MacBook Air 11" Model A1370 Teardown
Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs
Amazon.com, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media to Invest and Help Accelerate a New Wave of Social Web Innovations — Palo Alto, Calif. - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) …
Networks Block Web Programs From Being Viewed on Google TV
ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the medi...
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month?
Hulu is considering cutting the price on Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me. I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per month fee in ha...
Rapleaf's Web: How You Are Profiled On The Web
Earlier, I posted about San Francisco-based Internet information aggregator Rapleaf, a service that collects, sorts and repackages data about many of us who spend an inordinate amount of time on the I...
iMovie '11 Trailers feature won't let you spoof Universal trailers
Loyal tipster Tarik sent word that the iMovie '11 Trailers theme using a globe (very similar to the Universal Studios opener) won't allow you to use the word “Universal” in the title. — He's current...
HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799
Nope, you're not dreaming, but feel free to pinch yourself, rub your eyes or take a cold shower! You've read right — the HP Slate is finally official, and after all the teasing, back and forth, and (...
Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color
This is just a crude mock-up—and not the real deal—but our source says Nook Color is coming. — Is the upcoming Nook a color e-reader? Barnes & Noble doesn't comment on rumors, but CNET has been in ...
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes
Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work ...
Millionaires Have No Time for Facebook
A new poll suggests that a majority of millionaires have signed up for social media sites. There is just one problem: They don't have time to actually use them. — The poll from SEI Wealth Network, ...
Official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 goes live (update: hands-on)
Surprise of surprises! On the day that Europeans finally got to dig into the Windows Phone 7 cake in earnest, Twitter's official app for the hot new platform has also gone live. We've downloaded it ...
Chromeless: Build your own Browser UI using HTML, CSS and JS
The “Chromeless” project experiments with the idea of removing the current browser user interface and replacing it with a flexible platform which allows for the creation of new browser UI using standa...
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent — The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations ...
Obama meets with Apple CEO Jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Thursday afternoon in San Francisco with Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. — “They discussed America...
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions
Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that i...
Square Starts Shipping New iPhone 4-Compatible Credit Card Reader
There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about the fact that the old version of Square's little plastic credit card reader doesn't work with Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 4. That's because the metal f...
Adobe announces the HTML5 Video Player widget
HTML5 has received a tremendous amount of buzz, much of it driven by the potential for plugin-free video. However, the limited browser support for the HTML5 <video> tag has forced web designers to sc...
Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers
A survey by online job board Dice shows that tech employers and recruiters face a shortage of qualified mobile-software designers — Technology companies are running up against a dearth of qualified ...
ATD Gets Social With Liz Gannes (In Other Words, We Hired Her)
A few days ago, All Things Digital announced CNET senior writer Ina Fried was joining the staff to cover mobile for the site. — Today, we complete a one-two punch with the hiring of Liz Gannes, who ...
Gingerbread's Screen Off Animation [Exclusive Video]
We promised we'd be digging for more information about Gingerbread well ahead of its coming out party, and we're making steady progress. We initially broke the news on Monday. While most of you rema...
Celebrating Windows 7 at 1 Year - More than 240 Million Licenses Sold
Today's an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 ...
Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today
Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I'm saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a whil...
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes
Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work ...
FaceTime for Mac - a serious threat for your Apple ID
While many users are happy about having FaceTime on their Mac, we are a little anxious about some security glitches present in the current beta of the software. With a few clicks others can make use ...
Apple looking to ditch Java?
An Apple developer has leaked the rules document governing the new Mac App Store - and it's not good news for Java. — One line in the App Store Review Guidelines says any apps using “deprecated or o...
Encrypting Facebook UIDs
Over the past few days, we have been investigating a technical solution to the issue of sharing Facebook User IDs (UIDs). While initial press reports greatly exaggerated the implications of sharing a...
How many German households have opted-out of Street View?
Cross posted from Der Google Produkt-Kompass — Since April 2009, people in Germany have been able to ask for their house to be blurred on Street View ahead of the product being launched. At first t...
Winamp for Android: Now in Beta
Winamp for AndroidTM is now in Beta! — Winamp, the Ultimate Media Player, is now available in beta on AndroidTM (Android 2.1 OS and above). It offers a complete media management solution by seamles...
AT&T Profits Triple, But New iPhone Subs Fall To All-Time Low
AT&T's Q3 profits rose on a favorable tax settlement and the sale of its Sterling Commerce business-software unit to IBM, but cracks are starting to show in its exclusive hold on Apple's iPhone.
Resumption of the crypto wars?
The Telegraph and Guardian reported yesterday that the government plans to install deep packet inspection kit at ISPs, a move considered and then apparently rejected by the previous government (our Da...
Books and Video Win on the iPad, and Users Are Buying
Although the iPad is still relatively new, early indications are that a majority of users are willing to pay for content on the tablet — whether it's apps or games — and that books and video are the t...
Nokia cuts workers, consolidates dev platforms, posts profit
Nokia on Thursday made a bevy of moves it hopes will make it more competitive in the smartphone market. The changes mark the first efforts of new CEO Stephen Elop to revamp the company. — The first...
Mark Zuckerberg On The Biggest Difference Between “The Social Network” And Reality
In The Social Network, a movie about the founding of Facebook, a fictional Mark Zuckerberg builds the site in order to impress a girl and gain social notoriety. — Speaking at Y-combinator event over...
Intel and The9 invest $8M in social game platform Aurora Feint
Social game platforms are hot. Intel Capital and Chinese online game publisher The9 have invested $8 million in social game platform company Aurora Feint, which runs the equivalent of the Xbox Live g...
Apple quietly updates MacBook Pro with optional 2.8GHz Core i7 processor
Sure, Apple's “Back to the Mac” press conference was all about software and a manila envelope or two, but Cupertino also sent out a silent love letter to its MacBook Pro lineup. Specifically, the 15-...
New MacBook Air Doesn't Ship with Adobe Flash
Engadget revealed today that Apple's new MacBook Air doesn't ship with Adobe's Flash plug-in. … It seems Apple is continuing to distance itself from Adobe's Flash plug-in. The omission appears to be ...