Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Beta
A few minutes ago Apple releases iOS 4.3 beta to developers. It's available now in the iOS Dev Center. The beta is available for iOS devices and the second generation Apple TV. Supported iOS mobile...
An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google
The world's ability to communicate with one another is a key factor in its rapid evolution and economic growth. The Esperanto language was invented last century as a politically neutral language that...
Apple, Verizon Took Years to Clear IPhone Differences
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Communications Inc. President Lowell McAdam works a few miles from the New York auditorium where he announced yesterday's deal to offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone. It took him ...
Exclusive: Apple will remove home button on next iPad and iPhone; Photo Booth and iLife coming?
We just got some pretty wild information from one of our Apple sources and while it's hard to believe at first, it does make sense. We have exclusively been told that the reason Apple …
Google's H.264 decision: It's all about YouTube costs
Everyone wants to boil down Google's decision to remove H.264 support from Chrome to be a religious one. To me, it's obviously infrastructure-related. — Ah, the smell of religious fervor in the mor...
Now available: Google Places with Hotpot for iPhone
We recently released Google Places with Hotpot in Google Maps for Android, and starting now, you can have that same great experience as an iPhone app. We realize the importance of finding places you'...
Internet 2010 in numbers
What happened with the Internet in 2010? — How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many...
Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine
I can still remember when my when I first switched over to Google on the recommendation of my brother's girlfriend. She's literally a rocket scientist and carries a lot of intellectual weight with me...
YouTube Unleashes Vevo Music Vids on Mobile* (*Android Only)
Vevo's collection of music videos has finally come to YouTube mobile — but only on Android phones. — The initiative, which is live now, means 10s of thousands of Vevo music videos Universal Music Gr...
Associated Press Settles Copyright Lawsuit Against Obama ‘Hope’ Artist
Street artist Shepard Fairey and The Associated Press are settling a copyright dispute over who owned the rights to the iconic Obama “Hope” poster, the two said in a joint statement Wednesday.
Samsung Vibrant Plus Will Offer 21+ Mbps 4G Speeds
Well, we knew the Samsung Vibrant Plus existed but we didn't know was that it's slated to be T-Mobile's first 4G phone that offers 21+ Mbps speeds. Currently, the myTouch4G and T-Mobile G2 offer 4G s...
Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches ‘Respond’ Button
One of the biggest phenomena of last year was Formspring, a social site that lets you invite your friends to “Ask you anything”. The site launched in November 2009 and rose from obscurity to some 40 ...
$50 Billion? Hah! Insiders Say Facebook's Goal Is To Be The First TRILLION Dollar Company
Goldman Sach clients are buying $1.5 billion worth of Facebook stock at a $50 billion valuation. — Yesterday, Wedbush analyst Lou Kerner said that if Facebook were a public company, it would be valu...
Microsoft: Apple can't claim exclusive rights to ‘App Store’
Should the phrase “App Store” be Apple's alone? Microsoft says no, and it's fighting for the right to use those words for its own mobile application store. — The Redmond company this week escalated...
Cork'd: The Final Tasting Note
Today marks a bittersweet day for Cork'd as we announce it will wind down operations. After 1.5 years, CEO, Lindsay Ronga will move on to other opportunities. “Working with Gary and Jon marked a mil...
Samsung GT-i9023 hits FCC: a new version of the Nexus S with Android 2.4?
FCC filings have a curious tendency to launch us into far-reaching bouts of speculation, but hear us out — we think we're onto something here. A Samsung phone with model number GT-i9023 just passed t...
Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February
Firefox 4 is nearly ready for release, a recent post on Mozilla's developer mailing list suggests. — “Team, we've worked tremendously hard on Firefox 4, and it's time to ship it,” wrote Damon Sicore...
Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers
How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day? I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they built a service relied upon by companies like bit.ly, Hunch a...
Demand Media Clears SEC and Prices IPO
Demand Media is set to go public, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares priced from $14 to $16 each. — The online publisher could sell up to 8.625 m...
Google Translate Adds Conversation Mode for Real-time Audio Translation
Google has implemented an early version of a feature for its translation app that does on the fly audio translation from one language to another. — The feature, known as Conversation Mode, is being ...
Google Acquires eBook Technologies
Google has just acquired eBook Technologies, according to a notice that is currently appearing on the company's homepage. Google confirmed the acquisition, with a spokesperson giving us this statemen...
Peep show: inside the world of unsecured IP security cameras
If you're in public, you're on camera. If you walk into a coffee shop, the owner gets you at the register. Visit a larger store, and chances are they have your face as soon as you cross the threshol...
Google Analytics targeted by data protection officials
German web companies could face hefty fines for using Google's online metrics service after data protection officials broke off talks with the US internet giant this week and threatened to pursue a pr...
