Apple Launches iPad 2
All New Design is Thinner, Lighter & Faster with FaceTime, Smart Covers & 10 Hour Battery — Apple® today introduced iPad™ 2, the next generation of its magical device for browsing the web, reading a...
iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom vs. HP TouchPad vs. BlackBerry PlayBook: the tale of the tape
You might recall we ran this comparison about a month back when HP's TouchPad was announced, but now we're back with a full set of 2011 devices as Apple's brand new iPad 2 has joined the fray.
Apple releases iOS 4.3 with iPad 2, includes new AirPlay features and FaceTime
Along with the iPad 2, Apple's releasing the final version of iOS 4.3, which features the Nitro Javscript engine from Safari on OS X, new iTunes Home Sharing features, and the suite of AirPlay feature...
Why iPad 2 doesn't have HDMI built in
One thing struck me, other than the inexplicable absence of a “retina” display in the new iPad model, about Apple's announcement today. Why did Apple not build HDMI into the iPad 2? — It's not for ...
Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 [video]
The video details install processes and the UI for each version of Windows over the past 25 years and most importantly the upgrade process.
How Charlie Sheen Got His Twitter Account Verified So Fast
Ad.ly Helped Take Handle From Squatter — Only 24 hours after Charlie Sheen got started on Twitter with @CharlieSheen, he had amassed more than 900,000 followers, easily one of the fastest follower r...
Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid
Microsoft-furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook-has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close t...
Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day
Mobile payments startup Square has reached a new milestone this week—the company is now processing $1 million in payments per day, co-founder Jack Dorsey just Tweeted. — Square was processing a few ...
Steve Jobs: Tablets Are Not PCs And Our Competitors Don't Get It
The iPad is not a computer, and competitors who approach it like the PC market will fail, says Apple's Steve Jobs. — Like he did at last year's iPad introduction, Jobs closed today's iPad 2 event by...
Google Profiles Has a New Interface
Google Profiles has a new user interface that emphasizes the profile photo, includes many new sections and uses encrypted connections. You can now click on a section of your profile to edit it, add “...
Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked at TED
TV star Ashton Kutcher may have more followers than all but 5 other people on Twitter (6,393,559) but he apparently has at least one snarky and politically minded adversary at the prestigious TED conf...
In With A Bang, Out With A Whimper: Calacanis Walks From TechCrunch Lawsuit
The PR stunt/blatant shakedown that so many tech journalists fell for is now apparently over. Just one business day after the conclusion of Jason Calacanis' Launch Conference he's filed a court docum...
Cable TV In Pursuit Of Mobility
Destroy this top-secret strategy document after reading. It could be devastating to our business interests if it fell into the wrong hands — like The New York Times or something. — Fellow Comcastia...
The Apple strategy tax
In episode 6 of the now-defunct StackOverflow podcast, former Microsoft employee Joel Spolsky talked about one of the many things that holds back large companies like Microsoft. … I've been thinking a...
Aspiring Developers Take Note: Move.Me Unveiled at GDC
Hi Gamers, John McCutchan, Senior Engineer with SCEA's Developer Support team, here to tell you about an exciting initiative we're unveiling for PlayStation Move during GDC this week. Later today, I'...
BlackBerry PlayBook launching on April 10th
We have been told by multiple sources that RIM's very first tablet will be launching on April 10th in retail locations. Additionally, we're told the OS goes GM (gold master) on March 31st and that wh...
Microsoft: Why doesn't Microsoft understand tablets?
Answer (1 of 8): It's interesting to consider how this question would have been answered just two years ago. Before the iPad, the definition of tablet, was, arguably, the Windows tablet. As such, th...
How This 19-Year-Old Is Taking On Google
Where might you want to search that Google can't reach? The social slice of the Web, plus everything that an individual has password-protected hovering in the cloud, has been largely off-limits to tr...
Twitter suspends parody @ceoSteveJobs account
Today, it appears that Twitter has suspended the ceoSteveJobs Twitter account, which had approximately 460,000 followers and over 650 tweets at the time of deletion. — Back in January, it turns out ...
Say Hello to Flickr for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7!
Back in January, we let you know about some exciting mobile developments we had in store for you, and some of you may have already caught a sneak peak of the newest member of our family here at Flickr...
Android developers form ‘union’ to protest Google policies
A group of Android developers have formed the Android Developers Union, a movement that intends to protest Google's Android Market policies. — The group has made seven demands and claims that its me...
Japan Phone Makers See Opportunity in Android
TOKYO — Japanese mobile phones are a gadget lover's dream. They double as credit cards. They can display digital TV broadcasts. Some are even fitted with solar cells. — And yet, for all their inn...
Brunch Plans Made Easy on the Thumbs
GroupMe Offers Group Texting by Cellphone for Parents, Patients, Concert-Goers and Other ‘Normals’ — Amid throngs of entrepreneurs and digerati set to descend on the South by Southwest Interactive f...
Odd Couple Behind Nintendo 3-D Push
KYOTO, Japan—Nintendo Co.'s place atop the world of videogames, and perhaps the course of the industry itself, is riding on a geek bromance. — On Saturday, Nintendo launched its first all-new machin...
App Store coming to Google TV
A version of the Android Market for the Google TV platform is due “very short term,” the general manager overseeing Google TV products for Logitech said Tuesday. — Speaking at the OTTCon here on Tue...
Barnes & Noble Settles With Spring Design, Licenses Its Alex E-Reader Patents
Barnes & Noble this morning announced that it has settled a lawsuit it was served by Spring Design back in November 2009 in connection to the latter's Alex Reader (which, perhaps not so coincidentally...
Dems push for Congressional investigation of HBGary Federal
Embattled HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr quit his job yesterday as the prospect of a Congressional investigation loomed. A dozen Democrats in Congress asked various Republican committee chairs to laun...
Apple expects shipments of 6-6.5 million iPads in 1Q11
Apple internally plans to take deliveries of 6-6.5 million iPads, including iPad 2, in the first quarter of 2011 and aims at a total shipment volume of 40 million iPads for 2011, according to sources ...
Twitter, Digg investor Mike Maples: Yes, there is a tech bubble
Facebook, Zynga and Twitter have inspired a host of copycats, and it's those companies that are overvalued and are creating a growing tech bubble, said Floodgate partner Mike Maples. — Some major co...
A Mobile Photo Sharing Casualty, Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google
In terms of hot spaces at the moment, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything hotter than the mobile photo sharing space. Instagram, PicPlz, and Path all have gotten huge amounts of funding recently.