Avatar Kinect: Now Your Avatar Smiles, Smirks and Talks When You Do
Your Xbox Live avatar leads a lonely existence. Or did, anyway, before Avatar Kinect came along. Now, Kinect recognizes your face: When you smile, when you raise your eyebrows, when you talk—and you...
Ballmer At CES 2011: “Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There”
Today in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared that Xbox is no longer a gaming device but an entertainment hub. And Windows will be everywhere, from your TV thro...
Goldman Flooded With Facebook Orders
Interest in shares of Facebook Inc. is so strong that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to stop soliciting interest from potential investors on Thursday, after the securities firm received orders of seve...
A Sneak Peek of Android 3.0, Honeycomb
The past few weeks have been exciting ones for the Android team: we recently released Nexus S and Android 2.3, Gingerbread, and we've even had some of our most popular team members take a trip to spac...
Motorola XOOM tablet announced
Motorola Mobility on Wednesday announced the tablet countless Android fans have been waiting for. The Motorola XOOM is a 10.1-inch full touchscreen device with specs that look like they'll line up pr...
Ballmer on Windows Phone 7: 5,500 apps, updates coming, Verizon and Sprint in first half of 2011
Speaking at his company's CES keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer let go several pertinent facts about the Windows Phone 7 operating system. For starters, the much anticipated WP7 software update …
LinkedIn plans to go public in 2011: sources
(Reuters) - LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, plans to go public in 2011 and has selected its financial underwriters, three sources familiar with the process told Reuters. — Mo...
AT&T details 4G plans [updated]
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega gave a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The focus was undoubtedly 4G — as we reported earlier today — and de la Vega was joined by Motorola ...
Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used
Zynga is acquiring Flock, a beleaguered startup founded in 2005 by Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone, we've confirmed. The deal should be announced shortly. — The company has raised nearly $30 million...
EXCLUSIVE: Tweetie 2.0 For Mac Will Launch With The Mac App Store, Tomorrow
This is awesome, I can't wait to see the App Store and Twitter for Mac! — Reply — View comment — If it's free, what is the business model ? Shouldn't it be paid, at least a buck ?
Samsung's Series 9 laptop is the Windows Macbook Air killer you've been waiting for
Second-generation Intel Core Family processors are here, and laptop manufacturers are wasting no time announcing new models. Samsung has the eye-popper of the Consumer Electronics Show (OK, so far) …
Amazon's Disruptive Android App Store Now Open To Developers — Full Details
Full Details — Fragmentation. Curation. Recommendations. Take your pick: Android is getting all three, compliments of a new Amazon-run application marketplace due to launch later this year.
iPad 2 case shows up at CES, packing a mockup iPad 2
We've been seeing supposed iPad 2 cases for about a month now, all of them with the same telltale cutouts: a camera hole in the back, a camera hole in the front, and a big ol' speaker hole. Today's f...
What Everyone Seems to Miss In Facebook's Private or Public Debate...
Facebook is the greatest repository …
Android Isn't About Building a Mobile Platform
Google isn't a web application company—they're an advertising company. That's what they do best, and that's what drives their company. Of Google's $23.6 billion of revenue in 2009, all but $760 mill...
Exclusive: Hands on with the HTC Thunderbolt 4G
HTC Thunderbolt Browser, AndroidSPIN.com — We managed to get our hands on one of the new HTC Thunderbolt 4G's today and took a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. As well we also managed to run...
See If You Can Spot The Problem With Microsoft's Tablet Strategy
Earlier today, computer maker Asus kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show a day early by announcing four upcoming tablet computers. Three of them run Google's Android operating system. One runs Wi...
Gene Munster: Google Has Given Up On Social
Count Piper Jaffray tech analyst Gene Munster among the Facebook bulls. He just gave an interview to Bloomberg TV which must have made any Googlers listening cringe. — Here are the main points, par...
Vizio Phone hands-on preview
Along with Vizio's new tablet, we had a chance to look at the HDTV maker's new Android device, unsurprisingly dubbed the Vizio Phone. The phone is still in the early stages (both the hardware and sof...
Google Who? LG Launches App Platform for TVs
LAS VEGAS — LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced its new Smart TV platform bringing apps, games and web-streamed movies to its latest televisions. — The platform will enable LG televisions to expa...
Cable giant Comcast to Offer Live TV Streaming on Tablets
CEO Brian Roberts says the company wants to “reinvent how customers interact with their entertainment on TV, online and on mobile devices.” — NEW YORK - Cable giant Comcast plans to offer in-home st...
If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen
Clive Thompson's newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other media. I've been thinking about this pheno...
LG Optimus Black: Meet the World's New Slimmest Phone (For Now)
At 9.2mm thick, the Optimus Black from LG is the new world's thinnest phone, and is pretty light too, at 109g. It's also got a 4-inch NOVA screen for viewing in direct sunlight, too, and a 2MP forwar...
Microsoft's Move to Put Windows on ARM Chips a Long Time in the Making
When word first broke last month that Microsoft was planning to port Windows over to ARM-based chips, it seemed like it might be just a hasty reaction to the success of the iPad. — However, the move...
Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad
ROSLYN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. — A growing number of sc...
Google Wins One Against Microsoft
Google Inc. has won a key ruling in its lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract bid t...
Memo to Twitter: Popularity Is Becoming a Commodity
So there I was flying back to San Francisco after the Holidays, flipping through the United Hemispheres magazine to better understand my awesome Snack Box options, when I was stopped by an animated dr...
Mobile Ad Network Millennial Media Raises $27.5 Million; Tripled Revenue In 2010
We've learned exclusively that mobile ad network Millennial Media has raised $27.5 million in new funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Charles River Ventures, and New Enterprise A...
‘Hurt Locker’ lawyers continue antipiracy fight
Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, the law firm that has filed copyright complaints against thousands of accused illegal file sharers on behalf of independent filmmakers this year, is getting some important help...