Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon's secret network. But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, th...
Apple Reportedly Bidding to Purchase Nortel Patent Assets
Reuters reports that Nortel Networks, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and is selling off all of its assets, is soliciting bidders for its extensive patent portfolio, and Apple is rumored to be one ...
Fed Up With Android Market, Angry Birds Flies to Carrier Billing
Rovio is taking its success with mobile game Angry Birds — 50 million downloads and counting — and using it to launch a new in-app purchase, carrier-billing payment system. The mobile developer said ...
Nexus S review
It can be difficult to review a phone like Google's Nexus S in a world already populated by so many outstanding Android devices. Not only does the manufacturer of this phone make a series of handsets...
“A new WikiLeaks” revolts against Assange
Android Market Client Update
The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I'm pleased to announce a significant update to the Android Marke...
Droid 2 Was Dropped, Didn't Explode - Motorola Employee
Earlier this month, we told you the story of a man in north Texas whose exploding Droid 2 sent him to the hospital, resulting in a blood splattered handset and a face full of stitches. — The man, Ar...
Desktop version of Google Docs now works on iPad
Google has announced that the full desktop version of their Google Docs word processing service now works on the iPad. The desktop version should be used on the iPad for advanced document edits such ...
Verizon's Cure for CrackBerry Addiction: Android
Another handful of worrisome data points for Research in Motion, which appears to be slipping down carriers' priority lists as the BlackBerry struggles for purchase in an increasingly sophisticated ma...
Steve Ballmer's Breakfast With Twitter
This just heard: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had breakfast this week in San Francisco with Twitter's Dick Costolo, who recently took over the top dog spot from co-founder Evan Williams.
New: Google “Reading Level” Search Filter
Google has added a brand new search filter option to the advanced search page named “Reading level.” — The purpose is to give users a way to find content based on your reading level. The options in...
Kevin Yen, Director Of Partnerships At YouTube, Leaves Google
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) veteran Kevin Yen is leaving the company, he announced via e-mail Friday. He worked at Google for over seven years, most recently as director of partnerships at the Google-owned ...
Brightkite Kills Its Check-In Functionality To Focus On Group Texting
In what may be the first high-profile casualty of the location wars, Brightkite, an early player in the space, has today announced they're officially killing off the check-in functionality of their se...
Oracle wants $211 million in interest from SAP
Turning up the heat in a bitter legal dispute, software-maker Oracle is asking a federal judge to order German rival SAP to pay $211 million in interest on a record $1.3 billion jury award for softwar...
Why we use and contribute to open source software
This is Kevin McEntee, VP of Systems & ECommerce Engineering here at Netflix. Netflix is a technology company. We develop and apply great software technology to deliver a great streaming video exper...
What It's Like to Participate in Anonymous' Actions
Anonymous, who have been on a week long sprint/spree to paralyze website sites like Mastercard and Paypal, are often described in the news as a “group” with “members.” This is usually followed by a s...
Oracle asks Apache to reconsider Java committee departure
Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its decision to quit the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, and is also acknowledging the ASF's importance to Java's future. — Oracle has a...
Path and Facebook ‘Hook Up’
In a blog post Friday afternoon, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Morin announced an update for his most recent startup Path, the self-proclaimed “personal network” that lets users connect and share p...
Forrester reveals who uses location-based services the most
While only 4 percent of US online adults have ever used a location-based service, like popular check in app Foursquare, data from research firm Forrester shows that young adult males with college degr...
Chrome Appears To Have Hit 10,000 Extensions, Inching Closer To Firefox
Yesterday, Google put up a post on the Chromium Blog to celebrate a year of extensions being available for their Chrome web browser. The main part of the post touts some big numbers that the feature ...
Why The New York Times eliminated its social media editor position
Earlier this week, New York Times Social Media Editor Jennifer Preston tweeted that she would be returning to reporting full-time. The news made me wonder: What would this mean for social media at th...
World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook's Ever-Increasing Dominance
Just in case you had any doubts about the fact we live in the age of Facebook, just check out Vincenzo Cosenza's latest edition of the World Map Of Social Networks. — Based on this month's Alexa & G...
Android Market Client Update
The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I'm pleased to announce a significant update to the Android Marke...
Microsoft set to detail second Windows Phone update at Mobile World Congress in February
The software giant has chosen the Mobile World Congress venue according to sources familiar with the plans.
Cloud computing: the latest chapter in an epic journey
This blog post is a version of Eric's talk at our Chrome event on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. You can watch his talk on YouTube. - Ed. — On Tuesday, we announced a number of updates to Chrome and C...
Exclusive: Final bids due for Nortel patents: sources
(Reuters) - Final bids are due within weeks for blocks of patents owned by Canada's once mighty telecom giant Nortel Networks, including some that could change the balance of power among mobile operat...
HTC aims to roll out 60 million handsets in 2011
HTC has reportedly informed its suppliers that it will eventually need parts and components for the production of up to 60 million handsets in 2011 compared to shipments of 20 million units projected ...
Sprint Says 4G Tablet Coming In 2011, 80% Of CIOs Want To Buy Tablets
When Sprint Nextel introduced its first tablet in November, some were disappointed that the device was only compatible with 3G instead of the faster “4G” flavor of mobile broadband. After all, Sprint...
With Kinect, Xbox outsells Wii, PS3 for sixth-straight month
A combination of Kinect and Microsoft's biggest Black Friday week ever propelled the Xbox 360 to the top of NPD Group's sales chart for the sixth month in a row. — Microsoft sold 1.37 million Xboxes...
Microsoft's Hotmail, struggling to fight Gmail et al, looks to Reddit users for hope
The team behind Microsoft's oft-maligned email service, Hotmail, is hoping to score back some of its users from the titans in the industry like Gmail by doing something Google hasn't quite pulled off:...
Google's Checkout ‘Failure’ Now a Big Problem for Android
Back when Google first launched its payments platform Checkout (in 2006) it neglected to “sell” the service to consumers. In other words Google didn't do a very good job explaining why consumers shou...