Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop preview (update: in-depth impressions!)
Well, would you look at what showed up on our frigid doorstep this morning? That's right, we are now the proud owners of Google's first Chrome OS laptop — the Cr-48. Obviously, we ripped open the bo...
Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini
When we acquired Postini in 2007, we incorporated additional cloud-based spam and virus filtering, email archiving and encryption services into our Enterprise products. We had a vision that the power...
Apple suppliers point to new camera-toting iPad in 2011
(Reuters) - Component suppliers for Apple Inc's iPad are gearing up for a new round of production in the first quarter, sources said on Friday, with one saying the product will be a revamp of the popu...
Gmail for Android: better Priority Inbox support and improved compose
When we first released Gmail in Android Market back in September, we said that you'd be getting new stuff faster, and we meant it. After getting thousands of comments on that release, we made a bunch...
Why the Nexus S has NFC - Google Places window stickers are NFC enabled
Google has just announced that it will be starting its first local rollout of Hotpot, the Google Places recommendation/rating engine, in Portland, Oregon. — Google says that it has already started t...
IRONY ALERT: Man Sues Winklevoss Twins, Says They Stole Company Stake From Him
You've read the news everywhere: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are suing Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg again. — The basic allegation remains the same. They say Zuckerberg unfairly cut them out of an ...
Apple Calls Flipboard “iPad App Of The Year”
Apple just named Flipboard, the app that turns Twitter and Facebook into a magazine like experience, its “iPad App of the Year.” — This is huge news for the startup. It will likely see downloads ex...
Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched
In the search team we talk a lot about that people are always looking for new things with Google. In fact, about 20% of our queries are new each day. As it gets to be the end of the year, it's a gre...
Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup
Hacking is a central part of Facebook's culture. Whether we're building the next big product at one of our Hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we're always hacking to find a better way...
Mac App Store: No Game Center, In App Purchases
Apple has informed App Store developers that two major iOS app store features will not make their way ‘back to the mac.’ These are Game Center and in app purchases. In app purchases allow App Store d...
Exclusive: PlayStation Phone ‘Zeus Z1’ prototype benchmarked on video
We can't get enough of Sony Ericsson's PlayStation Phone (also known as Zeus Z1), and we're guessing neither can you. We were just sent a new video of the device in action, only now it's running Qual...
Microsoft: “Yeah, We Tried To Acquire Facebook.”
While on the “How To Get Acquired” panel here at Le Web, Microsoft Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions Fritz Lanman admitted that Microsoft did try to acquire the social network Fac...
Marc Andreessen: We'll Invest Up to $100M in One Deal
Early last month, the tech and investing world was blitzed by glowing profiles of Andreessen Horowitz as it released the news that it had raised a second, $650 million, fund in three weeks time. — ...
The iOS and Android App Economies
I try my best to avoid writing sensational headlines for my pieces here.1 I slipped, though, with my piece on the differences between the Android and iOS app markets two weeks ago. “Where Are the And...
Wikileaks' Cables now available on Amazon, reviewers are not happy.
In the interests of keeping the Wikileaks Cables available for all, regardless of whether the official website is taken offline, an enterprising Amazon trader has taken the 5000 Cables and is now sell...
8% of online Americans use Twitter
This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Project had asked internet user...
Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day
Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth. — Andy Rubin just Tweeted that Google (GOOG) is activating 300,000 phones a day. That passes Apple's (AAPL) iOS, that passes Blackberry (RI...
Gmail for Android: better Priority Inbox support and improved compose
When we first released Gmail in Android Market back in September, we said that you'd be getting new stuff faster, and we meant it. After getting thousands of comments on that release, we made a bunch...
Apple to tap Intel's graphics for future MacBooks
Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors in at least some models of the p...
YouTube 2.1 App Now Available on Android Market
When you're watching a video on YouTube, how often do you JUST watch the video? If you're like me, you scroll down, maybe read the video description and glance over at the related videos to choose wh...
Google Adsense Creator Lands $25 Million Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Index For New Startup, Factual
Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures have co-led a $25 million round in Factual, a data startup. — Factual is founded by Gil Elbaz, who is the co-founder of Applied Semantics …
16 Tycoons Agree to Give Away Fortunes
The billionaire founder of social network Facebook Inc. has agreed to give the majority of his wealth to charity, part of a broader group of rich entrepreneurs committing to philanthropy earlier in th...
iPad-Smuggling Housewives Detained
Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city …
Apple rolling out 90-second iTunes song previews
Apple has begun extending song previews in the iTunes Store to 90 seconds on select songs in the U.S. store. — Some songs on iTunes now offer 90-second previews for users of the U.S. iTunes Music St...
Announcing the Facebook 2011 Hacker Cup
Hacking is a central part of Facebook's culture. Whether we're building the next big product at one of our Hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we're always hacking to find a better way...
Donations Ban on iPhone Apps Irritates Nonprofits
The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps. — No one, including Apple, has data on how many nonprofits have created apps for the iPh...
DST Partner: On A Path To Becoming A $1 Billion Company? Come Talk To Us
Le Web 10 host Loic Le Meur just finished his on-stage interview with Alexander Tamas, Partner at one of the most watched technology investment firms on the planet, DST / Mail.ru Group.