With Jobs Definitely Mulling Appearance at iPad Event, Let's Hope the Focus Is on the Product
According to several sources close to the situation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs-who is on a health-related leave from the company-is definitely considering an appearance at its big iPad 2 event tomorrow.
Microsoft delivers its ‘other’ tablet operating system: Windows Embedded Compact 7
Microsoft announced general availability on March 1 of the final version of its Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system, codenamed “Chelan.” — Microsoft posted a 180-day trial version …
Facebook's New Comments Box Plugin Filters Website Comment Reels by Relevance
Facebook has released a major update to its embeddable Comments Box social plugin for third-party websites. The plugin processes social signals to surface the most relevant comments, and a new modera...
Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Service Beluga In A Talent AND Technology Deal
Facebook has just acquired group messaging service Beluga, we've learned. — Here's what we know: Facebook has acquired both the product and the team, and the plan is apparently to keep the service o...
T-Mobile Killing Off Microsoft's Danger Servers Ahead of Android-based Sidekicks
One of the first smartphones is headed for an unceremonious farewell. — T-Mobile announced on Monday that it plans to kill off the Microsoft Danger service that powers the current generation of Side...
Google Apps and Gmail outage outrage: Problem NOT resolved
Update: The Gmail outage is not yet resolved, despite 35,000 Google Apps and consumer Gmail users agonizing over missing mail. The cloud service provider is furiously restoring from backup tapes as w...
Angry Birds CEO: “We really have Apple to thank”
Of the thousands of games available for download from the App Store, none has had the sustained popularity of Rovio's Angry Birds, a 99 cent physics-based puzzler in which you use a slingshot to launc...
Andreessen Horowitz Makes It a Foursome-Adds IronPort's Scott Weiss as Investing GP
High-profile venture firm Andreessen Horowitz added another investing general partner to their group today, with the appointment of IronPort Co-founder Scott Weiss. — Weiss is the fourth investing G...
Apple fights for ‘App Store’ name, calls Microsoft clueless as usual
Apple is defending its attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store,” saying in a new filing that Microsoft has failed to prove that the term should be left open for use by competing mobile application ...
Google's New In-App Payments Product Set For Launch In May 2011
Google was originally set to debut in-app payments support for Android in the fourth quarter of 2010, and recently said that the launch would be delayed until the end of this quarter. Be that as it m...
Dirty Percent
It's not hard to make the case that Apple's new in-app subscription system offers numerous benefits to users, developers, and publishers. But whatever those benefits, they stem from the mere existenc...
Amazon pulls the plug on its AmazonTote pilot project
Amazon.com plans to shut down AmazonTote, a pilot project in Seattle in which customers were able to order select products online and then have them delivered to their homes for free. We first got wo...
Hipmunk Hotels
Today's a big day for Hipmunk: we're now searching hotels. We've designed our hotel search around one basic premise: to find you a good deal in a good location. — Hipmunk helps you find the interes...
Amazon's Android App Store Is Supposedly Launching This Month
Amazon's app store for Google Android devices is launching soon — this month — according to this tweet from mobile ad network Millennial Media. — “Launching this month! Amazon Appstore for #Android...
Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In PaaS Dotcloud
Hosted application platform DotCloud is announcing 800K in angel funding today, from notable angel investors Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Jerry Yang, Raymond Tonsing, Roger Dickey, Ash Patel, Eric Urhane,...
Verizon eyes tiered pricing for mid-summer
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless will replace its unlimited mobile data service with usage-based pricing for iPhone customers around the middle of the summer, according to the finance chief of parent Veri...
Now available with Google Apps: User Managed Storage
Editor's note: Last year we launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what's new and how your organization can benefi...
StatCounter: Bing Just Beat Yahoo Worldwide
According to analytics firm StatCounter, the Bing search engine has just overtaken Yahoo for the first time worldwide during the month of February 2011. From StatCounter Global Stats, Bing closed out...
Big Appetite: Greylock Sends Entrepreneurs a Message with Expanded $1 Billion Fund
In case you missed it, being a super angel is officially passe. The new hotness is having a late-stage growth cash. Sequoia Capital is doing it. Andreessen Horowitz is doing it. Kleiner Perkins Ca...
I Can't Think!
The Twitterization of our culture has revolutionized our lives, but with an unintended consequence—our overloaded brains freeze when we have to make decisions. — Imagine the most mind-numbing choice...
70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
During the last decade the entertainment industries have tried numerous strategies to thwart Internet piracy. One of the most common, especially with the music industry, was to sue some file-sharers ...
Coming Soon: Advertiser Alerts on Your Phone
Advertisers have long contemplated a world in which they could contact people walking down the street with special offers and get them to change course and enter a store. There's been new movement th...
Google Buys Security Analytics Software Developer Zynamics
It looks like Google has made an acquisition today: security analytics software company Zynamics. — Here's the post on Zynamic's blog: We're pleased to announce that zynamics has been acquired by Go...
Too Much Data? New Evernote Should Help
Evernote today launched a redesigned version of its iPhone software, adding new views and features that further help to organize thoughts on the go. Evernote 4, available in the iTunes App Store, now...
Hands-on: Google Cloud Connect for Office not ready for prime time
Google Docs, the online suite of productivity applications, has long offered collaborative, cloud-based sharing and editing of office-type documents. A new add-in for Microsoft Office, Cloud Connect ...
NVIDIA Tegra Zone officially launched, takes Android to new dual-core heights
It's the first of March, which in NVIDIA land means no longer just talking about Tegra Zone, but actually activating it and letting users see what all the fuss is about. For those who've not yet hear...
