Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google's results, then uses that information to improve Bing's ...
Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is further tightening its control of the App Store. — The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, wit...
Apple on Sony Reader: “We Have Not Changed Our Guidelines”
Check in with Google Latitude
We first introduced Google Latitude to help you stay in touch with your friends and family by making it easy to share where you are. For the 10 million people actively using Latitude each month, this...
Check in with Google Latitude
We first introduced Google Latitude to help you stay in touch with your friends and family by making it easy to share where you are. For the 10 million people actively using Latitude each month, this...
Paul Graham's Dilemma
I have to make sure I don't take 4 months off from blogging again. Having re-read this for editing, I had a lot to say, but more importantly, I enjoyed the mental exercise it put me through. — I am...
LEAKED: AOL's Master Plan
Two years into his tenure as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong is stepping on the gas.By April, he wants AOL editorial to increase its stories per day from 2,000 to 15,000.He wants pageviews per story to jump fr...
Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times' Answer To The Daily
Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the launch of News Corp's iPad newspaper The Daily, but huddled away in a downtown loft in New York City's meatpacking district a team from betaworks and the New York Tim...
Buyer's Remorse: 16 Percent of Galaxy Tabs Are Returned
No wonder sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab to date have haven't been what the company expected. Not only are consumers buying fewer of them than previously thought-they're also returning them more frequ...
Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos and Can't Get Them Back
Major, major stumble from Flickr today—a Zurich-based photoblogger says Flickr deleted his account by mistake and lost his 4,000 photos. — Mirco Wilhelm has the original files saved elsewhere …
Exclusive: Google's Android Design Expert Outlines the Vision Behind Honeycomb
Although the immediate focus of Honeycomb was to get Android ready for tablets, the operating system is really designed to enable Google's software to power all manner of mobile devices.
Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project
One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality. That's what happened with the Art Project—a ...
Airlines offer free in-flight Facebook
Starting today, seven major airlines are giving away the social network on their Wi-Fi networks all month, just as they would soft drinks and peanuts. It's part of a promotion with Gogo Inflight Inte...
Announcing Google Shopper for iPhone
(Cross-posted on the Google Merchant Blog) — As we announced last November, millions of people have downloaded Google Shopper for Android to help them shop on the go. Today, we're excited to let yo...
Netgear CEO Patrick Lo apologizes via email for misspeaking
A lot of people were pretty disappointed this morning when they read the words that came out of the Netgear CEO's mouth. We ran an article today that highlighted words spoken by Patrick Lo (link) tha...
Mobile Data Explosion: 75 Exabytes by 2015
Worldwide mobile data traffic is due to increase 26-fold to 75 exabytes annually, says networking giant Cisco in its latest report, the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecas...
The Geek-Kings of Smut
After once being the best thing that ever happened to porn, the Internet is now wreaking havoc: destroying some fortunes, making bigger ones, and serving as a stimulus plan, in more ways than one. — ...
What's the Internet? - Hilarious Video of NBC's The Today Show in 1994
The Today Show cast asks, “What's the Internet?” — Let me take you back seventeen years - Ace of Base was on the radio, Mrs. Doubtfire was dominating the box office, and The Today Show's Katie Couri...
Azure now has 31,000 customers
Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure is a year old today, and Microsoft says it now has 31,000 customers. The new number is a 55 percent increase from the 20,000 customers Microsoft said Azure ...
First Impressions Matter! 26% of Apps Downloaded in 2010 Were Used Just Once
The market for phone and tablet apps is very competitive, with about 400,000 iPhone/iPad apps and 200,000 Android apps. The good news is that customers seem very willing to give new apps a try …
Facebook Begins Listing Deals On The Site
Want to know what all the Deals are in your area? Facebook is listing some of them in geographic regions via a new deals overview page. — While not a comprehensive listing of all deals, it's defini...
Waiting for the Big Fish? The Next Web IPOs Might Surprise You
No, not Facebook. — Not Zynga. — And probably not Groupon. — At least not yet, when it comes to the blockbuster Web IPOs that Wall Street and investors have been waiting for, and now expecting t...
Massive Loophole Enables Squatting in Google Apps for Domains System
Google Apps has a fundamental flaw in the way it creates accounts. Anyone can squat on a domain without proof of ownership. I found this out yesterday when I attempted to go through the process of s...
U.S. Resume Controversial File-Sharing Domain Seizures (Updated)
Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! . — Rojadirecta is known as one of the world's major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The site links to broadcasts of many popular soccer matches plus...
Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution
The company instead will focus on Apache's version of the distributed computing platform — Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the...
Windows Mobile outsells Windows Phone 7 in Q4 2010
In the latest report from the NDP group, which proclaimed Android the world's leading smartphone platform, some more light was shed on Microsoft's current standing. — Although Windows Phone 7 didn't...
It's a photo finish: Android, BlackBerry and iOS are tied in US smartphone share
Which smartphone operating system truly leads the US market. According to Nielsen, none of them. Says Don Kellogg, Nielsen's Telecom Practice Research and Insights senior manager, it's a “three-way ...
Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures Lead $8.5 Million Round For Path
San Francisco-based Path, a mobile social network, has raised a Series A Round of funding. The $8.5 million round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures. New investor Digital...
Rupert Murdoch Gives Guests a Sneak Peek of Tomorrow's “Daily” Tonight. Here's What They'll See.
The Daily makes its official debut tomorrow morning, at a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum. — But a select crowd will get to see the iPad newspaper tonight …
IPv4 addresses to run out Thursday
ICANN will announce the final depletion of its pool of IPv4 addresses this Thursday. — The Number Resource Organization will hold a “ceremony and press conference to make a significant announcement ...
YouTube uses Amazon's recommendation algorithm
In a paper at the recent RecSys 2010 conference, “The YouTube Video Recommendation System” (ACM), eleven Googlers describe the system behind YouTube's recommendations and personalization in detail. —...
Comcast, Time Warner Activate TV Everywhere
It's been approximately 18 months since Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) first talked up TV Everywhere, but their authentication strategy has finally come to pass: a multi-year commit...
Does Facebook need a pet (Android robot, Twitter bird, etc) to improve its corporate image?
Answer (1 of 3): True story: in the very early days of Facebook, Sean Parker wanted to make Facebook's mascot a hedgehog. We had early plans to build a local business program around each college on t...
HTC Inspire 4G hits AT&T on February 13th, does HSPA+ for $99.99
AT&T subscribers, it's time to finally get a taste of Android on HSPA+. Well, almost. On February 13th the HTC Inspire 4G will release, bringing not-quite-4G speeds and Android 2.2 for a quite affor...
Web Video Doubter Mark Cuban Invests in Web Video Studio Revision3
Mark Cuban, Web video skeptic? Meet Mark Cuban, Web video investor. — The voluble entrepreneur and investor, who made his fortune off Web video during the first Internet boom, is dabbling in it aga...
Nick Denton on Gawker Redesign: Only Facebook Matters
Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9 and Jalopnik. — Interestingly, the Gawker redesign has stripped out Twitter and Stumble Upon—which used to sit next to ea...
Nielsen: Android, Apple And RIM Are In A Three-Way Tie In The U.S.
Some stats released today on smartphones that, for a change, don't concern the number of devices shipped: Nielsen says 31 percent of U.S. consumers now have a smartphone, but penetration is significan...
Exclusive: LivingSocial Adding Real-Time Discounts Soon to Mobile Apps
Over the next couple of weeks, LivingSocial tells us, it will be adding real-time discounts to its mobile applications to enable consumers to search for discounts at nearby restaurants on the fly.