AT&T Prepared for Loss of iPhone Exclusive
Another question to ponder on the eve of the iPhone's debut on Verizon: Now that its arch-rival has the device on which it once had an exclusive, a device that has done so much for its bottom line, ho...
Microsoft Server Business Head Bob Muglia To Leave This Summer
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today in an email to employees that Bob Muglia, the company's head of its Servers and Tools Business Bob Muglia will be leaving this summer. No replacement has b...
Square Raises $27.5 Million
Square Inc., the mobile payments service co-founded and led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has just closed a new $27.5 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital. — The funding, which also ...
The Love Affair Between Steve Jobs and Pablo Picasso
It looks like the modern Mac icon—which was originally created in 1997 and it's the current Finder's icon—was inspired by Picasso 1934's Two Characters. It's likely a coincidence, but it wouldn't sur...
Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan
TOKYO — Mark Zuckerberg. Who? — Mr. Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old Facebook chief executive and co-founder, may be the man of the moment in the United States and much of the rest of the online world. ...
Tablets at CES 2011: Honeycomb, Windows 7, and all the rest
It's been raining tablets here at CES 2011. No seriously, it as if the sky has opened up in Vegas and dropped touchscreen slabs with Android and Windows 7 operating systems on our heads. It's been n...
Apple AirPlay devices set to explode in 2011
Although DLNA may have had a significant head start, the streaming media standard available on more than 9,000 devices is about to be challenged in a very big way by Apple's upstart AirPlay technology...
Myspace Plans to Lay Off 550 to 600 Employees Tomorrow
Myspace, which has been struggling to revitalize itself, is expected to lay off 550 to 600 of its staff of just over 1,000 tomorrow, according to several sources. — NetworkEffect first reported news...
Motorola expected to ship 700,000-800,000 Xoom tablet PCs in 1Q11
Motorola, with assistance from Google, has showcased its new Android 3.0-based Xoom tablet PC and has placed orders for about 700,000-800,000 units with four color options for the first quarter of 201...
WordPress.com growing fast. Over 6 million new blogs in 2010, pageviews up 53%
Automattic's WordPress.com, the commercially run leg of the popular blogging platform is growing incredibly fast, according to its latest statistics. — Automattic tells us that it has seen over 6 mi...
Google Goggles Can Now Read Print Ads. Oh, And Play Freaking Sudoku!
Of all the mobile applications that Google has come out with in the past couple of years, Google Goggles is definitely one of the coolest. You point your smartphone at any object, and Google attempts...
Apple launching personal setup for Macs at Apple Stores
Apple has had a personal setup service for iPhone purchases made at Apple retail stores for some time now. Since Thanksgiving, Apple has offered the same personal setup service for iPad and iPod touc...
Public Offering Said to Be Unlikely for Zynga This Year
Though Facebook is indicating it will go public next year, one of its biggest partners does not want to take the plunge — at least not yet. — Zynga, the maker of online games like FarmVille and City...
1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web
SAN FRANCISCO — Concerned by the wave of requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies, Google last year set up an online tool showing the frequency of these requests in various countries. ...
Twitter endorsements face OFT clampdown
Watchdog says online companies who did not disclose paid-for promotions by celebrities and bloggers were deceptive — How does a celebrity declare their affiliations to certain brands in fewer than 1...
Groupon Raises, Like, A Billion Dollars
Groupon has closed the remained of that huge $950 million financing round which we first reported on in late December. They closed on roughly half of it then, from DST, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley. ...
The Day of The Daily: Murdoch's iPad Thingy Coming Jan. 19
Mark your calendars, media nerds. Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 is the day it all changes. Maybe. — That's the planned launch date for The Daily, the iPad-only publication News Corp. has been feverishl...
EMI, Music Labels Rejected by High Court in Appeal of Song-Pricing Lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the country's four largest music labels, refusing to block a suit accusing them of conspiring to fix Internet song prices. — Units of Sony Corp., Viven...
Microsoft investigates ‘phantom’ Windows Phone 7 data
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has promised updates to the operating system soon — Microsoft has told BBC News that it is investigating why some handsets running its Windows Phone 7 software are sendi...
Klout Lands $8.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Greycroft To Measure Social Influence
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, has raised $8.5 million in new funding led by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer recently launched sFund with participation...
PlayStation Phone captured in the wild, on video
Well, the leaks have been flying fast and furious: the presumed PlayStation Phone has been in the hands of folks for a hot minute, and now a video has popped up showing one lucky hombre playing Reside...
Google billionaire buys Kiwi's superyacht
Sir Douglas Myers has lost his Senses: he's sold the 59m luxury superyacht to Google billionaire Larry Page. — The luxury motor boat sold last month to the Google co-founder after being listed on th...
Disney, Yahoo Look at Internet TV
Walt Disney Co. is discussing making video from some of its television networks available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc.'s Internet-TV software, people familiar with the matter said. — Such new of...
Microsoft is working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone [Update]
Microsoft had a solid CES appearance with the announcement of many new key products. But sometimes it's not what's said at the main events but in side conversations that can provide a peek into the u...
Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard
ANALYSIS — Twitter introduced a new feature last month without telling anyone about it, and the rest of the tech world should take note and come up with their own version of it. — Twitter beta-teste...
Why I'm not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed
The image above says it all. It shows a screen capture of an actual speed test performed on an Apple iPhone 4 while connected to AT&T's 3G network in northern New Jersey. It is not an anomaly.
Who Came Out On Top At CES?
Now that the Consumer Electronics Show is over and all the vendors are breaking down their booths, we have one question - who won? — Social media monitoring service RowFeeder kept track of a number ...
Google Ice Cream landing in time for the summer
EXCLUSIVE: Sources date the next Android update — Google will release the next version of its mobile phone operating system, Android 2.4, in the summer, Pocket-lint has learnt. — According to mult...
Steve Jobs to join Murdoch to unveil iPad paper
Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned. — The two media moguls will appear together...
Kindle Comes To The Mac App Store, Already No. 5 Free App
Continuing its quest to be on every major computing platform, Kindle is now available as an app in the new Mac App Store. As the first ebook app in teh Mac App Store, it is already the fifth most dow...
Apple follows AT&T, drops official US iPhone 3GS price to $49
Apple has quietly dropped the price of its entry-level 8GB iPhone 3GS to $49 with a new two-year contract with AT&T, matching the new low price that last week was offered exclusively by the carrier.
Jam-packed CES draws more than 140,000 visitors to Vegas
The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, known as CES, was a blow-out success with more than 140,000 attendees, according to preliminary figures released tonight. — The 140,000-figure is 10...
Intuit takes a swipe at Square
Intuit's GoPayment is going freemium to battle Jack Dorsey's Square, but is the mobile payment pie worth fighting over? — The Intuit GoPayment reader — Intuit, best known for its Quicken, QuickBoo...