What's Next for Delicious
Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't a...
Under the hood of Google Maps 5.0 for Android
Yesterday we introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, we rebuilt Maps using vector graphics...
Confirmed: Tumblr Raises $25 Million [Update: It's Actually $30 Million]
For the past several weeks there's been reports of blogging platform Tumblr raising a boatload of money. That was confirmed today in a SEC filing with numbers on the round. $25 million to be exact.
Apple Prepping for iWork '11 Mac App Store Launch?
According to a report from 9to5Mac, stock of iWork '09 is running low at retail Apple Stores. Meanwhile, Apple's online store auto-completes “iWork 11” as a possibility when searching for “iWork”. W...
Judge kills massive P2P porn lawsuit, kneecaps copyright troll
Only 10 days after a federal judge in Washington, DC sharply limited the US Copyright Group's mass file-sharing lawsuits there, a federal judge in West Virginia has come down even harder on another se...
Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units
There's a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an acquisition. … It usually works for a little while, but big company bureaucracy- whether it's HR, politics or ju...
New hacked site notifications in search results
Today we've added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning...
MSE 2.0 arrives with heuristic scanning, network traffic inspection
Following a four-month beta program, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 has been released. The new version adds a heuristic scanning engine, improved Windows Firewall integration, and network tr...
UN mulls internet regulation options
WikiLeaks sparks push for tighter controls. — The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the int...
Palm's tablet is codenamed ‘Topaz,’ keyboard accessory leaks out
Okay, it's not exactly the new webOS hardware we've been waiting for, but we just got this shot of a Palm Bluetooth keyboard from a trusted source — we're told it's an accessory for Palm's upcoming ta...
Apple bulking up iOS development team with navigation software experts
Apple this week put out a call for a number of new software engineers for its iOS development team, indicating it wants candidates that have experience developing navigation software.
Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011
Google is expanding its feature film streaming service, says a source who's been briefed on the product. The service will likely be an expansion of the current movie rental/streaming test launched by...
Facebook Stock Sold At $56 Billion Valuation In “Significantly Oversubscribed” Auction
Private shares market Sharespost just sold 165,000 Facebook shares for $25 each. That price implies a $56 billion valuation of Facebook. — In an email to members, Sharespost said that because the ...
U.S. code-cracking agency works as if compromised
(Reuters) - The U.S. government's main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its...
Another Key Feature Of Google +1: Massive-Scale Social Video Conferencing
Over the past few weeks, we've been able to dig up a bunch of details about Google's secret forthcoming social service. The service, previously codenamed “Emerald Sea” but currently being called “+1”...
Facebook To Make About 15 Talent Acquisitions in 2011
Next year, look for Facebook to make plenty of small acquisitions to beef up its engineering expertise, like it did with Hot Potato and Drop.io this fall. — That was the message from Michael Brown, ...
Rupert Murdoch's “Daily” iPad Newspaper Set for January Launch
Want to get a gander at “the Daily,” Rupert Murdoch's much-discussed but still sorta-secret iPad newspaper? Wait a month. — News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multip...
Connecticut Jabs Google Over Data
Connecticut's attorney general said Friday his office may take legal action against Google Inc. after the Internet company rejected his request to turn over personal data it inadvertently collected fr...
Amazon Can't Dent iTunes
On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still i...
Dropbox hits 1.0!
Hey everyone! — We're super excited to announce the new hotness that we've been cooking up for the past few months: Dropbox 1.0! In addition to hundreds (yep, hundreds) of bug fixes, vastly reduced...
RIM In Talks To Buy Gist
RIM, the company behind the iconic mobile-messaging platform BlackBerry, is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based startup Gist, according to industry sources. While the deal is said to be near...
E.U. Deepens Investigation Into Google
BRUSSELS — European Union authorities have broadened their investigation of Google by accepting two complaints from Germany, one involving a powerful group of newspaper and magazine publishers and the...
How The World's Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The ‘Underdog’
Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently took the stage at a joint press conference alongside another large technology company. He described his partner using a once-unthinkable designatio...
RIM: “Playbook redefines what a tablet should do”
On Research in Motion's conference call with analysts to discuss third quarter earnings result, there was the obligatory comments about the quarter that just passed - but clearly, one of the biggest t...
Playable social games come to Bing's search results
Bing is putting social gaming into search results pages, letting users play a title without ever having to visit its specialty Bing Games site, or the publisher's hosted game page on social networks l...
In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture
With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possib...
Newspapers and Magazines Coming to Amazon's Buy Once, Read Everywhere Kindle Apps - Starting with Kindle for Android
All of the features customers love about Kindle newspapers and magazines coming to Kindle for Android, including convenience of automatic overnight delivery of subscriptions …
Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on Internet governance
The beauty of the Internet is that it's not controlled by any one group. Its governance is bottoms-up—with academics, non-profits, companies and governments all working to improve this technological ...