Twitter + Ping = Discovering More Music
Every day, millions of people use Twitter to follow and share what they care about. Twitter users now send over 95 million Tweets a day, many of which are about the music they're listening to. — St...
[Update] Best Buy: The Nexus S is Real, Would've Been Headed for T-Mobile First
Say what you want about the swing and miss regarding recent rumors of Samsung and Google bringing out a “Nexus S” to trump the current Nexus, but we've heard a lot of stories from a lot of sources sug...
Yahoos Freaking Out Over 20% Layoff Rumors (Update: Yahoo Denies)
Yahoo is preparing to lay off 20% of total staff, we've heard from two independent sources, and managers have been asked to begin to make the tough decisions on who stays and who goes. This news come...
Google Looks to Play it Safe With Nexus S
The Nexus One had such ambitious goals: It was going to push the state of Android hardware and it was going to establish a direct-to-consumer model for unlocked phones. Now Google seems to be trading...
JACK IS BACK: Twitter Inventor Jack Dorsey Is Working For Twitter Again
Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey is back working at the company on a once-a-week-or-so basis, three industry sources tell us. — Dorsey was Twitter CEO until the company's chairman and top investor, Ev ...
Google Offers Staff Engineer $3.5 Million To Turn Down Facebook Offer
In September I wrote about Google's “extraordinary” efforts to stop employees, particularly engineers, from resigning to join pre-IPO startups like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook.
Andreessen Horowitz Isn't Hedging its Bets with Picplz and Instagram; It Has Picked Picplz
It's a strict rule in the venture business that you don't fund two direct competitors, for obvious reasons. There's a massive difference between the valuation of the number one player in the market …
Confirmed: Kin One and Two are returning to Verizon. Wait, what?
Unbelievably, against all odds and better judgment, we are able to independently confirm that Microsoft's short-lived Kin One and Kin Two are coming back for an encore performance on Verizon, possibly...
Xbox used for games only 60 percent of the time
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is very clearly a gaming device, but as it turns out, a growing chunk of users are spending time using it for other things. — Speaking to attendees of BMO Capital Markets Digita...
“Flash Is Great.” — Anonymous Flash Developer
Anonymous Flash Developer — I used to think that Android fanboys worked themselves into the biggest tizzy when you suggest their favorite device of the week may not be the absolute bee's knees. I wa...
Rumor: iOS 4.2 delayed ‘at least a week’
MacStories reports that the iOS 4.2 update scheduled for tomorrow has now been delayed due to a significant bug found in the gold master build. The bug involves WiFi connection issues found by develo...
Google's Inevitable Ruin Begins
Google imagine search and page preview mode are omens to the beginning of the end, trust me. — You can see the beginnings of Google's ruin already, which was inevitable. Nobody can ever leave thing...
How Baidu Won China
Robin Li beat Google and made his search engine No. 1 in China. Now he wants to go global, but it will take some work to get the world to trust Baidu — Many CEOs have admirers. Robin Li—the 41-yea...
Bing for Mobile now available on all major US mobile operators
It's been an exciting week for us here at Bing. — On Monday, Windows Phone 7 hit US store shelves giving people access to Bing for Mobile out of the box. And for you Verizon Wireless customers, wit...
Windows Phone 7 USB tethering uncovered on Samsung phones
If you're the proud owner of a Samsung Focus or Omnia 7, you can scratch a pretty major item off the list of basic features missing from WP7: USB tethering. A couple of sites have come upon a quick a...
Bram Cohen on the Future of BitTorrent
What's next for BitTorrent, a company that initially tried to establish a peer-to-peer-based download store for mainstream Hollywood, then aimed to help publishers distribute bits more effectively? B...
Seattle iPad developer gets a call from Steve Jobs
Frustrated by Apple's rejection of his iPad app, Seattle developer Ram Arumugam e-mailed Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Two hours later, he picked up a phone call and heard: “Ram, this is Steve.” Jobs ...
Teens Find Innovative Ways to Control Their Facebook Presence
Ever heard of “Super-logoff” or “whitewalling”? They are ways to designate what some teens have been doing in order to have total control over who posts what (and when) on their Facebook page.
The interoperability of social networks
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: … Facebook allows users to download their personal information (photos, profile info, et...
Boxee Box by D-Link starts shipping, new Boxee version, Netflix and Hulu Plus, too
The Boxee Box by D-Link is launching today in 33 countries with a brand new version of the software. You can order yours here. — If you have been spending more and more time watching videos on your...
Wal-Mart Says ‘Try This On’: Free Shipping
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER — For years, Wal-Mart has used its clout as the nation's largest retailer to squeeze competitors with rock-bottom prices in its stores. Now it is trying...
One Third of Top-Grossing iPhone Apps Are Free
When Apple began allowing free apps to include in-app purchases a little over a year ago, it opened the door for freemium models to flourish. And they are doing just that, with about a third of the t...
Mozilla Labs: F1
So many buttons just to share! — Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little icons on a page encouraging you to share the link to that page with your friend...
Windows Phone 7 updates: can carriers block them?
Throughout Windows Phone 7's development process, Microsoft was clear about how updates would work. Microsoft would deliver them according to Microsoft's own timetable, with a mix of small updates, d...
When Good News Is Bad News: Google Reportedly Fires Raise Leaker
Some corporate memos are confidential. — And some memos are “confidential"-meaning there's no real expectation that they'll stay within the family. — You'd assume that Eric Schmidt's memo to “Goog...
HP pays millions to settle school bribery charges
Hewlett Packard has agreed to fork over $16.25 million to settle charges that the computer maker “lavished” gifts on two Texas school districts in order to win government contracts to provide computer...
Photo Sharing on the Go Is the Latest Hot Investment Niche in Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO — In Silicon Valley, the three words on the tips of everyone's tongues are mobile, social and local. — Add a fourth word and venture capitalists get excited: photos.
Fasten Your Seatbelts - Firefox 4 Beta adds new JavaScript power and faster graphics
A new release of Firefox 4 Beta is now ready for you to download and test! This release boosts performance in some important ways: it adds the JägerMonkey just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler …
Patent lawsuit: “majority” of Seagate, WD drives infringing
Rembrandt IP Management is “focused on attaining fair value for infringed patents,” and it thinks it has two winning patents on its hands that could affect the entire US hard drive industry. Rembrand...
Who are All of These Tweeple?
Twitter is not a social network. While Facebook is the digital equivalent to your online residence, Twitter is your window to relevance, a network where individuals connect through fleeting interact...