Verizon Wireless & Apple Team Up to Deliver iPhone 4 on Verizon
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—January 11, 2011—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thurs...
HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome
The web's open and community-driven development model is a key factor in its rapid evolution and ubiquitous adoption. The WebM Project was launched last year to bring an open, world-class video codec...
MySpace Cuts 47 Percent Of Its Workforce
As has been rumored for weeks, MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is laying off nearly 500 employees, or nearly half of its workforce. MySpace says it's making the cuts “to provide the company with a clear path for...
Verizon to Sell Apple IPad That Connects Directly to Its Network
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless will sell a version of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer that can connect directly to its network, posing another challenge to AT&T Inc. as the carrier's exclusi...
Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
In the beginning there was curation, and it was good. People found interesting things, created directories of those things, and then you found what you were looking for inside those curated lists. T...
The Forgotten Social Network
Zack Hoberg/The Stanford Daily — The idea that governs Facebook was created, then shut down, at Stanford years before Mark Zuckerberg appeared — Silicon Valley's Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Hewlett-P...
Jack Dorsey On Charlie Rose: “It's Really Complex To Make Something Simple.”
Twitter Chairman and Square founder Jack Dorsey sat down with Charlie Rose last night to talk about Dorsey's unique position of being responsible for two technology startups based on the idea of simpl...
First ‘Facebook Phone’ Outed: INQ Cloud Touch With Android?
A handset known as the INQ Cloud Torch has just received Bluetooth certification, and based on the design description, we believe that it is the first of two “Facebook” phones rumored to be in develop...
For every AT&T Android user there are 15 iPhone users: What will be the ratio at Verizon?
The following chart uses comScore data to show the relative consumption of Android vs. iOS by the subscribers of the four major US operators. I modified an original chart published by Silicon Alley I...
Best of CES 2011
Maybe, just maybe, you've noticed that Engadget relocated this past week to the City of Sin for CES 2011. Oh yes, we set up camp in a double-wide trailer, liveblogged our hearts out, combed the show ...
The Future Version Of Android Isn't Called Ice Cream. It's Ice Cream SANDWICH.
It's tough being a tech journalist. Countless phone calls, mountains of email, endless warring with legions of trolls. Really, you've got to be pretty hardcore to do this job. It's a wonder we ever...
Why I'm Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
I've always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life. As I've written before, I live permanently in hotels, and my whole life fits into carry...
Winklevoss twins gamble $65m for Facebook fortune
The twins rose to prominence after the release of The Social Network film — Three Harvard graduates are to gamble a $65m settlement they made with Facebook over who came up with the idea for the sit...
Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
If you've got an iPhone or Android device, there's a decent chance you're familiar with Bump, the nifty service that lets you swap contact information (and other data) by simply tapping two phones tog...
Marissa Mayer and Google's Local Search Strategy
Marissa Mayer, the executive behind Google's search engine, now aims to help the company conquer social media and personalize your Web experience on mobile phones. She talks to David Kirkpatrick abou...
The Rise Of Facebook's Valuation From 2004-2011 [Graphic]
Click image to enlarge. — The panic at absurd rumors of Facebook's demise over the weekend, coupled with the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment frenzy at the beginning of this year got us thinking; D...
Groupon Acquires Its Way Into Israel, South Africa And India
Groupon is determined to launch daily deal sites in markets all over the world, as we've seen in the past. This morning, the social commerce company announced that it has acquired SoSasta (India), Gr...
MySpace CEO confirms heavy layoffs
MySpace CEO Mike Jones announced Tuesday a “significant organizational restructuring that will result in a 47 percent staff reduction across all divisions globally and impact about 500 employees, conf...
Google TV Jailbreak Opens the Doors to Developers, Hulu
At the end of November, Android developer Howard Harte announced that he would give $1,000 to the first person who could jailbreak the Google TV. Just over a month later, the $1,000 has been collecte...
Sony Files Lawsuit Against Geohot Over PS3 Jailbreak
After publishing the PS3 root keys publicly, Geohot released his first jailbreak for PS 3 firmware 3.55. Though he specifically wrote on his website that he doesn't condone piracy and disabled peek a...
Facebook's Google Effect
“I hope the only people harmed are speculators.” — Roger McNamee, the venture capital investor, was discussing the new race in Silicon Valley to buy up shares of hot private Internet companies in th...