Verizon Finally Lands the iPhone
The iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless. — The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter ...
Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day
Apple® today announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the Mac® App Store℠ in the first day. With more than 1,000 free and paid apps, the Mac App Store brings the revolutionary A...
Obama's Solution for Online ID? Let Silicon Valley Take the Lead
To help solve the modern nightmare of trying to control your online identity and keep track your passwords, the government came to Silicon Valley Friday and said it was here to help. — But rather th...
Pixelmator goes exclusive to Mac App Store
If you want to download Pixelmator, the popular image editing software for the Mac, the Web site will push you to the Mac App Store. The developers have taken the bold move of announcing that the Mac...
Apple Opposes Proposal on CEO Succession Planning
A few noteworthy nuggets from Apple's 2011 Proxy Statement, filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. — In 2010 CEO Steve Jobs retained his $1 annual salary and some 5.5 million ...
Facebook Versus Google Circa 2004
Is Facebook worth $50 billion? As people ponder that question this week, we decided to look at Google, the Internet's previous wunderkind. — Google's market cap passed the $50 billion mark in Octob...
How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide
It's easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video e...
Courtney Love's Slanderous Twitter Account Suspended
Courtney Love's highly-entertaining Twitter account, CourtneyLoveUK, has been suspended! And this just days after she was hit with the world's first-ever Twitter defamation lawsuit, stemming from a 2...
Rumor: iPad 2 is coming soon!
This was posted to my foundat.io/n newsletter this morning: From: Kevin Rose (Foundation Newsletter) I have it on good authority that Apple will be announcing the iPad 2 in the next “3-4 weeks”, possi...
Kleiner Perkins To Invest In Groupon's Massive $950 Million Funding Round
Last week we reported that Groupon was closing a massive $950 million funding round at an impressive $4.75 billion valuation in the wake of walking away from an acquisition offer from Google.
FCC Again Promises More Spectrum - Will lure broadcasters with voluntary incentive auctions
At a speech this week at CES, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski again pledged to make the release of additional spectrum a top priority for the agency this year. As previously considered …
Quora Answers The Question: How Will You Avoid Becoming Yahoo Answers?
As we're all well aware by now, the Q&A service Quora is exploding with growth. And while that may seem like a good thing, there are two distinct downsides. First, Quora is a pretty complex site and...
Why Your Next Car Will Have an IP Address
One trend that has become very clear at this year's CES is that the Internet is slowly making its way into our cars. Of course, you can already browse the Net and play music from Pandora through your...
RIM CEO Details BlackBerry “Super Phone” Plans
LAS VEGAS—RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis further confirmed plans for QNX-powered BlackBerry “super phones” in an interview at CES where he said the BlackBerry maker is skating not to where the puck is today, ...
Microsoft's Ballmer hints at PC support for Kinect
Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has hinted to the BBC that he will formally support PC use of the Kinect motion controller in the near future, saying Microsoft “will support that in a ...
CES: Intel exec: Microsoft's tablet OS too long in coming
LAS VEGAS—Intel has urged Microsoft to tailor Windows for smaller devices, to no avail, an executive from the chipmaker said at the Consumer Electronics Show. — “Hey, we tried to get [Microsoft] to ...
Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI. I used to have a fervor for uniform consistency in Mac UI design. A perusal through the early DF archives wil...
Sony's PlayStation Phone gets in-depth preview in China, PlayStation Pocket app in tow
Well, that was quick. It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it's back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168.
Dell Streak 7: The First 4G Tablet Is a Pocket Pit Bull
The 7-inch version of Dell's Streak tablet has been rumored and teased for months, but today it's officially official! And what it lacks in size it makes up for in sweet, speedy 4G goodness. — The ...
Drawings of next-generation iPhone from Foxconn?
Apple.Pro posts some images claiming to be drawings of the next-generation iPhone. The drawings are said to originate at a Foxconn iPhone manufacturing plant and it is unknown whether these represent...
Do People Really Want Apps on TVs?
TVs stuffed with apps that bring popular Web services to larger screens are crowding the floors of the Consumer Electronics Show this week. — But do people really want their TVs to act like already ...
Hulu Plus Coming Soon to Android Mobile Phones, Live on Vizio HDTVs
Since we launched Hulu Plus, it's been our goal to continue to add more platforms and devices to the subscription service to offer you as many ways as possible to stream the shows you want, whenever y...
Gadget Makers Follow Facebook's Lead
Compatibility of Cameras, Games, E-Books Grows Along With Social Network's Role in Consumers' Lives — LAS VEGAS—Investors are hardly the only ones friending Facebook Inc. these days. — Gadget make...
Dan Morrill: No hard processor requirement for Android 3.0
If you're not rocking a dual-core Android tablet, you can breath a sigh of relief. Earlier this week, the Internet was aflutter with rumors that Google's tablet-optimized, Android-build — Honeycomb (...
Can Quora Survive Its Growing Popularity?
If you're a web service, especially a young startup, you want to get as many users as possible, right? But there are worse things than having a small number of users — particularly when the service y...
Ford introduces MyFord Mobile app for smartphones
Sadly Ford isn't confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of... certain...