Acer introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch Android tablets, shipping April 2011
Shocker of shockers, folks — Acer's getting into the tablet game, too. With the holidays too close for comfort, the outfit's giving everyone pause that was considering that janky Android tablet on sa...
Apple posts Black Friday sale teaser
In advance of the biggest shopping day of the year, Apple has posted a teaser for a Nov. 26 Black Friday sale on its website, telling customers to come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday for a s...
Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets & better HTML5 support
iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer...
Microsoft Job Advert Hints at Apps for Xbox
Microsoft is looking to expand its Silverlight web platform to Xbox 360, according to a recent job advertisement placed by the company. — “Silverlight is looking to hire motivated developers with a ...
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Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web
Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’ — Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one o...
Zynga Is “Extremely Pleased” With Playdom/Disney Litigation Settlement
A little over a year ago Zynga sued rival game startup Playdom for, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty, tortious interference with...
Yelp Introduces Checkin Offers
Foursquare may have pioneered the idea of rewards and specials associated with checkins, but everyone from Facebook to SCVNGR has followed suit. Today, Yelp joins the fray, giving business owners the...
Apple Acquired Nuance? Five Reasons Why It's Probably Not True
Rumors are swirling this morning about voice technology giant Nuance Communications being acquired by Apple, following remarks made by the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak in a short video interview...
How Kleiner Perkins Almost Blew Its Best Investment Since Google
The investment that could be Kleiner Perkins's greatest success since Google almost never was. — At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, KP partner John Doerr said that “Zynga is the l...
Dell selling Streak unlocked in US with Android 2.2, 32GB
Dell today began selling an unlocked version of the Streak along with an OS upgrade. The new version, which can now work on T-Mobile or other GSM carriers, is the first in the US to ship with Android...
Opera 11 Beta Introduces Tab Stacking, Extensions
The beta of Opera 11, released today, continues Opera Software's long tradition of innovating in the browser space by introducing a neat new feature: tab stacking. The idea is that users can stack ta...
Celebrating 25 million concurrent users
Yesterday we reached a new milestone for peak concurrent users: 25 million people online, on Skype, at the same time. Our software is designed to handle large numbers of concurrent users, with wideba...
Skyfire Debuts 3.0 for Android: A “Browser for the Social Networking Generation”
Skyfire, the mobile browser that brought Flash video to the iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices, is unveiling version 3.0 for Android today. This latest version of Skyfire, dubbed the “Facebook e...
Instapaper for iOS updated to support AirPrint and more
One of our favorite services and iOS apps, Instapaper, has bumped up the iOS version of the app (the paid one) to 3.2.1 and one of the key new feature enhancements is support for AirPrint. — Marco h...
Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches Their Private Alpha With Some Bet Hedging
We've been tracking the progress of Diaspora, the open-source Facebook alternative, since before the project even started. That's because the idea got so much buzz on the crowdsourced micro-funding s...
iOS 4.2.1 Final Version Jailbroken Using Updated Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 [How to Guide]
The iPhone Dev Team has just released Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 today which brings first proper jailbreak, with working Cydia and MobileSubstrate for all iOS 4.2.1 devices. — For those of you who don't know …
Holiday plans? Apple & Foxconn increase iPad production capacity
Apple's iPad production is nearing three million units every month in the lead-in to Christmas, with manufacturing partner, Foxconn, opening aditional capacity in its new plants in Chengdu, China.
Svpply Is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round
One thing the first Web boom got right: Amazon, eBay and the other big e-commerce sites that made it really easy to buy stuff on the Internet. — But those sites are efficient places to get the thing...
Hollywood's Big Hope: Google Shows Up With Suitcase Full of Money. It Could Happen!
Here's a script Hollywood has been pitching for some time: Google comes to town with a checkbook in hand. — It hasn't happened yet, but the longer the company struggles to break into the market for ...
Oracle-SAP: Closing Statements Followed by Closing Insults
With closing arguments said and done, the Oracle-SAP case is nearly over, but the companies continue to trade sucker punches outside the courtroom. In dueling statements issued Monday night, Oracle b...
AOL Boasts About Its Supersized Video Offering, and Puts Ran Harnevo in Charge
A couple of months ago AOL laid out $65 million for video distributor 5Min Media. What did it get for its money? — A lot of video! AOL says that 5Min's library and distribution deals …
Curated.By hits public beta to let you bundle the whole Web
As we all try to cope with the increasingly fast-moving social web, curation services are set to become important tools. When we first looked at Curated.By a few weeks ago, it was a service designed ...
SAP Must Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion Over Unit's Downloads
SAP AG, the world's largest maker of business application software, must pay $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. for copyright infringement by a now-defunct software maintenance unit, a federal jury in Calif...
Patent Office Agrees To Facebook's “Face” Trademark
Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word “Face.” As of today the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have ag...
Amazon Black Friday deal: $89 Kindle 2
Alert. Amazon just slipped a little Black Friday deal onto its Facebook page: $89 for its second-generation Kindle. — Here's the full text of the message: … We don't know how long the deal will las...
iOS 4.3 To Launch In Mid-December With App Subscriptions
iOS 4.2 went public yesterday, but Apple is already aiming at a mid-December release for the next major update of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. Before we get into the details and we try to pu...
China Unicom Restricts Resale of Apple IPhone4
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — China United Network Communications Group Co., parent of the nation's only mobile operator offering Apple Inc.'s iPhone, issued new rules restricting the resale of the smartphone...
Kids in the U.S. Eyeing Big-Ticket Tech This Holiday Season
With Black Friday rapidly approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals, as a recent survey shows their kids are eyeing some wallet-stretching electronics this holiday sea...
How Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else.
Apple's new 11-inch MacBook Air has a list price of $999—that's what you'll pay at Apple.com and the Apple store, as well as at Best Buy and other large retailers. At Amazon.com, though, the same mod...
No “Gay” or “Sex” In Yahoo! Clues: The Emergent Trend of Filtered Results
I asked, and now I'm telling: looks like Yahoo! Clues, the new keyword search and comparison tool, has a problem with the gays. — Yahoo!'s new research tool Clues appears to be part of the growing t...
Badgeville Investors Now Betting $2.5 Million That You'll Want To Check In To Websites
TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice winner Badgeville announces a $2.5 million Series A round today in order to apply its badge-based game mechanics across the web. Investors in the round include eBay...