Dawn of a New Day
To: Executive Staff and direct reports — Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change managemen...
iPhone Security Hole Lets You Make Calls When The Phone Is Locked
It seems like there's a huge bug in iOS 4.1 for iPhone: with a combination of sleep / power button and a fake emergency call, it is possible to access the iPhone's contact list and phone keypad even i...
Schmidt: Don't Like Google Street View Photographing Your House? Then Move.
Google Instant May Provide Instant Revenue Increase
When Google rolled out a new feature called Google Instant for its search engine in September, thousands of its AdWords advertisers—who pay the company every time a user clicks on their text ads next ...
Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps
Adobe's making a serious play for the app space today, and it's not limiting itself to phones — its new Air cross-platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and ta...
Samsung Galaxy Tab headed to Best Buy: $499 and up, Sprint, Verizon, silver/black, WiFi-only, WiFi + 3G
The Samsung Galaxy Tab will be released in the US next month, as you know, but who knew that Best Buy wanted in on the action? The store is already advertising the 7-inch Android 2.2 tablet …
Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st
Exclusive: Nimbuzz, a popular mobile communication service provider, has been asked by Skype to remove support for all Skype services as from October 31st. — The startup will be announcing the news ...
Amazon: New, Cheaper Kindle Has Already Beat Last Year's Christmas Sales
Here's another ambiguous sales dump from Amazon, which still has never disclosed how many Kindle e-readers it has actually sold. — Amazon just said it has already moved more units of this year's che...
Wi-Fi Direct certification begins today, device-to-device transmission starting soon
So, Bluetooth — last fall didn't end up being as frightful as you had probably imagined, but this fall is bound to be different. Or so the Wi-Fi Alliance says. If you'll recall, Wi-Fi Direct promise...
Exclusive: Digg Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Departs for Start-Up
Chas Edwards (pictured here), the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources. — The exec, who came to...
Microsoft vs. Apple: Who's winning? The numbers don't lie
Microsoft has been at the top of the heap for almost as long as people have used PCs. They've managed to sustain an overwhelming competitive advantage, even after a decade's worth of antitrust action...
VLC now available for iPhone
We had a look at the VLC player for iPhone last week but now it is available for general consumption. While there are some issues, you can now play a much wider array of movie formats on the iPhone. ...
Google Sets New Internet Traffic Record
In their earnings call last week, Google announced a record 2010 third-quarter revenue of $7.29 billion (up 23% from last year). The market rejoiced and Google shares shot past $615 giving the compan...
App Makers Take Interest in Android
There was cold beer, hot pizza and shop talk at a recent informal gathering of Android programmers in downtown Manhattan. Inevitably the chatter turned to money. — One software developer, James Eng...
Firesheep In Wolves' Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily
It seems like every time Facebook amends its privacy policy, the web is up in arms. The truth is, Facebook's well publicized privacy fight is nothing compared to the vulnerability of all unsecured HT...
Russian Facebook Investor Mail.ru Seeks $876 Million in IPO
Mail.ru Group Ltd., a Russian internet company with stakes in Facebook Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc., is seeking as much as $5.7 billion in an initial public offering in London. — Mail.ru, partly...