Ex-Apple employee pleads guilty in kickback scheme
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - A former Apple Inc (AAPL.O) employee pleaded guilty to multiple criminal counts after being accused of taking kickbacks from Asian suppliers. Paul Devine, who worked...
Google Searches for Success in Local Ads
As Geo-targeting Drives Hypergrowth at Facebook, Groupon, Search Giant Supplements Science With Salespeople — After years of fits and starts, Google's latest push into local online advertising sudde...
Bing's Shopping Search Gets Smarter with Natural Language Capabilities
If you search for “air jordans under $100” on Google today, you will get a nice list of ten blue links. If you search on Google's shopping site, you will get quite a few results with prices around $2...
Google issues ultimatum to Yelp: free content or no search indexing
Yelp's chief executive, Jeremy Stoppelman has spoken out against Google's use of its users' business reviews on its Places service, saying the search company has failed to offer them any leeway on the...
How Zynga Defused Its FarmVille Time-Bomb
[Editor's note: This is a guest post by Brice Morrison, editor of game industry design site The Game Prodigy.] — When Zynga's FarmVille hit 80 million players on year ago in February 2010, it was a ...
Google Pulls 21 Apps In Android Malware Scare
Google Pulls 21 Apps In Android Malware Scare — Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to t...
Mahalo Reduces Headcount by 10% After Google Algo Change
I feel for Mahalo founder and CEO Jason Calacanis this past week. He finishes his Launch conference (my recap), heads to the afterparty and probably gets 10,000 text messages because that was just ab...
Gordon Brown ‘blocked knighthood’ for Steve Jobs
Gordon Brown blocked an honorary knighthood for Apple founder Steve Jobs, it has emerged. — Apple chief executive Steve Jobs poses with the Apple iPad — The then-Prime Minister refused to knight M...
Apple Staffer: iPad 3 Is The One To “Make A Song & Dance About”
We've received some tidbits of information about the iPad 2 launch tomorrow from an Apple staffer: — MobileMe is being revamped with cloud storage features. — The iPad 2 is a ho-hum update. It's mo...
HP Says BlackBerry PlayBook Imitates webOS, RIM Responds
There's no denying it. RIM's first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, looks pretty darn similar to HP's TouchPad. Yes, the PlayBook has a smaller 7-inch screen, compared to 9.7 inches for HP's slate.
Now available with Google Apps: User Managed Storage
Editor's note: Last year we launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what's new and how your organization can benefi...
Motorola prices WiFi-only Xoom at £450 in the UK (update: €700 in Germany with 3G)
Finally Motorola gives us a chance to say something positive about its pricing of the 10.1-inch, Tegra 2-powered Xoom tablet. UK electronics retailer PC World has just put up its Xoom pre-order page ...
Exclusive: Yahoo closes in on Yahoo Japan deal
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in advanced talks to exit its joint venture in Japan with SoftBank Corp, a move that could lead it to focus on reaching a decision on its China assets. — A deal to transfer ...
Meet Google's human search engine for innovation
Google startup-hunter Don Dodge sheds Microsoft roots, ‘kisses a lot of frogs’ in quest for cool technology — It was November 2009, and Don Dodge had just been laid off by Microsoft. Instead of wri...
Microsoft Preparing Windows 8 Tablet Design Demos For June
According to a source at Microsoft, the company hopes to show off its new Windows 8 design for tablets by the end of its fiscal year in June. — This person claims that Microsoft is taking a more App...
Working At Microsoft-20% Time and Prototypes
I quite often see assumptions on the inter-tubes that writing software at Microsoft is a mind-numbingly boring, tedious, manual, excruciating, soul-crushing bureaucratic exercise. This couldn't be fu...
Boxee Picks Up $16.5 Million To Expand Connected TV Offerings
Cord-cutting has yet to hit the mainstream, but one service is beefing up its offering in an attempt to make it more of a reality. The connected TV provider Boxee—which lets users watch TV programs, ...
Report Finds Connected Devices, Not Phones, Leading the Explosion in Mobile Wireless
Wireless consultant Chetan Sharma has just released an updated report on U.S. mobile data for the last quarter of 2010, and it points to the growth in the wireless market, in mobile penetration and in...
Google Street View now goes places cars can't
Google on Monday launched its largest-ever collection of Street View images taken by a humble but versatile vehicle — the tricycle — as the Internet giant greatly expands the reach of the popular but ...
Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit that oversees Internet
The California nonprofit organization that operates the Internet's levers has always been a target for global heavies like Russia and China that prefer the United Nations in charge of the Web.
Morgan Stanley Leak Shows Attack by China-Based Hackers Who Took On Google
Morgan Stanley experienced a “very sensitive” break-in to its network by the same China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc.'s computers more than a year ago, according to e-mails stolen from a cybe...
Comcast Won't Go Streaming-Only, But Dish Might
Pay TV providers are increasingly seeing competition from online video services like Netflix and Hulu Plus, but they're coming up with different business strategies in an increasingly digital world: W...
Making Money in Mobile
Depending how you measure it, the mobile platform may already be the widest path from the software developer to the ordinary person. It's for sure the fastest-growing. So presumably there's serious ...
ICANN May Shut Down .Jobs Registry
ICANN threatens to shut down .jobs, even after approving its “registry service”. — ICANN has notified .jobs registry Employ Media LLC that it is in breach of its contract at ICANN, and the contract ...