The Beatles Now on iTunes
All 13 Legendary Beatles Studio Albums & Special Digital Box Set — Apple Corps, EMI and Apple® today announced that the Beatles, the most influential and beloved rock band in music history, are now ...
Instant Notifications
When you're out and about, your phone probably isn't always in front of you. It might be in your pocket or purse or on a table - perhaps with the screen off. We want to make sure you see important T...
One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans
At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scan...
Google Voice for iPhone
Earlier this year we launched a Google Voice HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today we're taking the Google Voice experience on the iPhone to a whole new level with the launch of the official Google V...
Facebook Confirms Bug Disabled User Accounts, Fix In Process
Facebook has confirmed that a bug found early today in its system is responsible for automatically disabling a number of accounts on the site. According to the company, those accounts - many of which...
BlackBerry PlayBook first hands-on! (video)
RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie actually declined to show off the his company's tablet today on the Web 2.0 Summit stage, but in private he was more than kind, treating us to a nice long glimpse at the Black...
Exclusive: LG's 4-inch Android phone with dual-core Tegra 2 and 1080p video coming in early 2011
Wow. LG told us it'd bring some heat to its Android Optimus line and here it is, folks! An 8 megapixel camera-wearing, 1080p video-recording, dual-core superphone to appease all the spec fanatics ou...
Offline, meet online: a marketing experiment with Google Goggles
About a year ago, we launched Google Goggles, an app that enables people to search the web by taking pictures with their mobile devices. Since then, people have used Goggles to search for information...
Nook Color review
It's hard to believe we're already writing a review of the Nook Color, considering Barnes & Noble's first foray into the e-reader world was revealed just over a year ago. In that time, the company ha...
Former MySpace execs launch Gravity to personalize the Web
A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today. Chief executive Amit Kapur said his new company Gravity presents an even bigger opportunity than M...
Arianna Huffington Sued For ‘Stealing’ The Idea For The Huffington Post
Apparently two political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, thought they had a deal back in 2004 to help create a blogging site with Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer — and they're now suing both...
Mary Meeker On Ten Questions Internet Execs Should Ask And Answer
Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker has taken the stage here at Web 2.0 to present on Internet trends and we've got a preview of the slides for her “Ten Questions Internet Execs Should Ask And Answer” ...
Microsoft's new simple yet clever Windows 7 + Windows Live advert
Microsoft has been on a roll with adverts and commercials for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 recently. Today is no different. — The software giant just posted an impressive new Windows 7 and Windows...
Ballmer and Gates: Here's why we're not breaking up Microsoft
Microsoft's annual meeting of shareholders in Bellevue this morning was pretty much the standard routine — except for one question toward the end. — The company's nine-member board was reappointed a...
Facebook acquired start-up assets for mail overhaul
It wasn't revealed at the time, but it turns out that Facebook's announcement this week of its messaging product overhaul involved one of the talent acquisitions that the company has become known for....
DST CEO Yuri Milner: Facebook Will Help Power Artificial Intelligence In Ten Years
Today at the Web 2.0 summit, DST chief Yuri Milner took the stage with John Battelle, where he discussed the firm's investment strategy (DST has taken major stakes in Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon).
Adobe CEO: 'There's a War Happening for Developers'
At the Web 2.0 Summit this morning, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said his company's battle with Apple over the past year comes as a “war” is brewing between device and software manufacturers who want to...
Windows 8 to showcase ‘desktop as a service’?
Since April, it's been quiet on the Windows 8 leak front. But here's a new tidbit to keep the “what's next for Windows” faithful going for a bit longer. — Blogger Charon at Ma-Config.com unearthed ...
First look: SlideRocket goes HTML5
You probably know that I wish the world would move off of MIcrosoft PowerPoint. It is definitely the king of presentation software, but there are a raft of tools that are better now, especially if yo...
Microsoft Exec: Better Buy Kinect This Week If You Want One For The Holidays
On stage during “The New Geography Of Gaming” panel at Web 2.0 Summit, the topic of conversation between Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon, Activision's Robert Kotick and Microsoft's Don Mattrick fo...
Palm Chief: By Birthright, Palm Should Have Owned the Smartphone Market
What Palm chief Jon Rubinstein's appearance at Web 2.0 Summit today lacked in news, it made up for somewhat in perspective-on the mobile space, Palm's smartphone birthright, its acquisition by Hewlett...
The Fab Four go digital; The Beatles' catalog now available on iTunes
Yesterday, there were internet rumors aplenty after Apple posted a cryptic message about iTunes on its homepage, and today, we have to wonder no more. After a long holdout, it looks as though the mus...
Dell hybrid tablet ‘Duo’ due next week
Dell is expected to roll out its hybrid tablet-laptop next week, as the PC maker takes aim at Apple's iPad with a novel twist on the tablet concept. — Dell is expected to officially announce the 10-...
Official: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon to launch mobile commerce network
Today, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless officially took the wraps off of their rumored mobile payment service. Dubbed ISIS, the new “mobile commerce network” aims to use NFC (near-field communica...
Can the internet bring down the TSA's new enhanced pat-down search, also known as “touch my junk”?
Would-be traveler John Tyner has become a cause célèbre on the internet because he refused to subject himself to what he considered to be invasive body searching at the San Diego airport on Saturday.
iPads showing up at Sam's Club starting at $488 ($609 for the 3Gs)
We've been getting a few tips that Sam'c Clubs are getting their iPads in and selling them at minor discounts. The 16GB Wifi starts at $488 as you can see here. — It looks like Apple is discounting...
As Union Square Ventures Looks to Third Fund, Speculation on Size Runs Rampant
Last week in New York, everyone was abuzz about one thing: Union Square Venture's third fund. Multiple sources tell peHUB the New York-based venture firm is in the market, and there's no end to specu...
Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic
For 18 minutes in April, China's state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world's Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of...
Silicon Valley'S IPO Anxiety
Filed under: Internet, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Tags: Venture Capital, IPO, VC, Silicon Valley … — Limelight from Moving Pictures, Rush — If you could travel back in time to the early 1990's and...
‘Harry Potter’ Leak Seems More Like Publicity Than Piracy
The first 36 minutes of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” suddenly popped up on Bittorrent sites Tuesday, just a few days before its global premiere. If Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) didn't i...