Desktop notifications for emails and chat messages
Many of us are guilty of constantly switching back to Gmail to check for new messages. And if you're like me, you've probably missed an important chat message because you weren't looking at your Gmai...
A Continued Commitment to Security
This Friday is Data Privacy Day, an international effort by governments, businesses and advocacy groups to raise awareness about the importance of staying in control of personal information. A key pa...
Android 3.0 Platform Preview and Updated SDK Tools
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is a new version of the Android platform that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. It introduces a new “holographic” UI t...
Verizon iPhone Listings Go Live on Apple's Site [Update: Removed]
With the Apple online store's downtime last night, the company appears to have rolled out full details of the options available for Verizon iPhone customers. With both 16 GB ($199) and 32 GB ($299) m...
Exclusive: BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphones to run Android apps?
As crazy as that sounds, we have been told by multiple trusted sources that RIM is seriously considering a feature that will allow BlackBerry devices to run Android apps. Here is what we know... Rese...
Apple's ‘PC’ shipments grow by 241 percent in iPad-inclusive Canalys stats
Canalys is a pretty well respected global stat-keeper and now it seems to be relying on that reputation to push through a pretty controversial message: tablets, such as Apple's iPad and Samsung's Gala...
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone) preview
Oh yes. After all the unbearable teasing since we unveiled the first ever photos of the PlayStation Phone, we've finally managed to get hold of the real deal for an in-depth preview. Honestly, we co...
Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! . — The entertainment industries' quest to root out piracy on the Internet has yet again resulted in commercial censorship. A few weeks ago Google annou...
MacBook Pro Supplies Tightening Ahead of Potential Refresh
MacRumors has heard from several sources that supplies of Apple's existing MacBook Pro models, particularly the 15" and 17" sizes, are beginning to run low in Apple stores and at third-party retailers...
Netflix Adds 7.7 Million Subscribers in 2010 to Pass 20 Million
Netflix is announcing its Q4 2010 earnings (pdf) today and one of the big stories, as you might expect, is the company's explosive growth. According to the letter the company issued to its shareholde...
Retiring real estate on Google Maps
At Google one of our key philosophies is to take risks and to experiment. To that end, in July 2009 we announced the ability to find property for sale or rent directly on Google Maps. This is one of...
Exclusive: Elevation's Bodnick is headed to Quora
Marc Bodnick is stepping down as a co-founding partner of private equity firm Elevation Partners, in order to join social question-and-answer site Quora, according to multiple sources familiar with th...
Apple revamps its public website using HTML5
Apple has relaunched its entire website with a new design using HTML5, adding a darker, glossy navigation bar and speedy new animated page layouts for Mac and iPod pages. — The redesign officially u...
Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future
You don't have to look very far to realize that technology is becoming more natural and intuitive. In a typical day, many people use touch or speech to interact with technology—on their phones, at th...
7 digital trends at Davos 2011 [World Economic Forum talk]
It's my 9th Davos in a row and I am lucky to be invited to speak twice this year, I'm giving a talk on future trends “digital convergence” in David Kirkpatrick's session and I moderate my own dinner o...
Facebook Brings Back (Part of) Beacon, and No One Blinks
In 2007, Facebook unveiled a plan to let brands turn Facebook users' online activities into ads. Cue uproar, and an eventual apology from Mark Zuckerberg. — Yesterday Facebook unveiled a plan to le...
After Blocking Twitter, Egypt Reportedly Starts Restricting Access To Facebook
According to a number of tips we've received in the past few minutes, the chatter on Twitter and several local reports (mostly in Arabic), it appears Egyptian authories have moved to block Facebook. ...
Microsoft Shipped 2 Million Units of Windows Phone 7 Software Last Quarter
Microsoft Corp. said it shipped more than 2 million copies of the Windows Phone 7 operating system last quarter, as the company tried to reverse sliding smartphone market share. — Customer satisfact...
Twitter Launches ‘Connections,’ Its Own Version Of Facebook's ‘Mutual Friends’
Twitter has collapsed its “Followed By” and “You Both Follow” features into one area called “Connections” which allows you to see what users you have in common with other Twitter users.
Good Technology Q4 2010 mobile device report shows huge iPad growth in the enterprise
Back in October the enterprise mobile integration company Good Technology released its first quarterly metrics report covering device activations and overall trends; the report showed extremely strong...
Kevin Rose: Yahoo Contacted Digg To See If We Wanted To Take Over Delicious
It looks like Yahoo has been looking for a home for Delicious for some time now. On his Diggnation web show this week, Digg founder Kevin Rose said that Yahoo contacted Digg to see if the company wou...
