Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service …
Facebook's next big media move: Comments
Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine ...
Android Tablets Gain on IPad in Fourth Quarter, Researcher Says
Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android boosted its share of tablet computers almost tenfold in the fourth quarter, narrowing the lead of Apple Inc.'s iPad, market researcher Strategy Analytics sa...
A refresh to the Documents List
Over the past year, many of you have been taking advantage of the ability to upload any file to Google Docs. With more files and of a variety of file types in one place, it becomes more difficult to ...
Now Microsoft confirms Yahoo! as the data leak culprit
Microsoft this evening belatedly admitted that Yahoo! Mail was in fact the data leak culprit in Windows Phone, just hours after Rafael had already proven that to be the problem. Here's the note from ...
Plentyoffish Hacked.
This is not a statement from Plentyoffish, i'll post something in the morning. This is a personal post about what it feels like to be hacked /extorted and the intense pressure and stress you are put ...
Closed Apple headed for trouble as Jobs's ego bites: Netgear CEO
The global chairman and CEO of home networking giant Netgear has launched into a scathing attack on Apple and its founder Steve Jobs, criticising Jobs's “ego” and Apple's closed up products.
Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP
We're hearing reports on Twitter that the coverage of Noor Group's DSL service, Egypt's last standing ISP which powers the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as sites of major brands like Coca Cola and E...
Google's Android becomes the world's leading smart phone platform
Canalys reveals smart phone market exceeded 100 million units in Q4 2010 Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Monday, 31 January 2011 Canalys today published its final Q4 2010 global country-level ...
Apple's 4% mobile market share rakes in over half the industry's profit
With just 4.2 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple's iPhone accounts for a massive 51 percent of the total profits, a new report claims. — Apple continues to dominate the market when pro...
Intel's billion-dollar mistake: Why chip flaws are so hard to fix
Chips are the brains of everything electronic. And like anything generated by software programs and high-tech factories, they can have flaws. Intel learned this the hard way today as it announced th...
4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World
Canvas launches today for 4,000 or so lucky souls. — Seven year old 4chan, created by now-23 year old Christopher Poole, continues to delight and enrage the Internet. Major Internet memes were eith...
AT&T overbilling on iPhone, iPad accounts [u]
(Updated with AT&T response) AT&T is “systematically” overbilling iPhone and iPad users for data, a new federal class action lawsuit argues. “AT&T's bills systematically overstate the amount of data ...
Blame me: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Mozy, the online backup service provider and EMC subsidiary, plans to announce today that it's dumping its subscription permitting customers to store unlimited data. — The reason is not hard to gues...
iTunes films bust copyright laws
Russian films are being made available through Apple's iTunes service without the consent of the copyright holders, the BBC has learned. — The popular films, dating from the Soviet era, are being ma...
Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship
Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer. — During last week's State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the Nation to out-e...
Apple changes its stance on water damage to iOS devices
As reported by igeneration.fr, Apple has amended its stance on water damage to iPods. As you can see below, Apple will allow some leeway in water damage, even if the red indicator has been triggered,...
L006: Angels Respond—Anonymously— to Yuri & Ron's All-in: $150K to 43 YCers
Anonymously— to Yuri & Ron's All-in: $150K to 43 YCers — L006.1: Angels Respond—Anonymously— to Yuri & Ron's All-in: $150K to 43 YCers — L006.2: Launch Conference: Feb 23/24, SF. 40 startups launch...
IBM's Office Suite Moves to the Cloud
I BM is getting into the cloud-based office productivity suite market, with the announcement of LotusLive Symphony, a product that offers users the ability to simultaneously collaborate on documents....
Facebook Spent $130,000 on Lobbying in Fourth Quarter, Up Threefold From Year Earlier
Facebook spent $130,000 on lobbying legislators and federal agencies in the fourth quarter of last year, according to disclosures. That's three times as much as it did during the same time a year ear...
The mistakes I made in Quora
So, I woke up early in Davos, Switzerland, excited to go skiing, and look at Techmeme and see that the Quora Reviewer has written a post which could be titled “Scoble stay off the Quora lawn.” — Ouc...
The rise of the notbook, the fall of the netbook
The Smartphone Wars: AT&T CEO reveals all
Well, well, well. A hot-off-the-press AP article, “AT&T CEO: We'll push Android phones”, finally sheds light on the vexing question of why AT&T let Apple out of its exclusive a year early. It's just...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt searches for book deal
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who will be stepping down from the top job in April, will soon find out where his next check is coming from: New York publishers are bidding on the wonkish busines...
Intel finds flaw in 6-series chipsets, halts shipments
As phenomenal as Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors turned out to be, nothing in this world is truly perfect. Intel announced earlier this morning that it has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chips...
Samsung Galaxy Tab Sales Actually ‘Quite Small’
Technology News and Insights — Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab, the company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPad, isn't selling as well as the company has let on. — In early December, Samsung announ...
Speculation on the next MacBook Pro
Given how awesome the new MacBook Air is, I'm interested to see what Apple does with the other laptops in the lineup. — I've had three 13" laptops (including the first-generation and current-generat...
Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. — But another number has proved to be an intr...
First look: Honeycomb APIs power tablet-friendly Android apps
Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, introduces a completely new user interface suitable for tablet devices. Google has also extended the platform's APIs so that third-party developers can make their ap...
Exclusive: KIT digital Acquires KickApps, Kewego AND Kyte For $77.2 Million
TechCrunch exclusive - If you'd never heard about KIT digital before, you will after today. — The provider of cloud-based video asset management solutions has acquired not one, not two but three soc...
At Flickr, Fending Off Rumors and Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO — Speculation in technology circles that Yahoo might close or sell Flickr, its photo-sharing service, prompted an emphatic denial this month. — “Is Yahoo committed to Flickr?” Blake I...
As MySpace Implodes, Tagged Doubles Staff And Gives Everyone A Raise
I recently over heard someone saying of MySpace - “It used to be dirty, underground, seedy and successful. Now it's prom at a private school.” The company is struggling to reinvent itself. But traf...
IntoNow: It's Like Shazam Plus Foursquare for TV
IntoNow, a new iOS app launching today, identifies television programs by just hearing snippets from them. It's similar to the Shazam mobile app that many people know and love, which IDs an ambient s...