How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks
Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com's cloud servers. But today, it was down ...
Verizon to switch on 4G network on Sunday, but not for smartphones
Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it would turn on its 4G wireless network Sunday in 38 U.S. cities, though the new network will not support smartphones until the first half of 2011. — Instead, t...
Netflix Boosts Streaming Catalog With First-Run Movies
Netflix announced today that it has signed a multi-year deal with newly-formed film distribution company FilmDistrict to bring first-run films to its streaming catalog. — Last week, Netflix introduc...
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed
This summer, we launched personalization to bring you deals that better suit your interests. We weren't about to stop there - today, we're giving you a sneak peak of some new stuff that will bring yo...
FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers
Endorses “Do Not Track” to Facilitate Consumer Choice About Online Tracking The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years …
Google Changes Its Rank Algorithm In Response To DecorMyEyes Story
more info (via: Wylio)Over Thanksgiving weekend a New York Times story, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web” clued a lot of people in to some of the drawbacks of Google, namely that negative attention ...
The Android Google Reader app is here!
It's been a long time coming, but the official Google Reader app for Android is finally here. Let's jump into the features, shall we? — The app supports all the basics you'd expect like unread coun...
Apple opens up new business with POS systems
Late last year there were rumors that Apple would release their EasyPay point-of-sale system as a commercial product to third parties. Last month Apple's first customer, Gap Inc's Old Navy subsidiary...
If Net Neutrality Is Coming, So Is The End Of All-You-Can-Eat Internet Access
It looks like FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the lobbyists from Google will get their way: Net neutrality seems surer than ever, for better or for worse*. — But this will likely mean the end …
Windows Phone 7 Update Is No iPhone Killer
Since it is bubble-bursting Wednesday here at Mobilized, let me assure you that the forthcoming update to Windows Phone 7 is neither “massive” nor an iPhone killer, despite some reports to the contrar...
Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position
Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. Things have developed since then, it seems.
Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter Groupoogle Threat
With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it's easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space-LivingSocial.
Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot
Of course, we're never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola's unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that's leaked al...
Kindle Feels iPad's Heat, Sees E-Reader Lead Going Up in Smoke
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first announced the company's new iBookstore and iBooks application for the iPad back in January, he said that while Amazon had done a great job with its Kindle e-book reader...
Chrome Browser to Start Sandboxing Flash Player
The latest developer channel release of the Chrome browser now supports sandboxing for Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 7, Vista and XP. — This feature should provide extra protection against malicio...
Evernote 2.0 Beta for Mac Features Notebook Stacks and Sharing
Note-taking app maker Evernote released the beta of the next major version of its client for Mac Wednesday. It includes a couple of great new features: in-app notebook sharing and notebook stacks.
U.S. Smartphone Battle Heats Up: Which is the “Most Desired” Operating System?
According to October 2010 data from The Nielsen Company, 29.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. — The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPh...
HP Pulls Out of the Windows Home Server Market, Leaves Vail Out in the Cold
HP today announced an immediate withdrawal from the Windows Home Server market. — In a briefing earlier this month, the company explained that the recent acquisition of Palm had led to a shift in bu...
Dell Venue Pro finally available to order: $99 on contract, shipping December 9th
The much-delayed and much-desired Venue Pro is now finally ready for its proper launch. Dell has begun taking online orders for its first Windows Phone 7 device and prices are set at $99 for the 8GB ...
New in Labs: Smart mute and easier ways to unmute
If you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and like to keep an empty inbox, muting (or preventing a conversation from re-entering your inbox) is an essential feature. We just made a few changes that ...
Boom! 5 Million Users Check-In To Foursquare
It appears that Foursquare has just passed 5 million users if new user account numbers are correct. — It's taken just a month and a half for the location-based social network to accumulate one milli...
There is No Angel Bubble. There are Many Angel Bubbles.
A common meme floating around right now is that there is an Angel investing bubble. — In the sense that an enormous amount of capital is being placed at risk, and its popping will have grave macro-e...
