13-Inch MacBook Pro Specs, Photos, Light Peak Known As Thunderbolt? [Confirmed]
Fscklog posts a photo of what is believed to be from the box of the new 13" MacBook Pro that Apple is planning to release on Thursday. Amongst the features, the name of Apple's Light Peak implementat...
Apple announces iPad 2 event for March 2
Apple on Wednesday sent an invitation to media inviting them to a special event on March 2 in San Francisco, Calif. — According to the invitation received by The Loop, the event will be held at the ...
How I Indexed The Daily
For the last three weeks, I've indexed The Daily. Now that my free trial's up, I've had an intimate look at what they have to offer and, sad to say, I don't plan on subscribing. As a result, I'm end...
Apple Investors Pass Measure for Bigger Say in Board Vote
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. investors, gathered today at an annual meeting, passed a measure that gives them more say over which directors get elected, while rejecting another that would force ma...
Motorola's Xoom Starts Tablet Wars With iPad
After months of speculation, the tablet wars begin in earnest this week. Motorola is releasing its Xoom tablet on Feb. 24, and I consider it the first truly comparable competitor to Apple's hit iPad....
Why Amazon Isn't Worried About Apple's In-App Purchasing Rules
With Apple's recent changes to the rules for In-App Purchasing, a lot of people have been wondering how this might affect the Kindle app for iOS. If you're currently using the Kindle app on the iPhon...
Chrome OS To Get HW Acceleration, Mac/Linux/ Windows Support
Google's Chrome OS team is rethinking the Chrome OS windowing approach and is developing a multi-window interface for Chrome OS as well as hardware acceleration to support new visual effects and pixel...
The end of the IT department
When people talk about their IT departments, they always talk about the things they're not allowed to do, the applications they can't run, and the long time it takes to get anything done. Rigid and i...
Crush-Stalking App Breakup Notifier Amasses Over 3.6M Users, Is Shut Down By Facebook
Just Monday we were writing about Breakup Notifier, a Facebook app that raked in more than 100,000 users in less than 24 hours and as of 5 hours ago had a more than modest 3,673,484 users in its datab...
SEC Decides It Might Be a Good Idea to Investigate How Facebook and Twitter Are Trading Shares
We're not sure what exactly prompted the SEC toward investigating secondary markets, which allow private companies like Facebook and Twitter to buy and sell shares without revealing any significant fi...
MP3.com founder launches DAR.fm, a DVR for the radio
Michael Robertson, who already participated in one reinvention of the music business by founding MP3.com, is launching a new way to listen to talk radio and music. — His startup is called DAR.fm (DA...
Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics
Google Inc. has penalized Overstock.com Inc. in its search results after the retailer ran afoul of Google policies that prohibit companies from artificially boosting their ranking in the Internet gian...
An Apple Patent Gives us a Peek at Photo Booth for iOS Devices +
On January 12, 2011, BGR reported that a source had revealed to them that Apple's Photo Booth was coming to the iPad. The very next day 9 to 5 Mac added to this news by stating that they had discover...
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7: When bad things happen to good phones
Windows Phone 7 devices began shipping last October to largely positive reviews. I had a chance to check one out and saw enough to like that I seriously considered making WP7 my first smartphone — an...
Judge: Ex-Microsoft GM can't work in his new Salesforce job
A former Microsoft general manager's new job as a senior vice president at Salesforce.com “appears to be a direct violation of his non-compete agreement” with the Redmond company, a King County Superi...
Southwest Airlines partners with Apple's iTunes
Southwest Airlines partners with Apple's iTunes — Southwest Airlines may not have video screens built into the backs of its airplane seats, but that doesn't mean the carrier can't offer its passenge...
Sprint renames the HTC 7 Pro the Arrive, launching it tomorrow
Punch sprint.com/arrive into your address bar and the above is what you shall find. Not a generic error marker but a URL-specific “coming soon” message that would seem to confirm the existence and in...
Hipmunk for iPhone
tl;dr Hipmunk has an iPhone app and building it was a lot of fun. — It started with me bored and pissed off. Pissed that so much of the world just didn't care about doing things well. As therapy, ...
Is Zynga The Most Profitable Company Ever?
Zynga's made a $400 million profit on $850 million revenues in 2010, reports the WSJ. — If that's true, that's an astounding 47% profit margin. — 47%! — By way of comparison, Google's profit mar...
Apple's N.C. Data Center Intended for iTunes, MobileMe
Apple's finally getting ready to light up its North Carolina data center. Asked about the facility during the company's shareholder meeting today, COO Tim Cook said it's on track to open this spring,...
5 assumptions about social search
As any comp sci major knows, data is nothing more than a pile of facts. It takes meaning to turn data into useful, meaningful, actionable information. — And applying meaning to a pile of data is ex...
Scvngr finds 1 million users willing to complete location challenges
Scvngr, the maker of a check-in app that asks users to complete activity challenges, is defying the conventional wisdom that services which broadcast one's location to friends aren't ready for the mai...
Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does
It's amazing. Given the importance that Microsoft's smartphone platform should have—not to mention the uphill struggle it faces against the iPhone and Android juggernauts—one would have thought that ...
Apple reduces iPad 2 mass production volume target
Amid rumors that Apple is making adjustments in its iPad 2 design and is also facing issues over the device's touch panel yields, sources from upstream component makers pointed out that the announceme...
Exclusive: Apple Halves Minimum iAd Buy
Apple set the bar high for its debut in the mobile advertising business, demanding a minimum spend of $1 million from advertisers looking to hawk their wares from its iAd platform. — It was a daunti...
More answers about our first software update
It's been roughly 48 hours since we hit the send button on our first Windows Phone software update. The rooms around me are buzzing with folks monitoring the rollout, sifting carefully through incomi...
New Final Cut Pro Is Real, And It's Spectacular (And It's Expected Spring 2011)
Because it seems like it's Apple rumor day I'd thought I'd throw my (very small) hat in the ring. More than a year has passed since Final Cut Pro's last release and we've seen two reported Steve Jobs...
The Daily's Apple-Only Days Are Numbered: Android Coming This Spring
Rupert Murdoch leaned heavily on Apple to launch the Daily, and for now the iPad is the only place you can read News Corp.'s new digital newspaper. — But that exclusivity will end in a few months …
A good demonstration of Light Peak/Thunderbolt
What I don't immediately understand is how this is going to work with my current MacBook Pro/monitor setup. It would seem that if I got a new MBP and a Thunderbolt external hard drive that the hard d...
HP's new business laptops offer up to 32 hours of battery
Hewlett-Packard is announcing today a new family of laptops for business users with new industrial designs and one very interesting feature: a battery life of up to 32 hours. — The battery life numb...
How My Smart Phone Got Me Out Of A Speeding Ticket In Traffic Court
Last year a traffic cop pulled me over while driving home and handed me a speeding ticket. Although nervous and somewhat startled since it was my first time getting caught, I ended up walking out of ...
Cisco Pulls Plug on Web Email
Cisco Systems is pulling the plug on its Web-based email service for businesses a little over a year after the networking giant first introduced the product in November 2009, the company announced in ...
What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB
From the various conversations I have on a daily basis, we have entered that strange part of the Silicon Valley cycle where entrepreneurs are starting to conflate huge amounts of investment dollars wi...
Q&A Site StackOverflow Launches Careers 2.0 To Get Its Hacker Community Hired
StackOverflow co-founder Joel Spolsky knows his audience. The Q&A site popular with programmers is today launching its Careers 2.0 effort at careers.stackoverflow.com, unveiling a complete revamp of ...
Apple Board Challenged by Investors on Jobs Succession Planning
Apple Inc.'s board faces a showdown with investor groups today over its succession plan for Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, who is on medical leave for the third time in the past seven years.
Google Details Chrome's Background Feature: Run Web Apps Without Seeing Them
Google has been on a mission lately to outline some of the cooler, newer features coming to Chrome on their Chromium Blog. Today brings one of the biggest yet: Background Apps.
B&N: Nook has 25 percent of U.S. e-book market
In reporting its earnings for the third quarter that ended on Jan. 29, Barnes & Noble's had some good and bad news. — First the bad: the company's profits were down 25 percent from the previous quar...
Home Internet May Get Even Faster in South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea already claims the world's fastest Internet connections — the fastest globally by far — but that is hardly good enough for the government here. — By the end of 2012,...
Apple's new subscription policy could cost Amazon $80-$160 million per year
That, says a team of Merrill Lynch analysts, is the hit it would take in Kindle book sales — The button circled at right on Amazon's (AMZN) popular Kindle app for the iPhone will have to be removed ...
CHART OF THE DAY: The Utter Collapse Of MySpace
We knew MySpace was dying, but we didn't know it was this bad. MySpace had 45 million unique visitors in January, down from from 70 million the year prior, according to comScore data. — This is why...
Goldman Sachs Pumps A Whopping $70M Into Virtualization Company AppSense
AppSense, which specializes in what it calls ‘user virtualization’ solutions, has raised $70 million in its very first round of funding. Interestingly, the entire investment comes from one backer, Go...
Newsmaker: Vision quest haunts Apple CEO-in-waiting
(Reuters) - For Tim Cook, the small-town football fanatic turned steward of the world's largest technology company, it always comes back to the vision question. — The search for an answer will frame...
Internet Archive Partners With 150 Libraries to Launch an E-Book Lending Program
The Internet Archive, in conjunction with 150 libraries, has rolled out a new 80,000 e-book lending collection today on OpenLibrary.org. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account ca...
Samsung to unveil 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab next month?
It seems Samsung is aiming to please tablet consumers with different display sizes. Yonhapnews reports that Samsung will reveal an 8.9-inch Android-based tablet next month. Although there's no confi...