Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch
Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad — Apple® today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobi...
Galaxy Tab global sales top 600,000 units
Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday it has sold more than 600,000 units of its tablet PC globally just a month after its launch. — The 7-inch Galaxy Tab was first released in Italy in mid-October, c...
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers
Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it's 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade.
So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS?
It was just about a year and a half ago that Google started talking up plans for its Chrome OS. As I recall, a number of bloggers and reporters began tolling the death knell for Windows at that time,...
A new plan for watching instantly, plus price changes to existing unlimited plans
Hi, Jessie Becker here, VP Marketing, with an update about changes we are making today to our plans and prices. — First, we are now offering a new $7.99 a month plan which lets you instantly watch u...
News Corp's Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing
So the cat — or at least part of the cat — is out of the bag on Apple's upcoming support for recurring subscription billing for content. Edward Helmore, reporting for The Guardian yesterday:
Phil Schiller has a Twitter
Apple's VP of iOS Scott Forstall got a Twitter back in mid-July and today Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller got his verified. We've honestly been following hi...
Twitter's Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration
In the web design community, Doug Bowman has distinguished himself both as an individual and as a part of big-name creative teams. Currently, he is Twitter's creative director, a job he took after le...
FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY
In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones...
Silverlight coming to Xbox 360-the circle is complete
Microsoft has put out a job advert asking for a software development engineer to bring Silverlight to the Xbox 360. — Silverlight is already the development basis of Windows phone 7, and of course a...
We're heading west!
In the past year, we had a major growth spurt: from about 100,000 to over 4.5 million users; from a single phone platform to six; from 50-person foursquare flashmobs to 1,000 person epic swarms; and w...
Accel Partners' Extraordinary 2005 Fund IX
In 2005 Accel Partners closed its $440 million Accel 9 Fund. That fund may not go down in history as the most profitable venture fund ever, but it will certainly be one to remember. Why? Facebook, ...
Spotify under pressure over US launch
By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Spotify is considering a US launch of its digital jukebox service without all four major record...
Study: Fifth of Facebook users exposed to malware
Security software manufacturer BitDefender released Monday some statistics gleaned from Safego, a Facebook application that it offers to users of the social-network to keep an eye on their vulnerabili...
Verizon proposes wholesale rewrite of US telecom law
Here's something you don't see every day: Verizon just put out a press release titled “Congress Needs to Update the Nation's Antiquated and Anti-Competitive Telecom Rules.” Yeah, no tip-toeing around...
Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes
Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook, errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com, shut down the two-p...
Why the Daily, Murdoch's “tablet newspaper,” will be DOA
When I first head the phrase “iPad newspaper” — shorthand for Rupert Murdoch's not-so-secret-any-more new project — I puzzled over its oxymoronic implications. Forget about the, you know, iPad/paper ...
Attachmate Corporation To Buy Novell For $2.2 Billion
Attachmate Corporation has agreed to acquire technology giant Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led ...
The Rich Get Richer: Verizon Ups FiOS to 150 Mbps
Updated: Verizon Communications today announced an even faster tier of fiber-to-the-home service: 150 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up. For folks like myself still stuck on first generation DOCSIS cable or p...
Facebook Vies To Become Your Homepage - And Why That's A Big Deal
It's a very old trick, and arguably a mighty effective one. Ask people to set your website as their homepage, and it will become their entry point to the Web, the very first thing they'll see when th...
Google Pushes Chrome Browser Via Newspaper Ads
Flipping through my Los Angeles Times newspaper today, I came across an unusual ad — one placed by Google, to push its Chrome browser: — The Chrome Ad Google's “20 Things” Book — In particular, th...
In The Era Of The Connected Camera, The Point & Shoot Commits Seppuku
The big brand camera companies are committing seppuku in front of our eyes. It's fascinating. — Last week, I bought a brand new Canon S95 camera. It's a great point & shoot. Maybe the best out th...
Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, and other Viacom properties blocked on Google TV
Are we beginning to see a pattern yet? Just when we thought (or at least we were hoping) that Fox was going to be the last major network to block Google TV, Viacom has arrived just in time to rain on...
Apple is learning to speak Chinese
BEIJING — Apple is learning to speak Chinese. — The Cupertino company is on a store-building binge in hopes of creating a massive new market for its products. With two stores already in the capital...
A Flickr Founder Returns to His Gaming Roots
SAN FRANCISCO — Stewart Butterfield helped found Flickr, the popular photo site later acquired by Yahoo, as a backup. Originally, he had set out to build an online video game, but then detoured when ...
Names You Need To Know In 2011: The Facebook Keiretsu
This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the December issue of Forbes Magazine. Click here to submit your own ideas for “Names You Need to Know in 2011.” — The Facebook Keiretsu is...
Coupons.com Reaches $1 Billion In Coupons Printed, Growing At A Rate 5x That Of Newspapers
For the first time ever in a year, digital coupon platform Coupons.com has surpassed a billion dollars in printed coupon savings. A milestone for the company and the entire digital coupons industry …
Acer likely to debut Android 2.2 tablet PC along with Wintel model in New York, say Taiwan makers
Acer will unveil a 10-inch Intel-Windows 7 tablet PC at a press conference scheduled for November 23 in New York and may debut a 7-inch Android 2.2 (Froyo) model as well, according to Taiwan-based mak...