Apple Says Steve Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave
Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc., is taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after his return from a liver transplant, the company said on Monday. — Mr. ...
Removing “Add to DVD Queue” from Streaming Devices
Hi there, it's Jamie Odell, director of product management at Netflix, with an update for members who add DVDs to their Queue from the device they use to watch instantly. We're removing the “Add to D...
Goldman to Offer Facebook Shares Only to Non-U.S. Clients
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. decided to exclude U.S. clients from the private offering of as much as $1.5 billion in shares of social-networking company Facebook Inc., citing “intense media attention.”
Eighth grader knocks Angry Birds out of the top free spot on the App Store
Angry Birds and its variants have dominated the top ranks of iPhone games for the past year. But on Thursday, a game called Bubble Ball ousted Angry Birds: Seasons from the No. 1 spot on the App Stor...
Wikileaks given data on Swiss bank accounts
Mr Elmer said he took responsibility for the data he was handing over to Wikileaks — A former Swiss banker has passed on data containing account details of 2,000 prominent people to Wikileaks founde...
Exclusive: Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel
Roku is expected to announce Tuesday an unlikely addition to its programming lineup: WealthTV. This will mark the first time a cable channel has joined the streaming device, which begs an obvious que...
How Facebook Ships Code
I'm fascinated by the way Facebook operates. It's a very unique environment, not easily replicated (nor would their system work for all companies, even if they tried). These are notes gathered from ...
iPhone User? 90% Chance You're On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance
As a member of the media, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Nexus S running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” a few weeks ago. It's great, easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon y...
Facebook Books $1.86B in Advertising; Muscles In on Google Turf
New Estimate From eMarketer Shows Majority of Social Network's Ad Revenue Comes From Small Businesses — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It turns out Facebook is a lot like Google after all. — As the social...
Microsoft meets with Windows Phone 7 “unlocker” team
Microsoft representatives met with Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng of the ChevronWP7 team on Monday to discuss the tool and Microsoft's plans to support homebrew applications on Windows Phone 7.
RIM: BlackBerry PlayBook Is Great Even Without A BlackBerry
One of the more unusual aspects of the upcoming tablet from BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is the fact that users need to synch their BlackBerrys to it to fully access their email, calendars and ...
Maria Bartiromo interviews Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Q: What's most important right now for Microsoft (MSFT) in terms of your new product launches? A: If you want to know where is the consumer heat, the things that people want to get their hands on, it...
Apple Media Advisory
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: — Team, — At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. ...
Nokia pulls plug on free music in most markets
(Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, is ending its bundling of free music downloads with cellphones in 27 countries, where it has gained little traction since its 2008 launch. — Nokia...
Awards In Hand, The Social Network Filmmakers Heap Praise On Zuckerberg
One of the standout scenes at in The Social Network happens in the first five minutes of the movie. Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) is sitting in a bar with boyfriend Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) w...
Why you should always encrypt your smartphone
Last week, California's Supreme Court reached a controversial 5-2 decision in People v. Diaz (PDF), holding that police officers may lawfully search mobile phones found on arrested individuals' person...
Top 10 Tech Investing Trends For 2011
I bring you the top 10 tech trends for 2011: 1. (Way too many) Groupons, social games and photo-sharing apps Unimaginative VCs — which is to say, all of us — tend to start the new year off throwing g...
For Magazines, a Bitter Pill in iPad
The frustration that the country's magazine and newspaper publishers feel toward Apple can sound a lot like a variation on the old relationship gripe, “can't live with 'em, may get left behind without...