Verizon breaks first day sales record with iPhone 4 pre-orders — in only two hours
in only two hours — It took Verizon only two hours of having the iPhone 4 available for pre-order to break its all-time record for first day sales of a single device. That's in spite of the fact it ...
Apple prepared 2 million Verizon iPhone 4 for preorders, retail [u]
Apple prepared 2 million CDMA iPhone 4 units to deliver to Verizon Wireless and its own retail stores through January, manufacturer reports indicate, suggesting that this year's preorders and launch o...
Speculation of Alliance With Microsoft Lifts Nokia Shares
BERLIN — Shares of Nokia, the mobile phone market leader, climbed for a fourth day on Thursday amid speculation that the company may be poised to announce a software alliance with Microsoft designed t...
iOS 4.3 To Be Released On February 14th At 10 AM PST?
According to several reports surfaced earlier this week, Apple is targeting a release of the next major iOS update, version 4.3, in two weeks. We just got word from a reliable source that iOS 4.3 sho...
Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers
Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and the...
Hotmail delivers aliases to help you manage and secure your email account
Starting today, you can create and manage multiple email aliases from a single Hotmail account. Together with features that we introduced in November that let you use Hotmail with any existing email ...
NBC: Here's Why We Fired The Today Show YouTube Leaker
Yup, NBC did indeed fire the guy who put that 1994 “Today Show” clip up on YouTube. Here's the company's official statement: “The individual in question violated the company's standards of conduct by...
Apple Takes Huge Steps towards a Graphics Pen for iPad
Just yesterday the news broke about HP's new graphics tablet dubbed the Digital Sketch coming to market with a three-button stylus and today you'll read all about Apple's latest research and developme...
Bing: Why Google's Wrong In Its Accusations
Along with everything else going on for Bing's Harry Shum on Tuesday — a panel about search spam, dealing with Google's accusations that Bing “copies” Google's results — Shum dealt with perhaps his mo...
Introducing Nokia Bubbles - A fun and efficient way to unlock your phone and get to what matters
Bubbles is a fun and efficient way to take a shortcut to timely or useful things on your phone. Bubbles appears when you press the “Apps” key while your device is in sleep mode …
China's Tencent acquires majority stake in online game firm Riot Games for nearly $400M
Tencent, China's most valuable internet company, has acquired a majority stake in U.S. online games firm Riot Games for nearly $400 million. — The deal is another validation of the social game busin...
Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth
Indiana Jones, put down your whip. To scour the globe for archaeological sites these days all you need is a desktop computer. — Almost two thousand potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia ha...
Congress Grills Zuckerberg On Plans To Share User Addresses, Cell Numbers
Last month, Facebook told developers they'd be able to get users' current address and mobile-phone numbers. Even though the feature would have required getting explicit permission from users, apparen...
Q&A: Asustek chairman vows ‘secret weapon’ for iPad 2
IDG News Service - The chairman of Asustek Computer, Jonney Shih, noticed the growing thirst for mobile computing early on. When he challenged his engineering teams to design a new, more mobile compu...
Apple's modern success story began with four investments made 10 years ago
Apple executive briefing at first Apple retail store, May 2001. — Ten years ago — that's right, 2001 — Apple made four investments that bore fruit in a 21st-century success story.
Facebook holding Feb. 8 event to discuss new H.Q.
Facebook has sent out an invitation for a Feb. 8 press conference at an address in Menlo Park, Calif. which houses the city's municipal buildings. — Why the location? Facebook said late last year t...
Audi Super Bowl Ad Claims First Use of Twitter Hashtag
Audi is claiming a first in Super Bowl advertising: The inclusion of a Twitter hashtag at the end of its 60-second TV spot. — The hashtag “#ProgressIs” will flash during the automaker's ad in the fi...
Ode to the App Review team
I wasn't always a fan of Apple's requirement that all App Store submissions be reviewed by a fairly opaque process before release, which often led to confusing or unfair rejections. — But over the l...
Best Buy Facebook Says February 24th for Motorola XOOM, HTC Thunderbolt on the 14th
Did the Grand Rapids Best Buy Facebook page just out the Motorola XOOM and HTC Thunderbolt release dates? Maybe. According to a post that just went live on their page, the XOOM will be available on ...
Zuckerberg's Old Best Friend Poaches From Facebook, As Quora Hires A New Product Leader
Quora just poached Facebook product whiz Sandra Liu Huang to lead product development, three sources confirm. — At Facebook, Sandra last worked on the Instant Personalization program …
Egypt: Kenneth Cole's failtweet comes to life in street prank
A real-world prank making fun of Kenneth Cole's ill-timed and tone-deaf tweet. — Coilhouse has the story, and here are photos. Adobe Illustrator, a little font knowledge, a vinyl cutter, and bitter...
Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life
Jeremie Miller is a revered figure among developers, best known for building XMPP, the open source protocol that powers most of the Instant Messaging apps in the world. Now Miller has raised funds an...
In Europe, a Right to Be Forgotten Trumps the Memory of the Internet
Why is it that two sprawling yet similar Western cultures — those on both sides of the Atlantic — respond so differently to Internet privacy? — A quarter-century after coming to the United States, F...
Nokia, Microsoft announcing partnership next week, possibly involving Windows Phone 7?
