Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print
Let's say you need to print an important email attachment on your way to work so that it's waiting for you when you walk in the door. With Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print — a service that all...
Keep your opt-outs
Today we're making available Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to opt out permanently from ad tracking cookies. It's available as an extension for download in Chrome. — Why have we developed this...
Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers (Confirmed)
Facebook is about to ruffle some feathers. We're hearing from one source that the social network is reaching out to game developers to inform them that it is making its own, official Facebook Credits...
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Exclusive: Barnes & Noble phasing out the Nook 3G
Barnes & Noble may be selling millions of Nook products, but it's sounding like the 3G variant hasn't really done its part to help those figures. We've received hard evidence from within B&N that the...
Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps
If you're a LinkedIn user, you already know the power of your professional network. — What if you could visualize what your network looks like? Would your connections form clusters or groups? Woul...
Twitter Ad Revenues to Soar This Year
Marketers will spend $150 million on the service in 2011 — Twitter has received enough media attention to be a household word, but still has a relatively small audience. The Pew Internet & American...
White iPhone 4 appears in AT&T's online system
It looks like Best Buy isn't the only retailer with white iPhones popping up in its system. AT&T is now showing two versions of Apple's unicorn-colored iPhone. The entries appear in AT&T's Online Ac...
The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks
It was on Christmas Day that Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hac...
Google's Schmidt eyeing TV
Google honcho Eric Schmidt, who announced his plan to hand over control of the tech giant last week, is eyeballing a career in TV, Page Six has learned. — Sources say the outspoken chief, who broke ...
How Microsoft plans to market against the iPad
Even though Microsoft's public stance, when asked about the impact of Apple's slate is “iPad? What iPad?”, the Redmondians are preparing the company's partners for battle in 2011. — Microsoft is ma...
Topaz Specs! Exclusive details on Touchstone v2 and much more!
We've received a massive document detailing HP's plans for the Topaz webOS slate from last year. While these details aren't final, what we know is that HP is planning to make the Topaz highly competi...
App Store gets a Twitter
Apple setup Twitter accounts for iTunes some time ago, and today Apple finally got around to launching an official Twitter for the App Store. Apple promises to promote new apps, and exclusive App off...
Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion.
I recently had the chance to sit down with Dropbox cofounder and CTO Arash Ferdowsi. The interview took place in their swanky new office in downtown San Francisco. We talked in-depth about the major...
Amazon to Roll Out Grocery Delivery Service
If running errands like grocery shopping isn't your cup of tea, Amazon's got your back. The company is doing internal testing of a free grocery delivery service. — If this program works out, rememb...
Apple Researching Physical Keyboards with Motion Control to Replace Mouse
Apple's patent applications have always been a topic of interest here at MacRumors. They give us a rare look into Apple's research and development labs, although many of the concepts never see the li...
Eric Schmidt Lost $300 Million in Google CEO Shake-Up and He's Still Richer Than You
When Eric Schmidt arrived at Google in 2001, the company was pulling in about $100 million a year. And under his “adult supervision,” that revenue grew to upward of $29 billion.
Kodak's Push for Royalties From Apple, RIM Is Derailed
Eastman Kodak Co., the 130-year-old camera company, lost a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that may hamper its effort to collect patent royalties from Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.
New York Times Readies Pay Wall
Paper Will Charge for Bundled Digital Service, Allow Some Free Access — The New York Times is preparing to introduce multiple subscription packages for access to the paper's website and other digita...
Mobile phone to blast into orbit
British engineers are planning to put a mobile phone in space. The team at Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford want to see if the sophisticated capabilities in today's phones will...
What Is Quora's Biggest Challenge?
Editor's note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, the consumer Internet, and social networks. This is the third and final in a series of articles on Quora (here a...
The Future Of Java
Java's future will be constrained by the bounds of Oracle's business model. — Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. ...
Former Justin.tv VP Launches Yobongo in Private Beta
A little over six weeks out and already everybody's talking about what company will break out at this year's SXSW Interactive. There's been a lot of talk about apps like GroupMe, Beluga and Fast Soci...
BlackBerry program may help RIM defend its turf
(Reuters) - Research In Motion aims to keep its dominance of the corporate smartphone market by enabling the BlackBerry to segregate a user's personal data from work-related emails and other applicati...
T-Mobile: 10% Of Departing Customers Leave For The iPhone
During a presentation to investors in New York on Thursday, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm put an explicit percentage on the so-called iPhone effect: how many T-Mobile subscribers leave every month for AT&...
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakes
For years, antipiracy companies like MediaDefender (read our 2007 profile) have scratched out a living by flooding peer-to-peer file-sharing networks with bad data. While the techniques differ, the g...
Apple loses buzz, Microsoft gains
The net loss in “media value” last quarter, according to a new report, was nearly $460 million — Click to enlarge. Source: General Sentiment — Here's an interesting exercise. Take the total numb...
VMware sales up 37 percent on continued demand
IDG News Service - VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 percent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday. — Revenue for the three months to ...
Tim Cook: Apple's Steve Ballmer?
A visionary founder steps down after leading his company to unprecedented success, and hands the reins to his most trusted lieutenant. That's what happened last week with Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. — ...
Italy sues Microsoft for box-bundling bungling
The Italian consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft over the “Windows Tax” - the near impossibility of an ordinary user getting a refund if they decide to delete Microsoft's software from a new computer ...
Microsoft moves to block TiVo imports with U.S. trade complaint
Microsoft filed a U.S. trade complaint on Monday seeking to block TiVo from importing set-top boxes. — The move follows a legal spat between the two companies that began in January last year.
Intel commits $10bn to buybacks, juices dividend
Happy days are here again — Intel got the technology sector rolling this morning by announcing that it would be shelling out big bags of cash to buy back its own shares from Wall Street. The compan...
NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familar slide
How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That's the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the week...
Huawei Sues Motorola Over Patents Disclosed To Nokia Siemens-Acquired Wireless Network
The drama continues between Chinese company Huawei Technologies and Motorola. The company has filed a lawsuit to prevent Motorola from giving Nokia Siemens (which acquired Motorola's wireless network...
Inside Apple's numbers
On Monday last week we hear Steve Jobs is taking another medical leave of absence and, on Tuesday, we get a look at Apple's numbers for Q1 2011 (which is actually the last quarter of 2010). — Brian ...
In Case of Tech Bubble, Do Not Break Glass
Even if bloated valuations of Facebook and Groupon point to another bubble bound to burst, the Fed shouldn't head it off but prepare for the fallout — In Silicon Valley, it's beginning to feel like ...
Groupon CEO says exploring IPO; no decision
(Reuters) - Daily deals website Groupon is considering an initial public offering and is in talks with bankers, founder and Chief Executive Andrew Mason told Reuters on Monday. — “We've met with a b...
Antitrust bulldog Gary Reback pushes Google probe
In the 1990s, attorney Gary Reback helped goad the Department of Justice into launching the landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. by hauling willing witnesses and damning information befo...
DLD11: Facebook's Dan Rose Talks Platform, Ads And Mark Zuckerberg
Dan Rose, VP of Partnerships and Platform Marketing at Facebook, took the stage at DLD Conference in Munich this morning in a conversation with David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect.