Groupon Closing $950 Million Round, Valued At $4.75 Billion
Lots of excitement today about Groupon's intention to raise a new monster round of financing, with speculation that the valuation of the still-young startup reaching nearly $8 billion. That speculati...
Exclusive: 12 Photos of the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon
Take a look at that beauty. Say hello to the HTC Thunderbolt, which will be the first 4G LTE device to land on Verizon after its unveiling next week at CES. As you can see, it really just looks exac...
Disney Tackles Major Theme Park Problem: Lines
ORLANDO, Fla. — Deep in the bowels of Walt Disney World, inside an underground bunker called the Disney Operational Command Center, technicians know that you are standing in line and that you are most...
The Unbearable Inevitability of Being Android, 1995
According to soldiers of the Android Crusade, 2011 is the year Google will crush iOS to declare its inevitable suzerainty over mobile territories. — Let's meet this week's crusaders: Seth Weintraub ...
Researchers create ultra-fast ‘1,000 core’ processor, Intel also toys with the idea
We've already seen field programmable gate arrays (or FPGAs) used to create energy efficient supercomputers, but a team of researchers at the University of Glasgow led by Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede now sa...
New Android Market Stats Out, Over 200k Apps Available
Google's Android operating system already attracted a lot of developers on its side, which came up with applications in excess of 200,000, the latest stats on the Android Market show. — Apple's App ...
Paul Allen tries again with suit against Apple, Google, Facebook ...
Allen's case was rejected on Dec. 10 by a federal judge in Seattle who said it was too vague.
Apple Doesn't Want Coders Messing With iPhone Buttons — Sometimes
Sometimes — Apple can't stick to its own rules with the gigantic iOS App Store. — The company recently approved an iPhone camera app that carries a special feature: the ability to snap a photo by p...
Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs
Editor's note: This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site's Wikileaks coverage. — The Cas...
Canadians spend more time online than any other country
Canadians were curating their Facebook profiles long before the rest of the world got hooked, many were experimenting with the limitations of writing in 140-character snippets at Twitter's launch in 2...
The parable of the the PDA: predicting the smartphone's future
When reading the comments disputing the possible end of the voice-phone era I'm reminded of similar comments disputing the end of the PDA era. — Although the Apple Newton pioneered the market in 199...
SecondMarket: The SEC has not asked us for anything
The SEC “wants to learn more” about secondary stock trades in private companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zynga, according to a report in today's New York Times. No specifics as to the inq...
BlackBerry PlayBook battery issues could delay launch, says analyst
According to Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu, RIM may be forced to delay the release of its first tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. Wu claims he is hearing that the PlayBook “needs to improv...
Apple prepares three versions of iPad 2 for 2011, says sources
Apple is expected to release three versions of iPad 2, supporting either or a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA, for 2011 with mass production to start as early as the later half of January.
Samsung to Unveil New Galaxy S at Mobile World Congress
The successor to Samsung Electronics' hit Galaxy S smartphone will be released in February. — Samsung announced Monday that it will unveil the device at the 2011 Mobile World Congress, the world's l...
Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords hashes
On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozi...
France Wants To Extend Private Copying Levy To Tablets... But Not If They Run Microsoft Windows
from the say-what-now? dept — Kurata points us to the news that French politicians are debating extending the “you must be a criminal” private copying levy to tablet computers — but …
ISP won't reveal names of alleged porn pirates
Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, has refused to turn over customers accused in a lawsuit by Larry Flynt Publishing of pirating one of the company's porn films...
RapidShare Shows MPAA/RIAA: We Can Lobby Lawmakers Too
Last month RapidShare discovered that they had been reported by the MPAA and RIAA to the US Government for being one of the world's “most notorious pirate markets”. Now, on the heels of reports that ...
Barnes & Noble loses bid to end Nook lawsuit
(Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) failed to win dismissal of Spring Design Inc's lawsuit accusing the largest U.S. bookseller of illegally copying its dual-display design for its Nook electronic ...
McAfee Labs Predicts Geolocation, Mobile Devices and Apple Will Top the List of Targets for Emerging Threats in 2011
McAfee Researchers Also Foresee Attackers Targeting Shortened URL Services and Internet TV Platforms; Increase in Politically Motivated Hacktivisim
Sleipnir Mobile and 360: Two New Web Browsers for iOS
Sleipnir Mobile and the 360 Browser have joined a growing group of alternatives to Mobile Safari, the web browser that comes with the iPhone and iPod touch. Tabs, data sync with Firefox, download man...
ASUS teases Eee Pad and Eee Slate ahead of CES launch
Seems like all these CES vendors have wised up to the fact that announcing their new products amidst a maelstrom of new product announcements tends to be slightly counterproductive. So, naturally, th...
Hello Nano.
So I won pink 8gb iPod Nano at some awards I was at recently and hacked it on the flight home. I've successfully done a basic springboard hack, figured out how to bypass the cache comparison and unco...
AT&T expands Wi-Fi zones in public spaces
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is expanding Wi-Fi access for its subscribers in New York and introducing it in San Francisco, adding data capacity in two cities with heavy wireless network use from the iPhone a...
Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users' personal information to advertising networks wit...
Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store
Google is talking with makers of educational software to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion — (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is talking...
Stock Trading in Private Companies Draws S.E.C. Scrutiny
A red-hot trading market has developed in the shares of the world's leading social networking companies: Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn. What is unusual is that none of the companies are liste...
Year in Review: 10 Trends in Mobile Technology
In 2010, the computer truly went mobile. — Sure, users of Apple Inc.'s iPhone have had the Web in their hands since 2007. But this past year, smartphones plunged into the mainstream, giving million...
Sears And Kmart Team Up With Sonic To Launch A Netflix Competitor
It looks like Sears wants to get in the online movie market. The retail company, which also owns Kmart, has just announced that it is launching a Netflix-like movie download service, called Alphaline...
Union Square Ventures discloses new fund details (and a new partner)
[UPDATE: A source tells Fortune that this is a later-stage fund, in which John Buttrick will be a “deal partner” (focused on transactions, etc.). Kind of like what we suggested at the end of our orig...
Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: Location Will Connect Us
With a shade over five million members, Foursquare is tiny compared to say, emerging location giants Google or Facebook. But when it comes to location-based services, Dennis Crowley, co-founder of th...
Will Facebook Follow Zuckerberg To China? Inevitably
Mark Zuckerberg and China: How red will he get? — Mark Zuckerberg likely learned something about how to play nice with the Chinese government — and make a lot of money while you're at it — from his ...