$10K iTunes Winner Hung Up On Apple, Thought It Was a Prank [Exclusive]
Gail Davis of Orpington Kent hung up the phone when Apple called to say she'd won a $10,000 iTunes gift card. She thought it was a prank call. — The winner of the Apple's 10 billionth App download ...
Minimum advertised prices set for Motorola Xoom ($799) and HTC Thunderbolt ($249)
We just got hit with the news of the minimum advertised price for the Motorola Xoom Android tablet and HTC ThunderBolt LTE smartphone on Verizon. Looks like the Xoom will be going for $799 — we have ...
CEO Transitions
This past week was a remarkable one in the technology business. At the start of the week, Steve Jobs passed the leadership of Apple to Tim Cook and at the end of the week, Eric Schmidt passed the lea...
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010
This year's fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we're happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren't at the event or watching our livestream, we've includ...
AMD: Over 35 Million of DirectX 11 Graphics Chips Supplied
Advanced Micro Devices said that it has so far shipped over one million of accelerated processing units (APUs) for entry-level notebooks as well as netbooks. In addition, the company said that the sh...
Quora Underscores Need For Corporate Ambassadors
Unlike Facebook but very much like Facebook Groups, Quora the social Q&A ecosystem is designed to support individual participants, not companies (for now). In either case, it's increasingly becoming ...
Honeycomb may never come to mobiles
But tablets won't need minimum specs to run it — Google's Android 3.0 OS, codenamed Honeycomb, may never come to the smartphone market. — Since tablets have been announced using the new operating ...
Got $500? You can buy a hacked U.S. military website
If you're a criminal looking for full control of the Web used by the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), you can get it for just under US$500. — If you're a criminal looking for ...
Apple Eclipses 10 Billion App Downloads
On January 14, Apple placed a counter on its website, counting up to the ten billionth app download, today that milestone has been passed. — We don't know who the lucky winner is just yet, Apple ask...
Demand Doubles For Private Shares On SecondMarket: The Q4 Report
With shares of Facebook recently hitting a $70 billion valuation in a private auction on SecondMarket, you'd think those are the only shares that trade on the private stock market Facebook did make up...
Will “HTC Sensation” be the HTC Sense for tablets?
We are all familiar of the HTC Sense custom user interface for all our Android smartphones. We found out, however, that the Taiwanese company recently filed a trademark under the Trade Marks and Desi...
Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?
Google's new CEO isn't much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn't even find a fleshed-out Go...
Apple Taps Former Navy Information Warrior for Global Director of Security
Apple has tapped security expert and author David Rice to be its director of global security, three sources who know Rice have confirmed to me. He's expected to start at Apple in March. Apple hasn't...
Hacker finds evidence of Qualcomm baseband for Apple's next iPhone, iPad
A hacker claims to have discovered evidence pointing to an upcoming Qualcomm cellular baseband inside the code for Apple's iTunes software, possibly indicating that the iPhone maker plans to incorpora...