A Better Mobile Experience for More People
We want people to have a great mobile experience no matter what type of phone they carry. Smartphones have offered better features for sharing with friends but aren't used by most people around the w...
Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number
We'd be lying if we said we hadn't been waiting on this feature since the service's debut. As one reader just notified us (and verified by a number of staffers), Google Voice now lets you port your o...
LivingSocial Hits A Million Amazon Gift Cards Sold, $20 Million In Card Value
LivingSocial has been offering $10 off any $20 Amazon purchase since 5 am this morning and it's been a boon huge for the daily deals company, which Amazon has astutely invested $175 million in.
Leaked: New ATT text messaging plans in preparation for Verizon iPhone
AT&T customers, get ready for new text messaging rates to go into effect starting next week. As the Verizon iPhone approaches, the company is looking to make their plans look a bit more attractive, a...
Work E-Mail Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege, Court Says
E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled.
Apple's blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it, the Street blew it
In the quarterly battle between outsiders and the insiders, it's the amateurs by a mile. Amateurs in blue, pros in peach. This one wasn't even close. In our ranking of the best and worst Apple (AAP...
HP / Palm tablet to feature Touchstone dock, cloud storage, Beats audio and Tap-to-Share smartphone integration
Now that the kitty's out of the gemstone bag, we're slowly starting to connect the dots that obscure the details of Palm's soon to be announced “Topaz” and “Opal” tablets.
Google gins search formula to favor its own services
Gmail, Maps get free ride — A noted Google-watcher has assembled a convincing argument that the site's search results highly favor Google-owned services, despite repeated company claims that they ar...
Microsoft nails down Windows Phone 7 data-uploading issue
A third-party application is mostly responsible for a Windows Phone 7 issue that has caused, for some users, megabytes of mysterious data uploading over 3G, Microsoft said today. — Last week, Micros...
Nokia Cancels U.S. Launch of X7 Phone
In another setback for Nokia Corp., the Finnish mobile-phone giant has canceled the U.S. release of a smartphone that was slated to launch exclusively this year with AT&T Inc., people familiar with th...
Apple to fight Facebook with iOS 5 and Media Stream?
Ping was Apple's first attempt at the social networking but it pales in comparison to what they have coming. Hidden deep in the iOS 4.3 file system is a new folder titled “Media Stream.” Within that...
Startup Collecta Shuts Down Its Product, Starts Working on a New One
Collecta, a real-time search engine that launched in June 2009, has quietly shuttered its main product; the team is returning “back into the woodshed,” in the words of CEO Gerry Campbell, to work on n...
One Down: Spotify Signs Sony to U.S. Deal
This doesn't get them into the States, but it gets them a lot closer: Music service Spotify has finally signed with Sony for a U.S. distribution deal. Multiple sources tell me the deal, which has bee...
Nintendo's 3DS on Sale March 27 for $250, Boasting iPhone-Like Features
Nintendo announced the pricing and release date today for the 3DS, which it hopes will rejuvenate sales as its other hardware platforms start aging. — The 3DS will be available in the U.S. on March ...
Kongregate CEO Jim Greer on getting pulled from the Android Market
Kongregate CEO Jim Greer called Google's swift removal of his company's Kongregate Arcade app from the Android Marketplace “surprising.” Released on the morning of January 19, the app was pulled by t...
Internet Explorer 9 RC to include ActiveX filtering
Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate build will introduce an important new filtering feature, WinRumors has learned. — According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, ...
In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps
If you had to guess what the top downloaded iOS app of all time was, what would you say? You'll probably get it. It's an obvious one. It's Facebook. Number two is fairly easy too: Pandora.
iOS 4.3 beta 2 released, iPad multitasking gestures just a developer preview
Apple just dropped iOS 4.3 beta 2 on world, and with it a big sad bomb: those nifty iPad multitasking gestures we discovered in beta 1 won't be enabled when 4.3 ships to customers.
Vudu HD streaming video lands on Boxee Box, Netflix coming soon
Boxee Box owners (all two of you) rejoice! As promised, Boxee is bringing Vudu's extensive library of streaming high-definition movies to its set-top box in an update today. — Additionally, the com...
Best Buy To Talk You Out Of Verizon iPhone (Which They Won't Have) With A BGR Blog Post
We're now just three weeks away from the launch of the iPhone on Verizon's network (or two weeks if you're already a Verizon customer). There's no question it's going to be a massive seller.
Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype
Rumors are rampant that the upcoming iPad 2 will feature a higher-resolution retina display. Long story short: No, it won't. — The current iPad has a 1024 × 768 display; a double-resolution retina ...
Playboy Magazine coming to iPad in its uncensored form in March, including full back catalog
From its very first issue in 1953 to its latest incarnation, the full catalog of Playboy Magazine is coming to the iPad this March. And not only that, it'll be faithful to its original form by arrivi...
Samsung: We Are Not Charging Carriers for Android Updates
Samsung Mobile emailed Phone Scoop a brief statement to settle some of the rumors that have been flying about regarding the Android 2.2 update for its Galaxy S smartphones. One report suggested that ...
A New Social Network Where Inquiring Minds Run Wild
If brief communications like Twitter's 140-character messages, Facebook status updates and text messaging leave you longing for more substantial discourse, you may be in luck. This week, I took a loo...
Software updates: Windows Phone vs. iPhone
I've complained again and again about Microsoft's inability to ship software updates for Windows Phone, noting that the sheer number of missing features and bugs requires a steady stream of hot-fixes....
Start-Up 100: Why I ditched Europe for Silicon Valley
Guest columnist Loic Le Meur explains why he chose to build his company on the West Coast — The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. … I left Europe because - to put it plainly - Silicon Valley kick...
A Hint That Steve Jobs' Departure Date Has Been Planned for a While
Home » Hardware Stocks » Corporate Governance — Steve Jobs released a letter to the public that he would be taking a leave of absence from Apple (AAPL) for an undisclosed period of time.
LivingSocial Launches “50% Off Amazon” Deal — Already Has $1.5 Million In Gross Sales
Already Has $1.5 Million In Gross Sales — LivingSocial's partnership with Amazon is paying off nicely today. — LivingSocial is offering users the chance to pay $10 for a $20 Amazon gift card. So f...
Firms to buy 10 million tablets in 2011: Deloitte
(Reuters) - Companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year, consultancy Deloitte said on Tuesday supporting recent research from Gartner which sees the global market for Apple's iP...
Sony Said to Plan Networked Portable Game Player, Smartphones
Sony Corp. plans to unveil an updated PlayStation Portable handheld game device on Jan. 27, followed by a game-playing smartphone in February, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.
Senator who opposes antipiracy bill under pressure?
Supporters of an antipiracy bill introduced into the Senate last year appear ready to put some pressure on one of the legislation's chief opponents. — Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, was ins...
Word Lens More Than Pays For Two Years of Bootstrapping With Its Impressive Launch
It was an app two years in the making, but a blowout week more than made up for the time and money Otavio Good spent bootstrapping Word Lens — the first arguably useful augmented reality experience.
Amazon Web Services Introduces ‘Elastic Beanstalk’ For Easier App Deployment
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business of Amazon.com, this morning announced a new offering dubbed AWS Elastic Beanstalk, aimed to simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applic...