The Real Reason White iPhone 4 Is Delayed (Hint: The Camera)
The white iPhone 4 has been delayed because it can't take good pictures, a source with connections at Apple tells me. — The white case leaks light back in — especially when the flash is used to take...
News Corp. Reboots MySpace in Quest to Recapture Young Crowd
News Corp.'s MySpace is introducing a new website design with a focus on younger users in a drive to stem subscriber losses and distinguish itself from Facebook, the biggest social network. — Starti...
Is Apple About to Cut Out the Carriers?
Sources inside European carriers have reported that Apple has been working with SIM-card manufacturer Gemalto to create a special SIM card that would allow consumers in Europe to buy a phone via the w...
Russia to create ‘Windows rival’
MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian state plans to revamp its computer services with a Windows rival to reduce its dependence on US giant Microsoft and better monitor computer security, a lawmaker said Wednesd...
Apple Hosting Secret iOS Developer Summit Next Week
Apple is hosting an event for iOS developers in California next week, we've heard from an industry source. The event begins next Tuesday, and runs for three days, we've heard. — We are short on det...
Apple's 2010 Annual Report: Hiring Spree, Ad Budget Increase, Lower Gross Margins Ahead
Apple today filed its 2010 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the document reveals a few interesting tidbits of information: — Apple noted that it had approximately 4...
Yahoo! Gets Even ‘Beta’ with New Email Experience
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, email is a critical part of their online communications, connecting them to the people who matter most to them. With that in mind, we are rolling ...
Acer tablet PC line launching on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699
Not much more to tell you that you didn't already pick up from the headline. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci told Dow Jones Newswire that it will be launching its first line of tablet PCs in New York City ...
Google Is Now Providing Servants to Its Employees
So much for the war on Googler entitlement. Amid heated competition for engineers, Google is trying a remarkable new perk: free use of “runners” to clean apartments, take out trash, cook dinner, run ...
Pegatron expects to ship 10 million CDMA iPhones in 2011, say sources
Pegatron Technology internally expects its Apple CDMA iPhone shipments to reach 10 million units in 2011 and the company has recently started to gear up and is installing new equipment as well as hiri...
New Place Search Shows Google's Commitment To Local
Today Google formally rolls out its new presentation of local results, called “Place Search.” It offers a dramatic change to the look and feel of SERPs on Google.com. The first and most obvious chan...
Microsoft's reply to prediction of consumer demise: #notdeadyet
Whenever major media organizations break out the pensive file photos of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, you know the news isn't good, and this morning's piece by David Goldman of CNNMoney.com was no exce...
The FTC Forgives Google's WiFi Sniffing
No harm, no foul, Google. David Vladeck, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, sent the company a letter today announcing the end of its inquiry into the collectio...
Google exec: Android was “best deal ever”
Buying Android Inc., the wireless-software startup founded by Andy Rubin, was Google's “best deal ever,” said David Lawee, vice president of corporate development at the search giant. — Lawee made t...
With a Big Push From Apple, HTML5 Video Wins the Web (But Not Completely)
Remember the big Apple vs. everyone else video-format war from last spring? When Apple was pushing the HTML5 standard it wanted to use for video on the iPhone and iPad, instead of Adobe's Flash?
Special Report: Sleepy in Seattle - Microsoft learns to mature
(Reuters) - Every July, Microsoft Corp invites a sizable Wall Street crowd to its leafy, low-rise campus outside Seattle. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and his top managers take a half-day to explain...
Samsung Galaxy Tab hitting T-Mobile USA on November 10th, $400 on contract
America's number four carrier just landed a launch date for Samsung's Froyo-based Galaxy Tab, and sure enough, it'll be trotting out into the spotlight a full 24 hours before Verizon Wireless and four...
Flickr is more fun with friends!
We think that Flickr is the best way to keep up with what's going on in your world and share your photos with the people you care about. With millions of members on Flickr, there are bound to be a fe...
Google shifts troubled TV effort to YouTube
(10-27) 17:59 PDT San Francisco — Google Inc. is shifting its troubled Google TV initiative to its YouTube division, The Chronicle has learned. — Some industry sources speculated that the move was a...
Mobile Users Prefer Browsers over Apps
For a variety of functions, users would rather browse — Although about a third of US mobile phone subscribers used a downloaded application in August, according to comScore, and app downloads have s...
256GB SSD Upgrades for New MacBook Air Announced
Taiwanese company Photofast has announced the first 3rd party SSD storage upgrade kit for the new MacBook Air. (via Engadget) The new MacBook Air is the first Apple laptop to use a special SSD card r...
