Google Launches Instant Previews
At last, Google has finally gained a page preview feature. Called “Instant Previews,” this is a way for you to see what's on a page that's listed in Google's search results without having to leave Go...
Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post
In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after sh...
Apple buys Wi-Gear to build stereo Bluetooth headphones
A source tells 9to5Mac that Apple scooped up a small Bluetooth wireless headphone designer in San Francisco two months ago for an undisclosed sum. The company, called Wi-Gear, made three generations ...
Kno Prices Its Student Tablets at $599 and $899 to Ship By End of the Year
Kno, the high-profile Silicon Valley start-up trying to jumpstart a market for tablets focused on students, announced tonight that it will have a limited number available by the end of the year for sa...
Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
That huge sucking sound you hear is Facebook, piling data from third parties into its mouth as fast as it can while it remains stubbornly greedy about releasing its own data to anyone it doesn't like.
Microsoft Sells 40K Windows 7 Phones
NEW YORK (TheStreet) — As big-splash debuts go, Microsoft's(MSFT_) Windows Phone 7 launch at AT&T(T_) and T-Mobile didn't exactly make waves Monday. Even with a glitzy media intro last month hosted b...
Amazon.com's secret retail empire
Jeff Bezos has a loud laugh. But Amazon.com's founder and CEO is keeping quiet about his expansion efforts, which now include sites as varied as BuyVIP.com, Zappos, and as of Monday, Diapers.com. — ...
Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise
Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us. — The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 20...
Samsung hits 3 million Galaxy S U.S. shipments
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Monday that three million out of its seven million global Galaxy S smartphones shipments were made to the United States since it launched the phone here in July...
Facebook Testing New ‘Mention’ Feature On News Feeds
Facebook appears to be testing a new ‘mention’ feature — for lack of an official term — on some users' news feeds that increases the visibility of public Pages. — If two (or possibly more) of your f...
Barton alleges Google ‘Wi-Spy’ breach was intentional
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, accused Google on Friday of making a “conscious effort” to collect private user information from Wi-Fi network...
Next-Gen iPhone Displays May Support Touch with Gloves On
Today's projection-type capacitive touch-panels are becoming increasingly popular with their adoption in devices like Apple's iPhone. Compared to resistive films, however, projection-type designs hav...
The Economics of Servers Could Soon Change
Marvell said today that it has built a chip designed for servers that uses the same architecture as chips inside cell phones. The chip's four 1.6 GHz processors aren't notable for their performance c...
Oracle Enlists Process Servers, Not PIs, to Find HP CEO
Oracle is still on the hunt for former SAP chief and current HP CEO Léo Apotheker, but it hasn't enlisted private investigators to track him down, as some reports would have you believe. — Sources i...
Speedy Messaging App Kik Goes Viral, But Is It Cool With Apple's TOS?
Kik Messenger is a once in a lifetime startup success story, going from 0 to 1.5 million users in 18 days. Aside from being free, the app is available multi-platform and is insanely fast, in fact its...
Behold Opera Mobile For Android: Speedy, Pinch-To-Zoom, Geolocation And More
Opera Software has released its (second) free mobile browser product for the Android platform. Grab the app, dubbed Opera Mobile 10.1 beta, now in Android Market or here. — Yes, Opera was already a...
Video: Verizon's Brand New iPad Commercial
Was just watching some prime time television (yes, we actually do that from time to time) and we saw the pretty impressive iPad commercial from Verizon below. It certainly does two things we haven't ...
Movieclips Gains $3M for Clip Curation
Film clip provider Movieclips.com has raised a Series A round of $3 million from venture capital firms Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital, as well as angel investors including Jeff Clavier of Sof...
Khosla Wins the Bidding War for GroupMe, New York's Startup of the Moment
GroupMe, a New York startup that lets users send group text messages to to their cell phones, didn't exist in April. Now it's worth about $35 million. — Co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci ...
What Your Smartphone Says About Your Spending
Your smartphone might say something about your credit-card spending. — Users of Apple's iPhone spend significantly more on their credit cards than Blackberry, Windows Mobile or Android users, accord...
Google Sued Over Claims Toolbar Software Reveals Personal Data
Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, was accused in a lawsuit of violating users' privacy rights because its Toolbar software allegedly transmits their Internet activity to th...
Meet Twezr. Possible the only Social Networking iPhone App you'll need.
Twezr for the iPhone calls itself a “personal organizer - the best way to stay in sync with your close friends and co-workers”. And you know what, for once, this company might actually be on the mark...
Beyond Instant results: Instant Previews
With Google Instant you get results as fast as you type, but your search doesn't stop there. Once you get results back, you choose a site to visit based on the information in each result—like the tit...
Microsoft is in the driver's seat for Windows Phone updates
One of the biggest criticisms of Windows Mobile and Android devices is that device manufacturers get control over who gets updated versions of the OS. That leads to awkward situations where someone p...
Give Us Our Data, Facebook
I usually give Facebook the benefit of the doubt in its various wars with the press and users, particularly around privacy issues. Mostly because user expectations around privacy are changing in real...
Palm Pre 2 hits UK 12 November
HP confirms Brits getting it this week — While the French, thanks to mobile phone carrier SFR, have been enjoying the new Palm Pre 2 for a couple of weeks now, those outside of France have had to lo...
Control YouTube on the desktop, or the TV... with the YouTube Remote app for your phone
If you're like me, you love watching YouTube on your smartphone. My phone is always with me, which means my favorite YouTube videos are never more than a few taps away.
Glassgate Hits Case Makers As Apple Suspends Sales of iPhone 4 Slide-Ons [Exclusive]
Mophie's Juice Pack Air is certified by Apple, but Apple won't currently sell the slide-on battery pack in its retail stores because of “Glassgate.” Photo by Kokkie76. Used with permission. http://b...
Motorola Droid 2 Global now available at Verizon for $199
Never mind that November 11 rumor, the Droid 2 Global is available to buy from Verizon right now. The dual-mode CDMA/GSM handset from Moto — equipped with a 1.2GHz processor, don't forget — is ready ...
Google Faces Hunger Strike in China From Ad Resellers
Google is facing a hunger strike in China from a group of advertising resellers who are protesting the company for terminating their contracts. — Starting this week, about 200 employees from the sev...