Here's How Amazon Could Quietly Become A Huge Tablet Player
It would be foolish not to include Amazon on the list of potentially huge players in the tablet industry. — While the company is still only selling simple Kindle e-readers, Amazon has quietly built ...
Exclusive: Groupon President and COO Rob Solomon Steps Down
Sources close to Groupon, the social buying site, said its COO, former Yahoo exec Rob Solomon, is stepping down from his job. — It's not clear what the reasons for Solomon's departure are, but the m...
Court rejects Google Books settlement
A New York federal district court has rejected the controversial settlement in a class-action suit brought against Google Books by the Authors' Guild, a publishing industry trade group. — “While the...
Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update now available
Microsoft has started to distribute its first full Windows Phone 7 update. — The company began pushing out “NoDo” to devices on Tuesday after a number of device ROMs leaked to the Internet early. M...
Digital Subscription Prices Visualized (aka The New York Times Is Delusional)
Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick ou...
U.S. senators ask Apple to pull police-evasion apps
A group of U.S. senators is calling on Apple to remove applications that alert users to the presence of police and other law enforcement checkpoints that have been set up to combat drunk driving. — ...
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.
Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style
Last summer, foursquare's employee count had grown a bit beyond our office capacity (as we surged towards 20 employees) and we had people sitting in whatever open space we could find. We were split b...
Sprint's HTC EVO 3D hands-on!
Sprint just announced the HTC EVO 3D, its latest 4G WiMAX smartphone with a 3D-spin, and we had some time to sit down to check out the device first-hand. In one word: Amazing. The EVO 3D's 4.3-inch ...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and new Galaxy Tab 10.1 hands-on: thinner than the iPad 2, dual-core power, TouchWiz 4.0
You know who took the iPad 2 launch pretty seriously? Samsung, that's who. Just as we had heard, the company's executives were impressed by Apple's ability to slim down its tablet and …
Showtime to Netflix: No Streaming for You!
Sure, Netflix bought the rights to House of Cards and has a digital deal with Starz (that expires this fall), but it's not like you can stream HBO's True Blood. Showtime has been playing less nicely ...
Netflix Shares Soar, Site Goes Down
It's not a great day for the Internet, folks. Web services seem to be dropping like flies. For several hours today, WordPress.com's back-end was nowhere to be found, causing several TechCrunch write...
Google Gets An Absurd Patent For Its “Google Doodles”
If you needed any more proof that the U.S. patent system is totally out of control, here it is: after ten years of lobbying, Google was granted a patent on Google Doodles this morning. — Doodles are...
Google working to reverse Chrome bloat
When Chrome got its start, the browser was svelte and fast-loading if limited. — Now, it's got plenty of features, but two years later, it's nearly three times bigger. And Google, deciding that's n...
Meet Y Combinator's Latest Class
Y Combinator on Tuesday showed off its latest class of start-ups at its Mountain View, CA, headquarters, offering an extra-large sampler pack of developer tools; social apps; lots of services for mark...
TechCrunch And Millions Of WordPress.com Blogs On Pause Due To Back-End Outage [Update: We're Back!]
Notice anything different about this post? How about that the links are orange? Yes, that's right, I'm blogging off of CrunchGear because it's been impossible to access our WordPress.com back-end fo...
Motorola Xoom monthly orders to drop in 2Q11
Taiwan's shipments of Motorola Xoom in the first quarter of 2011 are expected to meet upstream component suppliers' forecast of 700,000-80,000 units, as Motorola already placed orders for about 200,00...
Groupon Wants To Hire Over 100 People In Palo Alto Office, Buys Billboard Campaign
Daily deals site Groupon has joined the tech billboard wars in an effort to bulk up staff at its West Coast office. Groupon PR representative Julie Mossler tells me it's looking to hire over 100 deve...
Netflix Embraces Amazon's Cloud For Critical Services
On Aug. 11, 2008, Netflix (NFLX) tech managers detected a “database corruption event” that caused their DVD shipping system to fail. The firm's official blog blamed a “key faulty hardware component.”
AOL Begins Culling Content Sites
AOL will begin rolling out its plans to overhaul its panoply of content sites as early as today, a key part of its integration with the Huffington Post, sources familiar with the situation said. — A...
Google spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection
Google has awarded $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers so that they can develop simple tools to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other “transparency” problems. — That money ...
Now Open: Amazon Appstore Launches With 3,800 Apps for Android
Amazon has officially launched the Android Appstore, a potential iTunes equivalent for Android. — The company-whose roots are in e-commerce and not mobile-aspires to merchandise and sell apps better...
iPad 2 Arrives in 25 More Countries This Friday
Available in Hong Kong, Korea & Singapore in April — Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, M...
Apple's Jobs Must Answer Questions in ITunes Antitrust Suit
A federal magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs to answer questions in an antitrust dispute alleging the company operated a music-downloading monopoly. — Lawy...
RIM Reveals BlackBerry PlayBook Versions, Pricing (Starts At $499), Retail Partners
In case you were holding out for a BlackBerry PlayBook: good news. Research In Motion this morning announced (expected) plans to make the tablet computer available in more than 20,000 retail outlets ...
iPad 2: Wife Says No, but Apple Says Yes
Apple is paying close attention to all iPad 2 returns during the first few weeks to make sure there are no major production defects. This policy has led to an amusing story that we thought was entert...
Dropbox and why you should invest in people
It was reported today that Dropbox will generate $100M in revenue this year. Whether or not those reports are right, it is certainly a great product, beloved by its customers and will almost certainl...
Boom! Professional Social Network LinkedIn Passes 100 Million Members
2011 has proven to be a monumental year so far for professional social network LinkedIn. The company filed its S-1 for a public offering, released a number of data-focused products and unveiled a soc...
China rejects Google claims of email interference
Google reduced its presence in China last year after complaining of interference — China's foreign ministry has rejected claims by Google that Beijing is disrupting access to its e-mail service in t...
Nokia's tablet path may exclude Microsoft: source
(Reuters) - Nokia's strategy for entering the tablet computer market may not include Microsoft, its recently announced partner for smartphones, according to a person with knowledge of the company's th...
Hands-On: Verizon's Sony Ericsson Xperia Play at CTIA 2011
At CTIA Wireless 2011, Verizon started showing off their branded version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia play for the first time. — We've already had some hands-on time with the Sony Xperia Play, but th...
Here Come the First T-Mobile 42 Mbps Cities, Devices
The latest T-Mobile news may have been focused on the AT&T's plans to purchase the carrier, but that isn't stopping T-Mobile with its network expansion plans for 2011. Today, the company announced th...
Bandwidth.com Launches a Better Broadband Map
The folks at Bandwidth.com, which offers wholesale voice services to many application providers, launched a website Monday with a broadband map that will offer people insights about the quality of ser...
Wi-Fi Alliance launches hotspot certification program, aims to ease cell-to-WiFi handoff woes
If you've been paying even a slight bit of attention to carriers over the past year and change, you'd know that a number of 'em are resorting to citywide WiFi networks in order to relieve …