Google to buy $2 billion Manhattan city block?
A report today says that Google is in the final stages of acquiring the huge building which it currently rents in Chelsea. — 111 8th Ave. via 1118thave.com — The New York Post is reporting that Go...
How To: Avoid Getting Fleeced By Firesheep
Over the last 24 hours the world has been abuzz with talk about a small Firefox extension. Usually Firefox extensions don't make headlines, but in this case one did. Why? This extension is called F...
Gmail in mobile Safari: now even more like a native app
Go to gmail.com from your iPhone and you'll notice two improvements we've rolled out over the past few weeks. First, scrolling is snappier: the speed of scrolling reflects the speed of your swipe ges...
Yahoo Search Ads Now Fully Powered By Microsoft adCenter
The Yahoo to Microsoft adCenter search ad transition in the U.S. and Canada is now complete. Both Microsoft and Yahoo confirmed the transition is now complete. — Yahoo said: … From now on, to manag...
Foxconn and Compal contracted for 5-6 Palm devices in 2011 [rumor]
While the Palm Pre 2 might be eliciting less-than-impressed responses from Palm fans, we can't help but wonder what Palm might come out with next. It's all but assumed that the Pre 2 was the phone Pa...
Android App Forwards Private Text Messages
If you own an Android phone and are cheating on a significant other by arranging secret trysts through text messages, you might want to think twice about your infidelities — or at least about arrangin...
Walmart Does Groupon Without Groupon
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I'm not sure Groupon felt the love when they saw Walmart's new marketing plan on Facebook. — They call it the “CrowdSaver,” and guess how it...
FTC will not fine Google for stealing passwords with Street View cars
Following Google's recent admission that it accidentally stole passwords, emails and other personal information with its Street View cars, the Federal Trade Commission has decided not to issue any fin...
Those Bits Aren't Free: Netflix Could Be Racking Up a $2 Billion Content Tab
Investors are cheering on Netflix as it moves from DVDs to streaming video, and keeps adding customers along the way. But “digital” doesn't equal “cheap” for Reed Hastings' company. In fact, the onl...
Verizon Sees Symmetrical 10 Gbps In FiOS Trials - Using Alcatel Lucent XG-PON2 prototype technology
Verizon's been busily conducting GPON connectivity trials in the field, showcasing how future upgrades could theoretically allow them to offer 10 Gbps to each home, or symmetrical 1 Gbps service to ea...
Mozilla delays Firefox 4 release until 2011
Instabilities, others bugs force open-source developer to push ship date into early next year — Computerworld - Mozilla today announced that it will delay the release of Firefox 4 until 2011. — Th...
What's The Street Price Of Twitter? Nearly $1.6 Billion
Like other hot startups there is a healthy secondary market ecosystem for Twitter stock. The current street value of a share of any series of Twitter stock? At least $7 per share, say multiple sourc...
Comcast CEO: iPad, tablets give us ability to ‘start from scratch’ on TV interface
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts was decidedly upbeat about tablets such as Apple's iPad and how it can drive demand for the cable giant's Xfinity Web video efforts. — Speaking on Comcast's third quarter …
UberCab's Masterstroke: Forgoing Buy-In from San Francisco Officials
Uber didn't see it coming, but this week, the startup - whose iPhone application connects its users with on-demand rides from third-party limo drivers - became an overnight sensation whose business ...
PayPal Announces Android Market Payment Support, Quickly Pulls It
Well, well, well. An eagle-eyed reader tells us PayPal posted a short announcement yesterday on its corporate blog, only to pull it mere seconds later. As you can tell from the URL, PayPal was poise...
Gmail in mobile Safari: now even more like a native app
Go to gmail.com from your iPhone and you'll notice two improvements we've rolled out over the past few weeks. First, scrolling is snappier: the speed of scrolling reflects the speed of your swipe ges...
Hiring: Microsoft stays cautious as Google, Amazon ramp back up
Despite adding a net total more than 500 jobs in the Seattle region in the September quarter, Microsoft's overall worldwide employment dipped slightly, to 88,414 people, according to the latest number...
Oracle CEO claims can prove wrongdoing by new HP CEO
BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said he has proof that Hewlett-Packard Co's incoming CEO oversaw a scheme to steal Oracle's software by rival SAP AG. — SAP has admitted ...
Comcast CEO: iPad, tablets give us ability to ‘start from scratch’ on TV interface
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts was decidedly upbeat about tablets such as Apple's iPad and how it can drive demand for the cable giant's Xfinity Web video efforts. — Speaking on Comcast's third quarter …