Julian Assange freed on bail
WikiLeaks founder is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape — Britain's high court today decided to grant bail to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted in Sweden for...
Making Photo Tagging Easier
Every day, people add more than 100 million tags to photos on Facebook. They do it because it's an easy way to share photos and memories. Unlike photos that get forgotten in a camera or an unshared ...
Apple's Mac App Store to Open on January 6
Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, in...
Flipboard Adds Google Reader, Flickr and More
Generations Online in 2010
Overview — Generations Online in 2010 — There are still notable differences by generation in online activities, but the dominance of the Millennial generation that we documented in our first “Gene...
Young and Mobile: A Global View of Cellphones and Youth
Nielsen's new whitepaper on Mobile Youth Around the World reveals that most young people with mobile phones chose their own device. In fact, across all the countries surveyed, only 16 percent of youn...
Apple's Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes
One of the major pain points in developing mobile applications for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) is testing those apps. As we've noted before, the traditional testing method is time-consu...
Ex-Google Chefs Cook Up a Start-Up of Their Own
Many Google Inc. executives and engineers who have left the Internet search giant have launched their own start-ups. That goes for former Google chefs Nate Keller and Mirit Cohen, too. — Their tale...
Apple reportedly adds new touch panel suppliers for iPad 2
Apple has reportedly added two additional touch panel makers, Chimei Innolux and Cando, to its touch panel supplier list for iPad 2 in addition to current suppliers Wintek, Sintek Photronics and TPK T...
Oracle Takes on Microsoft, Google With Cloud Office
Oracle on Wednesday announced Cloud Office 1.0, a Web-based productivity suite that is set to give online applications from Microsoft and Google a fresh dose of competition. — Cloud Office is integr...
Google Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers. One, Microsoft Windows, runs on m...
Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really.
Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today you are one step closer thanks to Word...
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founde...
Facebook Briefly Shuts Down After Code Leak
Facebook, one of the largest websites in the world, voluntarily shut itself down Thursday after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company...
Feds charge five in Silicon Valley with insider trading of tech stocks
Federal prosecutors charged five Silicon Valley people with illegal insider trading today. The people charged traded on information they obtained about technology companies such as Dell, Apple, Advan...
The Official PlayStation App, Coming Soon To iPhone And Android Handsets
I'm very happy to finally be able to announce on the PlayStation.Blog that we will launch the Official PlayStation App very soon. — The app will be available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch wi...
Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers
Tri Tang, a 25-year-old marketer, walked into a Best Buy Co. store in Sunnyvale, Calif., this past weekend and spotted the perfect gift for his girlfriend. — Last year, he might have just dropped th...
Web Data Shows Windows Phone 7 Barely a Blip on the Radar
Microsoft's smartphone strategy isn't yet paying off in terms of sales, market share or user adoption, at least not from any measurable statistics, which are far and few between. The company hasn't o...
Nexus S Teardown
Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks features that separate it from o...