seen from the observation room. — (Credit: ...
Former Zynga exec lands at VC firm Maveron
Andrew Trader, an early team member of red-hot gaming startup Zynga, is now joining venture capital firm Maveron, the company told VentureBeat late Monday. — Trader, known as “A.T.”, built and manag...
The Business Of Burying Internet Search Results
App Watch: Checking In at the Ballgame
Sports leagues are betting big on the potential growth of location-based applications, services that allow users to “check in” from their smartphones and tell people where they are. — The National B...
Loopt Feeling Right At Home With Facebook Places, Adds Deep Integration
When Facebook launched Places, their entry into the location space, the headlines made it seem as if every startup player in the field was about to go extinct. Obviously, that didn't happen.
Study: Electronic theft surpasses physical theft
For the first time ever, more companies are suffering from electronic theft than from physical theft, according to the results of a poll released yesterday by risk consultancy Kroll. — The firm's fo...
Apple Sees a Ripe Corporate Market
Apple Inc. will unveil Wednesday a new version of its computer operating software, a development that comes as the consumer-electronics giant makes a more aggressive move to expand in a market that ha...
Scribd's books and magazines get rich links, thanks to Apture
Apture, a startup trying to improve online reading with a smooth way to explore extra content, is rolling out what chief executive Tristan Harris called the company's biggest implementation yet: Aptur...