Motorola feels pressure from Verizon iPhone
Motorola is bracing itself for a slowdown in smartphone sales in the first quarter as the Apple iPhone goes to Verizon Wireless. — During the fourth quarter conference call with analysts and investo...
FCC Appoints Google As ‘White Space’ Administrator
Google CEO Larry Page has been a vocal advocate of white spaces — The Federal Communications Commission just moved Google a lot closer to its longtime vision of “free airwaves.” On Wednesday, the F...
Skype Won't IPO Until Second Half This Year
Internet-phone company Skype Ltd. won't hold its initial public offering until the second half of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, later than some investors had expected. — Th...
LG G-Slate, Dell Streak 7, Vibrant 4G Release Dates Confirmed
So this is the very first look we've had at the LG G-Slate release date which looks to be dropping on March 23rd, a date which jives with our late March info from before. Not to be outdone is the Del...
A year later, Microsoft picture looks very different
(Reuters) - A year ago, Microsoft Corp blew away Wall Street's earnings forecasts with blistering sales of its new Windows 7 operating system and trumpeted optimism about the recovery in tech spending...
HTML5 Games 0.1: Speedy Sprites
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. — Aldous Huxley, 1949 — Bruce Rogers and I graduated from Facebook's Engineering Bootcamp in January and began researching how HT...
Kongregate Arcade back in Android Marketplace, with some minor changes
Exactly one week after Kongregate's promising mobile app, Kongregate Arcade, made its tumultuous debut on the Android Marketplace (from which it was pulled from the very same day!) the browser-based g...
What's on the Table for Tablets This Year [Personal Technology]
Lots of consumers are planning to buy tablet computers this year, and lots of companies are hoping to sell them. Apple managed to sell around 15 million of its ground-breaking iPads last year in only...
Jeopardy, IBM, and Wolfram|Alpha
About a month before Wolfram|Alpha launched, I was on the phone with a group from IBM, talking about our vision for computable knowledge in Wolfram|Alpha. A few weeks later, the group announced that ...
Facebook Experimenting With Voice Calling
Last September, news broke that Facebook and VoIP service Skype were about to announce a “deep integration partnership” that would bring integration of SMS and voice chat. A couple weeks later, we go...
“Let The Hacking Begin” Declares Person Who Hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page
Earlier today, a strange message appeared on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fan page. It read as follows: … Who wrote such an odd and seemingly drunken message? Well, if you believe the page, Zucker...
Twitter Tests Self-Serve Ad Platform
Twitter has begun testing a self-serve ad platform with advertisers and agencies it plans to roll out in the first half of this year, and MediaPost got a glimpse. — Clix Marketing Founder David Szet...
Apple supports China Mobile's TD-LTE tech -report
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) fully supports China Mobile's next generation TD-LTE technology and talks are ongoing over a possible iPhone tie up with the carrier, China Mobile's chairman was quoted as saying. ...
New ‘iPad is iconic’ ad touts 60,000 apps
Apple has begun showing a new commercial that highlights a growing number of iPad-specific apps, now pushing past 60,000 titles. — The spot, “iPad is iconic,” highlights such apps as the “fresh” dja...
The future of app stores
App stores, pioneered by Apple, aim to provide ease of payments and discoverability to developers and consumers. However, — do they offer unique advantages that no other payment or discoverability s...
Building Better Social Graphs (continued)
I've been thinking for a while now that there will not be one social graph to rule them all (Facebook) but that we will eventually have a multitude of web/mobile services in our lives, each with a soc...
FCC poised to give LightSquared's satellite broadband venture a boost
With a wave of new smartphones and tablet computers threatening to overwhelm wireless networks, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to take another aggressive step to ease the growing c...
O2 launches free Wi-Fi service
Mobile operator O2 to offer free public internet hotspots across the UK, even to non-customers — O2 launches its free nationwide Wi-Fi broadband network today, pitting the UK's largest mobile operat...
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Application Store Revenue Forecast to Surpass $15 Billion in 2011
Revenue Between 2010 and 2014 is Forecast to Grow 1,000 Percent to Reach $58 Billion — Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011 …
Google leases office complex in Venice
The Internet search giant will take over more than 100,000 square feet in three buildings, including one designed by Frank Gehry. Its lease coincides with an announcement that it would hire more than...
Kindle Singles—Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length—Now Available in the Kindle Store
Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length—Now Available in the Kindle Store — Launch of Kindle Singles includes never before released content from popular writers such as Ian Ayres and Jodi ...
Egypt.com: Is It Time to Invest in Egyptian Start-ups?
“We will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries. And I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties...
Interview: Marco Arment
On my list of horrendously bungled acquisitions, I put Delicious near the top. Since its acquisition by Yahoo in 2005, the biggest user-facing change to the site was a visual refresh in 2008. Even w...