As Nokia comes up on Capital Markets Day next Friday — an event where the company has historically unveiled interesting things and launched important initiatives — rumors are once again swirling …
How Google removed the muzzle on Twitter in Egypt
Even before his first day on the job at Google, Ujjwal Singh was trying to figure out how to use his passion for the spoken word and the company's technological prowess to help Egyptians bypass govern...
Mexican drug cartel selling counterfeit Microsoft software
A notorious Mexican drug cartel has been selling counterfeit Microsoft software on the streets, a company attorney said today, and has been shoving it in authorities' faces by stamping fake Office 200...
Search Underdog Blekko Sees Over 30M Searches In January, More Than 110K Slashtags Created Since Launch
Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week's revelation that Bing was cribbing Google's notes. — While Microsoft VP Harry Shum …
54% of Verizon's Android, Blackberry users to switch to iPhone, survey says
More than half of Verizon's current Android and Blackberry users indicated they are likely to switch to the iPhone when it arrives on the Verizon network on Feb. 10, according to a new survey.
iPad App Store gets search filters
Apple has updated the iPad's App Store to include a new search filter feature. The new feature allows you to filter application searches by category, release date, customer ratings, price, and by dev...
Over 60% of Apple's first-wave iPad 2 production to be 3G models
The majority of Apple's second-generation iPad models now being built will include either GSM/UMTS or CDMA 3G support, according to checks overseas manufacturers, suggesting the company plans on forgi...
As Egyptians Reconnect, Their Government Will Be Watching
Vodafone provided a helpful reminder Thursday that the political power of technology cuts both ways: The mobile network admitted to complying with Egyptian government requests that it spam out a flood...
Apple enlists new lobbying help
Apple has hired new lobbying help in D.C. this year as high-wattage Beltway battles over taxes, trade, privacy and patent reform begin to reverberate as far as Silicon Valley. — Official lobbying di...
Nokia employs as many people to develop its smartphone software as Apple does to develop all its products
In a recent post I pointed out that Apple's R&D was about 2.2% of sales in the last quarter. Bernstein took a look at the R&D for Nokia and presented a chart showing the difference between …
How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central
Râmnicu Vâlcea has only about 120,000 residents, but among law enforcement experts around the world, it has a nickname: Hackerville. The town is full of online crooks who cruise the streets in expens...
Former Owner of eHow Says Demand Media Model Is Flawed
Demand Media has been getting a lot of attention since its initial public offering, which gave the company a market value of more than $1.5 billion. Much of that attention has been less than favorabl...
Gladwell Still Missing the Point About Social Media and Activism
After weeks of discussion in the blogosphere over whether what happened in Tunisia was a “Twitter revolution,” and whether social media also helped trigger the current anti-government uprising in Egyp...
The Latest Verizon iPhone Commercial Strikes At AT&T: “Yes, I Can Hear You Now.”
We've made note of both the first Verizon-made iPhone commercial and then the first Apple-made Verizon iPhone commercial. Both are effective and interesting in different ways.
Exclusive: HuffPo's Eric Hippeau Stepping Down From Yahoo Board, As Akamai's David Kenny Steps In
Eric Hippeau (pictured here), longtime Yahoo board member and one of its earliest investors, will be stepping down as a director, according to sources close to the situation.
Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Which Will Be Open Sourced)
Yesterday, Twitter analytics lead, Kevin Weil, gave a talk at O'Reilly's Strata 2011, a conference dedicated to big data. The main topic of the talk was Rainbird, Twitter's realtime counting system t...
Cisco to buy digital video firm Inlet for $95 million
(Reuters) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc plans to buy privately-held, digital video technology firm Inlet Technologies for $95 million, continuing to expand beyond its traditional routing...
Facebook Celebrates Birthday And 600 Million Users?
Today is Facebook's seventh birthday, and while we aren't sure what the company will be doing to celebrate, we wouldn't be surprised to see the company announce the 600 million user milestone or perha...
Turning reviews into ratings
The proliferation of websites such as Yelp and CitySearch has made it easy to find local businesses that meet common search criteria — moderately priced seafood restaurants, for example, within a quar...
Online Retail Spending Reaches A Record $43.4B In Q4 2010; Up 11 Percent
Online spending in the fourth quarter of 2010 reached record levels, according to comScore's latest data on retail e-commerce. After a stronger than expected holiday shopping season, online retail sp...
TiVo offers free insight into TV ad effectiveness
If you ever wanted to know how well a particular company's commercial campaigns are performing in the increasingly DVR'd world, TiVo has the solution for you. — The company announced the launch of a...
A Race Between Digital and Print Magazines
This morning I decide to try a little experiment: I opened up my iPad, clicked on the little Wired icon and purchased the magazine's latest digital issue. After I agreed to fork over $4, it began dow...
Apple, Adobe, others join forces in software piracy lawsuit
Apple has partnered with Adobe and other software makers to take on a Web-based vendor accused of selling stolen software via Craigslist and a private website. — Apple and Adobe are joined by Autode...
Boom: Forecast Calls for 180 Million Tablets by 2014
Wow... I know we had shifted into a multi-touch world, but even I had underestimated the growing popularity of tablets. At CES earlier this year, more than a few tablets were on display. Yesterday, ...
Billboards Join Wired Age
Wi-Fi Lets Once-Static Posters Interact With Smartphones and Their Owners — Billboards and posters are one of world's oldest forms of advertising. Now, some marketers and start-ups say wireless tec...