An Open Letter to Apple
Dear Apple: It's your friends from Readability. Remember us? You put our technology into your Safari browser last year. We're writing this open letter because - well - we're a little upset right no...
Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO — Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started postin...
Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of Its Business
Kno-the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students-is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks …
PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend
Famed rapper and PS3 hacker Geohot asked for donations on Friday to fund his defense against Sony and got all he needed by Monday. — Geohot, aka George Hotz, firmly believes that he has done nothing...
Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011
Every year about this time, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, holds an intimate gathering to discuss the company's vision for the future: just Craig, a handful of Microsof...
DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding
European streaming music startup Spotify is in the process of closing a very large financing, say multiple sources. DST, the venture firm that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is said to be le...
Facebook chat in Hotmail now available everywhere
Today, Facebook chat is available to Hotmail customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. — When we first announced the ability to chat with Facebook friends from Hotmail, we were only able ...
Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support on February 24th, expects it in ‘Spring 2011’?
Verizon's webpage dedicated to the Xoom has just gone up and one of our eagle-eyed readers has already spotted a disquieting bit of small print: “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011.”
iPad 2 incoming: iPad sold out/on sale at some European retailers
The second-generation iPad is approaching and will most likely hit sometime next month. Usually, a good hint at an upcoming refresh for an Apple product is when the respective item becomes sold out o...
Adobe: Flash Coming To Android Tablets “Within A Few Weeks”
Earlier today there was quite a bit of commotion in the tech press over a Verizon ad that stated that Flash wouldn't be making its way to Android tablets until Spring 2011. Which has the potential to...
BGR: New MacBooks will have bigger Trackpad, OS on SSD, half pound lighter
Some interesting MacBook Pro possibilities coming out of BGR this afternoon. Here are the Cliff's Notes: — The trackpads will be bigger than before. Looking down at my MacBook Pro, I'm not sure tha...
Alibaba Says CEO Wei Quits After Probe Finds Fraud Committed by Suppliers
Alibaba.com Ltd., operator of China's biggest electronic-commerce website, said Chief Executive Officer David Wei resigned after a company probe found more than 2,000 subscribers engaged in fraudulent...
China's Huawei ‘in London Underground phones bid’
LONDON — Chinese technology giant Huawei is offering to install for free a mobile phone network worth £50 million on the London Underground train system in time for the 2012 Olympics, a report said Su...
Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore
I've realized recently that I'm just not very excited about tablets—anybody's tablets, no matter the OS or maker. I first realized I felt this way when I was only mildly disappointed (as opposed to h...
HP to start selling WebOS 3.0-based TouchPad in April
First-tier notebook brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to start selling its WebOS 3.0-based tablet PC, TouchPad in April with shipments to start delivery by the end of March, according to source...
Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit
In May last year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt. — The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site's ...
SSDs prove difficult to securely erase
At this week's Usenix FAST 11 conference on File and Storage Technologies in San Jose, California researchers published a paper examining the effectiveness of different secure erasure methodologies on...
Intel lists new Sandy Bridge mobile chips
Intel has updated its price list with new dual-core Sandy Bridge chips—some likely bound for Apple MacBooks and just about every PC vendor on the planet. — On top of the bevy of Core i5 and Core i7 ...
After iPad's Head Start, Rival Tablets Are Poised to Flood Offices
SAN FRANCISCO — The billboards promoting the iPad have a simple message: The tablet is a device for leisure, to be held on one's lap while lounging on a couch in casual clothes, to watch a film or rea...
Microsoft starts rolling out a pre-'NoDo' update for Windows Phone 7
On February 21, Microsoft officials told Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users that the company had started rolling out the first update for Windows Phone 7. — Before you copy-and-paste-happy WP7 fans begin s...
Apple iOS dominates Euro smartphone usage
Europeans far less keen on Android than Americans are — How have the great mobile operating systems been faring in the UK and Europe over the past year? Mobile internet access gives us a picture. ...
What Got Buzz at Mobile World Congress?
Now that Mobile World Congress has wrapped, a number of digital analytics firms have parsed the data on social networks and blogs to determine which smartphones, tablets, operating systems and brands ...
Is The First Official Chrome OS Device A Monitor Or All-In-One PC? Nope.
Earlier today we received a tip to check out the blog Chrome OS Site for the details on the first official Chrome OS device. Obviously intrigued, I clicked through. There, I read about not a noteboo...