Confirmed: Facebook Acquires FB.com Domain Name
Facebook acquires FB.com domain name. — Ending months of speculation, it's now confirmed that Facebook has acquired the FB.com domain name. — The whois record for the domain name just updated to s...
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
Oracle and Apple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, includi...
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar
We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. — In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was respo...
iOS 4.2 “Delayed” Due to iPad WiFi Issues, New GM Build Coming [Updated]
Two days ago we reported Mac OS X 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1 were set to come out on Wednesday, with iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to follow on Friday Nov. 12th — tomorrow. Mac OS X 10.6.5 inde...
New Claim of iOS 4.2 Launch on November 24th as Revised iPad Build Surfaces
Rumored release dates for iOS 4.2 continue to fly fast and furious, with The Telegraph now reporting that the update is set to launch on November 24th, the day before Thanksgiving in the United States...
Facebook's Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
Back in February we wrote about Facebook's secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we've heard from sources that...
Adobe Flash For Samsung's Google Tab Is An Embarrassing Disaster
Adobe's Flash plugin for Google Android is supposed to give Android-based tablets, like Samsung's new Galaxy Tab, a leg up on Apple's iPad, which does not support Flash. — The argument is that Flash...
The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)
How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country? — This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i...
For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer
True computer nerds, do I have a deal for you! — Christie's, the tony auctioneer, is hawking a snazzy computer that it hopes will sell for between $159,800 and $239,700. You're probably wondering w...
Storm Clouds
We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. In this sector of startupland, company creation is up, investment is up, there are plenty of suc...
Tumblr Lands “Very Big And Competitive” Round From Sequoia
Tumblr has raised a “very big and competitive” round of financing from top Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital, we've learned. — We're trying to track down more details, such as the size of the r...
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby's catalog into the iTunes Music Store. — iTunes had just launched two weeks before, with only some music from the major...
Aol To Unveil New Aol Mail On Sunday
Aol (err, us, I guess) will relaunch Aol Mail on Sunday afternoon, we've confirmed from sources close to Aol (hah). The company is currently the no. 4 webmail provider with around 30 million users. ...
Why Google can't build Instagram
Tonight I was talking with an exec at Google and I brought up the success of Instagr.am (they've gotten more than 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks) and asked him “why can't Google do that?” — I...
How To Mass Export All Of Your Facebook Friends' Private Email Addresses
A few days ago I requested that Facebook finally allow us to download email addresses for all of our friends. Facebook says this isn't allowed because you only own the data you add to Facebook, not d...
Now You Can Bump iOS Devices to Share Music
Bump, the application maker known for its mobile device contact and photo exchange technology, has just released an update to its iOS applications — iPhone, iPod touch, iPad — that supports user-to-us...
Google Files Sizzling Answer to Oracle's Amended Complaint and its Opposition to Motion to Dismiss
Action in the OraGoogle mess, as I like to call that litigation. Google has filed its answer to Oracle's amended complaint and its memorandum opposing Oracle's Motion to Dismiss.
Nvidia CEO: Next-gen Android tablets will be ‘magical’
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang acknowledged that Google and his company are behind in the tablet race against Apple's iPad, but was wildly bullish about designs in the pipeline. — How bullish? We'll let...
Google launches official Chrome extensions for Calendar, Docs, YouTube
Google today has launched official Chrome extensions for Google Calendar, Docs and YouTube. Though there are already over 8,000 extensions in the Chrome Extensions Gallery, a lot of the real value of...
Facebook Poaches Foursquare Engineer
Facebook has poached an early Foursquare engineer, Nathan Folkman, we've learned. — We don't know what Folkman will be working on at Facebook. (Maybe Facebook Places, its Foursquare clone, which is...
Boxcar 4.0 Pushes iPhone Notifications To The Next Level
People say that I never say anything bad about the iPhone. Here's something: its notification system is awful. In particular, I'm talking about the way notifications are managed. They aren't. Any ...
AT&T tells Samsung Focus customers
We'd put forth the theory that Microsoft and Samsung would eventually certify microSD cards specifically for use with Windows Phone 7 devices after they finally came …
One small step for native code; one big leap for Windows Phone 7 jailbreak
Just weeks after the launch of Windows Phone 7 around the world, the inevitable attempts to jailbreak the operating system is yielding some interesting results. Today, Australian developer Chris Wals...
Lenovo: LePad Tablet to Launch in U.S. Next Year
BEIJING—Lenovo Group Ltd. plans to launch a tablet computer called the LePad in the U.S. next year, Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing said Friday, joining a growing set of companies looking to compete wit...
Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown
Join us as we take a look into Samsung's 7-inch Android tablet! Step 1 — Samsung Galaxy Tab Teardown The Samsung Galaxy Tab has landed in the hands of iFixit. Long rumored to be the “iPad Killer,” j...
Gingerbread to feature Wii-like motion processing
True 1:1 motion processing is coming to Gingerbread (Android 2.3) thanks to InvenSense, the company behind the MEMS gyroscope sensor found in the Nintendo Wii MotionPlus controller. — In Gingerbread...
Cisco Hires Fired Apple Exec Mark Papermaster
Cisco has hired ex-Apple executive Mark Papermaster to work on “chips for switches,” Fox Business reporter Shibano Joshi just tweeted. — Papermaster was tossed from Apple in August. He was in charg...
Apple's iAd Helping Rivals
Mobile Advertising Companies Say Initial Worries Overblown as Businesses Gain — Apple Inc.'s iAd interactive mobile ad service is having an unintended impact on rivals: It's largely helping their bu...
Kinect's BOM roughly $56, teardown finds
Kinect's BOM roughly $56, teardown finds — SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp.'s Kinect motion-gaming add on for its Xbox 360 gaming platform carries a bill-of-materials (BOM) of roughly $56 and features ...
New Eye-Popping Netflix Growth Stats
If you aren't impressed enough yet by Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), the good folks at research firm Screen Digest shared some subscriber-only analytics on the streaming service at the Future of Film Summit ea...
Start-Ups Follow Twitter, and Become Neighbors
SAN FRANCISCO — When Joe Fernandez, a tech entrepreneur, moved his start-up here last spring, a big goal, he said, was “to be best friends with the Twitter guys.” His theory was that by hanging aroun...
Twitter Takes the Newsroom
The media's in trouble. The microblogging sensation is on fire. Can Biz Stone's latest gambit help prop up a financially crippled industry? Howard Kurtz reports. — Biz Stone, the funny and engagi...
AT&T Texts Mobile Users About Class-action Settlement
AT&T Mobility notified its subscribers Thursday that they might be entitled to benefits from a proposed class-action settlement over alleged improper charging of Internet taxes. — Subscribers sued A...
Google vs. Facebook: Who's Right & Who's Wrong?
A week ago, Google made changes to its Terms of Service that effectively blocked Facebook from importing a user's data from Google without offering reciprocity. Ever since, the two companies have duk...
Mark Hurd on his new Oracle job, and the lunacy of corporate apps
“You knew I wasn't at HP anymore?” — Speaking at the Future in Review West Coast conference in Seattle yesterday, that was the closest Mark Hurd came to alluding to the controversy that led to his d...
Facebook's Paul Buchheit talks about Facebook, Google and his new gig
Earlier today we reported that Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and founded FriendFeed,was leaving Facebook to join Y Combinator. We caught up with Buchheit on his last day at Facebook. — Q: What w...