How to Watch Free, Live Broadcast TV on Your iPad, Right Now
The broadcast networks only put their stuff on the Web under very specific conditions. So this is exactly what they don't want: Free, live streams of their stuff delivered to your iPad, via the brows...
Microsoft's Ballmer sells 12 percent stake in company
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sold $1.3 billion worth of shares in the company, cutting his stake by about 12 percent, but said his first stock sale in seven years ...
What really happened between HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher?
To this day, only two people know the full truth. But one thing is certain: The deeper you dig, the weirder it gets. — Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher — Mark Hurd was miffed. It was 2007, two years i...
T-Mobile: iPhone cables are for unlocked handsets and phones roaming from Europe
T-Mobile has cleared the air in response to reports Friday that questioned why the carrier might be stocking connector cables for use with Apple's iPhone and iPod lines. T-Mobile, of course, does not...
Nice Move, Google — What Took You So Long?
What Took You So Long? — In a move that is being interpreted by many as a cannon shot across Facebook's bow, Google has changed the terms of service on its contacts API — the programming interface th...
Rumor: Gingerbread to finish cooking and come out of the Android oven November 11th
A trusted source has tipped us to the potential launch date for Gingerbread, the 2.3 version of Android. According to our source, the SDK for this upcoming revision will debut on November 11th.
How Apple Almost Got Microsoft's Kinect Game Controller
In June 2008, on a flight home from Europe to San Francisco, I was given a fascinating demo of some jaw-dropping technology. — I was sitting next Inon Beracha, CEO of Israeli company PrimeSense, whi...
Why is T-Mobile selling an iPhone cable?
T-Mobile USA has been an oft-rumored darkhorse to help kill off AT&T's iPhone exclusivity in the country — and for the life of us, we can't think of a good reason that the carrier's corporate stores w...
On iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone, New MIDI Support, via Wires, Wireless
Over 25 years later, portions of MIDI introduced early on in the spec remain relevant. And if you want to connect your MIDI-equipped gear to Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad mobiles, you will soo...
Apple to drop Xserve after January 31
Apple today sent notice that it was phasing out the Xserve. The rackmount server will be discontinued as of January 31, 2011, and the currently available 160GB, 1TB and 2TB Apple Drive Modules will s...
Google “Nexus Two” Hardware Issue Delays Launch
Google is working with Samsung on a new Android phone that will have a “clean install” of Android, and the release was at least initially planned to coincide with the launch of Android 2.3 Gingerbread...
Google Does Away With “Sponsored Links” Label, Now Ads Are Labeled “Ads”
A month ago, Google began testing labeling the AdWords ads as “ads”. Prior, Google labeled those AdWords ads as “sponsored links,” which is how they have been named for as long as I can remember.
Gmail Tests Call Recording
Andrew Banchich spotted a new Gmail feature that lets you record calls. I don't see the call record button in my account, so it's probably an experimental feature that's not yet widely available. — ...
Caterina Fake Leaving Hunch
Hunch cofounder Caterina Fake has signed an agreement to leave the company before the end of the year, we've learned from sources. — Technically, Fake will remain involved with the company as an “ad...
How voters turned out on Facebook
When Facebook users in the United States logged into Facebook on Election Day this year, they were greeted by a message alerting them of voting activity on Facebook. Users could click a button to ann...
Bank of America, Citigroup Said to Test Apple IPhone
Steve Jobs may soon bag a pair of the biggest U.S. banks as iPhone supporters. — Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alte...
Dell to Ditch 25,000 BlackBerrys in Bid to Promote Own Service
In a direct shot at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Dell Inc. plans to move its 25,000 employees over to its own line of smartphones and then aggressively market a service to help other comp...
Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It's Now Fixed
Yesterday, we posted about horrible latency issues many Gmail users have been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. When I reached out to Google about the issue a few days ago, they told me tha...
Lamebook Sues Facebook Over Trademark Infringement. Wait, What?
Here's a head scratcher, at first glance at least: Lamebook, a hilarious advertising-supported site that lets Facebook users submit funny status updates, pictures and “other gems” originating from the...
Dell XPS 14 review
When Dell told us of its plans to revive its tried and true XPS laptop line we were pretty darn excited. With so much brand dilution in the past few years — there's been the Adamo XPS and the Studio ...
Security Fears Kill Huawei Bid in U.S.
Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security conce...
Adobe intros cloud-based file sharing, PDF creation tools
Adobe has introduced two new services that it hopes will get the masses using its products again: one that converts and processes PDFs on the Web, and another that allows users to easily send large fi...
Modern web browser adoption better than expected: 71% run latest version
Web developers fight a constant struggle: They want to use modern web browser features, but they also need to take browser adoption into consideration. If a large portion of their users run older ver...
Dell CFO: Going private still an option
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Once the top personal computer maker, Dell has fallen behind some of its chief rivals and gradually has lost much of the luster that it had a decade ago. — Now, Dell is att...
Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrates an iPad-based color palette app used to mix, select, and paint colors. It's attached to a separate computer computer running Photoshop. — You can't download Photo...
North Korea gets a PDA befitting its Dear Leader
The DPRK's not exactly the world's healthiest economy. So it's with some surprise that we're now presenting you with North Korea's newest (only?) touchscreen slab. Apparently, it's available “in all...
Cooks Source Editor Finally Responds... Makes Things Worse [Updated]
from the maybe-copy-a-recipe-for-humble- pie dept — Yesterday, we wrote about how Cooks Source magazine had been caught pulling a story off the internet and republishing it, without permission.
300,000 Apple apps? That depends.
For the second time in three weeks, an analytics firm jumps the gun — Click to enlarge. Source: Distimo — “Apple's App Store Soars Past 300,000 Apps,” reads the headline posted Thursday on the we...
What Your Phone Says About You [Graphic]
Sometimes the guys in our office like to get in stupid fights about phones. Yeah I know they do it on the blog, but they also do it in private as well times 1000. It is essentially the song that nev...
It's a smart world
The real and the digital worlds are converging, bringing much greater efficiency and lots of new opportunities, says Ludwig Siegele. But is it what people want? — WHAT if there were two worlds, the...
Developers don't rush to new platforms
A common fallacy is assuming that any new platform in an exciting market — recently, smartphones and tablet computers — will be flooded with developers as soon as it's released, as if developers are j...
Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers
Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and adapting to what the security community and researchers are doing, and it's not unusual for the bad guys to adopt techniques used by their adversari...
Why I really, really hate Instagram
I love data, so I really hate Instagram. — I suppose it would be more accurate to say I really hate the users of Instagram, for what they do to their photos; Instagram is merely the enabler. The be...
Skyfire for iPhone hands-on (video)
Although Skyfire for iPhone is almost exactly like its Android counterpart, it's still not available for download in the App Store due to server issues, so we thought you might want to see how it work...
Windows Phone apps are more expensive than iPhone apps
The Windows Marketplace for Mobile now has about 1,400 apps spread across 16 categories. In this short post I'll provide some basic statistics* and compare it with the grandaddy of app stores - the U...
Amazon Nukes Diapers.com In Price War — May Force Diapers' Founders To Sell Out
May Force Diapers' Founders To Sell Out — Amazon has launched a price war against Diapers.com that may have Quidsi, Diapers' parent company, looking for an exit. — Diapers.com has built a huge busi...