Google Turns Its Local Eyes to Groupon-But Who Else Could Enter Bidding?
According to multiple sources close to the situation, Google is in discussions with local deals powerhouse Groupon about buying it. — Without making the requisite joke about the deal of the day …
Apple Developing CDMA-GSM ‘World iPad’?
Here's an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple's next-generation iPad. According to Blair, App...
Long Live the Web
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending — The world wide web went live, on my physic...
Cox Communications Takes On AT&T, Verizon With Mobile Offering
Cox Communications Inc. is becoming the first U.S. cable company to offer a mobile-phone service as it looks to challenge incumbents AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless by bundling wireless handsets with W...
Another Hacker's Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border
A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him. — The re...
Mac App Store opening soon, Apple implores developers to submit their apps
Apple sent out an email this evening telling Mac developers to submit their Mac ‘apps’ for inclsion in the opening of the store which should happen pretty soon.
Debt Collectors Stalking, Publicly Shaming People Through Facebook
Now that we have debtor's prison again, it's only natural that Americans who owe money be publicly shamed for the sin of being broke during a devastating recession. — A Tampa woman who fell behind o...
Exclusive: Foursquare's New Partnership With PepsiCo Takes Focus Off of Places
Foursquare's pilot program, launching today, breaks away from Facebook Places and Gowalla with badges and discounts based not only on locations but your reasons for being there.
HTC Merge 360-degree view appears, quickly disappears from Verizon's site
Need another sign that the HTC Merge is nearing release? How about a 360-degree look to go along with our previous hands-on and video preview. It popped up on Verizon's website today and was quickly...
Twitter Testing A New “People” Tab: All Your Social Graph Steroids In One Place
Since the launch of New Twitter in September, things have been pretty quiet on the new feature front. Yes, they're testing out a new analytics product, but in terms of features that the majority of e...
Street View comes to 20 German cities
Two weeks ago, we celebrated with the people of Oberstaufen when we made available the first ever images for Street View in Germany. Today I'm pleased to let you know that you can explore even more o...
Meet the Firehose Seven Thousand Times Bigger Than Twitter's
Twitter announced yesterday that for the first time, outside developers will be allowed to purchase access to 50% of all the messages that flow through its network. The price for half the firehose? ...
Dish ‘Slings’ TV Everywhere to iPhone, Android Devices
Dish Network is pushing new features of its TV Everywhere service, enabling its customers to watch live and pre-recorded programming on the iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry mobile devices. While ...
Announcing the new Bing Maps site with a redesigned left-rail and broader access to Map Apps & StreetSide
Today, we're happy to announce the following additions and changes to Bing Maps: — AJAX V7 Control — The launch of the next version the Bing Maps AJAX control provides consumers …
Carriers threaten Apple over talk of embedded iPhone SIMs
European carriers are discussing the possibility of retaliating against Apple if it goes ahead with a rumored plan to use embedded SIMs in iPhones, leaks from the industry alleged Thursday night. The...
Google to delete Street View data gathered in the UK
Technology giant signs commitment to improve its data handling after illegally capturing personal details from Wi-Fi networks — Google is to delete the sensitive information - including full emails ...
You Can Now Gift Anyone With An E-mail Address A Kindle Book
With the holiday shopping season in full swing, retailers are clamoring to publicize their sales, deals and more. Amazon issued a release today that customers can now give any of the 725,000 Kindle b...
Video: BoomTown Puts Twitter's Revenue Dude Adam Bain in the Deep Freeze
There is no question Adam Bain is a charmer, as you will be see from the video below. — He has to be, of course, as a longtime online advertising guy running News Corp.'s Fox Audience Network and no...
Mac OS X 10.6.5 fixes MacBook Air display issues
As noted by Mac Rumors, the Mac OS X 10.6.5 software update released last week fixes the display issues some owners were having with their new MacBook Airs. In a new support document released today t...
China Hijacks 15% Of Internet Traffic? More Like .015%
The Internet has been echoing itself all week about the latest example of the digital “China Threat”: A report in National Defense Magazine that quoted a researcher from McAfee's security team saying...
Twitter CEO chides China
(CNN) — “Dear Chinese Government,” began a message sent late Thursday from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. — “Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future ...
EVP Niklas Savander discusses Nokia N8 quality
GLOBAL - We have been getting excellent feedback from consumers on the capabilities of the Nokia N8, but in the last couple of days, a very small number of users have reported that their Nokia N8 is n...
Small Deal Brings Scrutiny to Huawei
Huawei Technologies Ltd., whose efforts to buy big U.S. companies have been stymied by security concerns, has landed in hot water in Washington for acquiring a small technology firm without first runn...
No Quick Fixes for Internet Freedom
The hard work to promote free speech online has barely begun. — Just before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Hanoi late last month, Vietnamese authorities redoubled their assault o...
Salesforce.com's Chatter to Go Freemium
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reportedly told analysts today that the company will announce a free version of its enterprise activity stream product Chatter at the annual Dreamforce event in San Fra...
Scribd Stats: A ‘Google Analytics For Documents’
Document sharing hub Scribd has just announced a new feature that will allow publishers on the site to more accurately measure how their content is performing. Dubbed Scribd Stats, they're likening i...
Sources reveal some PCB suppliers for iPad 2
Ibiden, Tripod Technology and TTM Technologies have been named as the initial PCB suppliers for a second-generation Apple tablet PC, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2011. Fou...
Announcing the new Bing Maps site with a redesigned left-rail and broader access to Map Apps & StreetSide
Today, we're happy to announce the following additions and changes to Bing Maps: — AJAX V7 Control — The launch of the next version the Bing Maps AJAX control provides consumers …