Exclusive: Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept revealed!
Look what we've found! This is the first image you'll see anywhere of the early fruit of Microsoft and Nokia's budding new partnership. We have it on good authority that the technicolor phone on sho...
With 80 Million Users, Pandora Files To Go Public
Music streaming service Pandora has filed to go public. It could end up raising as much as $100 million. According to its S1 SEC form, for the first nine months of 2010 it lost $328,000 on revenues ...
AT&T says thank you to iPhone users with 1000 bonus minutes
AT&T is continuing to say thank you to their iPhone users who are sticking with them. Last week was a 20% off an accessory coupon and this week is a free extra 1000 rollover minutes. Some readers ha...
How to Handle Employee Activism: Google Tiptoes Around Cairo's Hero
As the world marveled this week at the remarkable story of Wael Ghonim, the Google manager who helped organize a popular rebellion in Egypt, a great sigh of relief could be heard rising from much of t...
War looms as Sony hints that it will abandon iTunes
SONY has signalled it may withdraw its artists from Apple's iTunes store and withhold its games from the iPhone in a sign the two companies are on the brink of all-out war. Sony plans to open a compe...
Apple Is Revamping Notification System For iOS [Exclusive]
UPDATE: I sent an email to App Remix's CEO Jonathan George asking whether his company was going to be bought by Apple. His response? “No comment...” he said. — Apple is working on a new notificati...
Wael Ghonim: If You Want To Liberate A Government, Give Them The Internet
By now, you've probably heard the news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, with massive crowds celebrating their new freedom in Cairo's Tahrir Square. I happened to be watching th...
MacBook Air ‘Sandy Bridge’ update expected in June
Apple is targeting a MacBook Air update for this summer that will include a move to Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, CNET has learned. — Initial shipments of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor were snaf...
HP TouchPad planned for June, priced at $699?
One of our sources has just provided us with new information surrounding the launch of the recently unveiled HP TouchPad. It's been communicated to us that HP is (or was — it's not clear if things ha...
Valentines Day Bait & Switch: Groupon Must Avoid Becoming Just Another Useless Coupon Site
I assume that “sale!” signs in retail businesses are usually just BS. The stores keep normal prices higher than they should be so they can offer customers a faux discount.
Samsung 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet to debut at MWC
EXCLUSIVE: Tab two just days away — Pocket-lint sources have confirmed that Samsung will launch a Honeycomb-packing 10.1-inch tablet on Sunday night at the start of Mobile World Congress. — The ne...
Microsoft accuses former manager of stealing 600MB of confidential docs
New motion alleges Matt Miszewski took cloud computing strategic plans when hired by CRM rival Salesforce.com — Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of meg...
Sony to Inspect PlayStation Hacker's Hard Drive
SAN FRANCISCO — PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer's hard drive and retrieve information “that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation,”...
Galaxy S 2, Desire HD2, Desire 2, Wildfire 2 Full Specs Leaked
Even more pre-MWC leaks from Expansys, as the company has now posted full spec sheets on the HTC Desire HD2, Samsung Galaxy S 2, HTC Desire 2, and HTC Wildfire 2. As suspected, the Galaxy S 2 is said...
In A Step Back Towards V3, Digg Ending RSS Submissions For Publishers
In a step back towards the old Digg, Digg Product manager Mike Cieri just sent out an email to partner publishers stating the intent to remove the RSS submitted stories feature. For those of you that...
Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
GLOBAL - Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem.
UberMedia, Indeed. Bill Gross' Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck
The number of companies in the Twitter ecosystem keeps contracting. But not for a necessarily bad reason, but because they keep getting purchased. And what's crazy is that it's largely one person wh...
Froth or famine?
Let's be serious - EVERYBODY is wondering if there is another shoe to drop in the Great Internet Gold Rush of 2011. $6 billion for Groupon? Nah, too low. Something between $8-$10 billion for Twitter...
Samsung 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet to debut at MWC
EXCLUSIVE: Tab two just days away — Pocket-lint sources have confirmed that Samsung will launch a Honeycomb-packing 10.1-inch tablet on Sunday night at the start of Mobile World Congress. — The ne...
Twitter Tells Advertisers To Dig Deeper: “Promoted Trends” Get a Price Hike
Twitter's “promoted trends” ads may be the company's most consistent source of revenue. Now the company wants to wring more money out of them: It has told buyers to expect a significant price bump fo...
Wael Ghonim: I'll go back to Google if I'm not fired
Katie Couric spoke with Wael Ghonim, Google's Middle East and North Africa marketing manager, on whether or not he feels Google will rehire him after his role in sparking Egypt's uprising. Here's the...
Apple doubling orders for ‘hot-selling’ Macbook models, suppliers say
Apple's Asian manufacturing partners have seen orders for popular Macbook models as much as double, while shipments of notebooks to other brand-name vendors have failed to meet expectations, a new rep...
Common charger ready, but Apple stays mum on adapter
A sample of the new common mobile phone charger for Europe has been ceremonially handed over to European industry commissioner Antonio Tajani, ahead of a continent-wide roll-out this year. — The cha...