Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck
This is it. The Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet meant for humans. But is it actually fit for humans? — Put simply, the Galaxy Tab is the first post-iPad tablet that matters, because it's th...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Percent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 417 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 35 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to Gartner …
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5
Moments ago, Apple released its Mac OS X 10.6.5 update to its customer-base. Fixes in the point-upgrade include: — • improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers — • address performance of...
Why Did Amazon Just Pull A Top-Selling Book? Oh, That's Right, It's A Pedophilia How-To
Less than an hour after it hit the Amazon Bestsellers list and the controversial topic of its existence made the Dr. Phil show as well as other mainstream media, it looks like Amazon has taken down th...
A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus
The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu's free service-but will give users the ability to ...
RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take On IPad
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., moving into the tablet-computer market for the first time, said it will begin selling its BlackBerry PlayBook for less than $500, suggesting RIM may try ...
Rumor: Apple Has Cancelled Support for AirPrint Through Mac and Windows
Update: Unlike many other blogs that linked to this post claim, the rumor isn't about AirPrint being cancelled. It's about AirPrint through shared printers on Macs and PCs. — When Apple released th...
Stat Shot: The Results of Silicon Valley's Talent War
We've covered the war for talent among startups and larger tech firms in Silicon Valley, but after Google issued employees a $1,000 bonus and 10 percent raise, Glassdoor took a look at how well people...
FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise
Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like Zynga's popular farming game, Texas HoldEm Poker, FrontierVille a...
FCC Investigating Google Data Collection
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Google Inc. broke federal laws when its street-mapping service collected consumers' personal information, joining a lengthy list of regul...
Windows Phone 7 Success Tied to a Million in Sales
Critics are already debating whether Windows Phone 7 is a flop, but the phone's true measure of success will be in how long it takes to sell one million units. It all started after reports that Micro...
The Great Cyberheist
One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy...
Fox.com now blocking Google TV devices
Another one bites the dust. A couple of weeks ago, Fox.com was atop our list of Websites that could still be accessed on Google TV to stream full episodes of content. Well, you can go ahead and cros...
Facebook Holding Yet Another Event Next Monday In San Francisco. Inbox Related?
After a Summer spent in “Lockdown”, Facebook apparently got quite a bit of work done. They've already had a number of events just in the past few weeks. And now they're having another one.
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to You...
Introducing the new AdSense interface, now available globally
Last November we announced that we were starting to test a new interface with a limited group of publishers. Since then, we've been focused on adding new features and incorporating feedback from our ...
SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store
Just about every time I write about SkyFire, the cross-platform (and generally free) smartphone browser capable of churning through most Flash videos, someone always says: “Great! But uh, how are the...
Mozilla launches the F1 share button, as in “one to rule them all”
Mozilla just announced that it is launching a new toolbar button called F1, and it could be huge. — Saying, “Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little ico...
Fanboy Fascination: Is Andreessen Horowitz Overhyped?
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School recently produced some interesting research suggesting that people are highly likely to see someone as competent if they've demonstrated expert...
Apple Did Not Actually Buy Wi-Gear, It Turns Out
Remember that story yesterday which said that Apple (AAPL) had acquired a Bluetooth wireless headphone maker called Wi-Gear? — Well, turns out it wasn't true. — “The rumor is false,” Wi-Gear CEO M...
Motorola Strikes Back, Sues Microsoft For Infringement Of 16 Patents
The Motorola-Microsoft battle has escalated even further. Many of you may have heard about the lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola over royalties regarding the use of Motorola's technology in th...
MacBook Air Rises to Top of Consumer Reports Ratings
More good press for the MacBook Air. Consumer Reports updated its computer ratings earlier this week to include the machine, and while it had some criticisms, it ranked the 11-inch Air and its 13-inc...
Is There A Secret Reason That Apple TV Is Being Kept Off Of Amazon's Best-Selling Gadgets List?
How's Apple TV selling? Apple hasn't said since announcing 250,000 units sold in mid-October. And our old technique — looking at Amazon's sales rankings for clues — isn't working for some strange re...
Apache declares war on Oracle over Java
The Apache Software Foundation threatens to ditch Java if Oracle doesn't relent on use restrictions — I like it! — Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Ja...
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers
Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we're announcing that the project has...
[UPDATE: Confirmed] Exclusive: Yahoo to Name Time Inc. Top Exec Powers as Head of U.S. Sales
Yahoo, in a quick move after the recent hiring of U.S. head Ross Levinsohn, will bring in Wayne Powers, who is currently president of Time Inc.'s Media Group, as head of North American advertising sal...
Google Warns Facebook Users of “Trap” Before Data Export
If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from import...
Why don't Americans want broadband?
Hard as it might be for Webheads to believe, a significant fraction of the US population doesn't use the Internet at home. In fact, 23 percent of all US households report that no one in the home uses...
Airbnb Raises $7.2MM Series A Round and Releases iPhone App
Airbnb, the marketplace for overnight bookings of unique spaces around the world, has just announced Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners for $7.2 million. — Sequoia was the c...
Dish selling Logitech Revue at discounted $179
Starting today, Dish Network customers can buy the Logitech Revue set-top box for $179. — The discounted price is available to Dish customers who subscribe to the DVR integration service, which cost...
Apple & The Dentsu Group Bring iAds to Japan
Apple® and The Dentsu Group today announced a partnership to expand Apple's iAd℠ mobile advertising network to Japan in early 2011. Dentsu will be responsible for the selling and creative execution o...
Hulu CEO: We'll make $240M in 2010
Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October. — The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so wh...
Samsung's Galaxy Tab Is iPad's First Real Rival
After seven months of unchallenged prominence, Apple's hot-selling iPad now has its first credible competitor in the nascent market for multitouch consumer tablet computers: the Samsung Galaxy Tab. —...
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to You...
Stage Set for Showdown on Online Privacy
WASHINGTON — After “do not call” lists became popular, more than 90 percent of people who signed up reported fewer annoying telemarketing calls. Now, privacy advocates are pushing for a similar “do n...
Yahoo's Informal Offer To Buy Groupon: $3 Billion To $4 Billion
Yahoo made it known to Groupon executives and backers that it was willing to pay as much as $3 billion to $4 billion to acquire the company, a source close to Groupon investors tells us. — That numb...
First picture of 7 inch Super-Amoled from Samsung Mobile Display
OLED-Display.net got the first picture of the Galaxy-Tab with the brand new 7 inch Super-Amoled. showcased at the FPD-International event. The panel has a WXVGA (1200x600 Pixel) resolution.Samsung Mo...
Most homes have high-definition TVs, but few are watching HD programming
High-definition televisions are in about 56% of U.S. homes, making HD TV one of the most quickly adopted consumer technologies of the last 20 years, according to a data from research firm Nielsen Co.
Apple Suppliers Squeezed as Taiwan Dollar Climbs Most
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s suppliers in Taiwan say their earnings are being crimped as the local dollar climbs faster than the rest of Asia's currencies in the past month, raising the prospect...
Jimmy Wales makes Wikia stickier with a social revamp
Jimmy Wales likes to describes himself as a “pathological optimist”, so it's no surprise that he's extremely enthusiastic about the longevity of wikis, the group publishing tool epitomised by the migh...