Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung
The Nexus Two is real. It's made by Samsung, and a friend of ours got to play with it. It's not going rock your face like the Nexus One did. But it will record it with a front-facing camera. — “W...
Facebook Launching Places Powered Deals Service
Facebook is currently testing a new “Facebook Deals” service which enables businesses to provide deals whenever visitors check-in to a physical store. The new service is being tested with a limited n...
Kleiner Perkins goes big: VC firm raising more than $1 billion
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers got all sorts of attention last week for its $250 million sFund — including from yours truly — but that just scratches the surface of the venture capital firm's fundra...
Yep, Apple Rocketed Past Microsoft In Revenue This Past Quarter By Over $4 Billion
When Apple passed Microsoft in market cap this past May, the Microsoft fanboys were out in full force. “This means nothing.” “Microsoft still makes so much more money than Apple.” “Look at the reve...
Chinese Supercomputer Likely to Prompt Unease in U.S.
A newly built supercomputer in China appears poised to take the world performance lead, another sign of the country's growing technological prowess that is likely to set off alarms about U.S. competit...
Myspace Accused Of Ripping Off Stealth Startup Pinterest
This morning Pinterest co-founders Ben Silberman, Paul Sciarra and Yashwanth Nelapati woke up to a barrage of tweets, “So @myspace has completely ripped off @pinterest. It really pisses me off when a...
Looks Like BoingBoing Got Hacked (NSFW)
Something is definitely up at uber nerd site and “Directory of Wonderful Things” BoingBoing.net. A trip to the front page brings up the charming image above, which seems to be some sort of vulgar mes...
Rumor: Samsung will announce the Nexus Two on November 8th
If you were thinking about buying an Android phone in the next two weeks, please stop what you are doing and read this post. Something big is coming and I think you will want to know the full details...
Earnings Release FY11 Q1
Microsoft Reports Record First-Quarter Results — Growth across all business segments drives record first-quarter revenue and earnings per share. — Microsoft Corp. today announced record first-quar...
Live Blog: Microsoft's PDC Keynote with Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia
Microsoft is holding its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) on its Redmond, WA campus this week. The event kicks off with a two-hour keynote hosted by the company's CEO Steve Ballmer and Bob Mug...
An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped
The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, was released in June, but the white model was delayed first to July, then to the end of the year and now to early next year.
Place Search: a faster, easier way to find local information
I love to discover new places, from sandwich shops in my neighborhood to great museums around the globe. When I start looking for something in a new area, like a barbecue restaurant in Austin, I usua...
Adobe demos Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool
Where there's pain, there's opportunity. — Pre-Adobe, I made my living building rich, Flash-intensive sites for Gucci, Coca-Cola, Nike, and other big brands. Doing that job today, I'd be in a jam: ...
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Leaving Position To Take Advisory Role
I'm currently in Dublin, Ireland, for a (most excellent) event dubbed Founders, where I was invited to handle a fireside chat / interview with YouTube cofounder and CEO Chad Hurley earlier tonight.
Oracle: Google ‘directly copied’ our Java code
IDG News Service - Oracle has updated its lawsuit against Google to allege that parts of its Android mobile phone software “directly copied” Oracle's Java code. — Oracle filed a surprise lawsuit aga...
2010 MacBook Air: ultimate-edition lab tests
We test the top-end 1.6GHz 11-inch Air and 2.13GHz 13-inch Air — The 2010 MacBook Air models offer impressive improvements in both design and in performance when compared to previous MacBook Airs. ...
Telling the Story of Friendships
One of my favorite Facebook moments is browsing photos from friends in the News Feed after they've begun a new relationship, gotten engaged or gotten married. It gives me a fun and meaningful glimpse...
The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits
Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil...
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us
Dropbox founder and chief executive Drew Houston offered some details this afternoon about how he grew the company to more than 4 million users. In its early days, the document synchronization startu...
Apple faces legal action over iPad name
By Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Proview, a struggling Taiwanese-owned company, has threatened to sue Apple for alleged trademark infringement, in a lingering dispute t...
Should we be worried about a cyber war?
On April 1, 2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission collided with a Chinese interceptor jet over the South China Sea, triggering the first international crisi...
TSA announces that 11" MacBook Air computers can remain in their bag at the checkpoint
In a spot of good news for proud owners of the new 11" MacBook Air, the Transportation Security Administration has announced that passengers may leave their machine in its bag when passing through the...
Boxee Offers HD Streaming Movies with VUDU
When it comes to streaming media, it looks like Boxee has the best of both worlds. That is, its hardware solution - the Boxee Box - makes it easy to bring streams like YouTube, Netflix or Pandora to ...
Google Agrees to Change Ad Policy to Settle French Case
PARIS — Google has pledged to overhaul its rules and procedures for blocking certain advertisers from buying “sponsored links” on its search engine as part of a settlement with French authorities anno...
Fred Wilson on The Empire State of Startups
As Om shared earlier this month, New York's tech scene is getting a flood of venture capital for Internet deals, rivaling San Francisco. It's validation for a city that has built a formidable base of...
Mint Data Offers Real-Time Look at Local Spending
I never know what to think when I see a rating next to a business on something like Yelp or Google that ranks a business as “$” or “$$” - how much is “$$” exactly and do I want to spend it? Well now,...
Amazon to Launch Kindle App for Windows Phone 7
Free Kindle application extends Amazon's Buy Once, Read Everywhere approach, bringing over 725,000 Kindle Books to Windows Phone 7 — Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN 165.80, -1.71, -1.02%) today announced tha...
LinkedIn Beefs Up Its Board Of Directors Again
If I were a betting man, I'd bet on LinkedIn going public some time in 2011. But I'm not, so I'll just share with you that the social networking service provider has been significantly beefing up its...
Apple's iPad now on sale from Verizon and AT&T
Apple on Thursday began selling the iPad through the two largest wireless carriers in the U.S. — Verizon and AT&T — as retail expansion of the touchscreen tablet before the holidays continues. — The...
Microsoft Earnings Preview: What You Need To Know
Microsoft reports earnings for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year today after market close, and we'll be covering the release as it breaks after 4PM ET and live blogging the company's earnings ...
iOS 4.2 for iPad Has Been Jailbroken Using Sn0wbreeze !
The iPhone hacker and developer behind Sn0wbreeze has managed to jailbreak iOS 4.2 for iPad. This of course has been achieved using Geohot's untethered bootrom level Limera1n exploit. The image belo...