HTML5: An antidote for Apple App Store-itis
Imitation not the sincerest form of flattery — Open...and Shut To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or in the case of our idea-starved tech industry, an app store. — The tech w...
Source - Sony to announce PSP2 in Tokyo on January 27
VG247 has learnt that Sony it to hold a “business overview and strategy meeting” in Tokyo on January 27, and has been told that Sony will use the event as a reveal platform for PSP2. — Nothing is kn...
Google Android More Vulnerable Than IPhone, Antivirus Maker Says
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android operating system for mobile devices is more vulnerable to hackers and viruses than Apple Inc.'s iPhone platform, according to security-software maker Trend ...
AMD CEO left partly over mobile strategy: source
(Reuters) - The departure of Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive followed months of concern among some board members that he wasn't doing enough to get the chip maker into the exploding mobile mar...
Travelzoo's Groupon Competitor Already Valued at $400 Million
Five months ago, Travelzoo, an old internet 1.0 company, decided to expand their business by launching a Groupon competitor. — In September, Travelzoo Launched a Groupon Competitor — They have alw...
Clarium Hedge Fund Slumps 90% From Peak After Thiel Has Third Losing Year
Peter Thiel got rich investing in PayPal and Facebook Inc. before most people knew them, built a hedge fund that at its apex managed $7.2 billion, and forecast the collapse of the U.S. housing market.
Rackspace, Akamai forge partnership
Rackspace will offer Akamai's technologies—content delivery network services, secure sockets layer and other web optimization tools—as part of its cloud hosting services. — Under the partnership, Ra...
OnSwipe Raises, Like, A Million Dollars
PadPressed, the WordPress plugin that makes your blog look like a native app is branching out, with a new one million seed round of funding, a new name (OnSwipe) and homebase (New York). The round, w...
How Media Will Relate to Facebook in the Future
All media will be personalized in three to five years, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said in September. One of the ways that's likely to happen everywhere just appeared on the UK Independent. — The ...
Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3
According to our source, the personal hotspot feature that debuted on the Verizon iPhone yesterday will, in fact, be making its way to all iPhones in iOS 4.3. We're sure there will need to be carrier...
Now available: Google Places with Hotpot for iPhone
We recently released Google Places with Hotpot in Google Maps for Android, and starting now, you can have that same great experience as an iPhone app. We realize the importance of finding places you'...
Verizon iPhone 4 Doesn't Suffer from Death Grip
Now that the device is real, and we've managed to get some hands-on time with it, we were curious to see if Verizon's and Apple's claims that the only-slightly altered antenna version for the CDMA-bas...
Yahoo TV is a Paradigm Shift for Internet TV
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show we got a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of Yahoo Connected TV and we were excited about what we saw: the first Internet TV device to bring passive and ...
Greylock Adds Former Data Domain CEO As A Partner
Hot on the heels of participating in the mammoth $950 million funding round of Groupon, venture capital firm Greylock Partners announced named Frank Slootman, the former CEO of Data Domain, now part o...
Facebook to Distribute AMBER Alerts, Perhaps Other Emergency Info
In an interesting tie between government and Facebook, users will soon be able to receive AMBER (America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response) Alerts on the site about children abducted in their are...
Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to ‘World IPv6 Day’ trial
Internet Society attracts key sites to 24-hour test of next-gen Internet services — Several of the Internet's most popular Web sites - including Facebook, Google and Yahoo - have agreed to participa...
Twitter Updates Mac App, Gets Rid Of Secret Backdoor Feature, Avoids Apple's Wrath
Twitter has updated its Mac app for the Mac App Store with some modest changes, including a new, blue icon, replacing its previous black icon. — Twitter has also — as far as we can tell …
In Yet Another Content Hook-Up, AOL Strikes Deal With Endemol
AOL's strategy to partner with third-party content creators for original programming-especially premium video content-keeps ticking, with another partnership, this time with Endemol USA. — The New Y...
Cr-48 Shipments to Resume, Applications for Pilot Still Open
Since late December, Chrome OS notebooks have not been going out as part of Google's Chrome OS Pilot Program. Yesterday, I speculated about some of the reasons why shipments from Google of the Cr-48 ...
Microsoft will block ChevronWP7 unlock with first Windows Phone 7 update
Microsoft is planning to block the ChevronWP7 unlocker with its first Windows Phone 7 update due shortly. — Members of the ChevronWP7 confirmed the block in a blog posting on Wednesday.
Social Gaming To Be A $1B Market In 2011; Virtual Goods To Bring In $653M
Social gaming is expected to be a billion-dollar business this year, according to an eMarketer report released today. Of course, this staggering number isn't surprising considering the massive growth...
MetroPCS Data Plans Violate Net-Fairness Rules, Groups Tell FCC
A coalition of public interest groups asked federal regulators on Tuesday to investigate whether new mobile internet plans from MetroPCS violate open-internet rules passed in late 2010. — Free Press...