Qualcomm CEO Comes Clean About Mobile TV Miscues
Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs almost escaped having to talk about the company's ill-starred mobile television effort at an event in Silicon Valley Tuesday night. But not quite. — The topic w...
Race Is On to ‘Fingerprint’ Phones, PCs
IRVINE, Calif.—David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world. — He's off to a good start. So far, Mr. Norris's ...
Exclusive: Silicon Valley Go-To Guy Peter Currie Joining Twitter Board
According to sources close to the situation, well-known Silicon Valley power player Peter Currie is joining the board of directors of Twitter. — It's an interesting choice to bring the well-regarded...
Bing Feature Update: Shop, compare and share on Facebook with new Bing shopping features
Having a tough time deciding between Xbox 360 Slim or Xbox Kinect? Black pumps or knee-high boots? Netbook or notebook? — Bing shopping has always let you compare prices, see product reviews and l...
Being bad to your customers is bad for business
A recent article by the New York Times related a disturbing story. By treating your customers badly, one merchant told the paper, you can generate complaints and negative reviews that translate to mo...
The Android Google Reader app is here!
It's been a long time coming, but the official Google Reader app for Android is finally here. Let's jump into the features, shall we? — The app supports all the basics you'd expect like unread coun...
Google Gambit for Groupon Raises Concerns
Google's $6 billion bid for Groupon, an online coupon start-up, is an aggressive move by the company to dominate local online advertising and help with its long-sought move into social networking. — ...
Groupon buys 3 discount sites, expands into Asia
(Reuters) - Online group discount website Groupon said on Wednesday that it has acquired three deal websites in Asia, expanding the company's reach across East and Southeast Asia. — Groupon Inc, whi...
Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot
Of course, we're never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola's unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that's leaked al...
Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2011 and Beyond
Predictions Show Clear Linkage of IT Investments and Business Results Becoming an Imperative for IT Organizations — Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users ...
Preserving a Free and Open Internet
After months of hard work we have reached an important milestone in the fight to protect a free and open Internet for all Americans. Today, the FCC proposed basic rules of the road to preserve the op...
RIM sues Kik for patent infringement
If you've been following BlackBerry news lately, you know that Kik Messenger was booted out of the Blackberry app store by RIM on Nov 12, for “breaching contractual obligations”. — Kik is an in inst...
New in Labs: Smart mute and easier ways to unmute
If you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and like to keep an empty inbox, muting (or preventing a conversation from re-entering your inbox) is an essential feature. We just made a few changes that ...
BlackBerry Mobile Internet Use Overtakes Apple In US
Website analytics provider StatCounter has published a new report showing that for the first time since its starting collecting mobile internet data, RIM's BlackBerry OS overtook Apple's iOS in terms ...
IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
A race to transform computers with laser-based communications is accelerating, with International Business Machines Corp. the latest to claim breakthroughs in chips that send data at blazing speeds us...
Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing
Happy Mutants: From left, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, “band manager” John Battelle, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin | It's eccentric. It's unprofessional. And it makes money. How four peopl...
Cisco To Acquire Network Management Software Company LineSider
Cisco this morning said it intends to purchase LineSider Technologies, a privately-held network management software based out of Danvers, Massachusetts. Financial terms of the transaction were not di...
Apple patents glasses-less 3D projection
A diagram of how Apple's proposed 3D projection system would work. — It's not that much of a surprise that Apple thinks watching 3D content with plastic glasses is dumb. — And the company that's a...
A New Type of Tracking: Akamai's ‘Pixel-Free’ Technology
Akamai Technologies Inc., the large Web infrastructure provider, is promoting a new tracking technique it calls “pixel-free” technology. — Pixels are bits of software that tracking companies install...
The Future Is Here: DoubleTwist Brings Wireless Sync To Android For Music, Photos & Video
Earlier today, Winamp released a new version of its Android application that allowed users to sync their music wirelessly with their Windows desktop (disclosure: Winamp and TechCrunch are both owned b...